Jazeera Airways inaugurated a 4-weekly service between Kuwait City and Moscow DME on Thursday, 2 February. Using its fleet of A320s and A320neos, the 3,020-kilometre route is being served each Monday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Flight J9335 departs Kuwait City at 18:40 local time, arriving in Moscow at 23:45 local time. The return flight, J9336, […]
February 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Data compiled by The ANKER Report for Air Service One reveals that the top 15 airports in European Russia (as opposed to Asian Russia) welcomed 135.5 million passengers in 2021, with the three main airports serving Moscow leading the way. This compares with 155.8m passengers passing through these same 15 airports in 2019. That means […]
February 11, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi became the latest carrier to offer non-stop service between an airport in the UAE and Moscow, when it launched 4-weekly service between Abu Dhabi and Moscow VKO on Wednesday 15 December. This is Wizz Air’s fourth route to Moscow. It began serving the Russian capital from Budapest as long ago as […]
December 22, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
During the pandemic, Russia’s airlines and airports have seen demand recover more quickly than in many other regions of the world. In part, this is due to having a massive domestic market. In most countries restrictions on domestic travel have been much less onerous than those placed on international travel. Russia also has a number […]
November 25, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
For the third straight month, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in September, handling just over four million passengers. However, that is still 39% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was again another Turkish airport, Antalya. That airport welcomed over 3.8 million passengers, mostly tourists, a decline of […]
October 28, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
For the second month in a row, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in August, handling just over 4.5 million passengers. However, that is still 32% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was another Turkish airport, Antalya. That airport welcomed over 4.3 million passengers, a decline of 23% […]
Passenger statistics collected for over 330 airports across Europe show that Istanbul’s new airport is once again Europe’s busiest airport in July, a position it last held in April. In May, Moscow DME was the busiest airport, while its neighbour Moscow SVO took the top spot in June. The two busiest Moscow airports have now […]
Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport has become the latest European airport to be the busiest for passengers. In June the Russian airport, which is the main base for flag-carrier Aeroflot, welcomed 2.94 million travellers, beating Istanbul IST into second place. The Turkish mega-hub handled 2.80 million passengers. Moscow Domodedovo, which had led the way in May with […]
Passenger statistics collected by The ANKER Report, covering over 340 airports across Europe, reveals that Moscow Domodedovo was Europe’s busiest airport in May, handling just over 2.2 million passengers, down just 11% compared with May 2019. It edged out its city rival Moscow Sheremetyevo which welcomed just under 2.2 million travellers, which was 47% fewer […]
Airport passenger statistics for well over 400 airports in Europe showed, once again, that Istanbul and Moscow were the busiest cities in Europe for air travel in April. Moscow’s three main airports handled over five million passengers, while Istanbul’s welcomed over three million. However, it was Istanbul’s still relatively new mega-airport that was the busiest […]
Analysis of passenger figures for April 2021 for over 340 airports across Europe, reveals that the top five airports are all in either Istanbul or Moscow. Istanbul’s new mega-airport leads the way with just over two million passengers, which is down 61% on the same period in 2019. Then come all three major airports serving […]