Located in Northwest France, Nantes has the country’s sixth most populous metro area. The airport welcomed 4.34 million passengers in the first eight months of 2023. While traffic was up by 13% versus last year but down by 12% versus 2019, it was still the second-best year on record. According to Cirium schedules information, Nantes […]
October 4, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Transavia France launched seasonal flights between Nantes and Antalya in Turkey on Saturday 15 April. The 2,890-kilometre service will be maintained weekly with the 737-800 aircraft. Flight TO3416 departs Nantes at 12:30 local time, arriving in Antalya at 17:35 local time. The inbound journey, operating as flight TO3417, leaves the Turkish city at 18:30, touching […]
April 19, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Spanish headquartered Volotea operated its first commercial flights on 5 April 2012, from its first base at Venice VCE to Brindisi, Cagliari and Palermo. It just celebrated its 11th birthday and recently announced that it had carried 50 million passengers. It reached 40 million passengers in March 2022, 25 million in July 2019 and 15 […]
April 6, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Chalair (IATA code CE) has launched three new domestic routes, all from Toulouse in the south of France. On Monday 3 October the French regional carrier began 5-weekly (Monday through Friday) service to both Nantes and Rennes, as well as 10-weekly (twice-daily Monday through Friday) to Marseille. The airline uses an ATR 42 (registration F-GPYK) […]
October 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Transavia on Saturday 9 April began a new weekly service between Nantes and Figari, on the French island of Corsica. Frequency will increase to 2-weekly between May and September. The 1,060-kilometre route is already served by Volotea (daily, increasing to 10-weekly in July and August) and easyJet (2-weekly, increasing to 4-weekly in July and August). […]
April 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
On 5 April 2022, Volotea celebrated ten years of successfully flying people between Europe’s medium-sized cities. Despite being headquartered in Barcelona, the airline’s first base was at Venice Marco Polo Airport in Italy, with the first flights on 5 April 2012 being to Brindisi, Cagliari and Palermo. Since then, the carrier has gone on to […]
April 7, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SWISS added four new routes at the start of the summer season from its Zurich hub including Vilnius in Lithuania on Wednesday 30 March. The 1,410-kilometre sector will be flown 2-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays using a mix of SWISS’s own A220-100s and A220-300s as well as partner Helvetic’s E190s and E195s. No other carrier […]
April 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
According to analysis of Cirium data, Volotea’s scheduled seat capacity during the second half of 2021 was up 14% compared with the second half of 2019. This equates to an additional 685,000 seats. For comparison, among Europe’s top 50 airlines, the next best performing carrier in western Europe was Transavia (the Dutch and French parts […]
February 16, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Air France/KLM Group has its own in-house LCC, Transavia. Although it has just a single brand, there are actually two separate airlines, the Dutch-based carrier (IATA code HV) and the French-based carrier (IATA code TO). This analysis focuses on the French subsidiary, sometimes also referred to as Transavia France. Launched from Paris ORY in […]
January 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story