Aerotalia opened its new base in Ancona on Sunday 1 October, launching several new routes. Rome FCO (2-daily) Milan LIN (12-weekly) Naples (daily) Vienna (2-weekly) Barcelona (2-weekly) Bucharest BBU (3-weekly) All flights will be operated by the 68-seat ATR72 turboprop aircraft wet-leased from Romania’s Air Connect. The three domestic services are operated as Public Service Obligation flights. […]
October 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Despite being the world’s largest airline, American is only the third largest operator between the US and Europe. Cirium schedules information shows that it has 3.41 million available seats in S23, behind United (4.59 million) and Delta (4.53 million). Curiously, while United and Delta have both exceeded their S19 capacity by healthy amounts, American remains down […]
August 29, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Naples welcomed a record 10.90 million passengers in 2022, according to the airport’s own statistics. Traffic exceeded 2019 by 0.48%. In contrast, passengers across Italy’s airports generally were down by 15.17%, based on data collected by Air Service One’s European Airport Traffic Statistics. Naples was Italy’s fourth-busiest airport last year, its highest position to date. The […]
August 16, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
According to figures recently published by Assaeroporti, Italy’s airports welcomed over 164 million passengers in 2022. That is more than twice as many as were handled in 2021 and, more impressively, only 15% fewer than the 193 million achieved in 2019. In September and October, the number of passengers passing through the country’s airports was […]
February 14, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Between Sunday 26 June and Saturday 2 July, Air Service One has identified: 107 new routes involving at least one European airport, operated by 34 airlines involving 121 airports easyJet (25) and Corendon Airlines (16) launched the most, new routes 46 (43%) were already served by other carriers, 61 (57%) were not 29 countries involved […]
July 5, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Volotea launched a new route to a country it has not previously served when it began weekly service from Naples to Aalborg in Denmark on Tuesday 3 May. The 1,830-kilometre route faces no direct competition and will operate until 25 October. While some of the outbound flights from Aalborg are still available for €19, the […]
May 10, 2022 | Latest Route News +
In the last four weeks, we have identified 67 new routes involving European airports. These were started between 11 September and 8 October. A total of 28 airlines had something to celebrate with Wizz Air leading the way with 24 new services, nine of which were from its recently opened base in Naples. In total, […]
October 12, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
Wizz Air, as part of its new base at Naples in Italy, launched a new 2-weekly service to Tallinn on Friday 17 September. The route is not served by any other carrier. The inaugural service on the 2,190-kilometre route (flight number W6 8425 operated by an Airbus A321neo, registration HA-LVF) departed Naples at 11:22 and […]
September 21, 2021 | Latest Route News +
In the seven weeks since The ANKER Report was last published, Europe’s airlines have again been busy starting a significant number of new routes. This analysis covers the period of Saturday 24 July to Friday 10 September, a total of 49 days. While The ANKER Report would like to believe that it has identified all of […]
September 14, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
The Naples urban area is apparently the seventh largest in Europe and yet in 2000 its airport handled just four million passengers. By 2015 this had increased to just over six million. However, during the next four years passenger numbers increased by a massive 76% and reached almost 11 million in 2019, making it one […]
August 5, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story