Air France introduced a pair of new seasonal routes from Nice to Marrakesh and Santorini on Friday 7 July and Saturday 8 July respectively. The 1,895-kilometre service to Marrakesh will run 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, until 25 August with the A320-family fleet. It will compete directly against easyJet’s 4-weekly flights on the route. On […]
July 18, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Georgian Airways entered the French market on Wednesday 5 July with a new seasonal service between Tbilisi and Nice. The 3,075-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the 737-700 aircraft. The carrier faces no competition between the two cities. Flight A9767 departs Tbilisi at 11:00 local time, arriving in Nice at 13:25 […]
July 14, 2023 | Latest Route News +
SAUDIA began 3-weekly seasonal service between Riyadh and Nice on Friday 16 June. The 4,130-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s fleet of A320s. SAUDIA faces no competition between the two cities. The SkyTeam member last served the airport in 2009. Flight SV129 will depart Riyadh at 09:25 local time on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, arriving in France at 14:40 […]
June 22, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Delta introduced a seasonal service between its main hub Atlanta and Nice on Friday 12 May, marking the resumption of flights between the two cities after 17 years. The 7,645-kilometre route will be maintained daily with the 767-400 aircraft. The airline faces no competition. Flight DL24 departs Atlanta at 20:50 local time, arriving in Nice […]
May 16, 2023 | Latest Route News +
airBaltic introduced a pair of new seasonal routes on Wednesday 3 May from Tampere in Finland, as well as the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius, to Nice. Both the 2,260-kilometre service from Tampere and the 1,785-kilometre route from Vilnius are being maintained 2-weekly with the A220-300 aircraft. The carrier faces no competition on either service. Flights […]
May 10, 2023 | Latest Route News +
easyJet launched a new domestic service between Nice and Paris BVA on Saturday 7 April. The 755-kilomtre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, with the A320-family aircraft. The LCC faces no competition on the route. In addition to Paris BVA, the airline continues to maintain flights from Nice to both Paris CDG […]
April 11, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Malta has added its fourth destination in France with the introduction of flights between Malta and Nice on Monday 27 March. The 2-weekly 1,065-kilometre service is being maintained on Mondays and Fridays with the A320 aircraft. The Maltese flag-carrier already serves Paris CDG, Paris ORY and Lyon in France. The Nice service will be […]
March 30, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Unlike Ryanair and Wizz Air, who have both increased their market share of European air travel since 2019, easyJet’s share has remained virtually unchanged at around 7.5%. This still makes it Europe’s second biggest carrier, well ahead of Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa and Wizz Air. Analysis of Cirium schedule data for 2023 Q2 indicated that easyJet’s […]
March 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
France has always been a large and critical market for easyJet. This year, the country has 21.2 million easyJet seats, making it second only to the UK by capacity, according to Cirium schedule data. With the change to winter schedules has come another new airport for easyJet in France. It started service to Paris BVA, […]
November 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Volotea has introduced two new non-stop services to France from its Venice VCE base. Flights to Nice began on 21 October followed on 24 October by flights to Lille. Both routes have a handful of flights now until the end of the first week of November. Service then resumes from mid-December to early January, before […]
November 1, 2022 | Latest Route News +
In recent years, Air France has used its low-cost subsidiary Transavia France (IATA code TO) to take the fight to low-cost carriers (primarily easyJet) from French airports. It now has a huge base at Paris ORY and a significant presence at Nantes (almost 40 routes), Lyon (24 routes) and Montpellier (19 routes). However, Transavia only […]
July 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Widerøe (IATA code WF) on Sunday 26 June began 2-weekly service between Oslo TRF and Nice. The 1,740-kilometre route will operate on Wednesdays and Sundays until 14 August according to Cirium schedule data. The service will be flown using the airline’s 110-seat Embraer E190-E2s, of which it currently has three, all of which were delivered […]
July 6, 2022 | Latest Route News +