On Thursday 28 April Frontier returned to Chicago MDW after an absence of seven years. The ULCC launched seven routes that day, with another route added the following day. Frontier had last flown out of Chicago’s second airport in April 2015, when it offered service to Trenton in New Jersey. In the summer of 2014, […]
May 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Last Friday (7 January 2022), Ryanair announced that it would be closing its Frankfurt FRA base from the end of March 2022. It blames the decision on the airport increasing its charges. Ryanair’s first flights from Frankfurt FRA were on 29 March 2017 to Alicante, Faro, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca. In early September a […]
January 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Having basically abandoned its second London hub at Gatwick at the start of the pandemic, British Airways (BA) has announced that it will be resuming short-haul services from the airport next summer, but only after negotiating new deals with unions to drive down costs. This will, hopefully, make the UK flag-carrier more competitive with easyJet, […]
December 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With considerable fanfare, Lufthansa’s low-cost subsidiary Eurowings launched its base in Prague on Sunday 31 October. Two aircraft are now based at the Czech airport, an A319 (registration OE-LYX) and an A320 (registration OE-IQC). In the first week of operation nine new routes have been launched, to complement the airline’s existing 12-weekly service from Düsseldorf. […]
November 4, 2021 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
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
Fast-growing leisure carrier Corendon Airlines opened its latest base on 2 July at EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg, as it is officially known. Most people simply refer to it as Basel (which is in Switzerland), as that is the nearest major population centre. However, the airport is physically in France but is administered jointly by French […]
July 6, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis
UK leisure carrier Jet2.com has been patiently waiting for the UK government to allow relatively unrestricted travel to destinations in and around the Mediterranean. With the Balearic Islands in Spain recently added to the ‘green list’ of destinations (from which returning travellers do not have to quarantine) the carrier was finally able to launch flights […]
July 5, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Turkey’s Corendon Airlines seems to be increasingly following in the footsteps of airberlin and Germania, by establishing bases at German airports to take locals on holiday to warmer, sunnier destinations. Having first started operations to Düsseldorf in S18 (to Antalya and Hurghada), the airline’s network from the German airport increased to seven destinations last summer […]
Wizz Air on 10 June opened another new base, this time a seasonal one in Burgas, located on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. The ULCC first began service to the airport in May 2006 from London LTN, followed a month later by flights from Budapest. The following June flights from two Polish bases, Katowice and Warsaw […]
Malaga has become a seasonal base for easyJet. Although this happened operationally on 1 June, the event was not celebrated until one week later. According to the airline, Malaga has welcomed more easyJet passengers than any other airport that is not already an easyJet base. It joins Barcelona (year-round) and Palma de Mallorca (also summer […]
Wizz Air on 1 June opened another new base, this time in Palermo, on the Italian island of Sicily. Two A321s will be stationed at the airport. Wizz Air began serving the airport only last October when it began multiple-daily flights from its new base at Milan MXP, competing directly with easyJet and Ryanair. On […]
Volotea opened a new base on Thursday 3 June in Olbia, on the Italian island of Sardinia. It is the airline’s seventh base in Italy joining Cagliari, Genoa, Naples, Palermo, Venice VCE and Verona. Volotea began serving Olbia the day after the carrier launched operations in April 2012, with a flight from Venice VCE. Thanks […]