Dave Lees, CEO of Birmingham Airport, Rupert Lawrie, Commercial Director and Shaun Browne, Head of Airline Relations, are all smiles with their colleagues from Pegasus Airlines

Bristol Airport will welcome a new carrier this summer with Türkiye’s Pegasus Airlines to commence operations from its hub at Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport. The service, which is due to commence on 8 July, will operate 3-weekly and provide passengers with excellent connections for onward travel to the Middle East, Asia and Türkiye itself. The […]

Air Cairo

Air Cairo introduced flights between Sharm El Sheikh and Milan Bergamo on Saturday 5 April, becoming the sixth carrier to operate scheduled services between Egypt and Italy’s third-busiest airport. The 2-weekly flights will be maintained on Wednesdays and Saturdays with a 110-seat E190 aircraft. Flight SM831 departs Sharm El Sheikh at 09:00 local time, arriving […]

Eurowings Milan Bergamo to Hannover

Milan Bergamo Airport is expanding its German network this summer with a total of 46-weekly flights to eight destinations as Eurowings becoming the latest airline to add new service to Italy’s third-busiest airport. The LCC inaugurated 2-weeklly flights between Hannover and Milan Bergamo on 6 May, operating on Mondays and Fridays, increasing to 4-weekly on […]

14 NEW ROUTES

According to our diligent research over the course of 2023, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 1,400 new routes involving at least one European airport. This is over 20% down compared with 2022 when we identified over 1,800 new European routes. Again, it should be noted that following Russia’s invasion of […]

January 19, 2024 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story

DOH-PRG

Qatar Airways began operations on its Doha – Prague service with the state-of-the-art Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft on Wednesday 10 January, marking the return of the wide-body jet previously utilised on the route prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 254-seat aircraft will increase capacity between the city pair by 44%. The Dreamliner will be deployed […]

January 11, 2024 | Latest Route News +

2023 air service one

Europe’s big three (U)LCCs – easyJet, Ryanair and Wizz Air – continued to evolve their networks in 2023. In this analysis of Cirium schedules data Air Service One reveals which airports these carriers chose to serve for the first time this year, which airports have seen a resumption of services and identifies those airports that […]

Airlines launch over 1,800 new routes across Europe in 2022

According to our research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines this year launched over 1,800 new routes involving at least one European airport. This compares with almost 2,100 that we identified in 2021. However, it should be noted that following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February we stopped tracking new […]