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 […]
December 16, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Royal Jordanian can trace its origins back to 1963, which means that it will celebrate its 60th anniversary next year. Based in Amman, the capital of Jordan, the airline currently has a fleet of 24 active passenger aircraft according to planespotters.net. This comprises seven 787s, 13 A320-series aircraft and four Embraer E-jets (two ERJ-170s and […]
October 6, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, Top Story
It has been another quiet month for airline route launches across Europe. Between Sunday 4 September and Saturday 1 October, we have identified just 27 new airline services. Of these 11 were from Wizz Air, as the ULCC added six new routes from its Rome FCO base, two from Bucharest, and one each from Krakow, […]
October 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The recovery in air travel demand in the US appears to have taken a slight dip during the last fortnight as demand hovers at between 85% and 90% of the level seen during the same period in 2019. However, this was after the recovery peaked at 95% around the time of the Memorial Day weekend […]
June 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The beginning of June saw SAS introduce new long-haul service to Canada’s biggest city, Toronto, from both Copenhagen (3-weekly from 2 June) and Stockholm ARN (4-weekly from 3 June) using its brand new A321LRs. These will operate in a three-class configuration with 157 seats; 22 seats in SAS Business, 12 seats in SAS Plus (premium […]
June 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Avelo (IATA code XP), which began flying from Tweed New Haven Regional Airport in Connecticut last November, added three more routes from the airport on 26 May. Between November and January 2022 Avelo had launched six routes from Tweed New Haven to Florida; Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando MCO, Sarasota/Bradenton, Tampa and West Palm Beach. […]
June 2, 2022 | Latest Route News +
New airlines, new destinations and pent-up demand for travel will see Brussels Airport (BRU) return to its pre-pandemic form in 2022. From this summer, BRU will be connected to 185 destinations, via 60 passenger airlines. That’s just shy of the 200 destinations it served before Covid. Helping drive the revival is Air Belgium, which introduced […]
May 17, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Depending on how you define a new airline route*, Air Service One is currently estimating that airlines will be launching around 330 new routes involving European airports during the first week of the summer 2022 (S22) season, which starts on Sunday 27 March. This is a clear sign that the airline industry is heading back […]
March 25, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports have stabilised at just under 85% of the level they were back in 2019. Compared with this time last year, passenger numbers are virtually doubled at around two million per day. Airlines launch 196 new routes […]
December 20, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, Top Story
The latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports have stabilised at around 75%-80% of the level they were back in 2019, with that figure rising to around 85% on national holidays such as Independence Day (4 July) and Labor Day (6 September). Airlines launch […]
November 18, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
In the five 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 9 October to Friday 12 November. This timeframe included the start of the northern hemisphere W21/22 season, which officially began on Sunday 31 October. […]
November 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Vueling started flying its raft of new routes from Paris ORY on Tuesday 2 November. As previously reported, the LCC, which is part of IAG, announced almost 30 new routes from the French capital after it was awarded slots that Air France had to give up, in exchange for financial support from the French government. […]