Transavia France has introduced a new seasonal service between Paris ORY and Almeria in southern Spain on Saturday 22 April. The 1,375-kilometre route will operate 2-weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with the 737-800 aircraft. Almeria becomes Transavia’s fourteenth destination in Spain to be served out of France. It faces no competition on the route. What […]
April 22, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Eastern Airways on Friday 14 April introduced a pair of new routes from East Midlands and Southampton to ParisORY. Both the 250-kilometre service from East Midlands and the 365-kilometre route from Southampton are being maintained daily with the ATR72 turboprop. The regional carrier faces no competition on either service. Eastern Airways is interlining on the […]
April 18, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Chalair (IATA code CE) launched a domestic service between Paris ORY and Brest on Wednesday 8 March. The French regional airline maintains 11-weekly flights between the two cities, including two-daily Monday to Friday and one service on Sunday. The 500-kilometre route is being operated by the 48-seat ATR 42 turboprop. What they said Alain Battisti, […]
March 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Transavia France on Friday 16 December introduced a new weekly service from its Paris ORY base to Luleå in northern Sweden. The 2,200-kilometre route will face no direct competition and will operate until the end of March. Lulea has this winter welcomed some other new international services: 9 December: to London LHR with SAS (2-weekly) […]
December 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Vueling is Europe’s fourth biggest (U)LCC, behind Ryanair, easyJet and Wizz Air, but around 50% larger than Eurowings, Norwegian and Transavia who are in a tight battle for fifth place. However, it seems to get very little media coverage compared to its rivals. One of the reasons for this may be that while many of […]
November 25, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Service One has collected October passenger figures for almost 250 airports across Europe, including the vast majority of major airports. These can be found in our free to download EATS (European Airport Traffic Statistics) file on the Air Service One homepage. We have identified all major airports reporting over one million passengers in October […]
November 23, 2022 | 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
Air Caraïbes (IATA code TX) launched 2-weekly service between Paris ORY and Cancún in Mexico on Saturday 22 October. The 8,225-kilometre route will operate initially on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with a third weekly service (on Mondays) being added in December. The airline will operate its A350-900s on the route. Based in Guadeloupe in the French […]
November 1, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The latest traffic statistics from the busiest French airports for August 2022 show that four of the top 15 airports have seen traffic recover to beyond pre-pandemic levels. Overall, across all the top 15 airports, passenger numbers were down 13% versus August 2019. However, among Europe’s busiest country markets by seat capacity in August, France […]
October 12, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The French part of Transavia (IATA code TO) launched two new international routes from Paris ORY on Saturday 1 October. Using its 737-800s it now serves Béjaïa in Algeria. There are a few flights each week in October, before frequency becomes daily from the start of November until the end of March. The 1,350-kilometre route […]
October 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Vueling now serves Shannon in the west of Ireland. On Monday 12 September the Spanish carrier began 2-weekly service on the 910-kilometre route from Paris ORY. Flights will operate every Monday and Friday using the airline’s fleet of A321 aircraft. No other carrier connects these two airports. This is Vueling’s third route to Ireland from […]
September 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
An interesting development, apparently driven by the pandemic, is how Air France has chosen to use its low-cost subsidiary Transavia (IATA code TO) to significantly expand its leisure network from Paris ORY. Analysis of Cirium schedule data shows that while Air France has reduced its seat capacity by 33% at Orly (comparing August 2022 with […]
July 15, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story