Air Serbia introduced flights between its hub in Belgrade and Porto on Friday 10 November. The 2,835-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, with a mix of A319 and A320 aircraft. The airline faces no competition on the route. What they said Bosko Rupic, General Manager for Commercial and Strategy at Air […]
November 17, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The part-privatisation of TAP Portugal continues, with the government keen to sell 51% of the Star Alliance carrier. Part of the appeal may come from TAP’s geographic position on the edge of Europe in relation to key point-to-point and transfer markets. The airline’s Lisbon hub is close to sea level, improving equipment performance, including of […]
October 25, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SAS on Friday 1 September introduced a new 2-weekly service between Copenhagen and Porto. The 2,225-kilometre route will be maintained on Mondays and Fridays with the 180-seat A320neo aircraft. The airline will compete directly against 2-weekly Norwegian flights, as well as 2-weekly rotations by Ryanair. Flight SK2773 departs Copenhagen at 06:50 local time, arriving in […]
September 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
TAP Portugal on Sunday 28 May began a new long-haul service between Porto and Luanda. The 5,980-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly on Wednesdays and Sundays, with the 298-seat A330-900. The Angolan capital becomes TAP’s fourth long-haul service from Porto, complementing New York EWR, Rio de Janeiro GIG and Sao Paulo GRU. It faces no […]
June 2, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Austrian Airlines added its second destination in Portugal with the introduction of seasonal flights between Vienna and Porto on Saturday 1 April. The 2,130-kilometre service is maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with the 200-seat A321 aircraft. The airline competes directly against Ryanair’s 5-weekly rotations between the two cities. Porto joins Funchal as the second […]
April 4, 2023 | Latest Route News +
El Al added a new European destination to its network on Monday 13 March with the introduction of seasonal flights between Tel Aviv and Porto in Portugal. The 3,985-kilometre 2-weekly service is being maintained by its leisure brand Sun d’Or on Mondays and Wednesdays with the 737-800 aircraft. There is no other operator between the […]
March 15, 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
Norwegian carrier Flyr celebrated one year of scheduled services on 30 June 2022. The following day it launched a new 2-weekly service on the 2,510-kilometre route between Oslo and Porto. This appears to be the first time that these two airports have ever been connected with non-stop service. Flyr, which initially operated primarily on domestic […]
July 7, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Blue Air (IATA code 0B, not to be confused with La Compagnie which is B0) added two more routes from its main base at Bucharest on Saturday 16 April. The two new destinations are both in Portugal; Porto and Funchal (on the island of Madeira). The 3,910-kilometre Funchal service will operate weekly throughout the summer. […]
April 26, 2022 | Latest Route News +
easyJet launched 15 new routes in the first week of the summer season but, for whatever reason, celebrations seem to have been muted or non-existent at the airports involved. The one exception was in Porto, where the airport celebrated the introduction of the airline’s 2-weekly service on the 1,620-kilometre route to Cologne Bonn on 1 […]
April 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair was forced to delay the launch of a number of new routes to Morocco when the Omicron variant of Covid struck at the end of 2021, resulting in Morocco closing its airspace to all international flights for several weeks. Last week saw the ULCC finally start service between Edinburgh and Marrakech (2-weekly from 2 […]
March 9, 2022 | Latest Route News +
easyJet has added a new route between two of its bases. On 27 December it started connecting Milan MXP with Porto. The 1,490-kilometre route is operating between 2- and 4-weekly for the first few weeks, before becoming a daily service from 20 February. At present the airline’s website is only showing availability until the end […]
January 3, 2022 | Latest Route News +