Toronto YYZ has become the first Canadian airport to welcome all three of the so-called ‘Middle East Big Three’ airlines. This is because Qatar Airways arrived in mid-December, joining Emirates and Etihad. YYZ, by far Canada’s busiest airport, is one of five North American airports with the trio. According to Cirium schedules data, it joins […]
January 14, 2025 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Qatar Airways introduced operations between its hub in Doha and Hamburg on Monday 1 July. The 4,660-kilometre service will run daily with the 247-seat 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft. The carrier will be the only operator on the route. What they said Badr Mohammed Al-Meer, CEO of Qatar Airways Group, said: “Qatar Airways extends a warm welcome […]
July 11, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Qatar Airways will have passenger flights to 49 European airports in Q3 2024 (July-September). This is helped by the start of Hamburg and the return of Lisbon and Venice. The trio builds on the launch of Lyon and Toulouse in July 2023, with Toulouse not served by Emirates or flydubai. While Qatar Airways serves more […]
June 19, 2024 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Venice VCE is Italy’s fifth-busiest airport. Between January and November 2023, it welcomed 10.6 million passengers. Despite a good recovery – traffic was about 2% lower than in 2019 – it fell by one place in the country’s rankings as Catania, which was fifth, grew by 6%. Ryanair is VCE’s largest carrier Historically, Ryanair – […]
January 24, 2024 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Qatar Airways inaugurated flights between Doha and Toulouse on Tuesday 18 July, marking the airline’s latest efforts to expand its network in France. The 4,955-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, with the 260-seat A330-300 aircraft. The oneworld member faces no competition on the route. Flight QR47 departs Doha at 08:25 […]
July 25, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Qatar Airways has 1,880 departing passenger flights each week from its Doha hub in August, based on Cirium schedules information. Some 522 are to Europe, making it the airline’s second-largest region behind Asia-Pacific. Europe accounts for just over one in four flights (27.8%), down by almost nine percentage points versus August 2019. Europe remains by […]
July 12, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Qatar Airways launched seasonal operations between Doha and Trabzon on Friday 16 June. The 2,060-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, with flights to operate until 22 August using the A320 aircraft. The airline will compete directly against Pegasus Airlines’ 2-weekly seasonal service between the two cities. Qatar Airways initially planned […]
June 22, 2023 | Latest Route News +
More than 100 European airports have Middle East flights this winter. With 250,000 one-way seats, Düsseldorf ranks 21st, based on Cirium schedules information data. Capacity has risen by a 13% versus W19, helped by the launch of various new routes – including daily service from Doha with Qatar Airways. Five new and resuming Middle East […]
November 23, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
International long-haul traffic was hit especially hard by the pandemic, with many Asian countries in particular imposing extremely severe restrictions on foreign visitors. Some of these markets are still only just opening up to international passenger flights. For many European travellers, a popular way of reaching many key Asian markets was to use one of […]
November 21, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Qatar Airways launched its first new European route of 2022 when it added non-stop service from Doha to Santorini in Greece on 7 June. There will be 3-weekly flights on the 2,775-kilometre route which is not operated by any other carrier. The route will be flown utilising the airline’s two-class, 144-seat A320s. It becomes the […]
June 16, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The latest TSA passenger statistics reveal that US demand for air travel last week was between 80% and 85% of the level achieved during the same period in 2019. This is the second week in a row that this has been the rate of recovery. Will it reach 90% (or even better) by the start […]
February 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for January 2022 and pre-pandemic January 2020 reveals that several airlines are now offering more seats from US airports than they did two years. The top six airlines for additional seats are two established ULCCs (Allegiant and Spirit), two new airlines (Avelo and Breeze) and two Mexican carriers (vivaaerobus and […]
January 17, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America