Albania has emerged as Europe’s fastest growing aviation market with passenger numbers at its gateway in the capital of Tirana more than doubling compared to the pre-pandemic 2019. The country’s thriving tourism industry, a new airport operator and an ensuing battle between ULCC juggernauts, have secured the country’s position as star performer in the European […]
October 23, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
European airlines and airports have struck a cautious tone about travel demand this winter season (29 October 2023 – 30 March 2024) amid uncertainty in the wider economy, geopolitics and supply chain issues causing operational headaches. Analysis of capacity data provided by airlines to Cirium shows that Europe has 383.3 million available seats in Q4, […]
October 9, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Themes of the Week United reduced China capacity significantly through December OGG capacity cuts continued this week with Southwest reducing capacity Delta upgauged regional markets in MSP and SLC Frontier extended their schedule Red Way is going away Porter is saying bonjour to Florida Multiple Property Study and Why Airlines Love Them! Ailevon Pacific […]
August 28, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Themes of the Week American is adding new routes to MIA this winter as well as ICT to DCA Alaska is adding another new international destination, Guatemala City American, Delta and United love NCAA football, especially Notre Dame; did you know, it’s Robert Isom ‘s alma mater? American and United are reporting their Q2 earnings […]
July 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Themes of the Week Delta is growing their AUS focus city, as well as adding new point-to-point markets Lynx is linking Canada to more U.S. “sun” destinations United changed it’s mind on Bengaluru for now Delta is reporting it’s Q2 earnings this week Capacity Update To see a detailed list of U.S. domestic and international […]
July 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Themes of the Week Alaska is adding four new routes and one new international destination Breeze added three new routes and is resuming service to two others Lynx is linking more Canada and U.S. sunny destinations; C’est le fun! Southwest extended their schedule and added one new route; congrats OMA! Our next Airport Roundtable is […]
July 4, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Themes of the Week Alaska is adding three new sun markets American is adding six new markets and one that is competing with a new Alaska route WestJet is sunsetting Sunwing Delta and LATAM are growing their bond in Central and South America The SCASD submissions have been uploaded to the Regulations.gov website; see below […]
June 19, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Themes of the Week Alaska and Delta are adding flights to Hawaii JetBlue is adding service to the Caribbean Swoop is being swept into WestJet Norse is swapping FLL for MIA United is adding ABQ Balloon Fiesta flights The Air Service World Congress Conference is coming up in July; get more info here Capacity Update […]
June 12, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
The all-important Q3 (July-September) period is fast approaching. Analysis of capacity data provided by airlines to Cirium shows that Europe has 393.6 million available seats. That is 96.2% of Q3 2019, mainly down because of the enormous intra-Europe market. While small, the exit of Flybe and Flyr in early 2023 did not help. Yet four […]
May 8, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
North America’s seat capacity in Q3 (July-September) 2023 is up by 3.9% versus Q3 2019, according to data supplied by airlines to Cirium. This makes North America by far the best recovered of all world regions, both in percentage and absolute terms. A considerable 13.7 million seats have been added, cementing its position as the […]
Themes of the Week Airlines continue to trim late summer and early fall capacity with Delta and JetBlue taking the biggest cuts this week. NY is getting a nonstop to the Faroe Islands. Delta is adding two new routes and getting in on the Epic conference action in MSN; a case study in getting airlines to add […]
Themes of the Week: Airlines are still trimming their summer schedules where needed and to help with the ATC shortage in NYC. Avelo expanded their footprint in FL with the adds of DAB and MLB. Breeze added CRW and another California add for PIT; also made significant changes across its network post-Labor Day. Frontier added new routes […]
April 11, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story