Brussels Airport has been riding a wave of success over the past 12 months, marked by the arrival of new airlines, the addition of over two dozen exciting new routes, and a strong recovery in passenger traffic, which now stands at an impressive 90% of pre-pandemic levels. These milestones have underscored the airport’s resilience in […]
October 9, 2023 | Air Service Community News
The renowned resort area and big city of Antalya was Europe’s 10th busiest airport in 2022. The airport’s figures shows that it had 31.2 million passengers, fewer than half a million above Istanbul SAW and surpassing the likes of Rome FCO. Despite the significance of leisure travel during the pandemic, Antalya’s traffic was 12.6% lower […]
May 18, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Gateway to world-renowned Côte d’Azur, France’s top tourist destination after Paris, Nice welcomed 12.12 million passengers in 2022. It was country’s third busiest airport, based on data collected by Air Service One. The airport’s traffic is shown below. France’s fifth most populous city, Nice’s passenger volume was 83.7% of that in 2019, according to the […]
May 2, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Geneva welcomed 12.8 million passengers in the first 11 months of 2022. That was 143% higher than in 2021 but 22% lower than 2019. If measured in one-way seat capacity, Geneva ranked 33rd busiest in Europe last year, down by one place versus 2019. The city, home to numerous global financial and diplomacy organisations and […]
January 11, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for October 2022 and pre-pandemic October 2019 shows that global aviation seat capacity is now back at around 90% of the level it was three years ago. A look at the top 40 country markets back in October 2019 reveals that the recovery rate for those countries varies between 124% […]
October 17, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Air travel demand in Canada has been much slower to recover than in either Mexico or the US. During the first COVID summer of 2020, passenger numbers were only at around 15% of pre-pandemic levels as the government introduced extreme restrictions, not just on international travel but also domestic travel. Things only really began to […]
Demand for air travel in Mexico has recovered strongly according to government passenger statistics. During the period April to July 2022, the country’s airports have seen both domestic and international demand at record levels, beating the previous high in 2019. Although demand was down over 90% in April and May 2020, thereafter demand picked up […]
October 12, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
The Mediterranean city is this year’s World Design and European Smart Tourism Capital! Miguel Angel Pérez, Brand & Markets Director at Visit Valencia, explains to Air Service One, why 2022 is the year of Valencia or as their new claim, why “Valencia is now”. Pérez explains “we had very tough recent years (as did every […]
May 16, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Air Service One data partner, RDC Aviation is an industry leader in providing air service development data that is positioned to investigate and analyse air service route strengths and weaknesses. Spirit Airlines route profitability Apr 2021 to Sep 2021 With today’s announcement that Spirit and Frontier airlines are set to merge, the table below from Apex, shows […]
February 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, North America
The Europe-Mexico market has seen considerable activity in the last few months with several airlines launching new routes, especially to Cancun, which is the gateway to Mexico’s main tourism area. While seat capacity between Europe and Mexico City increased by 75% between 2006 and 2019, capacity to Cancun increased more than fivefold. As a result, […]
February 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, North America
Turkey’s Corendon Airlines seems to be increasingly following in the footsteps of airberlin and Germania, by establishing bases at German airports to take locals on holiday to warmer, sunnier destinations. Having first started operations to Düsseldorf in S18 (to Antalya and Hurghada), the airline’s network from the German airport increased to seven destinations last summer […]
Air Service One, powered by The ANKER Report, finishes our select coverage from Routes Americas 2021 hosted by Orlando International Airport with a short montage of memories from the event. We hope all attendees had a great event, great meetings networking and of course a great time! We look forward to seeing you all in […]