Ryanair has resumed operations out of Belfast BFS following a two-year hiatus by reinstating its base and introducing several new routes over the past week. 26 March: Cardiff (2-weekly) 26 March: Edinburgh (12, versus easyJet) 26 March: Faro (4, versus easyJet and Jet2.com) 26 March: Girona (2) 26 March: Krakow (2, versus easyJet) 26 March: […]
March 30, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Bulgaria became a member of the EU on 1 January 2007. The same day, neighbour Romania also became a member. Curiously, traffic had already doubled at the country’s main airport in Sofia between 2001 and 2006. In 2007 demand grew by more than 20% while the following year passenger numbers again increased by almost 20%. […]
March 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Thanks to its Lauda subsidiary, Ryanair is Vienna’s second-biggest operator. This isn’t a new development: it has been number two since 2021, three years after the full acquisition of A320-operating Lauda. However, Ryanair’s share of Vienna capacity has grown significantly. According to Cirium schedules information data, it ended 2022 with 6.1 million two-way seats and […]
February 1, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ryanair serves 21 airports in the UK. Of these, Newcastle was its 11th busiest last year, based on Cirium schedules information data. It had 487,000 one-way seats, a 37% rise versus 2019 thanks to its Newcastle base opening in S22. It meant it had a 19% share of the airport’s capacity. Only Jet2.com was bigger. […]
January 19, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
According to our analysis of Cirium schedule data, the European airports* that saw the biggest increase in scheduled departures between all of 2019 and all of 2022 were Bergen in Norway (4,200 additional departures representing growth of 12%), Bari in Italy (3,013, growth of 16%) and Funchal in Portugal (2,527, growth of 23%). While Bergen’s […]
Bournemouth Airport, on the UK’s south coast, has been one of Ryanair’s smaller bases since it opened in April 2008. With a runway of almost 2,300 metres the airport has an operational advantage over its near neighbour, Southampton Airport, which lies 40 kilometres to Bournemouth’s east. Southampton’s runway is currently only just over 1,700 metres. […]
January 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The capital of the northwest Italian region of Piedmont, Turin is the country’s fourth-largest city by population. Perhaps best known for skiing, cars, truffles, and the Juventus football team, Turin has nearly 1.1 million departing seats this winter, a 3% increase over W19 but 6% lower than the peak in W18. Turin is now Italy’s […]
December 15, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Few airports in western Europe have managed to increase passenger numbers versus 2019 more impressively than Funchal on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Famous for having part of its runway supported on giant stilts, the airport had seen annual passenger numbers stabilise at around 3.2 million in 2017, 2018 and 2019. However, in the first […]
December 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Berlin BER welcomed 2.1 million passengers in October, according to the airport’s own statistics. It was its best month of the year so far. However, only 171,000 passengers were added between May and October, against 963,000 for Frankfurt FRA and 363,000 for Munich, based on traffic data collected by Air Service One and available to […]
December 1, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Almost a quarter of a century has passed since Ryanair began to serve Pisa in 1998. And now, in winter 2022, the pan-European ULCC continues to remain heavily dominant at the airport, located in the world-famous region of Tuscany about 85 kilometres from Florence. According to data experts Cirium, Ryanair is responsible for over seven […]
November 3, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The start of the 2022 summer season (S22) has seen Ryanair open a new base at Newcastle in the north-east of England. This summer will see the Irish ULCC operate to 19 destinations from the airport, up from just 10 in the summer of 2019 when Newcastle was not one of Ryanair’s bases. After starting […]
March 31, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Earlier this week Ryanair announced it would be operating its largest ever schedule this summer from Edinburgh and would be basing a record 10 aircraft at the airport. It would also be operating non-stop service to 65 destinations. Of these four are completely new this summer (Bari, Marrakech, Nimes and Santiago de Compostela), while four […]
February 18, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story