Europe to Saudi Arabia has smashed the one million departing seat threshold for the final three months of a year. According to Cirium schedules information, there are 1.18 million available seats in Q4 2023 – up by an astonishing 59% versus Q4 2019 and 39% over the previous high in 2022. It has been heavily […]
November 1, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SAUDIA began a 3-weekly service between Jeddah and Birmingham on Sunday 2 July. The 4,880-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s fleet of 787-9s. SAUDIA faces no competition between the two cities. Flight SV251 departs Jeddah at 08:10 local time on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, arriving in Birmingham at 13:00 local time. The return service, operating as flight SV250, leaves […]
July 11, 2023 | Latest Route News +
SAUDIA began 3-weekly seasonal service between Riyadh and Nice on Friday 16 June. The 4,130-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s fleet of A320s. SAUDIA faces no competition between the two cities. The SkyTeam member last served the airport in 2009. Flight SV129 will depart Riyadh at 09:25 local time on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, arriving in France at 14:40 […]
June 22, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Analysis of the latest Cirium airline schedule data indicates that capacity between Europe and all regions outside of Europe is down just 2% in 2023 Q2 versus 2019 Q2. However, this apparent stability hides a number of significant changes at a country, airline and airport level. The US is still by far the biggest country […]
May 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Few intercontinental markets have grown so quickly recently as Saudi Arabia to Europe. It is part of the country’s highly ambitious drive towards Vision 2030 and is assisted by the government’s Air Connectivity Program (ACP). This subsidises new routes and, therefore, facilitates greater connectivity and more tourism. According to Cirium schedules information data, the market […]
Wizz Air has had a busy start to the summer season launching several new routes. One of those was between Venice VCE and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, which commenced on Tuesday 28 March. The 3,600-kilometre route will initially operate 2-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays and faces no direct competition. Frequencies will be reduced to weekly on Tuesdays during July and August […]
March 30, 2023 | Latest Route News +
It has been a busy week for Wizz Air. During the last week (7-13 January) the carrier has, according to our research, launched 12 new routes including five to Saudi Arabia, two to Tel Aviv, two ski routes (to Grenoble and Lyon) and new routes to Malaga, Marsa Alam (first ever service) and Yerevan. Another […]
January 13, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
flyadeal (IATA code F3) has landed in Istanbul IST becoming the Turkish hub’s 82nd airline. There are now 4-weekly flights from both Jeddah and Riyadh using the Saudi LCC’s A320s. Both routes will be served on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. According to Cirium schedules data, direct competition on the Jeddah-Istanbul IST route comes from […]
November 29, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Saudi Arabian LCC flynas (IATA code XY) has launched its latest route to Europe with the introduction on 9 November of 2-weekly service between Jeddah and Marseille. The 3,950-kilometre route will operate on Wednesdays and Saturdays from Jeddah, and on Thursdays and Sundays from Marseille. flynas will use its fleet of A320/A320neos, of which it […]
November 17, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air began its first route to Vienna (from Gdansk) on 27 April 2018, just a few weeks before the airport became a designated base in mid-June 2018. Up until that point it had never operated any flights to/from the Austrian capital. The launch announcement promised 30 low-fare routes to 22 countries. That first summer […]
October 6, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air added Saudi Arabia to its route network on Wednesday 28 September. The milestone route was between Rome FCO and Dammam. The 3,820-kilometre route is not served by any other carrier and will be flown 2-weekly using the airline’s A321s. Initially the flights will be on Wednesdays and Sundays, changing to Mondays and Fridays […]
September 29, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air recently announced that it would be launching 20 new routes between Europe and Saudi Arabia between December and next July. Of these, 10 will serve Riyadh, seven will serve Jeddah and three will serve Dammam. A total of 11 European airports will see a Wizz Air service to Saudi Arabia, with Budapest and […]
September 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story