Smartwings inaugurated a new service between Budapest and Salalah in Oman on Friday 24 November. The 4,635-kilometre route will be maintained weekly with the 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The airline faces no competition between the two cities. Flights are being operated on behalf of the Kartago Tours tour operator, which will also launch operations between […]
November 28, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Cologne Bonn is Germany’s sixth-busiest airport this winter. The latest Cirium data shows that it has 1.86 million departing seats, which is a quarter lower than in W19. While the North Rhine-Westphaliaairport’s recovery has been impacted by Eurowings’ cuts and the exit of easyJet – previously the fourth-largest carrier – in particular, it has […]
November 14, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Smartwings introduced a new seasonal service between Ceske Budejovice in the Czech Republic and Rhodes on Monday 7 August, less than a week after the Czech airport opened for commercial traffic. Services will be maintained weekly with the 737-800 aircraft. No other airline maintains flights between the two points. Flight QS2332 departs Ceske Budejovice at […]
August 10, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Smartwings has introduced seasonal flights from Ceske Budejovice in the south of the Czech Republic, and Antalya on Wednesday 2 August. It marks the first commercial service from the airport, which is being operated on behalf of the Cedok tour operator. The 1,885-kilometre flight will run weekly with the 189-seat 737-800. The carrier faces no […]
August 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Among Central Europe’s four biggest airports (those serving the capitals of Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Poland and Romania), Prague Airport has seen the slowest recovery post-pandemic. Bucharest, despite the collapse of Blue Air, has fully recovered, Warsaw WAW is at 95% recovery and Budapest is at around 90%. However, Prague is at just 75% according to […]
June 1, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Prior to the pandemic, Central Europe’s four busiest airports were Warsaw WAW (18.9 million passengers in 2019), Prague (17.8 million), Budapest (16.2 million) and Bucharest (14.7 million). According to ACI Europe figures they ranked 36th, 39th, 41st and 46th among all European airports. Three of them had grown by around 6% versus 2018, while Budapest […]
October 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Opened in 2003, Marsa Alam International Airport is located around 55 kilometres up the coast from Marsa Alam in south-eastern Egypt on the western shore of the Red Sea. It is close to the major holiday resort of Port Ghalib and is the only privately owned and operated commercial airport in Egypt. In 2019, the […]
November 23, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
SmartWings has enabled Bratislava in Slovakia to become the latest European city to have a non-stop service to Dubai when it launched weekly flights to the UAE hub on Sunday 24 October. The 4,180-kilometre route will be flown using the airline’s 189-seat 737 MAX 8s. The inaugural flight of QS 1500 was flown by OK-SWE. […]
October 26, 2021 | Latest Route News +
On 30 September, SmartWings began 4-weekly service on the 1,050-kilometre routes between Prague and London LHR. This is the first time that SmartWings has served Heathrow but not the first time it as operated flights to London. It has previously operated flights to Gatwick. The inaugural Heathrow service (flight number QS 1000 operated by a […]
October 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +