Located on England’s South Coast, Southampton has a catchment area of 1.4 million people within a 30-minute drive and 3.5 million within an hour. In the first seven months of 2023, European Airport Traffic Statistics (EATS) data shows that it welcomed 427,000 passengers, down by 61% (a loss of 688,000) versus the same period in […]
September 11, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Eastern Airways on Friday 14 April introduced a pair of new routes from East Midlands and Southampton to ParisORY. Both the 250-kilometre service from East Midlands and the 365-kilometre route from Southampton are being maintained daily with the ATR72 turboprop. The regional carrier faces no competition on either service. Eastern Airways is interlining on the […]
April 18, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
Aer Lingus has added Southampton on the UK’s south coast to its route network from Dublin. The 435-kilometre route will be flown daily on behalf of Aer Lingus by Emerald Airlines using its ATR 72-600s. Competition on the route is provided by Eastern Airways, which also offers a daily service using ATRs. It launched its […]
November 9, 2022 | Latest Route News +
According to analysis of June 2022 passenger data for over 350 airports in Europe, well over 200 of them had seen demand recover to at least 80% of the level seen in pre-pandemic June 2019. However, 15 airports (with at least 10,000 passengers in June 2022) were still below 50% in their recovery rate. These […]
August 26, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The revived Flybe has launched three new routes from Southampton on the UK’s south coast. On Saturday 23 July it began weekly service on the 915-kilometre route to Avignon in the south of France. The following day it added weekly service on the 1,040-kilometre route to Toulon, also in the south of France. The Avignon […]
July 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
During the week BA CityFlyer operates a range of business focussed routes from London City Airport using Embraer E190s. However, at the weekend these aircraft are relatively idle, so British Airways announced last December that it would start weekend services to 11 destinations from Southampton this summer. The first of these, to Faro, launched on […]
August 12, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Eastern Airways on 19 July launched service between Southampton on the UK south coast and Dublin in Ireland, operating 4-weekly (on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays). The 435-kilometre route faces no direct competition at present. The inaugural service (flight number T3 864 operated by an ATR 72-600 registration G-IACY) departed Southampton at 16:00 local time […]
July 22, 2021 | Latest Route News +