Pegasus calls itself a ‘network LCC’. This is because it carries transfer passengers, mainly over its main airport at Istanbul SAW, as well as point-to-point traffic. With 100 aircraft, its fleet comprises 54 A320ceos/neos, 31 A321neos and 15 Boeing 737-800s. It expects 103 aircraft by the end of 2023. In the first three months of […]
June 12, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Ryanair continues to grow its market share of European air travel. In the second quarter of this year, analysis of Cirium schedules data indicates that it will account for 14.6% of all scheduled seats from European airports. That is an increase of over three percentage points versus 2019 Q2. In this analysis we take a […]
March 3, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of UK CAA monthly statistics for all of last year reveal that UK airports welcomed over 224 million passengers in 2022. That is more than three times as many as the 65.6 million handled in 2021, but still 25% fewer than were processed in 2019. Relative to 2019, the UK’s best month was October […]
February 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Jet2.com opened its London STN base on 30 March 2017. Alicante, Faro, Lanzarote, and Palma began that first day – routes unsurprisingly still going nearly six years later. In S19, Stansted overtook Leeds Bradford to became Jet2.com’s second largest base, behind Manchester. It had 976,000 departing seats from Stansted in S22, according to Cirium schedules […]
December 8, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The latest airport traffic statistics from the UK CAA for August 2022 confirm that none of the country’s top 15 airports has yet seen traffic recover to pre-pandemic levels. Even Germany, which has a significantly lower rate of recovery than the UK, had a few airports that were recording traffic growth compared with three years […]
October 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Earlier this week Ryanair held a press conference in London at which it revealed it would be operating its biggest ever programme from UK airports this winter. Contributing to this would be 21 new international routes including six from Birmingham and five from London STN. Of course, there was no mention of any routes that […]
September 1, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
With its headquarters at Leeds Bradford Airport, UK leisure airline Jet2.com has just reach a significant milestone. On 24 August 2022 the carrier celebrated its 100 millionth passenger. The airline, which had evolved out of Channel Express, launched its first flight out of Leeds Bradford (to Amsterdam) on 12 February 2003. By the end of […]
Latest schedule data for this summer (April to October) indicates that Ryanair is planning to operate around 20% more flights than it did in the same period in 2019. Europe’s second biggest (U)LCC, easyJet, has not quite recovered to the same extent with flights still set to be down 6% and seats around 4% compared […]
Passenger figures for September from the CAA, show that the UK’s airports handled 9.86 million passengers, which was 65% fewer than in September 2019, but over 70% more than in September 2020. This means that demand in September was at 35% of the level of two years ago. This is a significant improvement on the […]
November 29, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
For the second month in a row, Istanbul’s main airport was Europe’s busiest in August, handling just over 4.5 million passengers. However, that is still 32% down compared with the same month in 2019. Its nearest rival last month was another Turkish airport, Antalya. That airport welcomed over 4.3 million passengers, a decline of 23% […]