Turkish Airlines commenced flights between its Istanbul IST hub and London STN on Wednesday 18 March. The 2,460-kilometre service will be maintained 15-weekly, twice per day with a third daily service on Saturdays, using the A321neo aircraft. The Star Alliance member faces no competition between the two airports. What they said Fuat Fırat, Vice President […]
March 26, 2026 | Latest Route News +
Royal Air Maroc added a new service to the UK on Tuesday 24 June by introducing flights between Casablanca and London STN. The 2,150-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays, with the 737-800 aircraft. The carrier faces no competition between the two airports. Flight AT808 departs Casablanca at 03:00 local time, […]
July 2, 2025 | Latest Route News +
Transavia commenced a new service between Rotterdam and London STN on Thursday 3 April. The short 290-kilometre hop over the North Sea will initially operate 4-weekly, on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, with the 737-800 aircraft. It will increase to 5-weekly during the summer peak. The carrier faces no competition between the two cities. What […]
April 11, 2025 | Latest Route News +
easyJet introduced two new routes, from both London LTN and Milan MXP to Tbilisi on Tuesday 1 April. The 3,575-kilometre service from London and the 2,930-kilometre service from Milan to the Georgian capital will be maintained 2-weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays with the A320 aircraft. The LCC faces no direct competition on either of the […]
April 8, 2025 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair inaugurated seasonal flights between London STN and Salerno on Sunday 4 August. The 1,680-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Wednesdays and Sundays, with the carrier’s 737 fleet. It faces no direct competition between the two cities, however, rival easyJet operates between London LGW and Salerno. The ULCC’s new service follows on from its […]
August 13, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Royal Jordanian introduced flights between its Amman hub and London STN on Sunday 3 March. The 3,660-kilometre service will initially be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays, increasing to 4-weekly from 5 April with an additional weekly rotation on Fridays. It will deploy a mix of its A320-familly fleet. The carrier faces no competition on the route. Royal Jordanian […]
March 6, 2024 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air introduced services between London LTN and Salzburg in Austria on Thursday 8 February. The 1,060-kilometre route will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. The ULCC will deploy a 180-seat A320 aircraft between the two cities and will compete directly against easyJet, which maintains 5-weely rotations. What they said Valeria Bragarenco, Corporate […]
February 16, 2024 | Latest Route News +
easyJet chose Saturday 16 December as the launch date for a new route between London STN and Zurich. The 775-kilometre route will be operated weekly, every Saturday until 30 March with a couple of extra flights on 26 December and 2 January according to the airline’s on-line booking tool. The two airports have not previously […]
December 21, 2023 | Latest Route News +
skyalps has begun serving the UK market with the launch of 2-weekly flights between Bolzano in Italy and London STN. Flights on the 1,010-kilometre route will operate every Wednesday and Sunday until 14 April 2024 using the airline’s Q400s. Located in the province of South Tyrol in Northern Italy, Bolzano lies around 90 kilometres south […]
December 19, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Ryanair launched seasonal flights between London STN and Osijek on Friday 2 June, marking its return to the city in continental Croatia after six years. The 1,525-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays, with the 737-800 aircraft. It faces no competition between the two. Osijek becomes the seventh city the ULCC serves […]
June 9, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Jet2.com introduced a pair of new routes on Thursday 30 March from its London STN base to Athens and RomeFCO. The 2,410-kilometre service to the Greek capital is maintained 2-weekly, on Thursdays and Sundays, competing against Ryanair’s daily operation. The 1,445-kilometre route to Rome FCO runs 4-weekly on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays. It does […]
April 3, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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