With this summer having been the first ‘normal’ travel summer since 2019, a look at airport passenger statistics across this period for the major European air travel markets (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Türkiye and the UK), reveals some interesting results. Comparing passenger demand for April to September in 2023 versus the same period in 2019 […]
November 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SAS introduced a new seasonal service by commencing operations between Oslo OSL and Stuttgart on Thursday 6 July. The 1,290-kilometre route will initially be maintained weekly, increasing to 2-weekly from 14 August with an additional service on Tuesdays. Operations will be maintained with a wet-leased airBaltic A220-300 aircraft. The airline faces no competition on the […]
July 17, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Volotea introduced two new routes to Germany on Friday 26 May from its Bordeaux base to both Dusseldorf and Stuttgart. Both the 910-kilometre service to Dusseldorf and the 870-kilometre route to Stuttgart will be maintained 2-weekly on Mondays and Fridays with the A320-family aircraft. The LCC faces no competition on either of the two. The […]
May 31, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The recent resumption of Delta’s non-stop transatlantic service from Atlanta to Stuttgart was some much-needed good news for the German airport. Ranked as the country’s sixth busiest in 2019 with 12.7 million passengers, it has struggled (along with several other medium-sized airports in the country) to get traffic back to anywhere near pre-pandemic levels. Passenger […]
April 21, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Analysis of air passenger traffic data across Europe this winter suggests that recovery rates have pretty much flattened out in many countries and at many airports. With the start of the Northern Hemisphere Summer 2023 season (S23) just a week away, Air Service One has decided to take a look at which of Europe’s airports […]
March 23, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Lufthansa’s lower-cost subsidiary Eurowings can trace its origins back to 1993 and has just celebrated its 30thanniversary. A brief history of the airline’s evolution from regional carrier to its current incarnation can be found on the Eurowings corporate website. The basic Eurowings brand (IATA code EW) has been joined in recent times by the long-haul […]
February 10, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Between Sunday 24 July and Saturday 30 July, Air Service One has identified: 20 new routes involving at least one European airport, operated by eight airlines involving 29 airports. Iberia launched the most new routes with seven. Then came Turkish Airlines with four and Flybe with three. 8 (40%) were already served by other carriers, […]
August 1, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story, Uncategorized
Stuttgart is home to not one, but two legendary car manufacturers, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. The airport serving the city handled 12.72 million passengers in 2019, making it Germany’s sixth busiest airport after Frankfurt, Munich, Düsseldorf, Berlin TXL and Hamburg. So far in 2022, it ranks seventh, having now also slipped behind Cologne Bonn. Analysis of […]
July 27, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Eurowings launched two new routes between Germany and Austria on Monday 13 September. The Lufthansa subsidiary began connecting Düsseldorf and Linz with 5-weekly service, and Stuttgart and Graz with 4-weekly service. Both routes will be operated using the airline’s A319s and A320s. Before the pandemic, both routes were served by fellow Lufthansa Group member Austrian […]
September 15, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Russia’s Pegas Fly launched a new weekly connection between St. Petersburg and Stuttgart in Germany on Sunday 22 August. The inaugural service on the 1,835-kilometre route (flight number EO 2171 operated by an Embraer E190, registration VP-BZJ) departed St. Petersburg at 11:30 and touched down in Stuttgart two hours and 43 minutes later at 13:13 […]
August 31, 2021 | Latest Route News +