The largest city and economic centre of eastern Slovakia, Košice is the country’s second most populous city. Air Service One caught up with Juraj Toth, the airport’s Aviation & Business Development Manager, to talk about the recovery, carriers and network, and future development. Hopes for a record passenger volume this year Košice handed approximately 517,000 […]
November 2, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Service One has identified 15 European flag-carriers that operate a mix of narrow-body (NB) and wide-body (WB) aircraft, and plan to operate at least 1,000 flights with WB aircraft in 2023 Q2. Typically, WB aircraft tend to be used primarily on long-haul, intercontinental services. This analysis, using Cirium schedules data, compares the capacity (seat) […]
April 28, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Bristol ended 2022 with 7.95 million passengers, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. Traffic was down by 11.3% versus 2019; Bristol performed much better than UK airports generally (-25.2%). As the following figure shows, it was Bristol’s lowest passenger volume since 2016 (excluding 2020/2021). Nonetheless, it had the best recovery of all UK airports with […]
April 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SWISS (IATA code LX) on Sunday 26 March introduced a new non-stop service between Geneva and Hamburg in northern Germany. The 870-kilometre route will be flown 4-weekly (on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays) using the carrier’s A220-300s. No other carrier currently connects these two airports. Pre-pandemic, the route had been served by easyJet between December […]
March 30, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Despite passenger traffic growing by three-quarters between 2005 and 2019, few of Europe’s busier airports remain as affected by the pandemic as Zurich. It welcomed 22.6 million passengers last year, down by 28% versus 2019 and the lowest level (excluding 2020/2021) since 2009, according to the airport’s own figures. Zurich’s recovery has not been helped […]
March 9, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SWISS has expanded its presence in the UK by introducing flights from its Zurich hub to Bristol. On Saturday 4 February, the Star Alliance carrier began a weekly service on the 925-kilometre route using the airline’s A220-300s. Frequencies will be increased to 2-weekly from 27 March, operating each Monday and Friday, growing to 3-weekly from […]
February 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Self-described as Switzerland’s leading holiday airline, you would think that Edelweiss is the nation’s second-biggest carrier by seat capacity after SWISS. But that is not the case, easyJet is. However, while easyJet serves Geneva, Basel and Zurich, Edelweiss focuses only on Zurich. The airline has 1.3 million departing seats from the airport this summer – […]
February 2, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Geneva welcomed 12.8 million passengers in the first 11 months of 2022. That was 143% higher than in 2021 but 22% lower than 2019. If measured in one-way seat capacity, Geneva ranked 33rd busiest in Europe last year, down by one place versus 2019. The city, home to numerous global financial and diplomacy organisations and […]
January 11, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
SWISS added four new routes at the start of the summer season from its Zurich hub including Vilnius in Lithuania on Wednesday 30 March. The 1,410-kilometre sector will be flown 2-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays using a mix of SWISS’s own A220-100s and A220-300s as well as partner Helvetic’s E190s and E195s. No other carrier […]
April 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
SWISS added a new route to Ireland just in time for Christmas. On Sunday 19 December the Star Alliance carrier began a weekly service between Geneva and Cork using the airline’s A220-300s. The 1,230-kilometre route was previously served by Aer Lingus in winter between W08/09 and W15/16. SWISS will operate the route until 6 March. […]
January 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
SWISS chose Sunday 5 December as the launch date for its new route to Beirut from its main base in Zurich. The 2,720-kilometre service will operate 2-weekly (Thursdays and Sundays) throughout the winter period, using the airline’s A220-300s. The route is primarily aimed at the VFR market. Competition comes from Chair Airlines, which also offers […]
December 7, 2021 | Latest Route News +
SWISS subsidiary Edelweiss (IATA code WK) began a new service involving two destinations in Tanzania on Friday 8 October with the introduction of service from Zurich to Kilimanjaro and Zanzibar, operated as a triangle route. The inaugural service (flight number WK 76 operated by an Airbus A340-300, registration HB-JMG) departed Zurich at 23:10 and touched […]
October 19, 2021 | Latest Route News +