Air Canada is the fifth largest operator between North America and Europe in August 2023. According to Cirium schedules data, it has 304 weekly departing flights, surpassed only by United, Delta, American and British Airways. If lower-cost subsidiary Air Canada Rouge – which no longer operates long-haul – is included, Europe frequencies remain down by […]
August 10, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Qatar Airways inaugurated flights between Doha and Toulouse on Tuesday 18 July, marking the airline’s latest efforts to expand its network in France. The 4,955-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, with the 260-seat A330-300 aircraft. The oneworld member faces no competition on the route. Flight QR47 departs Doha at 08:25 […]
July 25, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Qatar Airways has 1,880 departing passenger flights each week from its Doha hub in August, based on Cirium schedules information. Some 522 are to Europe, making it the airline’s second-largest region behind Asia-Pacific. Europe accounts for just over one in four flights (27.8%), down by almost nine percentage points versus August 2019. Europe remains by […]
July 12, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air Canada introduced flights from its Montreal base to both Copenhagen and Toulouse on Thursday 1 June. Both the 5,820-kilomtre service to Copenhagen and the 5,745-kilometre route to Toulouse will be maintained 5-weekly. The seasonal flights to the Danish capital will operate on Wednesdays through to Sundays with the 787-8 aircraft without any competition, while […]
June 7, 2023 | Latest Route News +
France has always been a large and critical market for easyJet. This year, the country has 21.2 million easyJet seats, making it second only to the UK by capacity, according to Cirium schedule data. With the change to winter schedules has come another new airport for easyJet in France. It started service to Paris BVA, […]
November 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Chalair (IATA code CE) has launched three new domestic routes, all from Toulouse in the south of France. On Monday 3 October the French regional carrier began 5-weekly (Monday through Friday) service to both Nantes and Rennes, as well as 10-weekly (twice-daily Monday through Friday) to Marseille. The airline uses an ATR 42 (registration F-GPYK) […]
October 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
In recent years, Air France has used its low-cost subsidiary Transavia France (IATA code TO) to take the fight to low-cost carriers (primarily easyJet) from French airports. It now has a huge base at Paris ORY and a significant presence at Nantes (almost 40 routes), Lyon (24 routes) and Montpellier (19 routes). However, Transavia only […]
July 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
TUS Airways (IATA code U8) has introduced another new route to Tel Aviv in Israel, this time from Toulouse in France. The new, weekly (Tuesday) service started on 12 April using the carrier’s A320 fleet. No other carrier currently offers this 3,190-kilometre route. However, easyJet did connect the two airports in W19/20 with 2-weekly (Tuesday […]
April 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Twin Jet (IATA code T7) on 17 January launched service between the two southern French cities of Marseille and Toulouse. The 310-kilometre air route (which is a 400-kilometre, four hour surface journey by car) will be operated 5-weekly by the airline using its 19-seat Beechcraft 1900Ds. There will be a single daily flight on Mondays, […]
January 27, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The Spanish carrier Binter Canarias (IATA code NT) is, as the name suggests, focussed on serving the Spanish Canary Islands. In July 2019, the vast majority of its flights connected five airports in the Canary Islands; Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Tenerife TFN. It also offered service from three other Canary Islands airports; El Hierro, […]
July 16, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis