TUI Airways introduced two new routes from the UK to Ohrid in North Macedonia during the last week of May. These include services between London LGW and Ohrid, as well as between Manchester and Ohrid, both of which were inaugurated on Wednesday 31 May. The 1,950-kilometre route from London LGW and the 2,190-kilometre service from […]
June 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
It was recently announced that easyJet would finally make Birmingham a base, with three aircraft to be stationed at the UK airport from the start of next summer (S24). The LCC was already planning to operate 11 routes from the airport this summer, including domestic routes to Belfast BFS, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Compared with last […]
May 29, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Yorkshire’s Leeds Bradford Airport welcomed 3.29 million passengers last year. By December it was handling as many passengers as in the same month of 2019, but across the year as a whole traffic was down 18% compared with the last pre-pandemic year. Unusually, 2019 had not been the airport’s busiest year. That happened in 2017 […]
March 22, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
TUI welcomed 11.30 million passengers last year with an 89% load factor, according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority. While traffic was 4% lower than in 2019, it was still its third best year since 2008. To put the recovery into context, TUI had 1.73 million passengers last August, just 293,000 fewer than the whole […]
March 1, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Since the arrival of COVID, the UK’s recovery in air travel demand has been well below the European average with the country adopting severe travel restrictions in the early days and waiting longer than many of its European neighbours before removing the majority of restrictions. It has consistently lagged behind its major European rivals France, […]
December 9, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The future of Doncaster Sheffield Airport (IATA code DSA) in the UK appears to have been sealed with the announcement this week that the owners, Peel Group, have determined that the airport has a fundamental lack of financial viability. As a result, flights are set to end in early November. The airport, opened on 28 […]
September 28, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Back in the summer of 2019 the leading carrier between the UK and Turkey was Thomas Cook Airlines. When the airline ceased operating in September of that year, there would have been concerns about the future of the market. And then came the pandemic. So it may come as a surprise, that this summer the […]
May 6, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Melbourne Orlando International Airport (IATA code MLB) became the newest US airport to welcome transatlantic flights when a TUI Airways 787-8 arrived at 16:44 local time on 22 March after a flight of eight hours and 36 minutes from Manchester in the UK. This is the first of eight routes from the UK that the […]
March 23, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Well that was quick. Having announced on 22 December that it acquired enough slots from Norwegian to justify basing four additional A321neos at Gatwick next summer, the following day Wizz Air announced the 14 new routes that it would be adding from the start of the summer season. Details of the new routes, launch dates, […]
December 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story