Few airports in Europe can boast of the performance and success achieved by iGA Istanbul in recent years, which is on course to retain its title as the continent’s busiest in 2023. Growing from 61 carriers prior to the pandemic to 96 today, with a target to reach 100 by the end of the year, […]
November 20, 2023 | Air Service Community News
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
A global transfer hub set in the world’s only city that lies between two continents – Europe and Asia – iGA Istanbul Airport offers a getaway not only to Türkiye, but to the rest of the world. From iGA you can reach all of Europe, half of Africa and the Middle East. This unique location […]
November 8, 2023 | Air Service Community News
The UK’s 35 busiest airports had 28.5 million two-way passengers in July 2023, according to Civil Aviation Authority statistics. Traffic was 6.4% lower than in 2019, a difference of about two million passengers. Only six of the 35 airports exceeded pre-pandemic figures. The UK’s winning airports The following figure provides the 10 most recovered airports […]
October 3, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Arkia on 26 February introduced a 4-weekly service between its hub in Tel Aviv and Istanbul IST. The 1,165-kilometre route is operated each Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday with the airline’s E195 aircraft, as well as the A321neo on select dates. The airline will expand its presence in Turkey with the introduction of flights between […]
March 2, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Pegasus Airlines, on 18 February introduced flights between Istanbul SAW and Plovdiv in southern central Bulgaria. The 390-kilometre 2-weekly service is maintained each Wednesday and Saturday, with the B737-800 aircraft. PC305 departs Istanbul SAW on Wednesdays at 10:25 local time, arriving at 10:35 local time, while on Saturdays it leaves Istanbul SAW at 15:50, arriving in […]
February 20, 2023 | Latest Route News +
AnadoluJet, which is part of Turkish Airlines and uses the airline’s IATA code of TK, on 15 March introduced flights between Ankara and Dubai. The 2,655-kilometre 2-weekly service is being maintained each Wednesday and Sunday, with the Boeing 737-800 aircraft. TK4302 departs Ankara at 00:50 local time, arriving in Dubai at 05:45 local time. The […]
February 16, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The last week has sadly seen the collapse of two European airlines, Flybe version 2 and Flyr. Both carriers were launched since the start of the pandemic and focussed, at least initially, on their respective domestic markets of the UK and Norway. While the revived Flybe remained focussed on the domestic market for all of […]
February 3, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Turkey’s capital and the country’s second-biggest city, Ankara, saw its airport welcome 8.6 million passengers in 2022, based on statistics from airport operator TAV. That was just 62% of its 2019 traffic. The airport is dominated by AnadoluJet, a unit that is supposedly to be spun off from Turkish Airlines to operate independently. According to […]
On 1 November, Pegasus Airlines commenced Ankara to Almaty service with 2-weekly flights. It connected the Turkish capital to Kazakhstan for the first time, while again providing Ankara – a city of six million – with Central Asia flights, after Turkmenistan ended in 2020. Perhaps inevitably, Pegasus’ Almaty non-stop was joined on 19 November by […]
November 30, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis
Last week we examined the recovery rates of the leading domestic air travel markets in Europe. These ranged from just 50% in Germany to 117% in Italy. An obvious follow-up is to look at the recovery rates for the leading international country-pairs involving European nations. Again, the analysis is done on the basis of looking […]
After the COVID pandemic struck and impacted air travel in March 2020, international travel was seriously impacted for a long time due to the restrictive and ever-changing travel rules imposed, somewhat arbitrarily, by governments around the world. In Europe it was noticeable that in many countries, it was easier to maintain domestic services as these […]
July 29, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story