Aegean Airlines inaugurated a new service between Athens and Dubai on Saturday 11 November. The 3,275-kilometre route will be maintained 6-weekly, every day except Thursdays, with the A320neo aircraft. It will operate alongside Aegean Airlines’ partner Emirates, which runs a daily rotation between the two cities. Flight A3958 departs Athens at 10:25 local time, arriving […]
November 20, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Since 2015 Dubai has been the leading non-European destination from European airports as measured by annual non-stop seat capacity. That was the year when it overtook New York, which had previously held that honour. Just a decade earlier, in 2005, Dubai had only had around 40% of New York’s European seat capacity. Since 2015, Dubai […]
November 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Air France chose the first day of the 2023/24 winter season to inaugurate flights between Paris CDG and Abu Dhabi. On Sunday 29 October, the carrier introduced daily flights between the two capitals, operated by its 324-seat A350-900 aircraft. Although the 5,260-kilometre route is also maintained by Etihad Airways daily, the two have signed a […]
November 3, 2023 | Latest Route News +
flydubai inaugurated flights between its hub in Dubai and Poznan in western Poland on Sunday 29 October. The 4,410-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays with the 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The airline faces no competition on the route. Flight FZ703 departs Dubai at 07:50 local time, arriving in Poznan at […]
Analysis of the latest Cirium airline schedule data indicates that capacity between Europe and all regions outside of Europe is down just 2% in 2023 Q2 versus 2019 Q2. However, this apparent stability hides a number of significant changes at a country, airline and airport level. The US is still by far the biggest country […]
May 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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 15 months has seen the Italy to United Arab Emirates (UAE) market gain two new carriers and five new routes thanks to the decisions by Air Arabia, flydubai and Wizz Air to add routes between the two countries. The first week of December saw Air Arabia begin 3-weekly service between Sharjah and Milan […]
December 13, 2022 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Europe has been part of flydubai’s network since 2010, when it launched Samara, in European Russia. flydubai’s Europe growth has been rapid, passing one million seats in 2015 when it served 21 destinations continent-wide, according to Cirium schedules data. The carrier has now added three more routes, marking its return to Greece and meaning its […]
November 10, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi (IATA code 5W) has recently operated its first service to the Maldives when it began 4-weekly flights from Abu Dhabi to Malé. The inaugural flight on the 3,020-kilometre route took place on Tuesday 4 October using one of the airline’s five A321s. The other three flights each week depart the UAE […]
October 10, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi became the latest carrier to offer non-stop service between an airport in the UAE and Moscow, when it launched 4-weekly service between Abu Dhabi and Moscow VKO on Wednesday 15 December. This is Wizz Air’s fourth route to Moscow. It began serving the Russian capital from Budapest as long ago as […]
December 22, 2021 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis