Shannon welcomed a record 1.34 million passengers in January-August 2023, up by about 14% versus 2019 and 5% over its previous peak in 2018. Comparing the recovery versus 2019 shows other Irish airports have bounced back slower: Cork’s traffic was +5.6%, Knock +1.9% and Dublin +1.2%. Shannon made history in several months so far this year, […]
October 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
United is the fourth-largest US carrier by October-December (Q4) seats. According to Cirium data, it has 51.2 million available, against 64.5 million for American, 61.4 million for Southwest and 57.5 million for Delta. Yet comparing Q4 2023 to 2019 shows that United has exceeded its pre-pandemic capacity (+2.7%), surpassing American (-2.2%) and Delta (-3.7%), although […]
October 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Amsterdam is one of 53 airports with non-stop United States flights in September, based on Cirium schedules information data. With about 309,000 departing seats, it ranks fourth, behind London LHR, Paris CDG and Frankfurt. However, with available capacity 10.0% below that of September 2019, Amsterdam remains less recovered than the three larger airports and Europe-US […]
September 12, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Asia is large and important market from the United States, including its Pacific Ocean territories. According to Cirium schedules data, there are 4,881 departing non-stop flights across August, excluding the Middle East. This makes Asia the US’s third largest continent/region after Europe (17,218) and the Caribbean (10,338). However, flights remain a third lower than in […]
August 21, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Naples welcomed a record 10.90 million passengers in 2022, according to the airport’s own statistics. Traffic exceeded 2019 by 0.48%. In contrast, passengers across Italy’s airports generally were down by 15.17%, based on data collected by Air Service One’s European Airport Traffic Statistics. Naples was Italy’s fourth-busiest airport last year, its highest position to date. The […]
August 16, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Washington IAD celebrated its 60th anniversary last year. Serving the District of Columbia, Virginia and more, Dulles is renowned for being a United hub and an important Star Alliance airport. According to Dulles’ own statistics, it welcomed 21.3 passengers in 2022, of which international traffic accounted for more than a third (34.7%). Despite the pandemic, […]
May 4, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
United introduced a new long-haul service from its hub at New York EWR to Dubai on Saturday 25 March. The 11,030-kilometre route will be maintained daily with the 777 aircraft. United becomes the first airline since 2016 to connect the two airports with a nonstop service. Emirates, which will codeshares on United’s new flights, maintains […]
March 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Over half of all passengers flying between Scotland and North America flew indirectly last year, a proportion common in most years. It will not be much different this summer, with Cirium schedules information data indicating that available non-stop seats are still a quarter lower than they were at their peak in S17. In a reversal […]
March 14, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Situated about 100 kilometres south of Denver, Colorado Springs welcomed over 2.1 million passengers in 2022, according to the airport’s statistics. Its best year since 2001, traffic exceeded 2019 figures by 27%. It is primarily due to one key development: the arrival of Southwest. The airline, which launched Colorado Springs almost two years ago in […]
January 31, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Earlier this month, on 3 December, Australian flag-carrier Qantas began 3-weekly service on the 14,440-kilometre route between Melbourne and Dallas/Fort Worth. This brought to 17 the number of non-stop airline services between the US and Australia. Back at the end of October, United had introduced 3-weekly service between San Francisco and Brisbane. Between 2004 and […]
December 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
United on 17 November began non-stop service from Washington IAD to Cape Town in South Africa. The 12,750-kilometre route will operate 3-weekly using the airline’s 787-9s. The airline faces no direct competition on the route. This becomes the Star Alliance member’s third non-stop route to South Africa as it already serves both Cape Town (daily, […]
November 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
United launched a new route between the US and Australia when it commenced service between San Francisco and Brisbane on Friday 28 October. The inaugural flight of UA96 departed the Californian airport at 23:45 and arrived in the Queensland city 13 hours and 41 minutes later, at 06:26 on Sunday 30 October, according to flightradar24.com. […]
November 8, 2022 | Latest Route News +