Despite being the world’s largest airline, American is only the third largest operator between the US and Europe. Cirium schedules information shows that it has 3.41 million available seats in S23, behind United (4.59 million) and Delta (4.53 million). Curiously, while United and Delta have both exceeded their S19 capacity by healthy amounts, American remains down […]
August 29, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Spanish headquartered Volotea operated its first commercial flights on 5 April 2012, from its first base at Venice VCE to Brindisi, Cagliari and Palermo. It just celebrated its 11th birthday and recently announced that it had carried 50 million passengers. It reached 40 million passengers in March 2022, 25 million in July 2019 and 15 […]
April 6, 2023 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air has had a busy start to the summer season launching several new routes. One of those was between Venice VCE and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, which commenced on Tuesday 28 March. The 3,600-kilometre route will initially operate 2-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays and faces no direct competition. Frequencies will be reduced to weekly on Tuesdays during July and August […]
March 30, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Wizz Air launched operations between Venice VCE and Iasi, in the north-east of Romania, close to the border with Moldova, on Monday 27 March. The 1,190-kilometre route is maintained 2-weekly on Mondays and Fridays, replacing the previously operational service from Venice TSF to the Romanian city. Wizz Air faces no competition on the route, which […]
Wizz Air has had a busy start to the year launching over a dozen new routes in the first two weeks of 2023. One of those was between Venice VCE and Yerevan in Armenia, which commenced on Thursday 12 January. The 2,670-kilometre route will operate 2-weekly on Thursdays and Saturdays and faces no direct competition. […]
January 17, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Volotea has introduced two new non-stop services to France from its Venice VCE base. Flights to Nice began on 21 October followed on 24 October by flights to Lille. Both routes have a handful of flights now until the end of the first week of November. Service then resumes from mid-December to early January, before […]
November 1, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Between Sunday 3 July and Saturday 9 July, Air Service One has identified: 87 new routes involving at least one European airport, operated by 35 airlines involving 112 airports Wizz Air (14) and Air France (nine) launched the most new routes 30 (34%) were already served by other carriers, 57 (66%) were not 30 countries […]
July 11, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story, Uncategorized
Among Europe’s biggest airlines, none is planning to grow faster this summer than Wizz Air. Based on analysis of the latest schedule data submitted to Cirium, the ULCC is expecting to deliver between 35% and 40% more seat capacity across its network in 2022 Q2 than it did in 2019 Q2. Recent data from Eurocontrol […]
April 22, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
On 5 April 2022, Volotea celebrated ten years of successfully flying people between Europe’s medium-sized cities. Despite being headquartered in Barcelona, the airline’s first base was at Venice Marco Polo Airport in Italy, with the first flights on 5 April 2012 being to Brindisi, Cagliari and Palermo. Since then, the carrier has gone on to […]
April 7, 2022 | Airlines, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Depending on how you define a new airline route*, Air Service One is currently estimating that airlines will be launching around 330 new routes involving European airports during the first week of the summer 2022 (S22) season, which starts on Sunday 27 March. This is a clear sign that the airline industry is heading back […]
March 25, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Wizz Air this week opened its latest base in Italy at Venice Marco Polo Airport. The carrier has been operating domestic routes to Bari, Catania, Naples and Palermo for several months, operated by aircraft based at other Italian airports. Now the carrier has started the first of some 17 new routes it plans to launch […]
March 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Well, that’s a coincidence, isn’t it? Europe’s two leading ULCCs have both announced on the same day that they will be making Venice Marco Polo Airport a base in 2022. Ryanair announced that it will base three of its new 737 MAX 8s (or 737 8-200 ‘Gamechangers’ as the airline prefers to brand them) at […]
October 7, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story