Volotea launched three new services to Hamburg on Tuesday 10 October from Bordeaux, Florence and Lyon. The trio of routes will be maintained 2-weekly respectively with a mix of A319 and A320 aircraft. Flights from Bordeaux and Lyon will operate on Tuesdays and Fridays, while Florence will be served on Tuesdays and Saturdays. None of […]
October 12, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Located in Northwest France, Nantes has the country’s sixth most populous metro area. The airport welcomed 4.34 million passengers in the first eight months of 2023. While traffic was up by 13% versus last year but down by 12% versus 2019, it was still the second-best year on record. According to Cirium schedules information, Nantes […]
October 4, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Volotea launched flights between its Nantes base and Marrakech in Morocco on Saturday 23 September. The 1,115-kilometre service will be maintained 2-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays with the 156-seat A319 aircraft. The airline faces strong competition on the route, going head-to-head against 9-weekly easyJet flights, as well as daily TUI fly operations. What they said […]
September 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Spain’s 14th most-served airport, Bilbao welcomed 5.13 million passengers in 2022, making it the largest airport on the country’s north coast. Aena statistics indicates that around 65% of passengers were domestic and 35% international. Like so many airports globally, its recovery continues. However, it has gained various new airlines since the pandemic, while key players […]
July 24, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Situated in northwest Sardinia, Olbia is the island’s fourth-largest city area and an important tourist gateway. The airport welcomed 3.16 million passengers in 2022, exceeding its 2019 figures by a healthy 7.12%. Olbia’s growth far outpaced that of Italy as a whole (-15.00%) and was the country’s seventh-fastest-growth airport. It was Italy’s 15th busiest airport and […]
July 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
The Danish airport of Aalborg has added three scheduled carriers in the past 13 months. These developments – and various additional routes, most notably Newark – mean that Aalborg has exceeded pre-pandemic capacity in the crucial July-September quarter. According to Cirium schedules information, it has 158 weekly one-way August flights, up by 5% versus 2019. […]
June 22, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Volotea introduced two new routes to Germany on Friday 26 May from its Bordeaux base to both Dusseldorf and Stuttgart. Both the 910-kilometre service to Dusseldorf and the 870-kilometre route to Stuttgart will be maintained 2-weekly on Mondays and Fridays with the A320-family aircraft. The LCC faces no competition on either of the two. The […]
May 31, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Algeria has 1.1 million one-way Europe seats this April-June (Q2), according to Cirium data. Primarily revolving around Algerian diaspora, which totals around five million people in France alone, it is smaller than Morocco (3.0 million), Egypt (2.0 million) and Tunisia (1.3 million), each partly influenced by strong inbound tourism. While Algeria-Europe has surpassed Q2 2019 […]
May 23, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Volotea opened its seventh base in Italy and seventeenth in Europe on Friday 7 April by introducing the first two of five new routes from Florence. 6 April: Bari (2-weekly) 6 April: Palermo (2-weekly) 13 April: Nantes (2-weekly) 26 May: Olbia (5-weekly) 10 October: Hamburg (2-weekly) The LCC will compete directly against Vueling’s 3-weekly Palermo service. From 13 June, Volotea will […]
April 11, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
Located in Brittany in the far northwest of France, Brest’s recovery continues. Brest welcomed 801,000 passengers in 2022, over a third lower than in 2019, its record year to date. Analysis of Brest’s passenger statistics reveals that this was primarily because of the domestic market, which was down by an estimated 293,000 passengers (-28%) versus […]
March 14, 2023 | Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
According to figures published by Aena, Spain’s airports welcomed almost 244 million passengers in 2022. That is only 12% fewer than the 275 million achieved in 2019. More impressively, in the last quarter of 2022, passenger numbers were down just 3% compared with the same period three years earlier. While traffic for the whole of […]
January 24, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story