Widerøe (IATA code WF), the Norwegian regional carrier, has introduced another international route. On 25 June it began 3-weekly service between Oslo TRF and Florence. The 1,710-kilometre route will be flown on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays using the airline’s Embraer E195s. No other carrier connects these two airports. However, SAS began service from Oslo OSL […]
July 5, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Air Service One recently estimated that airlines started around 1,850 new routes across Europe (excluding Russia) in 2022. Analysis of Cirium schedules data suggests that airlines have already revealed plans for at least 500 more new routes starting in 2023. However, with airlines announcing additional new routes almost every day at the moment, that number […]
December 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Widerøe (IATA code WF) on Sunday 26 June began 2-weekly service between Oslo TRF and Nice. The 1,740-kilometre route will operate on Wednesdays and Sundays until 14 August according to Cirium schedule data. The service will be flown using the airline’s 110-seat Embraer E190-E2s, of which it currently has three, all of which were delivered […]
July 6, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The second half of 2021 saw the countries comprising the Baltic and Nordic region of Europe all show a significant recovery in passenger demand. By December the airports in the eight countries included in our analysis (Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden) were all reporting passenger numbers between 50% and 70% of […]
May 18, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Norway’s distinctive topography and terrain mean that air travel is far more important in keeping communities connected than in most other countries. Travelling by land between the major towns and communities, scattered mostly up Norway’s west coast, can be a time-consuming business. Sea journeys, although more direct, are also relatively slow. Norway is therefore heavily […]
Analysis of the latest Eurocontrol movement data shows that during the first week of August Europe’s largest airlines showed some modest improvements compared with the previous week in terms or flight recovery compared with 2019. Ten of the 12 airlines in the analysis improved their recovery percentage compared with the previous week, with only Norwegian […]
August 11, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis
Analysis of the latest Eurocontrol movement data shows that during the last week Europe’s largest airlines showed, on the whole, only modest improvements compared with the previous week. In fact, of the 12 airlines in our main sample, six showed an improvement in their recovery rate (versus 2019) while six showed a small decline. The […]