Luis Gallego: If we buy Air Europa, there will not be a single route in which it and Iberia operate alone. We understand that we must promote competition“ I assume this only happens in a handful or mainly domestic routes (I can think of MAD-BIO, AGP, VLC, ALC for example). MAD-BCN is operated by IB...
Jump to postI wonder what will be the impact of those events in air traffic in Jordan. Jordan is very dependent on foreign tourism and its air space was closed yesterday. If this happens again, they must need to close it for even days. I wonder many tourists will not venture there just in case they get "st...
Jump to postIf you live in a big city, and go to school/see family/go on vacation in a big city, you will end up flying between hubs. Most, if not all of my flying had been this way. I have to confess to never being totally clear on the difference between a hub and a focus city but I think the following routes...
Jump to postAnd MAD-CGN (Germanwings)! Surprised this route is no longer flown. After it was dropped by Germanwings, it was a route flown for a long time by Ryanair. My only unserved route from MAD which is still my busiest airport by number of flights and destinations. Although my record in unserved destinatio...
Jump to postProbably I am missing some I should update it. This month CDG-VRN has been restarted by Air France and LEJ-DUS by Eurowings again, so they are flown again and need to be taken out of the list. Lufthansa (Air Dolomiti) has recently chopped MUC-ORY so I should add it. I had forgot about BVA-SCQ and B...
Jump to postLUX is getting an interesting new route - twice weekly service to Jersey (JER) from Blue Islands, aimed at Jersey’s finance industry. It’s currently quite a long and tricky connection, most people fly to LGW/LHR then self-transfer to LCY for Luxair. https://x.com/seanm1997/status/176856089563693105...
Jump to postI think the big issue with MAA-CDG O&D is that very little is true business traffic. Also the VFR on the route is basically Pondicherry people that got French citizenship. This group, because they had French citizenship, mostly took very normal lower middle class jobs in France (including govt ...
Jump to postI am wondering why United isn't announcing any new routes out of Madrid besides the current Newark and Washington DC (seasonal) . The US-Spain market is booming, and I am sure a seasonal Madrid- Houston and/or Madrid- San Francisco should work well in the Summer. First of all, if SFO-MAD were good ...
Jump to postI think EWR-RAK is a great add, seems like it’s becoming a very popular destination. I would have expected to see it from IAD as that is where they have been adding more Africa from, but glad to have it nonetheless. Yeah, I'm mildly disappointed IAD was not included in this round, but I know its ti...
Jump to postThings getting dragged out even longer. European Commission temporarily suspended its antitrust inquiry into IAG’s proposed acquisition of Air Europa pending submission of additional information. The commission had been due to deliver its decision on the deal by June, but with this additional delay...
Jump to postThings getting dragged out even longer. European Commission temporarily suspended its antitrust inquiry into IAG’s proposed acquisition of Air Europa pending submission of additional information. The commission had been due to deliver its decision on the deal by June, but with this additional delay...
Jump to postIt seems unlikely EK will expand in China given they recently downgauged DXB-PVG from a A380 to 77W and will be not be increasing PEK and CAN to A380's. They tried Zhengzhou and Yinchuan and ended those well before the pandemic. EY also recently canceled CAN-AUH and reduced frequencies in PVG and P...
Jump to postFrom Orly at least 29 routes have been cancelled by Vueling since 2022: 1. ARN (Stockholm) 2. BFS (Belfast) 3. BGO (Bergen) 4. BGY (Bergamo) 5. BHX (Birmingham) 6. BLL (Billund) 7. CWL (Cardiff) 8. CPH (Copenhagen) 9. EDI (Edinburgh) 10. GLA (Glasgow) 11. GOA (Genoa) 12. GOT (Gothenburg) 13. HAM (Ha...
Jump to postWow those are massive cuts. I am not surprised about most of those routes. I don't know if it is because of (lack of) brand recognition, but it seems that for Vueling it is very hard to make Northern Europe - Southern Europe work (if including Paris in Southern Europe :D ). Paris and London from So...
Jump to postVueling seems to be chopping quite a few routes from Spain this summer: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240223-vyns24cxld Domestic: Alicante – Asturias Bilbao – Santa Cruz de la Palma Lanzarote – Valencia Lanzarote – Zaragoza Mahon – Madrid Mahon – Valencia Tenerife North – Zaragoza International: Al...
Jump to postadamh8297 wrote:Santiago - DR/Chile/Spain.
So what does this premium traffic do if they want to fly from London to BLR? Refuse to travel if they can't board at Lhr? Use another airline with maybe 1 stop rather than non-stop as they don't want to use Lgw? I'm just curious as to what the big objection is with Lgw? Bangalore is already served ...
Jump to posthttps://x.com/seanm1997/status/1758860424928219498
Air India - Bengaluru to London Gatwick. Flights start 1 April 2024
AI177 BLR 1405-2005 LGW (Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri & Sun)
AI178 LGW 2135-1150+1 BLR (Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri & Sun)
I fully agree that DXB - BOG should be served via a Europen point. LPA is an interesting suggestion. Why subject the poor passengers to the torture and nonsense that the US authorities inflicts on people in making them clear customs and immigration when they have no intention of entering the US and...
Jump to postI flew a few years ago Fez-Marrakech on Air Arabia and the overwhelming majority of passengers seemed to be tourists like me.
Jump to postLightChop2Chop wrote:They might actually do very well on this. A good comparison to this might be SQ's SIN MAN IAH....where the MAN IAH tag is mostly local pax.
This doesn't make any sense, but then Emirates flew into Fort Lauderdale for a while
Wouldn't it make more sense to make it via EU?
As far as I can Lisbon, Milan, Rome or Geneva do not have flights to Bogotá.
It is shocking there are no flights between Colombia and Italy.
conaly wrote:Frankfurt - Santiago de Compostela +1/7 to 4/7 from 1.7.24
Can we say "air brawl"? https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world/ryanair-flight-diverted-mid-air-brawl-creates-chaos-reports Ryanair - Spirit ... interchangeable ... Well it is not comparable at all. Ryanair is by far the largest carrier in Europe. It has twice the number of passengers ...
Jump to postTo simplify just the first for each letter/number 0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 3O (Air Arabia Maroc) 4 - 4O (Blue Air) 5 - 6 - 6E (IndiGo) 7 - 8 - 8Q (Onur Air) 9 - A - A5 (HOP!) B - BA (British Airways) C - CL (Lufthansa CityLine) D - DE (Condor) E - EI (Aer Lingus) F - FD (Thai Air Asia) G - H - HG (NIKI) I - ...
Jump to postAENA has released the numbers for 2023: https://www.aena.es/es/estadisticas/informes-mensuales.html Pretty much every other airport (with scheduled flights) is at all time record. The exceptions are: - Madrid - Barcelona - Girona - La Palma - A Coruña - Vigo - Reus - Granada - Jerez - Murcia - Almer...
Jump to postI don't think it is that unusual (it is two or three daily flights), but I flew a couple of months ago Chandigarh-Jaipur on IndiGo and I was the only non-Indian in the flight. I was quite certain I was also the only non-Indian at Chandigarh airport (which was quite big and new) and there were quite ...
Jump to postNew Ryanair routes https://twitter.com/SeanM1997/status/1745896388867555575 Bergamo - Castellón - 31 March - 2x weekly Berlin - Castellón - 31 March - 2x weekly Alicante - Barcelona - 1 April - 3x weekly Girona - Bari - 2 July - 3x weekly ALC-BCN is an interesting one. But the train takes +5 hours; ...
Jump to postAn odd route, Aeroitalia will launch flights between Bergamo and Southend. https://londonsouthendairport.com/news/london-southend-announces-new-route-to-milan-with-aeroitalia/ This means Milan will be linked to all 6 London airports. However there are only 10 combinations of airports between London ...
Jump to postRecently, maybe a seasonal route, KU flew KWI-AGP... maybe 3 or 4 weekly on the A338. Kuwait and Malaga ?? They have other seasonal flights from KWI to European beach cities so I guess it serves the local population/expats? But the A338 sure is a big plane for that route. Marbella has been very pop...
Jump to postAccording to Flightradar and the article, the flight tried to land in Benghazi. As for Cairo VS Chania/Heraklion, I don't find that strange. Egyptair flies regularly to CAI, so it would be much easier for them to stay there if something went wrong (they need new crew because of hours, new plane for ...
Jump to postToday the Ministry of Transportation has announced that the high-speed AVE trains will reach Santiago, Coruña and Vigo by March. Also low-cost AVEs ("AVLOs") will be deployed. https://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/vigo/2024/01/05/ave-llegara-ciudades-gallegas-eje-atlantico-marzo/0003_20240...
Jump to postThis is a bit off topic but I am planning to travel to China this year and I would like to try the C919 I found out it is flown by China Eastern on one daily SHA-TFU-SHA. Are there more routes where it is used or is planned to be used this year? Chengdu is a great city to visit. More laid back and ...
Jump to postOn the other hand... airports like Barcelona, Brussels, Budapest, Dublin, Milan-Malpensa, Munich and Paris-Orly really should be linked (better) to the long-distance rail networks Metro line 14 is arriving this summer (before the Olympics) to Orly. And in the future line 18 should get into ORY too....
Jump to postThis is a bit off topic but I am planning to travel to China this year and I would like to try the C919
I found out it is flown by China Eastern on one daily SHA-TFU-SHA. Are there more routes where it is used or is planned to be used this year?
I saw some articles about that people flying from Asia/Africa to Central America / Mexico and it seemed that a lot of them use Turkish Airlines.
I wonder to what extent this is a major revenue source for TK.
Has anyone ever operated TATL flights from Greece to North America from somewhere other than ATH? Not sure if anyone's ever tried TATL flights from somewhere like HER or SKG in the past. Considering how Greece has become a massive hotspot for Americans/Canadians since 2021 or so, I'd be curious if ...
Jump to postBristol and Florence have potential for intercontinental flights on wide bodies but the runways are too short. That is why ME3 or US3 fly to “secondary” nearby Cardiff and Pisa respectively. Brs has regular tui 787 charters across the pond. I'm not sure about 777 though. Could be an opportunity for...
Jump to postIn Spain you have LCG (2,188 m) and EAS (1,591 m) where the short-ish runways limit jet operations, with neighbouring SCQ and BIO serving as viable alternatives with a full payload. MLN is the Spanish airport with the shortest runway serving commercial traffic: 1,433 metres. Another airport that do...
Jump to postBristol and Florence have potential for intercontinental flights on wide bodies but the runways are too short. That is why ME3 or US3 fly to “secondary” nearby Cardiff and Pisa respectively.
Jump to postI saw the other day some cheap flights from Europe to Iran with Anadolujet via ESB.
Is TK trying to develop ESB/Anadolujet as a secondary hub focused on regional flights? (e.g. Europe-Middle East/Caucasus)
I honestly think that any reviewer needs to be careful from now on if they fly in carriers like QR or EK and the rest as the cabin crew may be fired. These are people who are under lots of stress, bad working conditions and if they are not doing a great job is not because they feel like it, its the...
Jump to postIs Ryanair planning a Moroccan AOC? Their AOC portfolio has been growing over the years so it wouldn't be too surprising. And how else would they be allowed to operate domestic routes with a European AOC? The EU and Morocco signed an open skies agreement in December 2006, although I'm not sure when...
Jump to postIf Ryanair is serving major domestic routes like Tangiers-Marrakesh and Fez-Marrakesh... this effectively prevents Royal Air Maroc from touching any domestic routes which do not touch Casablanca (thin PSO-type routes excepted). This is probably good overall for the country... but I'm wary of possib...
Jump to postIs Cordoba genuinely trying to get back in the business of commercial passenger airline travel ? Or is this just a one-off ? https://www.aviation24.be/airports/cordoba-airport-odb/cordoba-airport-resumes-commercial-passenger-flights-after-15-years/ Córdoba is definitely an interesting case. It must...
Jump to postUS-Ireland is also booming - this year alone you've got multiple new carriers (B6 launching JFK/BOS-DUB, MX applying to the FAA to fly to Ireland, etc), multiple new routes (e.g. DL and EI both launching MSP-DUB, EI launching DEN-DUB, etc), and multiple capacity upgrades (e.g. AA shifting DFW-DUB f...
Jump to postThe most interesting thing about this flight is that it is the first scheduled flight ever on an US3 from Spain to the West Coast. West Coast - Spain is still very untapped. Surprised SFO-BCN came before SFO-DUB. According to LAXDUDE1023 on the UA thread, DUB is UA's largest unserved non-US/Mexico/C...
Jump to postCDT and RMU you can tell are subsidy routes. BRI is the odd one out that probably will be canceled down the line. Bari is for Spanish tourists. Why not in peak season. Domestic North-South routes have boomed over the last few years, specially in summer. Now a lot of people in the Mediterranean coas...
Jump to postLike many have said, ID checks for boarding vary from country to country. France does it systematically, domestic or intra-EU. Spain doesn’t. Regardless it’s a good idea to have two pieces of ID with you. I once lost my national ID card between security and the gate. I was happy to have my passport...
Jump to postSaying that there are virtually no delays of trans in Europe is a very bold statement. It differs from country to country, but for International travel in the EU planes are much more reliable than trains, except for extreme weather situations. You must be talking Germany/Eastern Europe (where there...
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