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April 2009 | Archive

‘Buy This Man a Drink’ rockets to $14,000 for childhood leukaemia as our man comes in for soft landing

Article Thumbnail: Lead Storyanna.aero publisher and the TeamBrontë runners completed the London Marathon yesterday and raised over $14,000 as anna.aero matched the pledges placed by our readers around the world.

Sacre bleu! Air France dominates French short-haul market with over 50% of scheduled capacity

Article Thumbnail: Lead StoryUnlike British Airways Air France has managed to robustly defend its short-haul route network from the all-conquering threat of LCCs. But LCCs are making significant inroads in some country markets. What share of new short-haul routes have been started by easyJet and Ryanair alone?

Ethiopian growing profitably from Addis Ababa; new Q400s due in 2010

Article Thumbnail: Country FocusEthiopia has 16 commercial airports serving the population of 80 million. Addis Ababa and Ethiopian dominate the country’s air travel scene but how quickly are both growing? How far does Ethiopian’s network reach and which are its newest routes? Who else serves Ethiopia?

airBaltic now serving 50 destinations non-stop from Riga including Dubai; Linkoping and Dushanbe starting soon

Article Thumbnail: Airline AnalysisLatvia’s airBaltic is now free of SAS influence and growing fast. It has added 20 new routes in the last year and trebled the number of transfer passengers in Riga. Which are its busiest routes and what fleet changes are imminent?

American Airlines tightens Miami Vice; hub now serves 60 foreign destinations

Article Thumbnail: Airline AnalysisMiami is America’s third busiest international airport and busiest for US carriers. American operates a major hub with 60 international and 42 domestic destinations. How does it schedule its flights through a typical day and which routes has it added in the last year and which have fallen by the wayside?

Edinburgh airport; easyJet offers most seats, Flybe most flights and Ryanair most routes

Article Thumbnail: Airport FocusEdinburgh saw traffic fall (marginally) for the first time in 15 years, but is coping better than many other UK airports thanks to growing low-cost activity. Which legacy carriers are still there (including US ones) and which routes have been abandoned?

Norwegian and Ryanair still growing; SkyEurope traffic down almost 40% as Easter moves to April

Article Thumbnail: Market TrendsFor the second straight month only Norwegian and Ryanair reported growth among our basket of data-friendly LCCs in March. How did load factors compare this March with last year and which airlines saw an improvement despite Easter’s shift?

New routes launched during the last week
(Saturday 18 April – Friday 24 April):

Article Thumbnail: Route NewsAnother busy week for new routes as Aer Lingus, AeroMexico, Air Arabia, Air Southwest, Air Transat, airberlin, easyJet, Flybe, Jet Airways, Lufthansa, Malev, Norwegian, Ryanair, Transavia, United and US Airways all gave their PR departments something positive to write about.

easyJet and Ryanair battle for supremacy in UK short-haul market

Article Thumbnail: Lead StoryFrom inauspicious beginnings at unfashionable UK airports easyJet and Ryanair have developed to be the two leading airlines serving the UK short-haul market. Who are its closest rivals and which country markets from the UK are most (and least) dominated by low-cost carriers?

Corsican airports report fourth straight year of growth; easyJet gradually making inroads

Article ThumbThe Mediterranean island of Corsica has four commercial airports which handled over 2.5 million passengers last year. Three cities in France dominate the island’s route network but LCCs such as easyJet and Germanwings are helping to stimulate international growth.

vivaaerobus optimises Monterrey network; Texas routes developing slowly

Article ThumbVivaaerobus has been operating in the dynamic Mexican market for just over two years. How many passengers have been carried and at what load factor? Which routes does it operate from Monterrey and which has it dropped? And in what unusual way has it copied Ryanair?

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