Early this morning, American Airlines’ first flight from Beijing to Chicago took off. Read the background behind the route launch and see anna.aero’s exclusive photos from the celebrations.
Europe’s had volcano issues (and strikes), the US has had a major merger announcement but what’s happening in Asia? Which airlines and country markets are growing fastest? We have a couple of handy graphs summarising the trends.
Over 60 new routes this week with a strong bias towards European LCCs. Cimber Sterling, easyJet, Jet2.com, Ryanair and Wizz Air all launched multiple routes. But AirAsia, Avianova, BA CityFlyer, Delta, Flydubai, Southwest, Spanair and Transaero among others all had reasons to celebrate this week.
anna.aero has just received pictures of the celebrations to mark Trapani’s win earlier this month of the anna.aero €URO ANNIE Airport Traffic Growth Prize in the 1-2 million category. The Sicilian airport impressively won the award for its 100.1% growth in 2009.
The Russian market is back in growth mode and the battle to be #1 in the domestic market is intensifying. Which are the leading international markets and which are the leading carriers on international routes?
Ryanair will now operate 58 weekly flights from Malta, 21 of which will be operated by a Maltese based 737-800. Which routes have been dropped and which have been dropped and then re-instated? Which is the only daily service?
Wizz Air has placed a third A320 in Sofia and has added four routes. But one of the aircraft is used to serve Luton destinations. See our unique aircraft rotation plan analysis to see how they do it. Where does Sofia now rank among Wizz Air airports?
What’s this? A new airport in the US and Southwest is the first airline to operate from it? How many passengers are likely to pass through the airport in its first year? And which cities are connected to the airport on a daily basis?
Air travel at Canada’s airports has shown little growth yet both Air Canada and WestJet have seen an increase in demand (RPMs). How can this be? How dominant are these two carriers at Canada’s top airports?
Sir Stelios has quit the board in protest at the airline’s growth plans. But how do they compare with other major LCCs in Europe? Who is growing fastest and which milestone will Ryanair pass this summer?
Airport Weeze’s two-day party with dancing and cannon fire led wide-scale celebration among winning airlines and airports following the award of the first anna.aero €URO ANNIES – a brand new series of proper network development-related prizes entirely based on science, statistics and transparent evidence. Read on for great pictures and success stories from Russia’s Avianova, Belgrade, Brussels, Rome, airBaltic, etc etc.
