April’s traffic data was corrupted by the impact of that Icelandic volcano so what can we deduce from May data? We look at traffic data from 250 European airports and analyse in more depth IATA’s latest global traffic data for May.
anna.aero was in France last week for the 7th annual FrenchConnect event. Our editor perfomed ‘live’ and also interviewed easyJet’s Warwick Brady. See all the best photos from a memorable event and download our presentation for free.
The hopes of Africa now rest on the shoulders of Ghana’s footballers at the FIFA World Cup, but their country’s main airport has been attracting several new long-haul services. We take a closer look at Accra airport.
Ryanair takes another step towards overhauling Iberia as Spain’s number one airline with the opening of another Spanish base. Which new destinations have been added and who will Ryanair compete with head-to-head from Spain’s fourth busiest airport?
Canada’s busiest airport with over 30 million annual passengers welcomed a new airline last week. How has traffic developed in the different market segments in recent years and which other new routes have been started?
How are German airports performing in 2010 overall and which airports are still not reporting growth? Which are the fastest growing airports and which airport should benefit from a new LCC base?
Traffic between the UK and Toulouse grew rapidly after 2001 as LCCs entered the market. But which routes have survived and which have failed? How has the Bristol route evolved?
This has been a busy week for route launches. Out of 75 new routes, 25 are started by Ryanair which launched its new Malaga base. Still, we have information and photos from all the remaining 50 worldwide routes, ranging from CityJet’s short hop across the English Channel to Qatar Airways new South American service.
Over 1000 airline, airport and slot co-ordination company representatives got together in Berlin this week to finalise plans for this winter’s schedule. anna.aero was there and met up with some familiar faces.
The 20th ACI EUROPE Annual Congress, hosted by Aeroporti di Milano last week, had several valuable network planning messages from the CEOs of Lufthansa and airBaltic. The strongest came from Turkish Airlines’ CEO Dr Temel Kotil who told anna.aero all about his desire to create the “largest airline on Earth” –read on if you think he is joking, otherwise you could miss out on any one of 70 new routes he is promising.
We all know Air France dominates the domestic market but what can be learnt from recent easyJet and Ryanair experience? Which country markets (and airlines) are growing (and shrinking) this summer?
