After our extremely popular analysis last week of which routes easyJet has dropped for this summer, this week we take a look at legendary Southwest Airlines of the US. It has dropped routes this summer from 39 airports with Orlando and Philadelphia hardest hit. But ASKs are still up 5%.
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Right now the anna.aero team has been whisked by Wizz Air to Routes Europe in Budapest where we have been commissioned by those nice Routes people to produce special made-in-Hungary ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES editions of anna.aero’s much-loved on-site publications. The ARRIVALS edition is already out and can be viewed here.
Next week the anna.aero team is flying (courtesy of Wizz Air) to Routes Europe in Budapest where we have been commissioned by those nice Routes people to produce special made-in-Hungary ARRIVALS and DEPARTURES editions of anna.aero’s much-loved on-site publications.
Surprising Friedrichshafen Airport welcomes Turkish Airlines’ four-weekly service to Istanbul Atatürk.
LCCs are notoriously ruthless when it comes to unprofitable routes, but tend to keep rather quiet about which routes get dropped, and when. This week in a new, regular feature we examine which are the latest routes to have failed easyJet’s route profitability criteria.
FACT: Airlines like routes with flat demand profiles, as it helps them to plan their annual aircraft capacity. Find out here how your airport scores…and just how it does against some of the world’s biggest and best.
Three down and one to go. Air India’s Chairman and MD, Rohit Nandan, has confirmed this week the airline’s plans to fly later this year to new points in Australia, Italy and the UK…its US routes are still to be confirmed.
Hungry airports are bending over backwards to attract airlines. But airlines including Lufthansa and Ryanair, seem to agree that airports are missing a real possibility: To cooperate with airports to build and share airport retail revenues.
Leak of the Week: anna.aero reveals which UK airports are going to benefit from new leisure services next year and investigates whether charter passengers are still valuable to the UK’s airports, particularly when it comes to spending cash in their shops, despite decades of decline resulting from LCC encroachment.
This is not a long, self-indulgent report on anna.aero’s Virgin London Marathon team, but an acknowledgement of how easyJet and London Gatwick Airport backed anna.aero in raising almost $40,000 for bone marrow transplants.
