The world’s second biggest air travel market grew by a phenomenal 16% last year. But how fast did China’s leading airports grow and which are their nearest European equivalents? How fast are the leading airports growing this summer and which airport is actually likely to see fewer passengers and why? Who is planning new international routes to China this summer?
The clocks in Europe went forward an hour on Sunday morning heralding the start of the 2011 ‘summer’ season. 160 new routes started during the last seven days (we have a free downloadable spreadsheet for you to keep) with a further 650-plus expected to start before the end of June. Which airlines will be keeping local bakeries busy?
In the week that Carolyn McCall has been announced as keynote speaker at the ACI EUROPE Annual Congress, the easyJet CEO has also the taken the lead over Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary for the first time in our vote to see which airline CEO anna.aero publisher Paul Hogan will dress up as when he runs the London Marathon next month. Time is running out to cast your vote.
Having had their planned merger denied by the EU, how are Aegean and Olympic responding this summer? How did Greek airports outside of Athens fare last year? Which carriers are starting new routes to which airports this summer? And how quickly is Ryanair expanding in Greece?
After another week of voting, easyJet has further narrowed the gap on Ryanair in our vote to see which airline CEO anna.aero publisher Paul Hogan will dress up as when he runs the London Marathon next month. If you haven’t already, cast your vote today.
Which are the leading intra-European international travel markets this summer? Which country-pairs are most dominated by carriers from just one of the countries? And which country-pairs have seen the biggest invasion of foreign airlines thanks to EU liberalisation?
As the anna.aero poll to choose the favourite European LCC boss for the London Marathon heats up, easyJet CEO Carolyn McCall has swung behind the ‘Bron’s Medal’ campaign with a generous £1,000 donation.
anna.aero’s Editor Ralph Anker will be making his annual appearance at FrenchConnect in Lille next week, delivering a keynote speech on the state of the French market. Check out our recent stories which have focused on French airports and French airlines.
After impressive profits in 2010, US carriers are faced with rising oil prices this summer. But that’s not stopping them adding some 200 new routes in the first half of this year. Which carriers are keeping their PR departments busiest and what is the mix between domestic and international growth? Which are the leading carrier’s operating internationally and how fast are they growing?
Michael O’Leary has opened up a significant 20-point lead in the anna.aero reader poll to choose the most-preferred boss of Europe’s two biggest low-cost airlines in anna.aero’s charity competition, which pitches the Ryanair man against easyJet CEO Carolyn McCall.
Traffic overall was up in Europe in 2010 but what happened in the domestic markets? We take a closer look at the biggest ones and find one country which bucked the overall trend. Which country had the greatest difference between domestic growth and overall growth?
