Southern Europe’s economies may be struggling, so is this a good time to launch a new low-cost airline in the region? With bases in France, Italy and Spain, we take a closer look at which markets will benefit most from Volotea’s planned 76 route network using seven 717s this summer.
Your London Airport Gatwick has agreed to an $8,000 sponsorship deal to support anna.aero’s publisher Paul Hogan in this year’s Virgin London Marathon – all proceeds of Gatwick’s generosity will go to Anthony Nolan, the bone marrow transplant charity that sourced a transplant donor for Hogan’s 12-year-old daughter Brontë, who died last year after a five-year battle with leukaemia.
We received a record 2,825 record reader votes in the Cake of the Week competition staged last week to find a winner among the dozens of route launch cakes which marked the start of the 2012 Summer Season. A Twitter campaign by SAS to its entire 10,200 system-wide following probably had something to do with the final victory of the SAS’ Katowice to Copenhagen Viking ship cake.
After the fantastic turnout for last week’s Cake of the Week vote, we now have another 21 cakes from the last week’s route launch celebrations as the summer scheduling season brought another 200 routes to the world. Again, we let you, our readers, vote for the best one.
We’re delighted to announce the arrival of Hainan Meilan International Airport in the route shop. Hainan Island, is not only the only tropical destination in China – the airport’s stores are totally duty free – for all travellers!!!
The first two days of the 2012 summer scheduling season have brought almost 250 new routes to the world and these 21 spectacular route launch cakes were baked as a result. It would be far too difficult for us to choose the worthy winner of our Cake of the Week prize among them, so we leave it to you– our readers – to cast the vote.
Europe’s airline may be having a mixed time financially but that’s not stopping them exploring new routes this summer. We do some analysis at the over 500 new routes starting during the next three weeks to reveal which airline is starting the most new routes (no surprises here) and which country’s airports will be celebrating the most.
Invited by Vietnam Airlines, anna.aero travelled to the airline’s headquarters to talk to CEO Dr Pham Ngoc Minh who aims to turn Vietnam Airlines into a leading airline in South East Asia. Just how fast will the airline grow? In which markets will it expand? And what about Jetstar Pacific?
Disneyland® Paris was the venue for this year’s 9th annual FrenchConnect aviation forum, hosted by Paris Vatry airport and attended by record numbers of delegates and speakers. anna.aero’s very own Ralph Anker gave the first keynote speech looking at the French and European aviation market. With lots of content not previously published on anna.aero download his presentation for free here.
The Continental name has joined America West, Eastern, Northwest, Pan-Am and TWA in the history of US aviation. So now that the merged airline has a single reservation system what sort of network does United have? We reveal the leading airports (by flights and ASKs) and look at the biggest routes (as measured by ASKs).
anna.aero presented its first-ever cake at London Gatwick Airport this morning to mark the launch of Hong Kong Airlines’ brand new all-business class route. Surprise, surprise, the beautiful cake – created by the wife of anna.aero’s Publisher, immediately won “Extraordinary Cake of the Week”. Read the full story of how Gatwick won the service and how the Hainan Airlines-associated carrier hopes to make this route work where other all-business airlines have failed.
