The easyJet and Ryanair chief executives have both signed a joint letter to London Olympic 2012 boss Lord Coe, supporting the nomination of anna.aero publisher Paul Hogan to carry the Olympic Torch in memory of his daughter after it was disclosed the route in July will pass close to his home near London Gatwick Airport.
Many of you who love the anna.aero electronic product will also know that we are devilishly good at the printed word (and photo). Our latest newspapers were printed overnight in Singapore for the 129th IATA Schedules Conference and are also available here to flick through at your leisure.
The anna.aero team are at the 129th IATA Schedules Conference in Singapore, where we have been asked by those nice IATA people to produce one of our popular on-site newspapers. The first “Arrivals Edition” is already available to “flip-through” here.
Senthil Balan, Head of Route Planning & Regulatory Affairs, AirAsia X will explain just this in the keynote speech to anna.aero’s Network Planning Conference, which is being jointly staged with ACI EUROPE and ACI Asia-Pacific, and hosted by Abu Dhabi Airports Company, November 28-30 2011.
Surely even the losers can agree that Katowice Airport’s football stadium cake is a worthy winner in the record public Cake of the Week vote for the Winter Season Route Launches Part II. 12 route launch cakes were submitted but, despite tweeting campaigns by others, Katowice’s cake, symbolising the hopes for next year’s Poland/Ukraine-hosted EURO 2012 football championships, seems to have won on shear merit.
This week’s Dubai Air Show proved beyond doubt that Emirates and Qatar Airways’ global ambitions remain undiminished by pesky economic issues in certain parts of the world. But what competition do they face from Europe’s big global airlines in serving the Europe – Asia market? Which MEB3 markets remain untouched by European carriers?
Turkish Airlines will have started 20 new routes (19 international) from Istanbul’s main airport by the end of 2011. As a result it has now well and truly overtaken Lufthansa for the most non-stop destinations from a single airport in Europe. But how quickly have passenger numbers grown in recent years and which geographic market segments are growing fastest in 2011?
Following the immensely popular voting last week for Cake of the Week, we continue the tradition this week with 12 new cakes baked to celebrate the 120 routes launched. What reason you have for voting for a certain cake is up to you – maybe you work for the airline/airport, live near the airport, have been asked by someone to vote for their cake or maybe you simply vote for the one you think looks the best/tastiest. We don’t mind. We will just be happy to announce the result of the people’s vote next week, so get voting now!
Taiwan’s Taoyuan International Airport brings six highly-desired routes in North America and Europe to The Route Shop this week promising prospective airlines well over double-digit growth, and a vast investment programme, which will boost capacity to 45 million.
As far as aviation planners are concerned, ‘winter’ began this week. Due to the slot allocation system common in Europe, this tends to result in many new routes being launched. But how does this winter compare with last and what new factors might influence the introduction of new routes in the near future?
Orhan Sivrikaya, Chief Commercial Officer of Turkish Airlines is the latest recruit to our event – he will tell the Abu Dhabi conference how around 100 airports across Europe, the Middle East and Africa could benefit from new THY routes because of the unique geographical benefits of its rocketing Istanbul hub.
