Denmark will be hosting Eurovision 2014 after Emmelie de Forest won the 2013 contest in Malmö at the weekend. The influx of foreign visitors expected for the 39-country, Europe-wide song contest may well be the additional traffic boost that sees Denmark’s airports top 30 million annual passengers for the first time next year.
Air France began flights to Montevideo (Uruguay) this week, its ninth destination in South America. Only TAP Portugal serves more points in South America from Europe with 11. European carriers have 75% of the non-stop market, with KLM and Lufthansa the fastest-growing.
Air France launched four-weekly service to Montevideo via Buenos Aires and thrice-weekly flights to Kuala Lumpur, both from Paris CDG.
Air France launches flights from Paris Orly to Casablanca, Moscow Sheremetyevo and Istanbul Atatürk.
Due to the US economic embargo on Cuba which has lasted for nearly 50 years, there are no scheduled flights between the two nations. So which nation is the top country market?
From S’13, HOP! will operate 530 daily flights to 136 destinations across 15 countries for parent Air France.
Oompah Oompah: Nuremberg Airport’s network will receive a bit of oomph this year with the arrival of two new links to London, one from Ryanair (daily to Stansted) and the other from CityJet (double daily to London City), launched this week.
In this week’s portion of Network Planning Community News, anna.aero reports on the latest happenings from India and Malaysia.
Despite the global economic malaise, 2012 was a record-breaking year for route development. In 2013, Ryanair and Southwest are amongst the airline “usual suspects” with the most additional services on their respective new routes list.
In this week’s portion of Network Planning Community News, anna.aero reports from Friedrichshafen where the anna.aero Cake of the Week Certificate has been spotted together with the man behind the great creation. But we also have news from St Petersburg, Moscow Sheremetyevo, Leeds/Bradford, Chengdu, Christchurch and many more.
