UK hybrid carrier Monarch is increasing its scheduled network while reducing charter capacity. This summer it is launching flights to seven new destinations across Europe, but how important is the Spanish market? Which is its busiest UK base and which destinations receive the mostly weekly flights this summer?
Meridiana fly now flies from Rome Fiumicino Airport in the Italian capital to Yerevan in Armenia.
bmibaby adds seven new routes to Barcelona, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Murcia, Naples, Palma de Mallorca and Rome.
Vueling launches new routes from Barcelona, Bilbao, Nantes and Paris Orly
Monarch Airlines starts scheduled flights to Milan Malpensa, Rome Fiumicino and Venice.
The new, privatised Alitalia continues to evolve its Rome-based network, but which leading country markets will see the greatest changes this June compared with last June? How dominant is the domestic market and which planned new destinations for this summer have had their launch date pushed back to July?
Air Vallée has launched flights from Parma to Rome Fiumicino Airport.
Blue Panorama Airlines now flies to the Seychelles from Milan Malpensa Airport via Rome Fiumicino Airport.
Alitalia again flies from Rome Fiumicino Airport in Italy to Budapest Airport in Hungary after Malev’s bankruptcy.
So Alitalia has proposed in principle to merge with two smaller Italian airlines. At which airports will Alitalia grow its market share the most? And which major domestic route might cause competition authorities to worry as the current choice of three carriers (each with at least three daily flights) would be replaced by a monopoly?
Belle Air Europe now flies from Rome Fiumicino Airport in Italy to Skopje in FYROM.
