Ryanair starts flights from Dublin to Lublin; adds Turin, Grenoble and Salzburg to its Dublin network and Turin from London Stansted.
Volotea commences flights from Verona to Bari; adds services from its Nantes base to both Grenoble and Tenerife Sur.
Winter-only flights and no domestic services (until next week) Grenoble-Isère Airport is almost a unique type of airport in France, if not Europe. It also dominated by UK airlines rather than French ones, with flights from nine UK airports and four British carriers.
Jet2.com inaugurates seasonal services from both Leeds/Bradford and Manchester to Grenoble; adds new route from East Midlands to Geneva.
Monarch Airlines inaugurates six skiing routes to Germany and France.
Norwegian now flies from Copenhagen Airport, Oslo Airport and Stockholm Arlanda Airport to Grenoble in the French Alps.
easyJet now flies new routes from Basel in Switzerland to the Canary Islands, from the UK to the Alps and between Paris and Bologna
anna.aero has now passed the 7,000 mark for new routes reported! Last week’s 23 routes is the perfect week to celebrate this, with diverse routes having launched in all corners of the world. The capitals of Peru and Estonia, Lima and Tallinn, are the only ones with more than one route launch, so we have a wide spread of new services analysed and illustrated.
Ahead of Christmas, we have seen 83 new routes launch! You might have thought that route launch celebrations would be more low-key as Christmas celebrations take over, but we dare almost say it has been the contrary. We have fantastic photos from route launches all across the world!
Over 60 new routes this week from 30 airlines. Countries involved in celebrating new services include Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, Hungary, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Kuwait, Libya, Lithuania, Netherlands, Nepal, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, the UAE, the UK, and the USA. Phew, I guess that’s what you’d call global coverage
The start of the European ski season is imminent so we take a look at which airlines have started new routes to the major airports serving the ski market. And which UK LCC has resorted to poetry to entice passengers?
