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Rotterdam The Hague Airport growing fast in Q1 thanks to Transavia

Rotterdam The Hague Airport growing fast in Q1 thanks to Transavia.com; Lufthansa to launch Munich flights from October

Passenger numbers are up 20% so far this year at the third busiest airport in the Netherlands thanks to Transavia.com. But which destinations does the airline serve in winter only, in summer only, and year-round? Which other carriers operate at the airport and which niche carriers briefly operated flights to Hamburg and Keflavik recently?

Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ SVP Pat Shanahan; Lufthansa’s CEO Carsten Spohr; EVP Group Fleet Management Nico Buchholz; and Boeing 747 Program VP and GM Elizabeth Lund cut the ribbon to celebrate the delivery of the first 747-8I to launch partner Lufthansa at Paine Field Airport.

Boeing remains in the lead of the delivery race; Lufthansa takes its first 747-8I

Airbus might have delivered more aircraft than Boeing in April, but it was not sufficient in order to recover the leading position. But which manufacturer delivered to a wider unique customer base? Which Asian low cost airline became the latest user of A320s? And which airline took the delivery of a rejuvenated “Queen of the Skies”?

Cutting the cake for Lufthansa’s arrival in Knock in western Ireland were Michael Ring, Minister of State for Tourism and Sport; Florian Gränzdörffer, Lufthansa’s spokesman for Western Germany; and Joe Gilmore, Managing Director, Ireland West Airport Knock.

Lufthansa launches six routes from Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Munich

Lufthansa has launched new routes to Dublin, Knock, Bari, Birmingham, Bastia and Odessa.

New Route Launch

Lufthansa adds two seasonal routes to its Düsseldorf network

Lufthansa launches new routes from Düsseldorf to Malaga and Sylt.

Celebrating Lufthansa’s new service to Munich in Montpellier were: Fabian Bade, Lufthansa’s Director Operations and Airport Services France and Benelux; Cyril Reboul, Chairman Montpellier Airport; Martina Delacour, LH Station Manager Montpellier and Marseille; and Pascal Bigot, Montpellier Airport’s Routes Development Manager.

Lufthansa expands Munich network with flights to Montpellier and Valencia

Lufthansa launches routes to Valencia and Montpellier from Munich.

Over 500 new routes launched to welcome summer season

Over 500 new routes launched to welcome summer season

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.

Lufthansa expands with 12 new routes

Lufthansa expands with 12 new routes

Lufthansa has grown its route network with 12 new routes, both within Europe and to China.

Bernhard Loos (Citizen’s Initiative for Runway 3), Josef Schmid (CSU), Alexander Reissl (SPD) Michael Mattar (FDP), Michael Kerkloh (Munich Airport) and Manfred Rothkopf (IHK) pictured standing behind a banner advertising Munich Airports‘ planned runway 3.

Munich now Europe’s 6th busiest airport, overtaking Rome; decision on third runway to be made in June

After almost 9% growth last year it looks unlikely that Munich will repeat that achievement this year. So which country markets are on-track to grow this summer and which may struggle to reach last year’s levels? And what new routes are being started this summer and by which airlines?

Jia Rui Jun, President of Shanghai International Co and Rickard Gustafson, CEO of SAS, celebrate the return of the airline’s Copenhagen-Shanghai service.

Europe’s long-haul market this summer features new Chinese destinations, fewer Delta routes, and lots of London changes

Europe’s economies and the EU’s insistence on applying its ETS to aviation might not seem like the ideal combination to attract more long-haul but many airlines appear to have a different view. See which carriers have added new long-haul services to Europe for this summer and which routes have been suspended.

Photograph of a Lufthansa/Austrian Airlines cake.

Austrian faces uncertain future; will planned capacity growth of 5% for this summer be implemented?

Lufthansa is getting serious about sorting out Austrian. But what changes are planned for the airline’s summer schedule compared with last summer? Which country markets are growing and which are shrinking? And which destinations have been dropped from Vienna in recent years?

Testing times at BER

Testing times at BER

The boss of Berlin Brandenburg Airport Willy Brandt talked to us during the first day of operational readiness testing involving 250 volunteer ‘passengers’. We wanted to know how the new airport improves Berlin as a proposition for airlines – purely from a route development point of view.

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