Southwest Airlines’ top airports by the numbers
Southwest Airlines’ top-10 airports saw 186m seats and ~157m passengers, for SLF of 84%. 118m were local O&D, while 39m were in transit. Chicago Midway #1.
IndiGo now #1 at India’s top-10 airports with average 41% share
Jet Airways’ end meant IndiGo became #1 at Mumbai. IndiGo has avg. 41% share of seats at India’s top-10 airports vs. 14% for #2. Bangalore has the biggest difference between #1 and #2 with a 14.4m seat gap.
Emirates announce Penang, Malaysia, as next Asian destination
Emirates will operate Dubai – Singapore – Penang daily from April. Qatar Airways operates Doha – Penang non-stop, with the UK/Germany Penang’s key markets.
Indianapolis gains more Spirit as Routes Americas 2020 approaches
The host of Routes Americas 2020, Indianapolis now has over 50 destinations, with Spirit Airlines the newest carrier to serve the airport.
Airline Route News
-
28 Jan 2020
VietJet connects Bali with Hanoi
-
24 Jan 2020
Xiamen connects Fukuoka with Fuzhou
-
22 Jan 2020
Air Asia X launches Okinawa flights from Kuala Lumpur
-
21 Jan 2020
Air North celebrates Vancouver to Yellowknife launch
-
20 Jan 2020
Ryanair adds Kharkiv flights from Budapest
-
20 Jan 2020
Star Air adds Belagavi to Indore flights
-
17 Jan 2020
LOT adds Beijing Daxing flights from Warsaw
-
16 Jan 2020
Ryanair adds Yerevan from Milan and Rome
-
15 Jan 2020
SAS returns to Los Angeles from Copenhagen
-
14 Jan 2020
Vietjet boosts international expansion with two new routes
-
13 Jan 2020
Southwest Airlines connects Cincinnati with Tampa
-
9 Jan 2020
Ural Airlines adds London Stansted to network
-
9 Jan 2020
JetSMART starts Santiago service
-
9 Jan 2020
Thai Air Asia X takes off to Tbilisi from Bangkok
-
8 Jan 2020
Biman Bangladesh returns to Manchester
-
8 Jan 2020
Turkish Airlines launches Xi’an flights
-
7 Jan 2020
Austrian Airlines arrives in Birmingham
Iran could be an aviation paradise in medium term
Severe sanctions curtail Iran’s aviation development, but large population and area, slow overland, & short distance between cities = an aviation paradise?
Top of the props: Boeing and Embraer studying new turboprop
Boeing and Embraer examining the business case for a new turboprop as the Dash-8-400 and ATR-72 have over 60 million seats in W19.
Ethiopian Airlines overview as it announces new 100mppa airport
Having achieved its Vision 2025 seven years early, Ethiopian Airlines is Africa’s largest & strongest financially. It has now announced a brand-new airport.
United Airlines’ top-20 international connecting markets; Tel Aviv – LAX #1
19% of United Airlines’ seats are now international, with Mexico – US its #1 connecting country-pair and Houston IAH is #1 international connecting hub.
St Petersburg now offers 7th freedoms to 30 countries
With 7th freedoms to 30 European countries, St Petersburg’s tourism will grow. Wizz has already announced four more routes, two in the “top unserved” list.
Qatar Airways announce eight destinations, a target of 3.3m passengers
Qatar Airways announce new routes to Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Africa, with continued focus on thinner, seasonal destinations – including Siem Reap.
View our new network planning daily digest on Instagram
We bring minute-by-minute network planning news to Instagram Stories; view our new daily digest.
Bamboo Airways turns one as Hanoi – Prague announced
Despite only being one, Bamboo Airways has 3m seats, 23 aircraft, and 35 routes. It has just announced Prague – what was Vietnam’s #1 unserved Euro route.
Future flybe: more Virgin or Stobart?
flybe has agreed a rescue deal with Government and owners Connect Airways. As its top base saw revenue fall 1/4 YOY, we analyse flybe’s performance and future.
Allegiant Air announces 44 new routes; 42 are unserved
We look at the numbers behind Allegiant’s 44 new routes. It’d be quite straightforward to predict future Allegiant routes, of which it sees 600.