Articles Tagged ‘CGN’

Ryanair to grow 3.5% from Bologna in 2018, offering 4.22 million seats; 46 destinations in S18; Amman and Kaunas launching for winter

Ryanair to grow 3.5% from Bologna in 2018, offering 4.22 million seats; 46 destinations in S18; Amman and Kaunas launching for winter

Ryanair opened its Bologna base in 2009, and since then the carrier’s annual seat capacity from the Italian city has grown by 200%. Jonathan Ford investigates the airline’s expansion from its third biggest base in Italy, including how many based aircraft it has this summer and its top destinations.

Montego Bay traffic climbs 30% between 2010 and 2017; traffic for first five months of 2018 up 6.5%; Southwest Airlines expanding fast

Montego Bay traffic climbs 30% between 2010 and 2017; traffic for first five months of 2018 up 6.5%; Southwest Airlines expanding fast

Montego Bay is the largest of the two international airports in Jamaica, handling 4.28 million passengers in 2017, up by one million when compared to 2010. Jonathan Ford investigates the recent spike in traffic from the airport to see which airlines and airports are advancing at a greater rate than others.

Lisbon Lions roar with pride over Arch of Triumph win

Lisbon Lions roar with pride over Arch of Triumph win

Winners don’t get prouder than this, as 15 members of last week’s victors from Lisbon Airport’s fire crew take centre stage – including Miguel Moreira with the certificate. It is a record week of entries, with 23 FTWAs battling it out to get that little piece of paper on their airport’s fire station walls.


Laudamotion gets moving across Europe

Laudamotion gets moving across Europe

Laudamotion starts 32 new routes with Berlin Tegel, Palma de Mallorca and Vienna being its main focus cities.

easyJet enters eight new city pairs

easyJet enters eight new city pairs

easyJet starts routes from Berlin Tegel, Bristol and Milan Malpensa.

VLM Airlines adventures to Aberdeen, Cologne Bonn and Rostock

VLM Airlines adventures to Aberdeen, Cologne Bonn and Rostock

VLM Airlines now links all three European destinations to its Antwerp base. 


Eurowings enters 27 extra city pairs from core markets

Eurowings enters 27 extra city pairs from core markets

Eurowings starts flights from 11 different Austrian and German airports.

Qatar Airways celebrates 15th anniversary of Manchester service

Qatar Airways celebrates 15th anniversary of Manchester service

In this week’s Network Planning Community News along with the route birthday celebrations in the UK, we also have the start of a new base for Small Planet Airlines at Cologne Bonn. More news from London Stansted.

Cologne Bonn and Oakland observe Cake of the Week victories

Cologne Bonn and Oakland observe Cake of the Week victories

In this week’s Network Planning Community News, along with the German and US airport cake celebrations, easyJet toasts 15 years of based operations at Newcastle, while Norwegian carries its four millionth passenger from Aalborg. More news also from Lufthansa at Helsinki. 


Cologne Bonn Airport – Cake of the Week champions S18 Part II – another win for German gateway

Cologne Bonn Airport – Cake of the Week champions S18 Part II – another win for German gateway

They have done it again!! Cologne Bonn gets its obligatory public vote win for Cake of the Week, having amassed 33% of the votes over the last seven days. As you will discover, the German gateway is making a habit of masterminding regular victories in this competition.

Hamburg-Toronto is "Skyscanner Unserved Route of the Week" with 73,000 searches; Eurowings' entry into Canadian market??

Hamburg-Toronto is “Skyscanner Unserved Route of the Week” with 73,000 searches; Eurowings’ entry into Canadian market??

In the last year, Skyscanner’s Travel Insight software has shown that nearly 73,000 potential travellers searched on the leading flight comparison site for flights between Hamburg and Toronto ‒ but the city pair is unserved!? With Eurowings and Condor positioned at the German end of the route and three airlines poised in Canada, who will be […]

Germany-Turkey market suffers slide in 2016 and 2017; return to growth on the horizon, Turkish Airlines is leading carrier

Germany-Turkey market suffers slide in 2016 and 2017; return to growth on the horizon, Turkish Airlines is leading carrier

The available seats on services between Germany and Turkey fell by 7.9% to 14.80 million in 2017. This was the second consecutive years of cuts, although early indications are that the market will return to growth in 2018. Nick Preston looks at capacity trends in this country pair over the past 10 years.