Articles Tagged ‘Finnair’
Riga Airport welcomes its 60 millionth passenger
In this week’s Network Planning Community News, Brussels Airport celebrates with Belgium’s national carrier the start of flights between Brussels and Mumbai, while Vueling celebrates its five year anniversary at Brest. More news also from St. Petersburg and Munich airports.
LOT Polish Airlines, Finnair lead network expansion race among Europe’s flag carriers; British Airways adds 20 new routes in two years
We reveal by how much Europe’s flag carriers have expanded their networks from their main bases since 2015. Iberia, KLM and Turkish Airlines have also been busy celebrating many new routes. Plus the top 20 flag carriers by routes served from their main airports.
Alicante elated with Arch of Triumph victory as another airport climbs to the top of the 2017 leader board
This week Alicante has celebrated winning the Arch of Triumph competition for the FTWA that has placed it second in the overall competition for 2017. However, one week on from its victory and it has already dropped to third due to the wonder that anna.aero’s judges have been sent this week from another European airport. […]
Finnair launches flights to its most westerly European airport
Finnair begins a four times weekly service between Helsinki and Reykjavik/Keflavik.
Tallinn-Malaga is “Skyscanner Unserved Route of the Week” ‒ nearly 155,000 searches; Ryanair’s next Nordic newcomer?
Skyscanner’s Travel Insight software has shown that in the past 12 months nearly 155,000 potential travellers searched on the leading flight comparison site for flights between Tallinn and Malaga ‒ but the route is unserved!? Both Ryanair and Norwegian have the market credentials to make this work, but who will get there first?
Billund Airport breaks 3-million passenger milestone in 2016; Brussels Airlines, Czech Airlines, Finnair and Wizz Air all new since start of 2015
Billund is famous as the home of Lego but its airport is Denmark’s second biggest with a growing portfolio of full-service and low-cost carriers. We reveal the airport’s seasonality, leading airlines and most popular country markets.
anna.aero joins Ryanair, Finnair, SAS and airBaltic for Tampere Aviation Forum II to learn all about Scandinavia’s largest inland city
Last week anna.aero was invited to attend the Tampere Aviation Forum II to learn of the various projects that are developing the largest inland Scandinavian city into a Smart City, and the issues facing regional airlines and smaller markets in the European region, including those that serve Tampere. Find out about Tampere’s future growth plans, […]
Funchal Airport traffic up 13.4% for the first three quarters of 2016; on course for three million; Lufthansa arrival opens global connectivity
Funchal Airport is the main gateway to the island of Madeira, and for the first nine months of this year the airport has welcomed just shy of 2.3 million passengers. With an average monthly increase so far this year of over 13%, up from 5.3% for the same period in 2015, the airport is poised […]
Gdansk on course to hit four million passenger mark; Amsterdam is largest unserved market; Wizz Air-Ryanair domination starts to show
Since the turn of the millennium, Gdansk has witnessed rapid growth, and from handling fewer than 600,000 passengers in 2000, it is on course to welcome four million this year. We take a closer look at the airport with regards to carrier development and route changes, as well as delving into new route opportunities from […]
Norwegian reaches 10 million passenger milestone in Helsinki; serves over 30 destinations; adding Amsterdam and Pristina for S17
Norwegian started serving the Finnish capital in the summer of 2010. It has since operated scheduled flights to 36 destinations. We reveal the three route droppings and see how the airline’s share of the Helsinki market has developed.
Finnair’s scheduled traffic grows 65% in five years; surpasses one million monthly passengers; Iceland is next country market
During the past year, Finnair has welcomed 13 new airports to its route map. As well as this, the carrier became the first European A350 operator, and June 2016 was the first time in recent history that the airline managed the feat of carrying one million scheduled passengers in a month. anna.aero looks in further detail at traffic […]
Latvia’s traffic set to leap past 5.5 million in 2016; airBaltic still #1 carrier
Latvia is the tasty filling in the Baltic nation sandwich, sitting as it does between its close neighbours Estonia and Lithuania. The country’s air traffic is booming this year, with an average monthly growth of 8.4% between January and May. We take a look at who is doing what, and from where.