Articles Tagged ‘FMM’
Varna Airport H1 2017 traffic up 15%; Wizz Air opens base with six new routes; prepares to welcome Ryanair in W17/18 with Belgian link
Varna Airport has had a very successful year, with the airport in 2016 seeing 1.69 million passengers, the highest traffic result it has recorded this decade. Along with this milestone, the airport has seen the arrival of easyJet, plus expansion from the likes of Wizz Air and Norwegian, with Ryanair coming soon.
Wizz Air opens Varna base
Wizz Air opens six new routes and bases one A320 in the Black Sea city – eight routes served in total.
Cologne Bonn crowned Cake of the Week champion
In this week’s Network Planning Community News, Cologne Bonn Airport celebrates winning Part I of the S17 Cake of the Week Public Vote, while Memmingen welcomed People’s Viennaline’s new charter service to Naples. More news also from Vancouver as it welcomes Canada’s first scheduled A350 service.
Ryanair arrives in Ukraine with Kiev and Lviv links
Ryanair is pushing eastward launching four new services from Kiev Boryspil and seven more from Lviv. We take a look at how the arrival of Europe’s biggest airline will shake-up the Ukrainian market and try to gauge just how scared the incumbents are.
Wizz Air opens base #25 in Kutaisi
Wizz Air opens up seven routes from its newest base in Georgia – also adds a new route from both Budapest and Kaunas.
Ryanair opens Sofia base
Ryanair launches 15 routes from Sofia as it opens its first Bulgarian base – a third of the new routes compete directly with Wizz Air.
Wizz Air adds eight routes and opens Sibiu base
Wizz Air opens its seventh Romania base at Sibiu adding links to Madrid, Memmingen, Milan/Bergamo and Nuremberg – also introduces Podgorica to its network.
anna.aero honours Jasim Al Beloushi, Dubai Airport firefighter
This week, anna.aero remembers Jasim Al Beloushi, the Dubai Airport firefighter who made the ultimate sacrifice saving the lives of others when Emirates flight EK521 crash landed on 3 August.
Corendon Airlines connects to Memmingen
Corendon Airlines begins twice-weekly flights to the German airport from Antalya.
Wizz Air expands from Nis and Sofia
Wizz Air links Nis to Memmingen and Eindhoven while Sofia gains a connection to Nuremberg.
Reno-Tahoe Airport celebrates Cake of the Week title for Alaska Airlines’ new service
In this week’s Network Planning Community News, Birmingham Airport welcomes the arrival of A380 services while Blue Air bases a second aircraft at Larnaca. More news from Wizz Air, Norwegian, Ryanair, Jet2.com, Emirates, Virgin Atlantic Airways and Austrian Airlines.
A deLUXe FTWA wins this week’s trophy
Sending the anna.aero judges a selection of Arch of Triumph images is always going to work out well, as we always choose the best of the bunch for the competition. That’s what this week’s winner did. Now it can LUXuriate in its glory over the other six competing airports from around the world.