Articles Tagged ‘Middle East Airlines’
Beirut Airport continues decade-long consistent growth; MEA #1 carrier, but only posts marginal annual capacity increase
Beirut Airport has delivered enviable growth over the past 10 years, with no blips in its inexorable traffic increases. Marc Watkins investigates the Lebanese capital city airport’s most-important carriers and city pairs.
Delta Air Lines is largest of SkyTeam’s 20 members with 25% of seats; Guangzhou joins Atlanta and Paris CDG in top three hubs
SkyTeam has 20 airline members which cover a network of over 1,000 airports in 177 countries across 3,700+ routes. We take a closer look at the size of all the carriers, the alliance’s top airports, as well as its top 12 routes in relation to ASKs and seats.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Abidjan Airport is one of three on the African continent to see regular A380 services; Ghana #1 country market
After sending a one-off A380 service to Abidjan early last year, Air France now operates three of its seven weekly flights with the aircraft type on the route between its Paris CDG base and the Côte d’Ivoire airport. anna.aero has taken a close look to see how other airlines have developed their operations to the country over the past 12 months, […]
Middle East Airlines increases its presence in Iraq
Middle East Airlines starts its fourth route into Iraq with twice-weekly flights to Basra. Competes against Iraqi Airways.
Middle East Airlines joins SkyTeam this week; only two of seven European partner hubs served
Lebanon-based Middle East Airlines is set to join SkyTeam this week but what share of traffic does it have in Beirut? How has traffic there grown in recent years? Which are the airline’s top routes for ASKs and what competition does it face? How many European SkyTeam hubs does it serve?
New airline routes launched (31 May – 6 June 2011)
It has been a very busy week with an entire 86 new routes launched. We have all the analysis – and the cakes – of routes ranging from Emirates’ 26th destination in Europe to LOT Polish Airlines’ fourth Ukrainian route. But which European airline launched routes to both Asia and South America? And which US […]
Air Arabia now serves 44 destinations in 22 countries from Sharjah, including 13 in India and Athens in Europe
Air Arabia may be creating new bases in Morocco, Egypt and Jordan but what’s happening at its home base? How many new routes has it started this year and what frequencies does it operate on each route?
New routes launched during the last week
(Tuesday 22 June – Monday 28 June):
This has been a busy week for route launches. Out of 75 new routes, 25 are started by Ryanair which launched its new Malaga base. Still, we have information and photos from all the remaining 50 worldwide routes, ranging from CityJet’s short hop across the English Channel to Qatar Airways new South American service.
Emirates, Etihad, Qatar Airways add seven new non-stop destinations and nine new routes in last three months
Our latest summary table of the networks and frequencies of the three most ambitious Gulf carriers reveals the addition of several new routes since March. But which airline is growing flight frequencies fastest? And what else are they planning in 2010?
New routes launched during the last week
(Saturday 24 October – Friday 30 October):
Here it is: Analysis, pictures and trivia on over 130 new routes that have started during the last seven days, involving over 40 airlines. Sorry if we’ve missed any. Please let us know and we can include them next week.