Articles Tagged ‘MRS’
Arch of Triumph double winners on display
This week we have not one, but two Arch of Triumph certificate celebrations from previous winners in Marseille and Sarasota – both first-time victors. Who will join the roll-call of 2016 winners as the year draws to a close – will it be an FTWA newbie or an old-hand of this four-year-old competition?
Air France still dominant in French domestic market but easyJet, Volotea and newcomer Fly KISS all gaining ground slowly
We look back at the last decade and see how market shares have shifted in the French domestic market. Plus an analysis of the growth in traffic on the leading regional French domestic routes as LCCs have made their presence felt since 2008.
Tenerife North wins Part I ‒ vote for the best of 16 W16/17 Fire Truck Water Arches Part II – get voting now
With 35%, 15% more than the second placed airport, Tenerife North scooped Part I of the W15/16 Public Vote. Its straight onto Part II, with 16 entries from around the world, including two new cargo routes, vying for the second opportunity to convince the public to vote for their Fire Truck Water Arch.
easyJet debuts a new route dozen
easyJet starts 12 new routes, including four to Krakow and three each to Gran Canaria and Berlin Schönefeld
Vueling makes new links from Malaga and Marseille
Vueling connects Spanish city to its 25th destination and French city to its fifth.
Marseille-New York is “Skyscanner Unserved Route of the Week” 170,000 annual searches ‒ the original French Connection!
The original French Connection is unconnected! Skyscanner’s Travel Insight software shows that in the last year 170,000 potential travellers searched for flights between Marseille and the Big Apple ‒ but the route is unserved! With 30 European destinations from its New York Newark hub already, will United Airlines start Marseille next?
easyJet launches 22 routes in a week
easyJet starts flights from 12 bases to 11 different destinations across Europe.
Air France still dominates at CDG and Orly, but easyJet and Vueling continue to eat into its share
Air France is still clinging on to having more than 50% of seats and frequencies at its main Paris CDG hub, despite the LCC onslaught. Seven years since our data elves last looked under the hood at the SkyTeam carrier’s biggest operations, they check the oil and kick the tyres again.
ASL Airlines adds routes #2 and #3 into Hamburg
ASL Airlines adds connections from Lyon and Marseille to its existing Bordeaux service.
Volotea makes Marseille market #8 from Naples
Volotea adds a weekly Marseille connection from the Southern Italian airport.
Volotea vaults onto 12 airport pairs
Volotea begins services on 12 new routes while also opening its latest base at Toulouse Airport.
Vueling ventures onto 12 routes
Vueling enters 12 airport pairs of which nine are already served by incumbent carriers.