Articles Tagged ‘United Airlines’
Cologne Bonn debuts its Dubai link with FTI/Condor
In this week’s Network Planning Community News, we cover the recent Eindhoven Aviation Summit, as well as the home airport welcome for all-conquering Houston Astros in the baseball World Series. There is also news from Stuttgart, Birmingham, Moscow Vnukovo, Memmingen, Plovdiv, Munich, Moscow Domodedovo, Berlin Tegel, Phoenix Mesa, Tenerife South, Hamburg, Murcia, Alicante, Cork and […]
Vote for the best Cake of the Week – W17/18 Part I
The biggest new route cake in Riga Airport history (it weighed 16kg and measured 1m x 1m) is just one of the 28 entries in the W17/18 Part I Cake of the Week competition. And yes you, the humble anna.aero reader, has the chance to select which one of these baked beauties scoops this top […]
United Airlines launches longest Los Angeles connection
United Airlines links Los Angeles to Singapore – also launches a new long-haul service from New York Newark.
Frontier Airlines’ route droppings revealed; 23 airport pairs no longer served with O’Hare and Atlanta seeing biggest changes
We love to see airlines celebrate route launches, but route droppings are also a fact of life, though less publicised. In a week that has seen US ULCC Frontier Airlines launch a significant 30 routes, we got our data elves to rummage through its schedule data to see what routes the airline has said goodbye […]
St. Petersburg-New York is “Skyscanner Unserved Route of the Week” with 380,000 searches; Aeroflot to resume operations??
Skyscanner’s Travel Insight software has shown that in the last 12 months around 380,000 potential travellers searched on the leading flight comparison site for flights between St.Petersburg and New York ‒ but the route is unserved!? Aeroflot flew the city pair until 2003, surely now the time is ripe for it to take another bite of the […]
US airlines seeing greater traffic growth on international services in 2017; domestic expansion driven by ULCCs with Spirit Airlines leading
Between January and May this year, international passengers carried by US airlines grew by 3.3% to 43.15 million, while domestic sector traffic increased by 2.6% to over 294 million. We look to see which are the leading airlines in each sector and identify the ones growing faster than others.
Boeing has a 46-unit advantage over Airbus in regards to deliveries for the first half of the year; easyJet welcomes its first of 130 A320neos
Airbus and Boeing in June delivered 139 aircraft between them, down three units when compared to the same month of 2016. However, the results for June are much better than the 116 units delivered in May. Among the delivery highlights of June were easyJet’s first A320neo and Norwegian’s first two 737 MAX 8s.
787: Living the dream with amazing new routes? (Or just another great replacement aircraft?)
The 787 flew its first commercial service in October 2011, however, the first really new city pairing didn’t happen until April 2012 between Tokyo Narita and Boston with rival Japan Airlines. Since then, a further 139 exclusive, unserved new routes have been opened, with 33 more currently planned.
Rest of the World takes back-to-back wins in 2017 Arch of Triumph competition – Europe still dominates inter-regional battle
With minimal route launches typically taking place in August, one might have expected a dearth of FTWAs too. Not so. We have five airports from four regions of the world competing for the Week 30 title of the 2017 Arch of Triumph competition.
United Airlines connects to Columbia in Missouri
United Airlines starts flights from Chicago O’Hare and Denver – American Airlines already serves O’Hare.
Rule Britannia! UK world’s #1 generator of international seat capacity and flights; Ryanair and easyJet are leading international airlines
The US and China may have bigger total markets but the UK offers more international seats than any other country this summer. We reveal the fastest-growing (and shrinking) markets plus the top 40 international airlines and how they compare with S16.
Primera Air gears up to join the low-cost transatlantic market – anna.aero analyses the demand behind the carrier’s new venture
Primera Air recently confirmed that from S18 it will enter the low-cost long-haul sector across the Atlantic, with the carrier planning six new routes from bases at Birmingham, London Stansted and Paris CDG to Boston and New York Newark. We check the numbers to determine if the airline’s new venture is viable.