Lufthansa City Airlines, the new carrier of the Lufthansa Group, began ticket sales on April 24th. Services will start next June 26th, with the Munich – Birmingham route.
The airline will operate with 3 Airbus A319-100 configured for 144 passengers in single class. Forward-looking, Lufthansa placed an order for 40 Airbus A220-300s to be delivered to Lufthansa City Airlines, with the option to purchase 20 more.
In addition to the A220s, Lufthansa is considering the addition of new Airbus A320neo jets for its new airline in future years.
Lufthansa City’s network will expand as new aircraft are incorporated into its fleet.
Brussels Airlines presented its new livery last April 25th, during an event in the Brussels Airlines’ Maintenance & Engineering hangar, with media, employees and invited guests.
The new Belgian scheme is a tribute to the world-famous Tomorrowland music festival.
This Airbus A320neo, with registration OO-SBB, is one of Brussels Airlines’ newest aircraft in its fleet, as it was taken out of the factory in December 2023.
The following day, the airplane entered service with this new livery, on flight SN 3781 between Brussels and Tenerife.
We review other highlights of the European market during May:
- Air Baltic commenced flights on the Riga – Tirana route.
- Air Corsica adds two routes from Milan Malpensa.
- BA CityFlyer will operate new services to Split.
- Bremen and Tbilisi, Austrian’s newest connections from Vienna.
- British Airways will fly between Dublin and London Gatwick.
- Condor inaugurated seasonal flights to Palma de Mallorca from Cologne.
- Discover Airlines began summer operations between Frankfurt and Halifax.
- easyJet and its new route in the France – Spain market.
- First Emirates Airbus A350 destinations in Europe.
- Hannover – Milan, new Eurowings route.
- Fly Lili schedules 13 new connections for summer.
- ITA will have services between Genoa and Olbia.
- Jet2 started its fifth route to Greece from Liverpool.
- Marabu Airlines inaugurated flights between Heraklion and Münster/Osnabrück.
- Norwegian and its new operations on the Copenhagen – Ljubljana route.
- Cardiff will be added to PLAY’s regular schedule.
- Ryanair to launch new routes from October.
- SkyAlps increases its connectivity from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- U.S. airlines started new routes to Europe.
- Wizz Air to fly between London Gatwick and Varna.
Aeroitalia
In early May, Aeroitalia took delivery of its ninth Boeing 737-800.
The aircraft is 13.5 years old and registered 9H-GAE. Previously, the 737 operated with Air Austral under registration F-ONGB between September 2010 and April 2024.
As well as the Boeing 737s, the Italian company has 2 ATR 72-600s in its fleet (YR-ACA and YR-ACB).
Last May 9th, the 737-800 9H-GAE entered service, with flight XZ 2513 from Rome to Alghero.
airBaltic
At 13:21 on May 2nd, airBaltic’s first service arrived in Tirana from Riga, one of the airline’s hubs. Flights will be performed by Airbus A220-300 aircraft twice a week.
Thursday and Sunday
- BT 469 Riga RIX 11:40 · 13:20 TIA Tirana
- BT 470 Tirana TIA 14:00 · 17:40 RIX Riga
Air Baltic is the only carrier to operate this route.
Air Canada
Effective October 27th, the company will boost its services between Montreal and Barcelona. According to its website, Air Canada will increase from five to seven weekly, and will begin operations with Airbus A330-300s.
Daily
- AC 822 Montreal YUL 18:00 · 07:35+1 BCN Barcelona
- AC 823 Barcelona BCN 09:15 · 11:50 YUL Montreal
Current Air Canada routes to/from Spain

Barcelona
Madrid
- Montreal (YUL): 4 weekly · Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
- Toronto (YYZ): 5 weekly · Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
Air Corsica
Milan Malpensa, new Air Corsica destination.
The French carrier will operate flights from/to Calvi and Figari with ATR 72-600 aircraft configured for 72 passengers.
Calvi · June 27th
Thursday and Sunday
Figari · July 1st
Monday and Thursday
- XK 710 Figari FSC 11:00 · 12:35 MXP Milan
- XK 711 Milan MXP 13:25 · 14:55 FSC Figari
Austrian
During May, Austrian Airlines launched two new routes within Europe. Bremen and Tbilisi, in Germany and Georgia respectively, will have the following schedule from the Austrian capital.
Tbilisi · May 1st
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
- OS 639 Vienna VIE 22:40 · 03:55+1 TBS Tbilisi
Monday, Thursday and Saturday
- OS 640 Tbilisi TBS 04:50 · 06:30 VIE Vienna
Bremen · May 6th
Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
- OS 275 Vienna VIE 17:15 · 18:50 BRE Bremen
- OS 276 Bremen BRE 19:35 · 21:10 VIE Vienna
British Airways/BA CityFlyer
From May 20th, British will inaugurate the Dublin (DUB) – London Gatwick (LGW) route, which will be operated by Emerald Airlines’ ATR 72-600, 12 times per week.
For further information about the flights, check the airline’s website, as different schedules will be offered each day.
On the other hand, BA CityFlyer will start flying between London Stansted and Split as of September 7th. At the time of publication, operations will run until the beginning of October.
Saturday
- BA 7342 London STN 12:55 · 16:20 SPU Split
- BA 7343 Spilt SPU 17:05 · 18:45 STN London
Brussels
We review Brussels Airlines’ current fleet, and future additions.
- Airbus A319-100: 15
- Airbus A320-200: 16
- Airbus A320neo: 3 (+2 on order)
- Airbus A330-300: 9 (+1 on order)
Condor
The German airline inaugurated last May 9th its seasonal flights to Palma de Mallorca from Cologne.
In accordance with our database, Condor will perform four weekly services on Airbus A320s with capacity for 180 passengers.
Check Condor’s website, as they will have different schedules on each day.

Palma de Mallorca is the only Condor’s destination in Cologne. Meanwhile, in the Spanish city it operates to Basel, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Münster, Nuremberg, Stuttgart and Zurich.
Discover
On April 28th, Discover Airlines began seasonal operations between Frankfurt and Halifax. The Canadian city will be part of the airline’s schedule until late September.
Thursday and Sunday (currently)
- 4Y 74 Frankfurt FRA 15:40 · 18:00 YHZ Halifax
- 4Y 75 Halifax YHZ 19:35 · 07:05+1 FRA Frankfurt
During the peak of the high season, Discover is scheduled to offer five weekly services on this route.
As for other destinations in Canada, the German carrier has 11 flights a week between Frankfurt and Calgary.
easyJet
Lille – Alicante, the low cost airline’s new route.
easyJet will operate two weekly on this route with Airbus A319 aircraft, offering 312 seats per week each way.
Wednesday/Saturday (first flight was on May 1st)
- U2 5523 Alicante ALC 07:10/13:05 · 09:30/15:25 LIL Lille
- U2 5522 Lille LIL 10:10/16:00 · 12:35/18:25 ALC Alicante
Edelweiss
The company will expand its schedule in Finland starting in December for the winter season.
Kittila and Rovaniemi will be added to the Edelweiss network from Zurich under the following schedule:
December 11th · Kittila
Monday and Wednesday
- WK 310 Zurich ZRH 10:20 · 15:15 KTT Kittila
- WK 311 Kittila KTT 16:15 · 18:55 ZRH Zurich
December 12th · Rovaniemi
Monday and Thursday
- WK 312 Zurich ZRH 09:25 · 14:10 RVN Rovaniemi
- WK 313 Rovaniemi RVN 15:05 · 17:30 ZRH Zurich
Emirates
Recently, the airline announced the first destinations for its new Airbus A350-900, expected to enter service in September.
In this report we will focus on its routes to Europe, one of which includes the resumption of a connection that was suspended in early 2020 due to the COVID pandemic.

- Edinburgh (EDI): 7 weekly · November 4th
- Bologna (BLQ): 7 weekly · December 1st
- Lyon (LYS): 7 weekly · December 1st
Edinburgh will be Emirates’ seventh route to the UK.
Eurowings
The carrier launched operations between Hannover and Milan Bergamo last May 6th, reaching its 14th destination from its base at Hannover Airport. Flights will be two times a week on Airbus A320s with 180 seats.
Monday/Friday
- EW 3870 Hannover HAJ 07:00/18:15 · 08:35/19:50 BGY Milan
- EW 3871 Milan BGY 09:20/20:30 · 11:00/22:10 HAJ Hannover
Eurowings routes to/from Hannover

Croatia
- Pula (PUY): 1 weekly · Airbus A320
Greece
- Thessaloniki (SKG): 2 weekly · Airbus A320
Italy
- Bari (BRI): 2 weekly · Airbus A320
- Catania (CTA): 3 weekly · Airbus A320
- Lamezia (SUF): 2 weekly · Airbus A320
- Milan (BGY): 2 weekly · Airbus A320
- Naples (NAP): 3 weekly · Airbus A320
- Olbia (OLB): 2 weekly · Airbus A320
- Rome (FCO): 4 weekly · Airbus A320
Kosovo
- Pristina (PRN): 1 weekly · Airbus A320
Portugal
- Faro (FAO): 2 weekly · Airbus A320
Spain
- Málaga (AGP): 4 weekly · Airbus A320
- Palma de Mallorca (PMI): 18 weekly · Airbus A320
Sweden
- Stockholm (ARN): 2 weekly · Airbus A320
Fly Lili
During June and July, for the summer season, the Romanian airline confirmed the beginning of many seasonal routes from Brasov and Sibiu. These flights will be operated by Airbus A320-200:

Brasov
- Istanbul (IST): 2 weekly · June 28th
- Stuttgart (STR): 3 weekly · June 28th
- Nuremberg (NUE): 3 weekly · June 30th
- Rome (FCO): 3 weekly · June 30th
- Thessaloniki (SKG): 2 weekly · June 30th
- Barcelona (BCN): 2 weekly · July 20th
- Bologna (BLQ): 3 weekly · July 21st
- Milan (MXP): 3 weekly · July 21st
Sibiu
- Barcelona (BCN): 2 weekly · July 20th
- Rome (FCO): 3 weekly · July 20th
- Stuttgart (STR): 3 weekly · July 20th
- Milan (MXP): 3 weekly · July 21st
- Nuremberg (NUE): 3 weekly · July 21st
On May 3rd, the Airbus A320-232, registration YR-LIB, entered service under flight FL 101 between Bucharest and Antalya.
Fly Lili had incorporated this aircraft in June 2023, leased from Carlyle Aviation Partners, and performed the delivery ferry flight last May 2nd.
The airline currently has two active Airbus A320s (YR-LIA and YR-LIB).
Iberia
The company will commence a new seasonal connection between Barcelona and Strasbourg as of December 6th.
According to its website, Iberia will offer four weekly flights until early January 2025, with 100-seat CRJ-1000 aircraft.
Check the company’s booking system, as it will have different schedules each day.
Routes within Europe from/to Barcelona – Iberia

- Badajoz (BJZ): 4 weekly · CRJ-1000
- Fuerteventura (FUE): 1 weekly · CRJ-1000
- León (LEN): 5 weekly · CRJ-1000
- Madrid (MAD): 77 weekly · A319/A320/A321
- Melilla (MLN): 2 weekly · ATR 72-600
- Santiago de Compostela (SCQ): 1 weekly · CRJ-1000
- Seville (SVQ): 1 weekly · CRJ-1000
- Valencia (VLC): 8 weekly · CRJ-1000
All connections are in Spain.
ITA
Genoa – Olbia, new route of ITA Airways.
Operations will begin next July 20th, and will be available during the summer season. The carrier, in accordance with its website, will provide one frequency per week on Airbus A319-100 planes with a capacity of 142 passengers.
Saturday
Jet2
Effective May 1st, Jet2 inaugurated its fifth connection between Liverpool and Greece.
Zakynthos will have flights from Liverpool John Lennon Airport, with Boeing 737-800 jets.
Wednesday
- LS 3285 Liverpool LPL 06:25 · 12:20 ZTH Zakynthos
- LS 3286 Zakynthos ZTH 13:05 · 15:00 LPL Liverpool
Jet2 routes in Liverpool

Bulgaria
- Burgas (BOJ): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
Cyprus
- Paphos (PFO): 1 weekly · Boeing 737-800
Greece
- Corfu (CFU): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Heraklion (HER): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Kos (KGS): 1 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Rhodes (RHO): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Zakynthos (ZTH): 1 weekly · Boeing 737-800
Portugal
Spain
- Alicante (ALC): 4 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Fuerteventura (FUE): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Gran Canaria (LPA): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Ibiza (IBZ): 3 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Lanzarote (ACE): 3 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Menorca (MAH): 1 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Palma de Mallorca (PMI): 5 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Tenerife (TFS): 5 weekly · Boeing 737-800
Turkey
- Antalya (AYT): 4 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Bodrum (BJV): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Dalaman (DLM): 3 weekly · Boeing 737-800
KlasJet
A new aircraft was added to the Lithuanian airline’s fleet on May 10th.
The 21.5-year-old Boeing 737-86J, with current registration LY-SLX, joined KlasJet leased from AviaAM Leasing. Its last operator was FlyEgypt, being retired in February 2023. Previously, it had been part of Air Berlin.
KlasJet has 13 Boeing 737s in its fleet (2 733s, 3 735s and 8 738s).
LEAV Aviation
Beginning September 19th, LEAV will start a new route between Germany and Spain. Operations will be carried out using Airbus A320-200s and, at the time of publication, will run until mid-October.
Thursday
- KK 130 Cologne CGN 09:30 · 13:15 TFS Tenerife South
- KK 131 Tenerife South TFS 14:00 · 19:30 CGN Cologne
Lufthansa City Airlines
The Lufthansa Group announced the first routes of Lufthansa City Airlines, which will commence flights on June 26th.
Germany and the UK will be its markets in Europe, during its first stage, operated to/from Munich.

- Birmingham (BHX): June 26th
- Bremen (BRE): June 26th
- Düsseldorf (DUS): June 26th
- Cologne (CGN): June 29th
- Hannover (HAJ): June 29th
Marabu Airlines
Last May 5th, the carrier launched its seasonal services between Heraklion and Münster/Osnabrück. Flights will be with 180-seat Airbus A320-200s, twice a week.
Wednesday/Sunday
- DI 6635 Heraklion HER 06:10/06:30 · 08:25/08:55 FMO Münster
- DI 6634 Münster FMO 09:35/10:05 · 13:50/14:10 HER Heraklion
It operates to Friedrichshafen, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Münster/Osnabrück from the Greek city.
Norwegian
At 08:12 local time on April 29th, Norwegian’s first flight from Copenhagen arrived in Ljubljana. According to our database, the company will offer twice-weekly operations with Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.
Monday and Friday
- D8 3754 Copenhagen CPH 06:15 · 08:05 LJU Ljubljana
- D8 3755 Ljubljana LJU 08:45 · 10:40 CPH Copenhagen
PLAY
Cardiff, new destination for the Icelandic airline.
Starting October 10th, with a limited schedule, PLAY will operate services between Reykjavik and Cardiff on Airbus A320neo planes.
At the time of publication, operations will be until November 19th.
- OG 830 Reykjavik KEF 06:45 · 09:40 CWL Cardiff
- OG 831 Cardiff CWL 10:40 · 13:40 KEF Reykjavik
Flights: October 10th, 13th, 25th and 28th, November 1st, 4th, 8th, 11th and 19th.
Ryanair
The ultra low cost carrier will begin several routes as of October 2024:

- Belfast (BFS) – Kaunas (KUN): 2 weekly · October 27th
- Frankfurt Hahn (HHN) – Sofia (SOF): 3 weekly · October 27th
- Beauvais (BVA) – Rovaniemi (RVN): 2 weekly · October 28th
- Birmingham (BHX) – Lodz (LCJ): 2 weekly · October 28th
- Budapest (BUD) – Liverpool (LPL): 2 weekly · October 28th
- Barcelona (BCN) – Copenhagen (CPH): 4 weekly · October 29th
- Birmingham (BHX) – Plovdiv (PDV): 1 weekly · November 2nd
- Memmingen (FMM) – Manchester (MAN): 1 weekly · November 2nd
SkyAlps
For the high season, at early May, the airline commenced four new international connections from/to Mostar, in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Italy and Germany will be the markets, and will operate as follows:

- Bari (BRI): 4 weekly · Dash
- Munich (MUC): 4 weekly · Dash
- Rome (FCO): 4 weekly · Dash
- Verona (VRN): 4 weekly · Dash
SkyAlps has 7 De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400s in its fleet, with an average age between 13 and 19 years old.
U.S. carriers
During May, American Airlines and Delta Air Lines began routes between the United States and Europe, which will be operated through the summer season.
However, there are still many new connections to be started by American and Delta, as well as by United, from late May, June and July (to be covered in the next European report).
American
Daily (Boeing 787-9 · May 6th)
- AA 746 Philadelphia PHL 21:00 · 10:55+1 NCE Nice
- AA 747 Nice NCE 13:00 · 15:30 PHL Philadelphia
Delta
Daily (Boeing 767-300 · May 9th)
- DL 114 Minneapolis MSP 21:00 · 10:45+1 DUB Dublin
- DL 115 Dublin DUB 12:00 · 14:35 MSP Minneapolis
Daily (Boeing 767-300 · May 9th)
- DL 78 New York JFK 20:25 · 10:55+1 PRG Prague
- DL 79 Prague PRG 12:55 · 16:15 JFK New York
Wizz Air
Effective June 18th, Wizz Air will launch seasonal operations between London (LGW) and Varna. The Bulgarian city will be served from Gatwick with Airbus A321 aircraft during the summer season.
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
- W9 5757 London LGW 14:00/14:10/14:20 · 19:20/19:30/19:40 VAR Varna
- W9 5758 Varna VAR 22:50 · 00:30+1 LGW London
Wizz Air currently offers five flights per week between London Luton and Varna on Airbus A320s.
With respect to new aircraft, we have the following European airlines that had additions to their fleets:
- Air Corsica (x2)
- British Airways
- Condor
- Corendon
- easyJet (x2)
- Icelandair
- ITA (x4)
- Lufthansa
- Norwegian
- Ryanair (x4)
- SAS (x2)
- Transavia (x3)
- TUI
- Wizz Air (x3)
Aircraft | Airline | Registration | Ferry flight | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Airbus A220-300 | ITA | EI-HHR | YMX-FCO | April 12th |
Airbus A350-941 | Lufthansa | D-AIXT | TLS-MUC | April 13th |
Airbus A320-272N | ITA | EI-HOL | TLS-FCO | April 16th |
Airbus A320-251N | easyJet | G-UZLU | TLS-LGW | April 17th |
Airbus A320-251N | SAS | EI-SCD | TLS-CPH | April 17th |
Airbus A321-251NX | Transavia | PH-YHX | XFW-AMS | April 18th |
Airbus A320-252N | Air Corsica | F-HXKC | XFW-AJA | April 19th |
Airbus A321-271NX | Wizz Air | 9H-WNK | XFW-BUD | April 19th |
Airbus A320-271N | Condor | D-ANCZ | TLS-FRA | April 24th |
Boeing 737 MAX 8 | Norwegian | SE-RTP | BFI-CPH | April 24th |
Boeing 737 MAX 9 | Corendon | PH-CDR | BFI-AMS | April 25th |
Airbus A320-272N | ITA | EI-HOI | TLS-FCO | April 25th |
Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | Ryanair | EI-IJF | BFI-DUB | April 25th |
Airbus A321-271NX | Wizz Air | 9H-WNI | XFW-BUD | April 25th |
Airbus A321-251NX | British | G-TNED | XFW-LHR | April 26th |
Airbus A320-251N | easyJet | OE-LSU | TSN-NQZ-BER | April 26th |
Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | Ryanair | EI-IJJ | BFI-DUB | April 29th |
Saab 2000 | Frost | OY-FSB* | - | April 30th |
Airbus A321-252NX | Transavia | PH-YHA | XFW-AMS | April 30th |
Airbus A320-251N | SAS | SE-RUP | TLS-OSL | May 2nd |
ATR 72-600 | Air Corsica | F-HXKX | TLS-AJA | May 3rd |
Airbus A320-252N | Transavia | F-HXSB | TLS-ORY | May 4th |
Airbus A320-232 | Vueling | EC-ODJ* | VNO-BCN | May 4th |
Boeing 737 MAX 8 | Icelandair | TF-ICV | BFI-KEF | May 9th |
Boeing 737-89M | Aeroitalia | 9H-GAE* | FRL-FCO | May 9th |
Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | Ryanair | EI-IJM | BFI-DUB | May 9th |
Airbus A321-271NX | Wizz Air | 9H-WND | XFW-BUD | May 10th |
Airbus A321-271NX | ITA | EI-HXE | XFW-FCO | May 13th |
Boeing 737 MAX 8 | TUI | OO-TMS | PAE-BRU | May 13th |
*It is not new from the factory.
To read other published reports:
- United States and Canada
- Latin America
- Dubai deep dive: How Emirates runs its megahub
- China-Australia flights approaching pre-pandemic levels
Cover photo: Marko Milinkovic – JetPhotos (Corfu, Greece).