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Europe route updates – January 2024

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We finished with the report from the American market and now we move on to the European continent. To review the news about the United States, Canada and Latin America, you can check the following links:

 

For the current winter season, as well as for the upcoming summer, European airlines are starting to update their operations, with the addition of new seasonal and scheduled routes.

On the other hand, regarding the addition of new aircraft, Transavia acquired its first Airbus A320neo. Furthermore, Ryanair incorporated a new Boeing 737 MAX 8 to its fleet, bringing the total to 85.

AeroItalia

Effective March 25th, 2024, AeroItalia will inaugurate services between Bergamo and London Southend. The company will offer three weekly flights on 189-seat Boeing 737-800s.

Monday, Friday and Sunday

 

Milan Bergamo airport currently has operations to London Gatwick and London Stansted, with Vueling and Ryanair respectively.

Azerbaijan Airlines

Starting March 31st, AZAL Azerbaijan Airlines will inaugurate flights between Baku and London Gatwick. The services, which are already on sale, will be operated three times a week with Airbus A320-200 aircraft.

Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

 

The carrier currently serves five weekly between Baku and London Heathrow, with a mix of Airbus A319s, Boeing 767-300(ER)s and Boeing 787-8 Dreamliners.

British Airways

The airline is scheduled to inaugurate operations between London Heathrow and Izmir from May 18th. As these will be seasonal, flights will run until mid-September.

British will offer a weekly frequency using Airbus A320-200 jets.

Saturday

 

British Airways’ destinations between UK and Türkiye

Map by gcmap.com
  • Istanbul (IST): 14 weekly · Airbus A320
  • Istanbul (SAW): 7 weekly · Airbus A320

 

Delta Air Lines

The company will change the aircraft used on its New York – Reykjavik route, which will begin on March 31st. Delta had planned to operate with Boeing 757s, but will use the Boeing 767-300(ER), offering 33 more seats per flight.

Daily

 

Eurowings

At 18:29 local time on Saturday (13), Eurowings’ inaugural flight from Berlin arrived at Rovaniemi Airport. The German airline will operate once a week on Airbus A320-200 aircraft seating 180 passengers in single class.

Saturday

 

In addition to Berlin, Eurowings has services to Rovaniemi from Dusseldorf, four times a week with a mix of Airbus A319 and Airbus A320.

Eurowings is the only company with operations between Germany and Rovaniemi.

Fly One Armenia

The Armenian carrier plans to begin flights to Nice effective May 2nd. In line with its website, Fly One will operate two weekly services with the Airbus A320-200 under the following schedule.

Thursday and Sunday

 

ITA Airways

The Italian airline announced it will start flights between Rome and Toronto as of May 10th. According to its website, ITA will operate six times a week until July 1st, when it will increase to daily for the high season.

ITA Airways will perform these flights with Airbus A330-200 and Airbus A330-900neo airplanes.

Current ITA routes between Italy and North America

Map by gcmap.com

 

Jet2

On January 11th, Jet2 launched services between Manchester and Lanzarote with Airbus A330-200 jets. The company already operates this route with Airbus A321neos, Boeing 737-800s and Boeing 757-200s.

Flights with Airbus A330 aircraft will be twice a week, with the following schedule:

 

These are Jet2’s connections to/from Lanzarote, in addition to Manchester:

Map by gcmap.com
  • Belfast (BFS): 4 weekly · Boeing 737-800
  • Birmingham (BHX): 9 weekly · A321/B738
  • Bristol (BRS): 4 weekly · Boeing 737-800
  • Edinburgh (EDI): 6 weekly · Boeing 737-800
  • Glasgow (GLA): 6 weekly · Boeing 737-800
  • Leeds (LBA): 6 weekly · Boeing 737-800
  • London (STN): 9 weekly · Boeing 737-800
  • Manchester (MAN): 11 weekly · A321/A332/B738/B752
  • Newcastle (NCL): 6 weekly · Boeing 737-800
  • Nottingham (EMA): 6 weekly · Boeing 737-800

 

LEAV Aviation

The airline confirmed the scheduling of flights between Cologne and Palma de Mallorca, Spain, during March. Operations will be carried out with Airbus A320-200 aircraft.

Schedule is as follows.

Daily

 

Lufthansa

The company inaugurated flights between Frankfurt and Hyderabad last January 16th. Lufthansa will offer five weekly services to the Indian city on 294-seat Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jets.

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

 

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday

 

Lufthansa’s destinations to India

Map by gcmap.com
  • Bengaluru (BLR): 7 weekly · Boeing 747-400
  • Chennai (MAA): 7 weekly · Airbus A340-300
  • Hyderabad (HYD): 5 weekly · Boeing 787-9
  • Mumbai (BOM): 7 weekly · Boeing 747-400
  • New Delhi (DEL): 7 weekly · Boeing 747-400

 

Norwegian

Beginning June 26th, Norwegian will launch seasonal services between Stavanger and Rhodes, Greece. These flights will be operated weekly with 189-seat Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Wednesday

 

PLAY

The Icelandic low cost confirmed it will adjust its operations to the United States during January and February. PLAY will have the following reductions:

Baltimore · 7 to 6 weekly effective January 16th

 

Boston · 7 to 5 weekly effective January 20th

 

New York Stewart · 7 to 5 weekly effective January 15th

 

Washington

  • Operations will be suspended until February 29th.

 

In March, the schedule previously offered on each route is expected to return.

Ryanair

On January 10th, Ryanair added a new Boeing 737 MAX 8-200, which departed Seattle Boeing Field on Tuesday (9) at 21:16 local time, and arrived in Dublin after a 9 hour and 21 minute flight.

The plane, registered as EI-IJE and configured with 197 seats in single class, entered service two days later with flight FR 5910 from Dublin to Lanzarote.

Ryanair’s fleet

  • Boeing 737-800: 215
  • Boeing 737 MAX 8: 85

 

Scandinavian Airline System

For the summer season 2024, SAS will start seven new routes from Scandinavia. Operations are already on sale:

Map by gcmap.com

 

Smartwings

Between May and June, Smartwings will launch three routes from the Czech Republic due to the summer season.

These segments will run until the beginning of October, in line with the airline’s website.

Map by gcmap.com

Cyprus

 

Spain

 

Southwind Airlines

Starting April 22nd, Southwind plans to begin flights between Antalya and Helsinki. The Turkish carrier schedules a weekly frequency until mid-September, with the following tentative schedule:

Monday

 

The aircraft used for these flights has not been confirmed.

Transavia France

Last January 10th, Transavia France, member of the Air France-KLM group, took delivery of its first Airbus A320neo, fresh from the Airbus factory in Toulouse.

The aircraft, registered F-GNEO, departed for Paris Orly, starting regular operations with flight TO 7602 to Porto five days later.

The A320neo is configured with 186 seats in single class.

Photo: Airbus

Transavia’s fleet

  • Airbus A320neo: 1
  • Boeing 737-800: 71

 

TUI

During January, TUI Netherlands will begin flights on certain routes to/from Spain with Boeing 767-300(ER) jets, which are configured for 295 passengers in two classes.

Schedule (with Boeing 767s)

 

Turkish Airlines

The carrier will launch services between Istanbul and Malaga with Airbus A330-200s from April 4th. Turkish currently operates to the Spanish city on 198-seat Airbus A321neo aircraft.

According to its website, the airline will have 3 of the 14 weekly flights with Airbus A330 planes:

Daily

 

Daily

 

Airbus A330s will operate TK 1303/1304 on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Turkish routes between Istanbul and Spain

Map by gcmap.com
  • Barcelona (BCN): 25 weekly · A321/A333
  • Bilbao (BIO): 6 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX
  • Madrid (MAD): 24 weekly · A321/A332/A333/A359
  • Málaga (AGP): 14 weekly
  • Valencia (VLC): 14 weekly · B7M8/B7M9/A321

 

Virgin Atlantic

In late October, Virgin will boost its operations to the Caribbean for the start of the high season. At the moment, Montego Bay and Nassau will be the Latin American cities with increases, which will be the following:

Montego Bay · 1 to 2 weekly effective October 28th

 

Nassau – Montego Bay · 2 to 3 weekly effective October 27th

 

 

 


 

Cover photo: Daniel Nicholson – JetPhotos (London Heathrow).

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