After the US and Canada market update, it’s time to travel to Europe for the monthly summary of this region. If you want to see the update from Latin America and the United States and Canada, please click here.

In a market with many potential highlights, we begin with low-cost, long-haul carrier Norse Atlantic Airways and the airline’s new focus on Miami to Europe. The airline began operations to the Florida State city in mid-September, offering two routes, and has already confirmed the addition of two more starting in December.

Besides Miami, in the United States, Norse has flights to Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando and Washington, from different cities in Europe.

Atlantic Airways

Seasonal flights between Vágar and London Gatwick will be inaugurated by the airline as of June 1st, 2024. The carrier from the Faroe Islands will offer twice-weekly services during the European summer with the following schedule:

Tuesday

• RC 416  Vágar FAE 07:30 · 09:40 LGW London
• RC 417  London LGW 10:40 · 12:50 FAE Vágar

Saturday

• RC 416  Vágar FAE 16:45 · 18:55 LGW London
• RC 417  London LGW 19:55 · 22:05 FAE Vágar

British Airways

Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro

Starting October 29th, British Airways will begin flights between London Heathrow and Buenos Aires Ezeiza via Rio de Janeiro Galeão. The company will stop operating non-stop between the two cities, and will start flying to Argentina with a stopover.

British Airways will have a daily service with Boeing 777-200(ER) aircraft, which are configured for 272 passengers. At press time, flights are scheduled for all of 2024, although there may be changes to the operating timetable.

As was the case during 2021, when it operated via Sao Paulo, British will be authorized to carry passengers between Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the airline had flights to the Argentine airport with a stopover at Guarulhos, in that case with Airbus A350-1000s.

Chicago

By April 2024, the British carrier will reach 21 weekly flights between London Heathrow and Chicago, a route it currently operates 14 times a week.

British offers these flights with Airbus A330-900neo (operated by Air Belgium) and Airbus A380-800 aircraft, and plans to modify the planes used in the short term.

The Airbus A330s will cease operations in mid-November, and the Airbus A380s in December, to be replaced by Boeing 777s, Boeing 787-8s, Boeing 787-9s and Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners.

The new frequency, which will be BA flight 299/298, will start on April 29th of next year.

San Diego

San Diego will have more British Airways flights in the summer of 2024, doubling from 7 to 14 weekly services.

Currently, the airline operates daily with its 331-seat Airbus A350-1000. According to British Airways’ booking system, the company will add a new service, which will also be operated on a daily basis.

The new frequency, effective from mid-2024, will be carried out on Boeing 777-200(ER) aircraft with a capacity of 272 passengers.

easyJet

easyJet announced an ambitious plan regarding the growth of its fleet. The airline expects to add another 157 Airbus aircraft, plus the option of another 100 Airbus A321neos.

These new aircraft will join the low cost carrier between 2029 and 2034.

Currently, easyJet’s fleet consists of 182 aircraft, with an average age of 11 years:

• Airbus A319: 58
• Airbus A320: 114
• Airbus A321: 10

Iberia

The Spanish airline will increase operations to Argentina, Brazil and Chile. It currently offers 14 services a week to Buenos Aires, and 7 to Sao Paulo and Santiago de Chile.

On April 2nd, 2024, Iberia will boost flights between Madrid and the Argentine capital, from 14 to 17 weekly. The company will operate with its 288 and 348-seat Airbus A330-200 and Airbus A350-900 respectively.

Iberia will once again serve more than two daily flights to Argentina after a four-year hiatus, as the last time had been in early 2019, a schedule that lasted only a few months.

As for Santiago and Sao Paulo, both will increase to 10 weekly services:

• Santiago (SCL): effective October 30th
• Sao Paulo (GRU): effective March 31st, 2024

ITA Airways

ITA plans to inaugurate flights between Rome Fiumicino and Chicago (ORD) from April 2024. Operations are scheduled to be carried out with Airbus A330-900neo aircraft, six times a week.

Assuming the services eventually materialize, ITA Airways will reach seven U.S. destinations from Italy. At present, the airline flies to Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C.

• Milan (MXP) – New York (JFK): 7 weekly · Airbus A330
• Rome (FCO) – Boston (BOS): 6 weekly · Airbus A330
• Rome (FCO) – Los Angeles (LAX): 6 weekly · Airbus A350
• Rome (FCO) – Miami (MIA): 7 weekly · Airbus A330
• Rome (FCO) – New York (JFK): 21 weekly · Airbus A330 and Airbus A350
• Rome (FCO) – San Francisco (SFO): 3 weekly · Airbus A350
• Rome (FCO) – Washington (IAD): 6 weekly · Airbus A330

KLM

KLM will boost services from Amsterdam to Sint Maarten and Port of Spain starting next November and January. Currently, the Dutch airline operates the Amsterdam – Sint Maarten – Port of Spain – Amsterdam route three times a week with Airbus A330-200 and Airbus A330-300 aircraft.

November

Tuesday

• KL 777  Amsterdam AMS 10:50 · 14:55 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 777  Sint Maarten SXM 16:25 · 18:10 POS Port of Spain
• KL 777  Port of Spain POS 19:50 · 09:55+1 AMS Amsterdam

Thursday

• KL 787  Amsterdam AMS 13:25 · 17:30 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 787  Sint Maarten SXM 19:00 · 20:45 POS Port of Spain
• KL 787  Port of Spain POS 22:25 · 12:30+1 AMS Amsterdam

Friday

• KL 777  Amsterdam AMS 10:50 · 14:55 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 777  Sint Maarten SXM 16:25 · 18:10 POS Port of Spain
• KL 777  Port of Spain POS 19:50 · 09:55+1 AMS Amsterdam

Sunday

• KL 777  Amsterdam AMS 10:50 · 14:55 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 777  Sint Maarten SXM 16:25 · 18:10 POS Port of Spain
• KL 777  Port of Spain POS 19:50 · 09:55+1 AMS Amsterdam

January 2024

Monday

• KL 787  Amsterdam AMS 13:25 · 17:30 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 787  Sint Maarten SXM 19:00 · 20:45 POS Port of Spain
• KL 787  Port of Spain POS 22:25 · 12:30+1 AMS Amsterdam

Tuesday

• KL 777  Amsterdam AMS 10:50 · 14:55 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 777  Sint Maarten SXM 16:25 · 18:10 POS Port of Spain
• KL 777  Port of Spain POS 19:50 · 09:55+1 AMS Amsterdam

Thursday

• KL 787  Amsterdam AMS 13:25 · 17:30 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 787  Sint Maarten SXM 19:00 · 20:45 POS Port of Spain
• KL 787  Port of Spain POS 22:25 · 12:30+1 AMS Amsterdam

Friday

• KL 777  Amsterdam AMS 10:50 · 14:55 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 777  Sint Maarten SXM 16:25 · 18:10 POS Port of Spain
• KL 777  Port of Spain POS 19:50 · 09:55+1 AMS Amsterdam

Sunday

• KL 777  Amsterdam AMS 10:50 · 14:55 SXM Sint Maarten
• KL 777  Sint Maarten SXM 16:25 · 18:10 POS Port of Spain
• KL 777  Port of Spain POS 19:50 · 09:55+1 AMS Amsterdam

Local time at each destination.

Level

On September 30th, the IAG Group’s low cost airline made its last flight of the season between San Francisco and Barcelona. The Spanish carrier offers seasonal services on this route, scheduling its restart for April 2024. There will be no non-stop flights bewteen the two cities until Level resumes service.

Miami

Shortly before the end of seasonal operations to San Francisco, Level confirmed its new destination between Barcelona and the United States as of March 31st, 2024.

Level will serve flights to Miami from El Prat airport until at least September 29th, as they will be operated during the season.

Boston, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, New York and Santiago are the company’s international routes from Barcelona.

Level has four Airbus A330s in its fleet, and plans to add three more in the short term.

Norse

Norse Atlantic Airways continues its expansion in Miami, where it began scheduled operations in mid-September.

Berlin and Paris will have new Norse services starting in December, both with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.

Berlin

• N0 624  Miami MIA 20:00 · 11:15+1 BER Berlin (Thursday)
• N0 623  Berlin BER 13:15 · 18:00 MIA Miami (Friday)

Paris Charles de Gaulle

• N0 324  Miami MIA 20:00 · 11:00+1 CDG Paris (Tue, Wed, Sat, Sun)
• N0 323  Paris CDG 13:50 · 17:45 MIA Miami (Mon, Wed, Thu, Sun)

London Gatwick and Oslo are Norse’s current routes from Miami.

Ryanair

The ultra low cost carrier will launch flights to a new Italian airport from the summer of 2024. Aeroporto di Reggio di Calabria, currently served by ITA, will have Ryanair operations from next season.

Reggio Calabria Airport has flights to Rome and Milan, each route offered 14 times a week. ITA operates with Airbus A319s and Airbus A320s.

At this time, the services are not available for sale on Ryanair’s website, although the route schedule is already known:

• Bologna
• Dublin
• Krakow
• London Stansted
• Marseille
• Milan Bergamo
• Turin
• Venice

SAS

Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) confirmed the last scheduled flight of its Boeing 737-700s will take place on November 19th. The aircraft will depart Stockholm at 6:37 p.m. local time for Oslo, under flight number SK 737.

SAS Boeing 737-700s are currently based in Oslo, with the following routes:

• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Bardufoss, Norway
• Bergen, Norway
• Berlin, Germany
• Bodø, Norway
• Brussels, Belgium
• Dublin, Ireland
• Düsseldorf, Germany
• Evenes, Norway
• Haugesund, Norway
• Kristiansand, Norway
• Lakselv, Norway
• Manchester, UK
• Paris, France
• Stavanger, Norway
• Stockholm, Sweden
• Tromsø, Norway
• Trondheim, Norway
• Zurich, Switzerland

Wizz Air

Recently, Wizz added new routes to its regular schedule. According to the carrier’s website, these will be the additions:

 Glasgow (GLA) – Budapest (BUD): Nov. 14 · Tuesday and Saturday

• Budapest BUD 05:50 · 08:05 GLA Glasgow
• Glasgow GLA 08:40 · 12:40 BUD Budapest

Glasgow (GLA) – Bucharest (OTP): Nov. 17 · Monday and Friday

• Bucharest OTP 15:50 · 18:00 GLA Glasgow
• Glasgow GLA 18:35 · 00:15+1 OTP Bucharest

 Katowice (KTW) – Aqaba (AQJ): Dec. 13 · Wednesday and Sunday

• Katowice KTW 15:55 · 22:00 AQJ Aqaba
• Aqaba AQJ 23:00 · 01:00+1 KTW Katowice

 Katowice (KTW) – Charleroi (CRL): Dec. 14 · Thursday and Sunday

• Katowice KTW 12:30 · 14:25 CRL Charleroi
• Charleroi CRL 21:15 · 23:05 KTW Katowice

Air Canada

During January 2024, Air Canada will reduce its flight frequency on certain routes from Europe to Toronto. In addition to Pearson Airport (YYZ), the airline has services to Montreal and Vancouver from Europe, but at the time of publication, there are no changes in terms of number of weekly flights.

Schedule effective mid-January 2024

Toronto (YYZ) – Lisbon (LIS): from 4 to 3 weekly

• AC 810  Toronto YYZ 20:25 · 08:45+1 LIS Lisbon (Wednesday)
• AC 811  Lisbon LIS 11:00 · 14:35 YYZ Toronto (Friday)
  

• AC 810  Toronto YYZ 20:55 · 09:15+1 LIS Lisbon (Friday)
• AC 811  Lisbon LIS 09:45 · 13:20 YYZ Toronto (Sunday)
  

• AC 810  Toronto YYZ 20:35 · 08:55+1 LIS Lisbon (Sunday)
• AC 811  Lisbon LIS 11:05 · 14:40 YYZ Toronto (Monday)

Toronto (YYZ) – Paris (CDG): from 7 to 6 weekly

• AC 872  Toronto YYZ 20:45 · 10:25+1 CDG Paris (daily except Tuesday)
• AC 873  Paris CDG 12:05 · 14:40 YYZ Toronto (daily except Wednesday)

Toronto (YYZ) – Rome (FCO): from 4 to 3 weekly

• AC 890  Toronto YYZ 20:00 · 10:50+1 FCO Rome (Mon, Thu, Sat)
• AC 891  Rome FCO 12:55 · 16:50 YYZ Toronto (Mon, Tue, Sat)

LATAM Airlines

Starting December 1st, LATAM Airlines will launch flights between London Heathrow and Lima, reaching its second intercontinental destination from the Peruvian capital.

LATAM will offer five weekly services with Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

At the time of the announcement, the airline had planned to operate between the two cities on 787-9s configured with 313 seats, but will use the 247-seat 787-8.

As a result of this switch, the carrier will offer 198 fewer seats per week on this route.

LATAM in Europe

Barcelona

• Sao Paulo (GRU): 4 weekly

Frankfurt

• Sao Paulo (GRU): 7 weekly

Lisbon

• Sao Paulo (GRU): 7 weekly

Increases to 11 weekly in November.

London

• Lima (LIM): 5 weekly · effective December 1st
• Sao Paulo (GRU): 7 weekly

Madrid

• Lima (LIM): 7 weekly
• Santiago (SCL): 11 weekly
• Sao Paulo (GRU): 7 weekly

Milan

• Sao Paulo (GRU): 4 weekly

Increases to 5 weekly in January 2024.

Paris Charles de Gaulle

• Sao Paulo (GRU): 7 weekly

Rome

• Sao Paulo (GRU): 3 weekly

Increases to 5 weekly in January 2024.

Regarding the civil aviation situation in Israel, and the status of each airline, you can listen to AvTalk Episode 237.

Cover photo: Martin Rogosz.