THE AIRLINE PERSPECTIVE: Spain

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

SPANISH DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Ryanair (FR)

1,051

198,639

20.9 %

28.5 %

2

Vueling Airlines (VY)

1,056

189,576

19.9 %

2.1 %

3

Iberia (IB)

884

149,718

15.7 %

(-17.1) %

4

Air Europa (UX)

588

96,918

10.2 %

(-25.5) %

5

Air Nostrum (YW)

1,458

96,725

10.2 %

(-11.0) %

6

NAYSA (ZN)

774

55,728

5.9 %

(-7.0) %

7

Iberia Express (I2)

338

50,700

5.3 %

New Entrant

8

airberlin (AB)

188

35,340

3.7 %

(-22.8) %

9

Islas Airways (IF)

315

22,050

2.3 %

38.8 %

10

Binter Canarias (NT)

278

20,016

2.1 %

(-21.9) %

(Others)

271

35,429

3.7 %

(-76.5) %

TOTAL

7,201

950,839

-

(-10.1) %

SPANISH INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Ryanair (FR)

1,598

302,022

20.3 %

(-7.5) %

2

easyJet (U2)

1,000

159,888

10.8 %

3.9 %

3

Iberia (IB)

657

134,190

9.0 %

(-7.0) %

4

airberlin (AB)

517

104,844

7.1 %

(-5.1) %

5

Vueling Airlines (VY)

508

90,936

6.1 %

20.6 %

6

Thomson Airways (TOM)

219

45,757

3.1 %

(-12.4) %

7

Air Europa (UX)

224

41,894

2.8 %

17.3 %

8

Lufthansa (LH)

237

39,888

2.7 %

(-3.3) %

9

Monarch Airlines (ZB)

166

37,163

2.5 %

(-11.9) %

10

Condor (DE)

149

33,052

2.2 %

10.4 %

(Others)

3,151

495,973

33.4 %

(-3.8) %

TOTAL

8,426

1,485,607

-

(-2.7) %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…