ALICANTE

[Zorua]

Hello! Some news have been announced during this time, including the statistics of August. Interannual September 2015 - August 2016 today is of 11.727.511 passengers, more closer to the 12M of pax. expected

August stats in ALC

Pax: 1.447.343 pax. (+14,8%)
Ops: 9.697 ops. (+16,1%)
Kg: 376.742 kg. (+37,1%)

Accumulated
Pax January-August: 8.349.032 pax. (+16%)
Ops January-August: 58.536 ops. (+17%)
Kg January-August: 3.650.034 kg. (+84,9%)

New daily routes of Jet2 to BHX and STN have been announced, and today Finnair has released the new route ALC-HEL for S17 with 4 weekly flights from the end of March. Also Brussels Airlines increase the route ALC-BRU to daily (+4 weekly flights)

• Alicante-Elche (ALC) - Helsinki (HEL): 4 weekly flights[1/3/5/7] - From 26-March-2017 to 28-October-2017

[AvGeek1]

Great news for that airport, it will be good to see Jet2 adding some conpetition on the Stansted-Alicante route. Good to see the new Finnair link as well another full service carrier to add to the list. I was wondering how carriers like KLM, Swiss and Lufthansa have been doing at Alicante since they commenced operations.

[AvGeek1]

Lufthansa increasing from 1 to 2 weekly flights in Summer 2017 and will also be operating flights over the Christmas period this year, to accommodate people heading home for Christmas.

[Zorua]

^^ Yes! A little increase but it's something.
Some news for S17:

- Volotea: Increases Asturias to 4 weekly and Nantes to 3xw. A new route will be announced soon
- Transavia: Increases AMS to 18 per week (+1), RTM to 10 per week (+3) and MUC to 4 weekly (+1). EIN is maintained in the 8 weekly flights.
- Blue Air: Blue Air debuts in ALC with a new route to LPL with 3 flights a week since April
- easyjet: Increases London's routes (LTN, LGW and SEN) during S17. LTN to 2 daily (+3xw), SEN to 9xw (+2) and LGW to 28xw (+2). Also MAN increase to 8xw (+1)

Likely, at the end of week, AENA statistics of September will be revealed

A greeting!

[AvGeek1]

Originally Posted by Zorua

^^ Yes! A little increase but it's something.
Some news for S17:

- Volotea: Increases Asturias to 4 weekly and Nantes to 3xw. A new route will be announced soon
- Transavia: Increases AMS to 18 per week (+1), RTM to 10 per week (+3) and MUC to 4 weekly (+1). EIN is maintained in the 8 weekly flights.
- Blue Air: Blue Air debuts in ALC with a new route to LPL with 3 flights a week since April
- easyjet: Increases London's routes (LTN, LGW and SEN) during S17. LTN to 2 daily (+3xw), SEN to 9xw (+2) and LGW to 28xw (+2). Also MAN increase to 8xw (+1)

Likely, at the end of week, AENA statistics of September will be revealed

A greeting!

This is all great news! Wonder what the new Volotea route will be?

I thought that LTN-ALC with easyJet was already 2 daily in S16 apart from Sunday. So is it just an increase of 1 weekly frequency?

[Zorua]

The new route of Volotea is likely to be Toulouse. About LTN of EZY, maybe the 13xw were in peak season, but i don't know. I saw the article of the past year about the spring 2016 and appears 11xw

A greeting!

[Zorua]

September statistics have been revealed today. 18% growth with nearly 200,000 new passengers, almost 1.3M. Interannual October 2015 - September 2016 today is of 11.925.031 passengers, closer to the 12M expected

September stats in ALC

Pax: 1.295.675 pax. (+18%)
Ops: 8.737 ops. (+19,7%)
Kg: 439.483 kg. (+25%)

Accumulated
Pax January-September: 9.644.707 pax. (+16,3%)
Ops January-September: 67.273 ops. (+17,4%)
Kg January-September: 4.089.517 kg. (+75,8%)


Also today, Volotea has announced a new route ALC-MRS for S17 with 2 weekly flights

• Alicante-Elche (ALC) - Marseille (MRS): 2x/sem [3/7]

[Zorua]

Luxair returns to ALC after 10-year absence with 2xw to Luxembourg with B738 from April

• Alicante (ALC) - Luxembourg (LUX): 2xw [4/6]

And Volotea has announced this morning his sixth route from ALC: Toulouse. With 2xw from April with A319.

• Alicante (ALC) - Toulouse (TLS): 2xw [3/7]

A greeting!

[AvGeek1]

With rumours that Ryanair will be operating from Frankfurt and rumours also that they will be operating Alicante, can't be good for the Lufthansa service.

[Seljuk22]

Isn't a daily FR not better than a weekly LH?

[AvGeek1]

Originally Posted by Seljuk22

Isn't a daily FR not better than a weekly LH?

Service increases to 2 weekly in S17, but that's not quite what I was getting at, obviously the frequency will be better for passengers but since Lufthansa have only recently launched these flights it would be a shame to see them be crushed by Ryanair.

[Zorua]

Hello! Today TAP has announced a new ALC-LIS daily route from June 5, 2017. The route will The route will be operated by TAP Express and ATR-72

• Alicante-Elche (ALC) - Lisbon (LIS): 7x/week (daily)

Also, some 3 new routes have been announced a few weeks ago:

- Danish Air Transport: Kristiansand

• Alicante (ALC) - Kristiansand (KRS): 1x/week [5]

- Primera Air: Copenhagen and Stockholm

• Alicante (ALC) - Copenhagen (CPH): 3x/week [2/4/7]
• Alicante (ALC) - Stockholm (ARN): 3x/week [1/3/7]

A new ALC-AMS route from Ryanair is also rumored (some pages have mentioned it)

A greeting!

[Seljuk22]

Norwegian will launch 3 weekly flights to DUS and 2 weekly to HAJ next June.

[Zorua]

Yes! It is also confirmed that Norwegian will base a fifth aircraft in ALC next summer.

And then this are the stats of November: 772.856 passengers with a grow of 19,7%! The accumulated is in 11.644.725 passengers and the year will end with 12.350.000 passengers approximate. The passenger number 12 million will arrive this friday on board a Jet2 flight.

Passengers: 772.856 pax. (+19,7%)
Operations: 5.811 ops. (+19%)
Cargo: 459.409 kg. (+5,4%)

Accumulated
Passengers January-November: 11.644.725 pax. (+16,8%)
Operations January-November: 81.518 ops. (+17,7%)
Cargo January-November: 5.009.389 kg. (+58,8%)

[Seljuk22]

How many aircrafts will Ryanair base next summer at ALC?

[Zorua]

^^ To date, 9 aircraft based. There is a possibility that there is a 10 from june

[Seljuk22]

Eurowings will launch a weekly flight to VIE next April.

[GnRdL]

^^ 2x weekly - 1/5 - from 14th April (restarted)

Air Berlin closes all routes in Alicante from January 2017 except Düsseldorf which is also reduced from 7x to 4x weekly.

Routes closed:
Alicante (ALC) - Berlin Tegel (TXL): operated in 2016 with 4x weekly. RYR remains as only alternative in Berlin Schönefeld (SXF) with 3x weekly.
Alicante (ALC) - Munich (MUC): operated in 2016 with 2x weekly. Also served by TRA and NAX with 3x and 2x weekly respectively.
Alicante (ALC) - Stuttgart (STR): operated in 2016 with 3x weekly. NO alternative available.
Alicante (ALC) - Zürich (ZRH): operated in 2016 with 4x weekly. Also served by SWR and VLG with 3x and 2x weekly respectively.

Routes not bookable:
Alicante (ALC) - Vienna (VIE): operated in 2016 by NIKI with 2x weekly. Also served by EWG with 2x weekly.

Routes reduced:
Alicante (ALC) - Düsseldorf (DUS): from daily to 4x weekly. Also served by NAX and EWG with 3x and 2x weekly respectively.

[AvGeek1]

I think that it Ryanair is more than likely to take over the Stuttgart route. Eurowings/Germanwings should take advantage of this and add routes to Berlin-Tegel, Dusseldorf and even possibly Stuttgart if viable. Transavia or Norwegian will increase frequency on Munich route or maybe we could even see Lufthansa launching Munich.

[GnRdL]

Air Berlin/Niki evolution at Alicante-Elche airport:



Evolution of destinations served by Air Berlin at Alicante-Elche airport:



Weekly flights planned at Alicante-Elche airport (July 2017) - Austrian, German and Swiss markets: