The Irish LCC is already the largest operator at the airport by capacity and plans to further increase its footprint during the upcoming winter season.
Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Air Senegal’s European expansion; British Airways starting Cornwall Airport Newquay flights; and Jazeera Airways adding a fourth destination in Turkey.
With COVID-19 travel restrictions easing in parts of the world, airlines are gradually rebuilding their networks. Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week: airBaltic’s new route to Dublin; Air New Zealand resuming flights to Tokyo; and Luxair re-entering a market it last served in 2007.
Marseille Provence Airport’s network has expanded by a third since hosting Routes Europe five years ago. Routesonline speaks to Véronique Lemée-Alexandre, the airport’s head of market research and route development, to find out more about its growth strategy and ambition to hit the ten million passenger milestone in 2019.
Véronique Lemée-Alexandre, head of market research and route development at Marseille Provence Airport, talks about her high points of 2017, hopes for the future and the best and worst parts of the job.
A record number of votes were received for this year’s awards. Discover which airports and destinations have been recognised for their marketing achievements by the airline network planning community.
Located on the Mediterranean coast in South-East France, Marseille-Provence Airport has firmly positioned itself in the minds of the air service development community through its regular attendance of World Routes and regional events and its successful hosting of Routes Europe back in 2014. The airport has taken advantage of its location at the intersection of French rail and road networks to become a key gateway to the South of France, to Marseille and, of course, the famous Provence region.
The Marseille Provence Airport team is in Chengdu at this year’s World Routes eyeing destinations across the North and eastern part of Europe and an expansion of flights to long-haul markets as potential targets. They are already excited about growth in 2017 after a strong 2016 that has already delivered 17 new scheduled routes.
From the start of the Summer 2016 schedules on March 27, 2016, easyJet will introduce a new six times weekly domestic connection between Bordeaux and Marseille and a four times weekly link between Bordeaux and Berlin. A couple of weeks later a new four times weekly link from Bordeaux to Barcelona will be introduced from April 15, 2016, while a three times weekly service to Venice will follow on April 17, 2016.
These two new routes adds to the carrier’s existing service to Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo, which has been operating since 2006 and further strengthen the airport's long-haul network and Marseille Provence’s position as the French airport with the most long-haul destinations away from Paris.
If you attended this year's Routes Europe look out and see if you can see yourself on our event highlights video, if you didn’t then sit back and watch as three days of meetings and networking are condensed into just three minutes.
Delegates at this year’s Routes Europe were able to take the opportunity to tour Marseille on a touristic train yesterday morning prior to the opening of the event.
Marseille Provence Airport is eyeing destinations across the UK and Scandinavia and an expansion of flights to long-haul leisure markets as potential targets for discussions with airlines at the forthcoming Routes Europe, which is being hosted in the southern French city at the start of next month.
