Toulouse-Blagnac Airport

Small startups in Airbus’ home city have the potential to drive technological advancements in the industry.

EasyJet plans to close its two-aircraft base at Toulouse-Blagnac Airport but will continue to serve the city.

The airline will fly 42 routes from the UK airport from April 2023.

Routes selects 50 new air services set to start around the world in July, looking at the planned frequency, start date and aircraft to be used.

The carrier is adding back service from Toronto and Quebec City to Paris.

A string of new services have been added from bases including Marseille, Turin and Malaga.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

The network expansion is concentrated on cities with large Moroccan diaspora communities.

Operations at Faro will run throughout the summer season in future years.

The Canary Islands-based airline will deploy its five new Embraer E195-E2s on the routes.

As easyJet adds new services from Toulon, Routes takes a look at the biggest airlines, airports and routes currently operating in France’s market.

Flight frequencies on many routes continue to be significantly below pre-COVID-19 levels.

Fresh from securing a new American Airlines route from New York JFK, Athens is set to be added to Jet2.com’s route map for the first time.

Air France-KLM CEO Ben Smith discusses the overhaul of the group’s strategy in the French domestic market.

France’s national carrier expects to operate up to 55% of its 2019 domestic schedule over the Christmas period.

The Irish ULCC is making big cuts to its winter flight schedule and shutting three bases.

The carrier is adding 10 seasonal routes to its network, including four Spanish domestic services and three in France.

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.

The LCC will begin domestic service in November, offering four routes form Nantes and one from Paris Orly.

French company Eiffage has completed a deal to acquire the 49.99% stake ipreviously held by China Airport Synergy Investment Limited.

European low-cost carrier Ryanair is to open its third base in France this winter and launch routes to 11 new destinations.

The weekly flight from Toulouse to Oujda will operate every Monday for a three month period from late June until late September and will be scheduled around the daytime period an aircraft would otherwise be sat idle at the southern French airfield after fulfilling its morning Airbus staff shuttle commitment.

Turkish airline, SunExpress has recently announced its plans for a total of 21 new routes for the summer 2015 season, with departures mainly from Antalya, Dalaman, Izmir and Konya.

Amsterdam is already one of easyJet’s most successful network points with more than 3.5 million passengers flying annually to and from 21 destinations. It revealed earlier this year its plans to open a base at Schiphol Airport to further strengthen the airline’s long term strategic position at the airport, where it now holds a nine per cent market share having first introduced flights back in 1996.

European regional carrier Etihad Regional has launched a twice-weekly service linking Geneva in Switzerland, and Toulouse in southwestern France, its first year-round route to France from its Swiss base. The inaugural service, operated using a 50-seat Saab 2000 touched down at Toulouse’s Blagnac Airport at 4:40pm on April 17, 2014.