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	Top Story | 6th June 2013 London Heathrow set to lose world #1 ASKs ranking to Dubai Despite being at 99% capacity and with little sign of any additional runway capacity any time soon, London Heathrow is still the world's busiest airport if measured by ASKs. We look to see which other airports make the Top 15 in this slightly unusual way of looking at airports. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » Top Story | 6th June 2013 Executive relief at Slots - table footy competition launched! Do you think you have got the wrist action to beat off some of your peers from the world's airports and airlines attending the 132nd IATA Slots Conference in Copenhagen from 19 June? Read on to register for the fun in anna.aero and Copenhagen Airport's co-hosted table football competition. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » Route News | 6th June 2013 Norwegian's Oslo to New York JFK Norwegian defies the 787 delay and goes long-haul from Oslo, taking anna.aero's Route of the Week title. Icelandair's Reykjavik to Zurich Volcano cake blowing dry-powder ash cloud welcomed Icelandair's inaugural service in Zurich, winning this week's Cake Prize. Route News | 6th June 2013 New airline routes launched (28 May – 3 June 2013) Last week brought about the launch of 109 new routes around the world. While Norwegian's first long-haul service was honoured with the anna.aero Route Prize, many other high-profile long-haul services commenced, including Aeroflot's and Egyptair's arrival in Toronto, AirEuropa's in Montevideo or Etihad's in Sao Paulo Guarulhos. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » Airport Analysis | 6th June 2013 Cochin Airport poised to break 5m passengers in 2013 All aboard the Kerala Express to Cochin International Airport! With new routes being added all the time, including IndiGo's four weekly A320 service from Chennai which started on 30 May, and Q1 growth of 9%, 2013 is going like a steam train for the Indian airport. anna.aero investigates its express route to growth. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » Airline Analysis | 6th June 2013 Philippines Airlines plots a path to profits We investigate how by using its low-cost regional brand PAL Express to fight its corner against the encroaching LCCs, while Philippines Airlines itself is readjusting its own network strategy by seeking out longer, more profitable routes – like Darwin in Australia. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » Take-offs & Landings | 6th June 2013 AirAsia Group still growing at 20% but drops 11 routes; most new routes in Indonesia, merging with Zest Air in the Philippines Asia's biggest LCC is still highly profitable, and growing quickly. But along the way even the AirAsia group of airlines has dropped a few routes in the last 12 months, and we reveal which ones. However, it is also starting more than twice as many as it is dropping. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » Market Trends | 6th June 2013 Japan-US air services grow by 5% We delve into whether capacity between two of the world's economic powerhouses is increasing as a result of improved access to Tokyo Haneda, as well as in the introduction of the 787-8, which is capable of opening up thin, long-haul routes never considered before its introduction. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » Airline Analysis | 6th June 2013 Egyptair struggles to fully recover; launches four new destinations this week, including Manchester and Toronto Egyptair's slow recovery includes double-digit capacity growth in Saudi Arabia, United Kingdom, Italy and Germany, as well as new long-haul destinations like Osaka Kansai and Toronto Pearson. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » Network Planning Community News | 6th June 2013 Aalborg Airport turns 75; Athens, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca and Riga show their cakes; Volotea and Ryanair celebrate passenger landmarks In this week's Network Planning Community News anna.aero brings you wonderful celebratory cakes from Ibiza, Mallorca, Riga and Athens, as well as reports from all over Europe, including that from Aalborg Airport's 75th anniversary celebration. Read the rest of this story » Comment on this story » European Airport Traffic Trends Last updated: 05/06/2013 A busy week as we added April data for over 30 more airports. We also have May data for 10 very efficient airports, and we welcome another Swiss airport to our database. We also have more detailed figures for Romanian airports in 2012. Download the spreadsheet » European Airline Traffic Trends Last updated: 23/05/2013 We have now added April passenger numbers and load factors for most of Europe's leading airlines / airline groups that publish these figures. Turkish Airlines and Norwegian both grew by more than 25% in April, while easyJet reported the highest load factor. Download the spreadsheet » American Airport Traffic Trends Last updated: 23/05/2013 In this week's update to the American Airports database, we include the latest traffic figures for airports in Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Mexico, the US and many more. Download the spreadsheet » NEW Airports Just In The Route Shop     Gibraltar International Airport   Bristol Airport   Niagara Falls International Airport (NEW) Gibraltar International Airport (NEW) Bristol Airport (NEW) Niagara Falls International Airport (NEW) Buffalo Niagara International Airport (NEW) Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz International Airport (NEW) Novosibirsk Tolmachevo International Airport (NEW) City Airport Bremen (NEW) Keflavík Airport (NEW) Aéroports de Montréal (NEW) Ancona Airport 3651 (NEW) Baltimore/Washington International Airport Bournemouth Airport Nizhny Novgorod International Airport Samara Kurumoch International Airport   Should someone else be reading this newsletter? If you know someone who will benefit from receiving our FREE airline network news and analysis, then please forward this email to a friend.   Home | About Us | Contact Us | Subscribe to anna.aero © 2007-2013 PPS Publications Ltd

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