Table of Contents
Data Sources
Overview
-
-
- Figure 1: Spending* on travel & tourism in Europe, 2015 & 2016
- Trend in air passengers
-
- Figure 2: Trend in air passengers in major European markets, 2010-18
-
Airline Market Shares
-
-
- Figure 3: Market share of leading European LCCs* in terms of passengers & flights, July 2014-June 2015
- Closing the gap with legacy carriers
-
- Figure 4: Passenger market shares of legacy carriers & two biggest LCCs, 2015
- Market share based on seat capacity
-
- Figure 5: European airline market shares, 2000-15
- Figure 6: Leading airlines by major country market in Europe*, ranked by departing seat capacity, 2015
- LCCs leading growth in intra-Europe capacity
-
- Figure 7: Intra-European air routes: Top 20 airline groups by share of scheduled seats, Summer 2016, & their seat growth versus Summer 2015
- Destinations served
-
- Figure 8: Countries served, destinations, routes, employees by LCC, June 2015
- Aircraft fleets
-
- Figure 9: Aircraft fleets of major LCCs in Europe, June 2015
- LCC business model
- High load factors
- European LCC airport presence
-
- Figure 10: easyJet & Ryanair presence at the 10 major European hub airports, 2016
- LCCs as feeders for long-haul flights
- A change in Ryanair’s strategy
- A search for further growth
-
- Figure 11: Annualised growth rate of revenue for easyJet & Ryanair, 2001-15
- Advantage for legacy carriers
- Still impediments to be overcome, however…
- Revenue sharing and luggage handling
- LCCs will grow anyway…
-
European LCC Profiles
-
- Air Berlin
- Losing money
-
- Figure 12: Trend in Air Berlin passenger numbers, 2008-15
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 13: Air Berlin's fleet, 31 March 2016
- easyJet
- A loss in the first fiscal half
-
- Figure 14: Fiscal first-half performance for the period ended 31 March 2016
- Country markets
-
- Figure 15: easyJet’s 15 leading country markets, August 2015
-
- Figure 16: easyJet market shares (seat capacity) by country, 2015
- France targeted for growth
- Airports
-
- Figure 17: easyJet’s market share at key airports, 2015
- Figure 18: Number of market pairs flown between primary airports, 2016
- Catering to business travellers
- easyJet’s loyalty programme
- EasyJet looking to recruit 450 pilots
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 19: easyJet's fleet as of 31 March 2016
- Future fleet development
-
- Figure 20: Future composition of easyJet’s fleet, FY 2015-FY 2022*
- Eurowings
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 21: Eurowings fleet, May 2016
- HOP!
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 22: HOP!’s aircraft fleet, 2016
- Norwegian Air Shuttle
- Impressive growth
-
- Figure 23: Key performance data for Norwegian Air Shuttle, 2008-15
- Financial results
-
- Figure 24: Financial results, 2008-15
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 25: Norwegian’s committed fleet development plan, 2015-18
- Pegasus
-
- Figure 26: Key performance indicators, 2014-15
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 27: Pegasus’ fleet by type of aircraft & asset holding structure, December 2015
- Figure 28: Forecasted growth of Pegasus’ fleet, 2016-20
- Pobeda
- Aeroflot has launched Pobeda
- Aircraft fleet
- Airports
- Ryanair
- Passengers exceed 100 million in FY 2016
-
- Figure 29: Projected growth in Ryanair passengers, FY 2016-FY 2024
- Italy, the biggest country market
-
- Figure 30: Ryanair’s leading country markets, August 2015
- Fastest-growing airports
-
- Figure 31: Ryanair destination airports ranked by growth in weekly departing seats, August 2014-15
- A low-cost producer
-
- Figure 32: Ryanair cost per passenger (ex-fuel) compared to five other LCCs, 2015
- Profit up despite terror attacks and strikes
-
- Figure 33: Ryanair’s results & performance metrics, FY 2014/15-FY 2015/16
- ‘Always Getting Better’
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
- Outlook for FY 2016/17
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 34: Ryanair’s fleet expansion, 2015-24
- Ryanair Rooms
- ‘Ryanair Holidays’ on the way
- Transavia
-
- Figure 35: Trend in Transavia Netherlands passengers, 2006-15
- Transavia France
- Commercial initiatives
- Spain is the main destination
-
- Figure 36: Transavia’s top-12 destinations by weekly departures from Dutch airports, September 2014 & September 2015
- Performance and fleet
-
- Figure 37: Performance data & fleet, 2011-15
- Volotea
-
- Figure 38: Volotea’s destinations, 2016
- Aircraft fleet
- Vueling
-
- Figure 39: Vueling’s financial results, 2015
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 40: Vueling’s fleet, April 2016
- Wizz Air
- Routes and airports
- 77 routes added but only 12 discontinued
- Country markets
-
- Figure 41: Top-15 airports & country destinations for summer 2016*
- A true ULCC
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 42: Wizz Air’s fleet, 2016
- Figure 43: Wizz Air’s fleet deployment by country, 2015-16
- Wow air
- Iceland to California
- Aircraft fleet
-
- Figure 44: Wow air’s fleet, 2016
What Next?
-
- More long-haul LCC flights?
- Norwegian Air Shuttle increasing its transatlantic flights
- Cork-Boston next
- Brexit bad for European LCCs
Back to top