Ralph Anker (nome conosciuto fra i network planners ed air service developers) nella sua analisi settimanale ha fatto il punto su FCO. Riporto due grafici che paragonano la S19 con la S18 per compagnie aeree e destinazioni internazionali.
Nella S20 per il mercato US al momento ci sara' da aggiungere anche la SFO by AZ ed il secondo volo giornaliero appena annunciato da AA per DFW.
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Rome growth driven by international demand; Alitalia has 40% share of seats; US and China well served as Kenya and Venezuela return
Handling almost 43 million passengers in 2018 made Rome Fiumicino Europe’s 11th busiest airport (behind Moscow SVO and ahead of Istanbul SAW) and the busiest in Italy. Since 2000 the airport has seen passenger numbers grow by 65%. Domestic traffic has varied between 10.9 million (in 2013) and 13.5 million (in 2007 and 2008) with 11.5 million passengers on domestic services in both 2017 and 2018. International traffic has grown from below 13 million passengers in 2001 and 2002 to 31.4 million in 2018, which represented growth of 7% compared with 2017. So far in 2019 (to end of September) traffic is up 1.8%, with domestic demand falling by 2.6%, more than compensated for by 3.3% growth on international routes. The airport’s seasonality profile has been extremely stable in recent years with August peak traffic being typically between 60% and 80% higher than in January.
Alitalia still dominant
Despite its financial woes, Alitalia remains by far the dominant carrier at the airport with 39% of scheduled seat capacity at the airport. Its market share in S19 is the same as it was in S18. (U)LCCs (shown in red) take the next three places at Rome FCO with Vueling ahead of Ryanair and easyJet. Europe’s other major pan-European carriers (Eurowings, Norwegian and Wizz Air) are also among the airport’s top 15 airlines. Also among the top 15 airlines are the flag-carriers of France, Germany and the UK and three non-European airlines (shown in green); American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and Emirates. The fastest-growing airline in the top 15 is Italian leisure airline Blue Panorama which also operates scheduled service as blu-express. Its capacity in Rome grew by 15% this summer primarily thanks to an increase in capacity on its Turin route. This route was launched in November 2018 and operated 13-weekly throughout 2019.
Several new carriers in 2019
Fiumicino has already welcomed several new airlines in 2019; Air Albania from Tirana, Kenya Airways from Nairobi, LEVEL from Amsterdam (replacing fellow IAG carrier Vueling on that route), Mahan Airlines from Tehran, and Sichuan Airlines from Chengdu. FlyBosnia is scheduled to launch its first flight to Rome on 4 November, operating 2-weekly from Sarajevo. Airlines ‘lost’ include Iran Air and TUS Airways according to analysis of Cirium Data and Analytics figures.
US is second biggest country market after Spain
During the peak Q3 period of 2019, the leading international country markets from Rome FCO were Spain, the US and France, with Germany and the UK some way behind. Apart from the US, several other nonEuropean country markets make the top 15; UAE, Canada, Israel and China. Of these, China is the fastestgrowing with seats up 43% compared with Q3 in 2018. A total of 13 US destinations can be reached non-stop from Rome, with Alitalia, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Norwegian and United Airlines all operating services this summer. For comparison, nine Chinese cities are served non-stop involving five Chinese carriers. Chengdu, Hangzhou and Shenzhen have all been added since last summer.
Kenya Airways and Venezuela return
In June, Kenya Airways resumed service from Nairobi (after a seven year gap) in a triangle routing that also involved Geneva. Another country that returned to the airport’s route map in the last 12 months was Venezuela. Alitalia had stopped serving Caracas in April 2015, but last November Estelar began non-stop service operating between four and five weekly flights. New services coming soon include Alitalia to San Francisco (starting on 1 June 2020), Austrian Airlines to Vienna (1 January 2020) and Delta Air Lines to Boston (21 May 2020).