Summary
- Ryanair has added 2,000 extra seats for fans going to look at the England vs. Denmark match in Frankfurt during UEFA Euro 2024.
- Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, and London Stansted can have extra flights to Frankfurt Hahn Airport (HHN).
- Several German airports are scheduled experience growth in seats, flights, and ASKs, in the course of the tournament. Nevertheless, a few of that growth could be as a result of external aspects, including airlines adding flights for the height summer period.
Ryanair has announced that it added extra seats for football fans to see the English national football team play the Danish national football team on the upcoming Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Euro 2024 championship in Frankfurt, Germany.
The two,000 extra seats were added on flights to Hahn Airport (HHN), which Ryanair and other low-cost carriers within the continent market as Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. The Irish airline said that extra seats might be added on routes connecting Bristol Airport (BRS), Manchester Airport (MAN), Birmingham Airport (BHX), and London Stansted Airport (STN) with HHN.
In accordance with Ryanair, extra flights will depart the 4 British airports on June 19, leaving Germany on either June 21 or June 22. England’s second group match in the course of the tournament, between England and Denmark, is scheduled to kick off on June 20.
Photo: Ryanair
Jade Kirwan, the Head of Comms of Ryanair, remarked that the airline has added over 2,000 extra seats to enable fans to travel to Frankfurt and watch a game that was set to be an unforgettable experience for those attending it in-person.
Nevertheless, UEFA has already sold out all of its tickets to the games during three separate ticket phases, allocating them randomly to fans who had applied for them either in 2023 or 2024. On May 2, the association launched a last-minute sale of 100,000 tickets to varied games, with the sale concluding on the identical day.
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Marginal differences
At the identical time, airlines have added only a number of additional seats to Germany, in line with data from the aviation analytics company Cirium. The positioning’s data revealed that in June and July 2022, there have been 125,052 flights landing in Germany, amounting to 21.7 million seats in the course of the two-month period in 2022.
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A 12 months later, the variety of flights and seats grew to 132,769 and 23.3 million, respectively. Meanwhile, in June and July 2024, airlines have scheduled 139,597 flights, leading to 24.7 million seats landing in Germany in the course of the two months.
June 1, 2023 – July 31, 2023 |
June 1, 2024 – July 31, 2024 |
Growth |
|
Flights |
132,769 |
139,597 |
5.1% |
Seats |
23.3 million |
24.7 million |
5.9% |
Available Seat Kilometers (ASK) |
47.8 billion |
51.6 billion |
7.9% |
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Growth outliers
Nevertheless, some airports in Germany will see double-digit growth in all three or at the very least one in all the aforementioned metrics, including Munich Airport (MUC), Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER), Hamburg Airport (HAM), Hannover Airport (HAJ), HHN, Weeze Airport (NRN), Dresden Airport (DRS), and others.
Flight growth vs June and July 2023 |
Seat growth vs June and July 2023 |
ASK growth vs June and July 2023 |
|
Munich Airport (MUC) |
12.4% |
13.8% |
16.7% |
Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) |
10.3% |
11% |
6.7% |
Hamburg Airport (HAM) |
8.6% |
9.2% |
16.2% |
Hannover Airport (HAJ) |
13.3% |
14.4% |
16.1% |
Frankfurt-Hahn Airport (HHN) |
15.2% |
14.2% |
11.7% |
Dresden Airport (DRS) |
11.4% |
10.4% |
35.5% |
Leipzig Airport (LEJ) |
6.2% |
11.4% |
18.4% |
A few of the cities that these airports serve correlate with the UEFA Euro 2024 host cities where the tournament’s matches might be played, which include Berlin, Cologne, Dortmund, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Gelsenkirchen, Hamburg, Munich, and Stuttgart.
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At the identical time, a few of that growth could possibly be unrelated to the tournament. For instance, MUC’s top ten most growing routes when it comes to ASKs include zero intra-Europe routes, with the closest airport being Hurghada International Airport (HRG), Egypt.
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