There are 80 unserved routes within Europe with a minimum of 20,000 connecting passengers before stimulation. These 80 have a median of 25,000 per route and have 2.3 million passengers in all. Like last week’s look at 95 served routes with at least 50% of passengers connecting en route, these unserved routes have a number to, from, and within Scandinavia. But they’re also more widespread.
These 80 include Gothenburg – Lisbon (25,234; last served in 2016); Amsterdam – Odessa (24,500; unserved in past decade but could be served through Eindhoven); Birmingham – Oslo (23,100, excluding leakage to London/Manchester; last served in 2015 by flybe); Amsterdam – Palermo (22,800; served by Transavia until 2017); and Graz – London (22,500; last served by Ryanair in 2012).
Top-20 unserved routes
Most of the top-20 unserved routes, below, have already been served, necessitating a look at why they failed beyond simply insufficient revenue per passenger in itself or against other opportunities.
| Market | Passengers | Comments |
| Hamburg – Toulouse | 74,980 | Last served by Eurowings in 2018. Has been served most years. |
| Kristiansund – Stavanger | 50,555 | Last served by Wideroe in 2018. Has been served most years. |
| Alesund -Stavanger | 45,906 | Barely served in the past decade. |
| Malmö – Umeå | 39,834 | Unserved in past decade. |
| Larnaca – Paris | 39,156 | Last served by Cobalt in 2018. Up to three-weekly. |
| Frankfurt – Tbilisi | 37,674 | Last ‘properly’ served in 2011 with Lufthansa and Georgian. No service from Kutaisi. |
| Hannover – Malaga | 35,271 | Last served by Norwegian and TUI fly Deutschland in 2018. Served by various airlines over the years, including Vueling and airberlin. |
| Stavanger – Tromsø |
34,322 | Last served by SAS in 2014. |
| Gothenburg – Tallinn | 32,898 | Last served by Nordica in 2018. |
| Bremen – Budapest | 32,373 | Last served by Ryanair in 2009. Nearby Hamburg now has five-weekly services to Budapest. |
| Hannover – Milan | 31,933 | Last served by flybe in 2017 as part of its intra-Europe expansion. |
| Molde – Stavanger | 31,915 | Last served in 2013. |
| Luleå – Malmö | 31,514 | Unserved in past decade. |
| Oslo – St Petersburg | 31,437 | Last served in 2018. Had 40,000 seats by Norwegian in 2014. |
| Gothenburg – Madrid | 31,409 | Last served by Norwegian in 2018. |
| Bergen – Frankfurt | 28,721 | Last served by Lufthansa in 2014. |
| Haugesund – Trondheim | 29,695 | Unserved in past decade. |
| Bodø – Stavanger | 28,031 | Unserved in past decade. |
| Hamburg – Lyon | 26,052 | Last served by ASL in 2016. Before that, by Air France in 2011. |
| Amsterdam – Yerevan | 25,912 | Last served by Armenia Airlines in 2016; before that, by Armavia. |
| Source: OAG Traffic Analyser. Excluding domestic Turkey and countries, such as Ukraine – Russia, that obviously aren’t possible now. | ||
