Minoan Air Routes - Summer 2012

After some back and forth, Minoan finally announced their initial summer schedule valid as of tomorrow 11 July. The airline for the time being will concentrate operations at their base airport of Heraklion and will actually be the 4th airline flying the Heraklion-Rhodes route during the summer season. The route will be served 4 times per week, on Mondays through Thursdays, with morning departures from both airports. Prices seem to follow competition with the airline asking 170E for a round trip.

HERAKLION (HER) - RHODES (valid 11/7 - 29/8)*

Outward Flight: HER-RHO
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
MAV108	11:00	12:00	F50	Mo-We
MAV108	08:00	08:55	F50	Tu-Th
Return Flight: RHO-HER
Flight Nr	Dep.	Arr.	A/C	Frequency	Remarks
MAV101	12:30	13:30	F50	Mo-We
MAV101	09:30	10:30	F50	Tu-Th

For more information and/or reservations, please visit Minoan Air website.

* Based on Minoan official website on 9 July 2012. 

Summer visitors

Adria Airways A320 landing @ RHO.

First Choice B752 on the final for landing @ RHO.

Norwegian B738 special tail livery of Amelie Skram, a Norwegian author.

Ryanair B738 landing @ RHO. Also visible on the background a Blue Star Ferries heading for RHO harbor.

Transavia B738 on Sunweb livery ready for take-off run

Austrian Arrows Fokker-70 landing @ RHO

Ryanair spotter-friendly pilot waves. Thank you Sir. :)

Transaero's Tupolev-214 on its way for take-off.

June 2012 Traffic

June stats were released today and as you will notice are full in red. In general, June didn't go as bad as originally expected. Here are some things worth mentioning:
- Domestic traffic keeps going down, no reasoning is required we think
- International traffic lost some 10% but compared to 2010 summer its up almost 15%. 2012 June was running on -15 to 17% until the Greek elections.
- Russia, for the first time, climbed to the 2nd position of arrivals since it experienced a 30% increase while Germany gave some 10.000 less arrivals, stepping down to 3rd position.
- Scandinavia and Finland were -except Norway- more or less even to last June contributing some stability. Norway gave a tremendous increase of almost 40%.
- Poland, Israel and Belgium gave losses worth being examined, especially Poland's -45%.

Arrivals Summary

	2012	2011	+/- %
Domestic Arrivals	27.210	32.745	- 16.9%
International Arrivals	271.718	301.641	- 9.9%
Total	298.928	334.386	- 10.6%

International Arrivals by Country

Country	2012	2011	+/-%
England	52.876	55.195	-4.2
Russia	34.377	26.434	+30
Germany	30.549	40.683	-24.9
Sweden	21.816	20.772	+5
Norway	16.070	11.531	+39.36
Italy	14.503	24.566	-40.96
Finland	11.659	10.986	+6.1
Denmark	11.116	11.765	-5.52
Czech Rep.	10.690	10.407	+2.72
Poland	9.835	17.145	-42.64
Israel	9.634	12.504	-22.95
France	9.529	10.982	-13.23
Netherlands	7.932	9.568	-17.1
Austria	6.512	8.946	-27.21
Belgium	5.550	8.019	-30.79
Switzerland	4.193	5.331	-21.35
Slovakia	2.591	4.379	-40.83
Lithuania	2.318	1.786	+29.79
Ukraine	2.168	1.949	+11.24
Hungary	1.853	1.916	-3.29
Cyprus	1.238	1.361	-9
Romania	1.225	1.600	-23.44
Belarus	954	545	+75.05
Luxemburg	816	1.436	-43.18
Slovenia	765	738	+3.66
Yugoslavia	667	533	+25.14
Albania	282	391	-27.88