Binter Canarias Announces Significant European Expansion

The Image Above: Binter Canarias Embraer E195-E2. Photo Credit: Embraer

Binter Canarias has made its move on expanding further into the European market from the Canary Islands.

The airline will operate new flights to Toulouse, Marseille, Lille, Turin and Venice from July 2021 as well as a new direct route to Tarragona.

It is understood that this route expansion will increase the number of weekly flights on offer to 94 and add an additional 600,000 seats to its current capacity. 

Such capacity is able to be met thanks to the airline's investment into the Embraer E195-E2 program, which has contributed towards this expansion.

The Image Above: Daily Binter Canarias Flights as of April 2-8, 2021. Click here for more statistics!

This ramp-up of course is wholly dependent on whether those areas of Europe will be open in time for the Summer season, due to vaccination roll-out starting off quite slow at the moment.

The airline is currently operating more flights per day than 2020 statistics but it isn't that much of a significant margin. 

It is obviously the hope that Binter Canarias and others will be able to ramp up flights when the Summer is in full swing, and with the big hope that lockdowns don't become a continued reality any longer. 

That being said, on the Binter side, the airline is performing slightly better, but until it can achieve numbers similar to that of 2019, there won't be too much financial success behind this in the short term.

This comes especially as IATA's Director-General Willie Walsh stating that we are not at recovery yet. So all eyes are now on how government's respond over the next few months and whether they can get enough people vaccinated to open up borders sufficiently going into the future.