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Europe’s three most successful airports revealed – and the nearest to Britain is in Ukraine Simon Calder © Provided by The Independent Only three major European airports are handling more than half the passengers they had two years ago – and they are all a long way east. According to the new Anker Report on European air connectivity, St Petersburg is way ahead of the pack with 80 per cent of its March 2019 passengers arriving and departing in March 2021. Istanbul’s Sa...

The new giants of European aviation: Russia and Turkey Simon Calder © Provided by The Independent For many decades, the European order of aviation has had three certainties: the UK boasts the highest number of flights; London is the best-connected city; and Heathrow is the busiest airport for passenger numbers. The coronavirus pandemic, and the response to it, has wrecked that reliable trinity. And with ministers apparently uninterested in the fate of what was previously the w...

Dubai flight ban could mean Doha becomes top UK destination Simon Calder © Provided by The Independent The new flight ban imposed on all services from the UAE to the UK means that Qatar could overtake Dubai as the location with the highest number of passengers travelling to and from Britain. In December 2020, Dubai was by far the biggest destination with more than 186,000 passengers – one-third of the number in the same month in 2019. Second place was taken by Amsterdam, wi...