Airline Route Update

Richard Maslen April 14, 2011

Airline Route Update is a comprehensive summary of route announcements, capacity increases and codeshare details from this past week.

For further analysis on selected stories visit our Breaking News section on Routesonline.

14 Apr 2011
• Aeroflot returns to Sri Lanka from Nov 2011
• Oman Air postpones Moscow Service launch till Nov 2011
• China Airlines Cargo S11 Network
• ANA Domestic and International Service Reductions Apr/May 2011
• Air Canada S11 Madrid operation changes
• Hawaiian Airlines postpone A330 service introduction to Tokyo Haneda till Jul 2011
• Singapore Airlines S11 Beijing/Hong Kong/Manila latest service changes
• bmibaby to end Cardiff & Manchester service; W11/S12 New Routes from Belfast and East Midlands
• Etihad to start Air New Zealand codeshare service
• British Airways returns to Jordan via Royal Jordanian Codeshare
• ANA LCC joint-venture Unit A&F Aviation Planned Operational Routes in 2012
• Taiwan’s Far Eastern Air Transport to resume operation 18APR11 after 35-month grounding
• Gulf Air May and July 2011 Frequency Increases
• Oman Air to resume Salalah – Dubai from May; Increase Muscat – Dubai from Jul 2011
• Singapore Airlines launch A380 service to Los Angeles from 01JUL11
• TAP Portugal to launch Accra service from Jul 2011
• Gulf Air to launch Copenhagen & Resume Nairobi service from Jul 2011

13 Apr 2011
• Kenya Airways switches to Boeing 737 on Rome service
• Zambezi Airlines to start Lusaka – Livingstone – Cape Town from 30JUN11
• Air New Zealand to start codeshare service with ETIHAD
• bmi lifts capacity to Moscow from late-Jun 2011
• bmi to start A330 operation to Central Asia and Sierra Leone from late-Jun 2011
• Aeroflot to resume Ho Chi Minh City service in W11
• Turkish Airlines begins secures local traffic rights on Singapore – Jakarta sector
• Kingfisher Airlines launches late-night Bangalore – Pune service from mid-Apr 2011
• Hainan Airlines S11 Long-haul service reductions
• Air Asia Indonesia to add 2nd Daily Bandung – Singapore from May 2011
• Aeroflot increasing Uzbekistan capacity Apr/May 2011
• Skymark Airlines launch “Narita Shuttle”/LCC-style offering from W11
• Pakistan Int’l Plans capacity increase to New York from Jun 2011

12 Apr 2011
• LOT Polish Airlines Initial E195 Operations
• Ethiopian Airlines expands Lufthansa codeshare to additional European cities
• China Southern Hanoi & Manila service reduction in S11
• Azerbaijan Airlines to increase capacity on planned new Baku – Aberdeen service in S11
• V Australia expands Etihad Codeshare in Mid-East and Europe
• Gulf Air extends Iran, Iraq and Lebanon suspension till late-Apr 2011
• Garuda Indonesia to increase Denpasar – Hong Kong; Cancel Surabaya – Hong Kong from Jun 2011
• Jeju Air plans to launch Jeju – Osaka Kansai from late-Jun 2011
• Air Austral adjusts planned new Dzaoudzi – France service starting W11
• LANPeru cancels Lima – Cartagena service
• Singapore Airlines reduces Los Angeles nonstop service May – July 2011
• China Eastern launch Luxi – Mandalay charter service in April 2011
• Jin Air to operate 2-week Jeju – Harbin charter service in April 2011
• TAM to add 5th weekly Rio de Janeiro – New York JFK service from May 2011
• Air France to operate seasonal A380 San Francisco service June – Sep 2011

11 Apr 2011
• China Airlines cancels Business Class service to Delhi, Rome & Xi’An
• EVA Air extends Japan service adjustments into June 2011
• Cathay Pacific adds 7th Daily NONSTOP Hong Kong – Singapore service in May/Jun 2011
• Delta postpone Detroit – Tokyo Haneda resumption into mid-Jun; LA – Tokyo Haneda changes
• KLM to reduce Tokyo Narita capacity from May 2011
• China Airlines extends Kaohsiung – Tokyo Narita capacity reduction till June 2011
• Singapore Airlines changes to Auckland, Taipei and Tokyo in S11
• Korean Air 777 replace A330 to Kuala Lumpur in S11
• Etihad expands Malaysia Airlines codeshare network to Hong Kong
• China Southern re-opens reservation for new Guangzhou – Vancouver service
• Conviasa to launch Caracas – Bogota service
• Alitalia Initial W11 New York operation changes
• Foreign Carriers Abidjan Service update as of 11APR11
• Royal Falcon to increase service to Najaf and Stockholm
• Saudi Arabian adds 2nd weekly Jeddah – Rome from June – Aug 2011
• Xiamen Airlnes to start Fuzhou – Macau service
• LANChile to cancel Paris service from mid-July 2011
• Cathay Pacific extends Japan service reduction into May 2011
• Emirates to launch A380 Shanghai Pu Dong service from late-April 2011

08 Apr 2011
• GMG Airlines consolidates service to the UAE in S11
• Malaysia Airlines Manila service changes from May 2011
• Malaysia Airlines New Airbus A330-300 Routes: Update 2
• airBaltic to launch Summer Seasonal Riga – Bari service Jun – Sep 2011
• Air Canada scales back Santiago de Chile/Buenos Aires service increase from Jul 2011
• Air Seychelles to cancel Chennai service; Singapore flights returns to Nonstop from Jun 2011
• Turan Air to start Baku – Novosibirsk from late-May 2011
• AerArann to end 3 Intra-Ireland service from late-Jul 2011
• Sendai Airport to re-open 13APR11; JAL/ANA resumes service on temporary basis
• Vietnam Airlines to increase Hanoi – Paris CDG to Daily by mid-December 2011
• Eastar Jet to start Regular Scheduled Sapporo service from May 2011
• AirAsia Malaysia to start Kota Kinabalu – Jakarta from May 2011
• Pakistan Int’l Sri Lanka Operation Changes from May 2011
• KLM W11 Havana service adjustment as of 08APR11
• KLM capacity change to Cairo & Tel Aviv from late-Apr 2011
• Foreign Carriers Japan Operation Changes Apr/May 2011: Update 5

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