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.

07 Jul 2011
• Oman Air W11 Operation Changes to Sri Lanka and Maldives
• Caribbean Airlines adds Summer seasonal Port of Spain – Orlando service
• Thai Increasing Bangkok – Osaka Kansai service from Nov 2011
• Finnair to launch Helsinki – Lyon service from Apr 2012
• Insel Air to start Curacao – Caracas service
• Qantas Sydney – Manila operaiton change on 25AUG11/03SEP11
• Alitalia W11 Long-Haul Operation Changes as 07JUL11: Chicago & Los Angeles Suspension
• Hong Kong Airlines increasing Denpasar service in Jul/Aug 2011
• Turkish Airlines to add 6th weekly Washington Dulles service from late-Aug 2011
• TAAG Angola plans 777-300ER service to Lisbon in Oct/Nov 2011
• EgyptAir plans Paphos charter service Jul – Oct 2011
• Mahan Air plans Boeing 747 service for new Tehran – Shanghai launch from Sep 2011
• S00: Air Koryo Network
• JetBlue announce 70th Destination: Liberia, Costa Rica from Nov 2011
• Delta Suspends Detroit – Tokyo Haneda service from Sep 2011 to May 2012

06 Jul 2011
• Lufthansa launch Frankfurt – London Gatwick service in W11
• JetStar Asia to launch Singapore – Ningbo service from Sep 2011
• Precision Air plans service expansion in Aug 2011: New Comores and South Africa service
• Etihad to launch Abu Dhabi – Shanghai Pu Dong service from Mar 2012
• China Airlines Jul/Aug 2011 Extra Capacity to Denpasar and Vancouver
• China Airlines/Mandarin Airlines Jul/Aug 2011 China service changes
• Air Canada cancels Ottawa – Iqaluit, Nunavut service from Aug 2011
• Cebu Pacific expands Domestic Service Expansion from Oct 2011
• LAN Airlines Group Planned North America Service Increase in NW11
• Turkish Airlines increase Los Angeles & Washington to Daily in S12
• Etihad/SNCF French Railway launches Codeshare Operation
• S00: Lufthansa Inter-Continental Network

05 Jul 2011
• Etihad W11 Schedule Changes to Bangkok / Frankfurt / Munich
• Fly Micronesia to launch Saipan – Nagoya from Aug 2011
• Malaysia Airlines to cease Kaohsiung, Taiwan service from late-Sep 2011
• Estonian Air ends Vilnius – Amsterdam & Stockholm service in late-Aug 2011
• Etihad to launch Chengdu, China service from mid-Dec 2011
• Finnair to start Helsinki – Chongqing service from May 2012
• China Eastern Yunnan Branch retired Boeing 767; A330-300 Enters Operation
• Pegasus Airlines to launch Skopje, Macedonia service from mid-Aug 2011
• UT Air adds 2nd Daily Moscow Vnukovo – Mineralnye Vody service
• China Southern to resume Guangzhou – Da Nang service from mid-Aug 2011
• S00: Swissair Inter-Continental Network
• germanwings to launch Munich – Pristina service from Nov 2011
• flydubai to launch Kazan and Ufa service in Russia from Sep 2011
• Oman Air W11 Long-Haul service Expansion: New Zurich service
• Stop Press – 04JUL11

04 Jul 2011
• Turkish Airlines to increase Istanbul Ataturk – Tabriz service to Daily from mid-July 2011
• China Eastern adds Yancheng – Seoul & Xi’An – Phuket service in July 2011
• Emirates planned Aug 2011 Johannesburg operation changes
• Planned Alitalia European W11 Service Adjustments as of 04JUL11
• Air China restoring Beijing – Tokyo Narita capacity from August 2011
• Aeroflot increasing Beijing service in Sep/Oct 2011
• Lufthansa adds 5th Daily Frankfurt – Copenhagen service in W11
• S00: EVA Air / UNI Air Network
• ANA CEO Reveals First Domestic Boeing 787 Destination Candidates

02 Jul 2011
• Delta initial W11 Long-Haul Operation Changes as of 02JUL11

01 Jul 2011
• PAWA Dominicana to start Miami and Valencia, Venezuela service from Aug 2011
• SriLankan Airlines Schedule Changes to planned Moscow operation from mid-Sep 2011
• Russia’s NordStar Airlines expands Krasnojarsk hub service in S11
• Turkish Airlines boosting Los Angeles service from Sep 2011; Washington from W11
• SriLankan Airlines reduce Mumbai service from July 2011
• Virgin Atlantic W11 Operation Changes as of 01JUL11
• ANA July 2011 International Operation Changes
• Vueling to start Paris Orly – Zurich service in W11
• Air France Sep/Oct 2011 Reductions to Houston & Mexico City service
• Garuda Indonesia Initial W11 planned China Service Increase
• Qantas begins JetStar Asia Codeshare service on Singapore – Thailand routes
• Jin Air to launch Seoul Incheon – Sapporo service from 15JUL11
• Skymark Airlines to launch 5 Daily Okinawa – Miyakojima from 15SEP11
• Korean Air 747 and 777-300ER service to Sydney Jul – Oct 2011
• Korean Air operating Boeing 747 service to Vancouver Jul – Sep 2011
• S00: Air Aruba Network

30 Jun 2011
• Singapore Airlines extends Singapore – Los Angeles NONSTOP service Reductions into Oct 2011
• Stop Press – 30JUN11
• ANA adds Boeing 787 SROV Nagoya stop on 10JUL11
• Korean Air A380 S11 New Operation Changes as of 30JUN11: Bangkok/Hong Kong Changes
• China Airlines Jul/Aug 2011 Capacity shift on Tokyo Narita & Bangkok service
• China Eastern replace Shanghai Airlines service to Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh from July 2011
• Air China launch Rikaze/Shigatse, Tibet service
• Southwest Airlines Nashville service changes Nov 2011 – Jan 2012
• airberlin to launch Dusseldorf – Curacao service from Nov 2011
• Asiana Airlines to operate Jeju – Chengdu charter service Jul/Aug 2011
• Air France chartering HiFly and Pullmantur Air aircraft for Long-Haul service Jun/Jul 2011
• Hong Kong Airlines Hong Kong – Naypyidaw, Myanmar Charters on 29JUN11
• Air Macau to launch Chongqing & Taiyuan service from late-July 2011
• S00: Malaysia Airlines International Network