Airline Route Update

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.

21 Dec 2011
• Tiger Airways to Start Singapore – Dhaka Service from March 2012
• airblue to Start Islamabad – Istanbul; Manchester Service Adjustments from late-Dec 2012
• EVA Air Boosts Planned Chinese New Year 2012 Extra Flights to China
• Air Austral NS12 France Operations
• airberlin Opens Reservation for New Abu Dhabi Service due mid-Jan 2012
• China Southern Begins Harbin – Tokyo Narita Service
• AEROFLOT S12 Russia-CIS/European Operation Changes as of 21DEC11
• airTran to Start 4 New Mexico Routes in May/June 2012
• Emirates to Start A380 Service to Tokyo from July 2012; Melbourne from Oct 2012
• KLM to Add 4th Daily Venice Service in S12
• Mandarin Airlines to Offer 2 Round-trip Taichung – Tottori Charter Flights in Jan 2012
• flydubai to Start Baghdad & Najaf Service from Jan 2012
• Cebu Pacific to Start Xiamen Service from late-Mar 2012
• Dalian Airlines to Launch Operation from 31DEC11
• British Airways to Start Boeing 777-300ER Operation to Shanghai in S12
• KLM Terminates Miami Service from late-Mar 2012
• Lufthansa S12 Long-Haul Operation Changes as of 20DEC11

20 Dec 2011
• Austrian Lifts Capacity to Israel & Iran in S12
• ANA Increasing Tokyo Narita – Hangzhou Service to Daily from late-Jan 2012
• AIRFRANCE Atlanta S12 Operational Schedule Changes
• AIRFRANCE Marseille S12 Adjustments: New Connection to Marrakech; Basel/Dusseldorf Reduction
• Oren Air Began Ekaterinburg – Punta Cana Charter Service with Boeing 777
• Ukraine International Airlines S12 Operation Changes as of 20DEC11
• airBaltic S12 Operation Changes as of 20DEC11
• Lufthansa Adds 6th Weekly Rio de Janeiro Service in NS12
• Air Namibia to Resume Zimbabwe; Launch New Service to Botswana from Apr 2012
• China Eastern to Operate Qingdao – Tokyo Service in Jan/Feb 2012
• BIMAN Bangladesh Adds 3rd weekly Boeing 777-300ER Service to London Dec 2011/Jan 2012
• Ethiopian Airlines Cancels Planned Seychelles Service Launch due late-Jan 2012
• Korean Air to Resume Cheongju – Osaka in S12
• airphil Express Launches Manila – Laoag Service
• Air Koryo Announces Aviation Enthusiasts Only Charter for May 2012

19 Dec 2011
• Singapore Airlines S12 Operation Changes
• Silk Air S12 Operation Changes: New Service to Darwin & Wuhan
• Oren Air Starts Temporary Moscow – St. Petersburg Service with Boeing 777
• germanwings to Launch Stuttgart – Bremen from late-July 2012
• airberlin To Move UAE Operation from Dubai to Abu Dhabi from mid-Jan 2012
• Vladivostok Air to Start Vladivostok – Tashkent from mid-Jan 2012
• Vladivostok Air Continues Hong Kong Operation beyond mid-Jan 2012
• S7 Airlines to Launch Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky – Beijing from June 2012
• EGYPTAIR Revises Planned Japan Service Resumption in S12
• AEROFLOT Changes to Berlin late-night Schedule from June 2012
• Lufthansa Cancels Kolkata Service in S12
• China Airlines Increasing Japan Service from Feb 2012
• Darwin Airline to Start Geneva – Luxembourg late-Jan 2012
• DELTA New York JFK – London Heathrow S12 Operation Changes
• DELTA to Operate Boeing 747 Service on Atlanta – Tokyo Narita in S12
• Garuda Indonesia to Resume Taipei Service from mid-May 2012

17 Dec 2011
• DELTA Expands New York La Guardia Service from Mar 2012
• British Airways W12 Long-Haul Operation Changes as of 16DEC11

16 Dec 2011

• China Southern to Launch Guangzhou – London Heathrow Service from Jun 2012
• AIRFRANCE W12 Long-Haul Operation Changes as of 16DEC11
• Air China Temporary Suspends North Korea Service During Chinese New Year 2012
• Lion Air Launches Surabaya – Singapore Service
• Indonesia AirAsia Adds New Connections to Surabaya from mid-Feb 2012
• Nok Air to Launch Bangkok Suvarnabhumi – Chiang Rai from late-Dec 2011
• Royal Air Maroc Begins Bissau Service
• Korean Air Revised Planned Los Angeles Operation in S12
• Transaero Resumes St. Petersburg – Tokyo Narita Service in Summer 2012
• El Al Israel Airlines to Increases Tel Aviv – Frankfurt Service in S12
• KLM S12 European Operation as of 16DEC11
• AerLingus Increasing Dublin – Europe Service in S12
• S7 Airlines to Launch Moscow – Valencia Route from June 2012
• Ukraine International Airlines to Launch Kiev – Munich from Late-May 2012
• REDJet Launches Barbados – St. Lucia Route
• Singapore Airlines Feb/Mar 2012 Service Reductions

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…