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.

05 Jan 2012
• Malaysia Airlines Revises A380 Operation to London due July 2012 & Configuration Change
• Blue1 S12 Operation Changes Update 3 as of 05JAN12
• Cathay Pacific S12 Planned NEW 777-300ER Configuration Operation as of 05JAN12
• Cathay Pacific to Launch 4-class Boeing 777-300ER from Sep 2012
• Cathay Pacific 777-300ER to London Heathrow with New Business Class in S12
• Malaysia Airlines to Increase Beijing & Taipei Service in S12
• Caribbean Airlines Plans to Resume Port of Spain – St. Lucia from late-Jan 2012
• Emirates Plans Capacity Increase to Tunis from Dec 2012
• AEROFLOT Postpones Planned Ashgabat & Samarkand Launch to Feb 2012
• China Eastern Shanghai – Singapore Aircraft Changes from Jan 2012
• flydubai to Start Dubai – Taif Service from Feb 2012
• China Southern Plans International Service Increase from Urumqi in S12
• Beijing Capital Airlines to Start service to Arxan in China’s Inner-Mongolia Region
• US Airways to Start Washington Reagan – Ottawa Service from late-Mar 2012
• Saudi Arabian Airlines Revision to Initial 777-300ER Operation as of 05JAN12
• QATAR Airways Plans A330 Service to Shiraz, Iran from Nov 2012

04 Jan 2012
• Emirates Plans to Resume Vietnam Serivce from June 2012
• airberlin Singapore Charter Service Jan 2012
• airgreenland to Lease Boeing 737-300 for Summer 2012 Peak Season Operation
• Air Europa Shelves Madrid – Cartagena July 2012 Service Launch
• UT Air Increasing Capacity on Moscow – Kurgan Service from Jan 2012
• DELTA Cancels Los Angeles – Denver Launch due June 2012
• Air Mauritius Converts Shanghai Service to NONSTOP from late-Mar 2012
• UNI Air Adds 3rd Weekly Kaohsiung – Ho Chi Minh from Mar 2012
• DELTA to Start Atlanta – Port au Prince Service from Apr 2012
• SWISS Chicago Jul/Aug 2012 Operational Aircraft Change
• SkyWork Increases Croatia Service in S12
• airberlin to Start Frankfurt – Channel Islands Service in S12
• TAAG Angola Adds 3rd weekly Porto Service Jan – Mar 2012
• EGYPTAIR Reduces New York Service Jan – Apr 2012
• Berlin Airports Operation 02JUN12/03JUN12
• AVIANCA to Start Bogota – Florencia from late-Jan 2012
• Cyprus Airways Adds New Nonstop Greek Islands Service Jul – Sep 2012
• Emirates Keeps A330 Service to Dublin in Oct 2012 – Jan 2013 as of 03JAN12

03 Jan 2012
• China Airlines Plans to Increase Nagoya Service in S12
• Croatia Airlines S12 Operation Changes as of 03JAN12
• Mandarin Airlines to Start Taichung – Seoul Incheon from Apr 2012
• Spanair S12 Barcelona – Europe Operation Changes as of 03JAN12
• Aegean Airlines Cancels Berlin Tegel Service from Jan 2012
• PLUNA to Start Domestic Chile Flights with Santiago – Concepcion late-Feb 2012
• EGYPTAIR S12 Operation Changes as of 03JAN12
• T’Way Airlines Starts Seoul Incheon – Siem Reap Service
• Solomon Airlines to Resume Fiji and Papua New Guinea Service from late-Mar 2012
• Ethiopian Airlines Adds 3rd Daily Dubai Service in Jan/Feb 2012
• UNITED Extends Los Angeles – Vancouver Service Reductions into Summer 2012
• American Airlines Cancels Chicago – Calgary Service from Feb 2012
• Ural Airlines to Start Omsk – Dushanbe Service in Mar 2012
• AirNorth One-time Whitehorse – Las Vegas Service in Jan 2012
• Canadian North to Offer Arctic Bay – Igloolik & Pond Inlet Easter Service in Apr 2012
• China Eastern Extra International Service for Chinese New Year 2012

02 Jan 2012
• Ethiopian Airlines Extra Kuwait & Riyadh Service in Jan 2012
• airtransat Maintains Porto & Shannon Service in S12
• S7 Airlines S12 Operation Changes as of 02JAN12
• LOT Polish Airlines Increasing Donetsk & Nice Service in S12
• Austrian S12 European Operation Changes as of 02JAN12
• QATAR Airways W12 Operation Changes as of 02JAN12
• Emirates Splits Addis Ababa / Entebbe Operation in S12
• Anadolujet to Start Airbus A320 Operation from late-Mar 2012
• Turkish Airlines to Launch Novosibirsk Service from late-Mar 2012
• Turkish Airlines Moves Moscow Operation to Vnukovo in S12
• US Airways to Start New Domestic Connections from Charlotte and Philadelphia in S12
• US Airways Expands Washington Reagan Operation from late-Mar 2012
• DELTA Gradually Reduces Washington Reagan Operation from Jan 2012
• ADRIA to Resume London Gatwick Service in S12
• Finnair S12 European Operation Changes as of 02JAN12

30 Dec 2011
• China Eastern to Operate 3 Shanghai – Cairns Round-trip Service in Jan 2012
• Stop Press 30DEC11 – China Routes Update
• UT Air Begins Boeing 737 Service on Moscow – Bratislava Route
• UT Air to Start 2 New Domestic Routes from St. Petersburg in Jan 2012
• Aerosvit S12 Operation Changes as of 30DEC11
• Iceland Express S12 Operation Changes
• Oman Air Adjusts Zurich Operation Jan – Mar 2012
• Lufthansa Ends Dusseldorf – Athens Service from late-Jan 2012
• Alitalia Increasing Rome – Moscow Service in S12
• Ural Airlines Begins Nizhniy Novgorod – Namagan Service
• Air China Begins Service to Bayannaoer in Inner-Mongolia
• ASIANA AIRLINES/Shandong Airlines to Start Codeshare Service from Jan 2012

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…