Airline Route Update

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

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

18 Apr 2012
• Route Trivia: Garuda Indonesia Auckland Operation 1988 – 2006
• Astra Airlines to Start Thessaloniki – Munich & Nuremberg Service
• Shenzhen Airlines to Resume Nanning – Taipei from late-May 2012
• Ethiopian Airlines Temporary Reducing Beijing Service till May 2012
• KLM Cancels Tripoli Service Resumption
• Korean Air Reduces Capacity on Jeju – Tokyo Narita Service Sep/Oct 2012
• Allegiant Air to Start Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Service from late-June 2012
• China Airlines Further Increasing Yangon Service from Sep 2012
• flybe/Loganair Replacing bmi Regional on Glasgow – Leeds from May 2012
• TAP Portugal NW12 Mozambique Operation Changes
• TAP Portugal to Suspend Athens Service in W12
• Turkish Airlines Expands Domestic Flights from Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen
• RusLine to Start Moscow – Izhevsk & Orsk Service
• Meridianafly to Start Seasonal Olbia – Hamburg Service June – Sep 2012
• JAL to Start Codeshare Service with JetBlue

17 Apr 2012
• Aigle Azur Expands Africa Operation in S12
• TAP Portugal to Start Bucharest Service from late-June 2012
• Tunisia’s Syphax Airlines Starts Operation late-Apr 2012
• Austrian / germanwings Begins Codeshare Service
• EVA Air Increasing Taipei Taoyuan – Hong Kong Service from June 2012
• JetStar Japan Launches Operation from 03JUL12: Operational Network
• T’Way Airlines Increasing Bangkok Service in April 2012
• Route Profile: China Eastern’s Beijing Long-Haul Routes
• China Airlines Extra Charter Flights to Guam in Jul/Aug 2012
• Ural Airlines Starts St. Petersburg – Yerevan Service
• Mihin Lanka to Increase Dhaka Service from May to July 2012
• Air Nigeria Resumes London Gatwick Service from May 2012
• QATAR Airways Continues A330 Service to Hong Kong in Sep/Oct 2012
• EVA Air Increasing Capacity to Sapporo May – July 2012
• SpiceJet to Start Calicut Service from late-April 2012
• brussels airlines to Suspend Service to 6 Cities in W12
• Frontier Airlines Operation Changes at Houston from July 2012
• KLM Cancels Abuja & Kano Service from June 2012

16 Apr 2012
• Air New Zealand Adds 3rd Weekly Rotorua – Sydney Service Dec 12/Jan 13
• Aerolineas Argentinas Re-Expands Buenos Aires Ezeiza Operation from July 2012
• UT Air Starts Moscow – Yoshkar-Ola Service
• UNITED Resumes Washington – Ft. Lauderdale Service from Nov 2012
• Singapore Airlines to Operate Commemorative A380 Flights to Osaka in Aug 2012
• Vietnam Airlines to Increase Capacity on Hanoi – Guangzhou Service from Sep 2012
• Route Profile: Chengdu’s International Route Operations
• IBERIA Expands British Airways Codeshare Service to India
• Yakutia Starts Moscow – Tiksi Service
• Cathay Pacific Cargo Starts Zhengzhou Service
• Go Air Ends 3 Domestic India Routes from May 2012
• Saudi Airlines Cargo S12 Service Expansions
• Saudia Starts 777-300ER Service to London Heathrow
• Sichuan Airlines Starts Chengdu – Phuket Charter Service for Summer 2012
• firefly Starts Charter Service to Nanning
• JetStar Asia Launches Nanning Service

13 Apr 2012
• Zest Air to Start Manila – Jinjiang Service from late-Apr 2012
• airberlin to Start Berlin – Kaliningrad Service from June 2012
• American Airlines Shelves Los Angeles – Eureka Service Launch due June 2012
• China Southern Reducing Melbourne Service June – Oct 2012
• Edelweiss Maintains Funchal Service in W12
• China Airlines to Increase Myanmar Service from mid-May 2012
• Vietjetair Plans Ho Chi Minh – Hai Phong Service from Sep 2012
• Afriqiyah Airways to Resume Rome Service from mid-Apr 2012
• Uzbekistan Airways S12 Tokyo Narita Operation Changes as of 13APR12
• EVA Air Boosting Nagoya Capacity Apr – Oct 2012
• Transaero Moscow – Bangkok S12 Operation Changes as of 13APR12
• ASIANA AIRLINES Increasing Hiroshima Service from July 2012
• Yamal Airlines Starts Ukraine Service in S12
• Air China Temporary Service Reductions to Mumbai in May/June 2012
• Citilink Plans Domestic Service Increase from July 2012

12 Apr 2012
• China Eastern to Start Xi’An – Seoul Incheon Service from late-Apr 2012
• Bahrain Air to Start International Service from Saudi Arabia from June 2012
• Air Namibia to Start Ondjiva, Angola Service from May 2012
• Volaris to Start Tijuana – Colima Service from late-May 2012
• SpiceJet to Launch Nanded & Port Blair Service
• GoAir to Start 3 New Routes from Chennai from May 2012
• LANChile Changes to Bogota Operation from late-Aug 2012
• Aegean Airlines to Start Athens – Skiros; PSO Route Changes from May 2012
• Virgin America Adds 2nd Daily San Francisco – Portland OR Service Jun – Aug 2012
• Jetairfly to Offer Summer Service to Thailand July – Oct 2012
• Aerolineas Argentinas Increasing Bogota Service from July 2012
• UNITED to Start San Francisco – Raleigh Service from Aug 2012
• AirAsia Japan to Start Operation from Aug 2012: Routes/Schedules Details

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…