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.

02 May 2012
JetStar Pacific Jun / Sep 2012 Operation Changes
Jet2 to Start Manchester – Grenoble Winter Service from Dec 2012
Jet2 to Start 3 New Routes from May 2013
QATAR Airways Increasing Abu Dhabi / Kuwait Service from June 2012
QATAR Airways Increasing Paris CDG Service from Dec 2012
Drukair Opens Reservation for New Service to Mumbai and Singapore
Emirates to Start JetBlue Codeshare Partnership from mid-May 2012
Anadolujet Cancels Ankara – London Stansted Route
Cathay Pacific Reducing Rome Service Aug – Oct 2012
Caribbean Airlines Revising Planned London Operation from June 2012
Skymark Airlines Adds New Domestic Summer Seasonal Service Jul – Sep 2012
Garuda Indonesia Reducing Ujung Padang – Singapore Service
Mongolian Airlines Launches A319 Service on Domestic Mongolia Routes
Mongolian Airlines Launches International Service
Korean Air Plans 777-300ER Service to Ho Chi Minh in Oct 2012
Cathay Pacific Adds Capacity to Mumbai in May/June 2012

01 May 2012
British Airways Reducing Hong Kong Service in May 2012
TransAsia Airways Plans Hualien – Wuhan Service from May 2012
Korean Air Resumes Kota Kinabalu Service in S12
QATAR Airways Plans Yangon Service Resumption from Oct 2012
Singapore Airlines to Reduce Ahmedabad Service June – Oct 2012
ASIANA AIRLINES Adds 4 New Seasonal China Scheduled Charter Routes
Transaero Planned W12 US Operation as of 01MAY12
Turkish Airlines S12 Guangzhou Schedule Variation
Edelweiss Air Cancels Sri Lanka Service; Maldives Operation Adjustment in W12
Edelweiss Air Converts Zurich – Tampa Service to Year-Round Flight
THAI Smile Plans 5th Daily Bangkok – Krabi Service in W12
RusLine Launches New Domestic Route to Kogalym and Grozny
Wizz Air to Start Debrecen – Eindhoven / Milan Service from Dec 2012
Emirates Starts 777-300ER Service to Dublin; Operation Changes as of 01MAY12
Emirates Boosts Saudi Arabia Service from June 2012

30 Apr 2012
Route Profile: 40 Years of Korean Air Trans-Pacific Flights
JAL Summer 2012 Alaska & Vancouver Charter Service
Vietnam Airlines Changes to London Operation in S12
SE Air to Start Clark – Kalibo Service
Turku Air Starts Turku – Tallinn Service
American Airlines to End Dallas – Barbados Service from late-Aug 2012
Royal Jordanian Suspends Nairobi Service May – Oct 2012
ANA Boeing 787 Domestic Japan Operation July – Sep 2012
Bangkok Airways to Add 3rd Daily Bangkok – Yangon Service in W12
Yakutia to Start Moscow – Komsomolsk Na Amure from June 2012
DELTA Suspends Athens Service in W12
Correction to UT Air Post on 24APR12 – UT Air to Increase Nizhniy Novgorod – Ufa Service
Tunis Air Expands Tripoli Operation from May 2012
TAP Portugal to Cancel Sao Paulo Viracopos/Campinas from late-Oct 2012
Jet Airways to Launch 4th Daily Mumbai – Dubai Service from late-May 2012
Gulf Air Airbus A321 Operation as of 30APR12

29 Apr 2012
Lufthansa Boeing 747-8I Schedule & Configuration

27 Apr 2012
Mandarin Airlines Increasing Taichung – Ho Chi Minh City Service in Jul/Aug 2012
KLM Plans to Expand Codeshare Service with DELTA
Tibet Airlines to Start Lhasa – Bangda Service from May 2012
Finnair W12 Scheduled Leisure Flight Operation as of 27APR12
Astra Airlines Expands Greek Domestic Service from May 2012
Aegean Airlines Postpones Tbilisi Service Launch till June 201Cathay Pacific Temporary Reducing London Service in May/June 2012
Turkish Airlines to Increase Dhaka & New York JFK Service in W12
Air Botswana to Start Maun – Cape Town Service from June 2012
Singapore Airlines Moves Forward 777-300ER Service to Amsterdam
JAL to Cancel Tokyo Narita – Osaka Kansai Service from July 2012
DrukAir Starts Domestic Bhutan Service
DELTA Suspends 2 US – Italy Routes in W12
Jet Airways to Add 2nd Daily Kolkata – Bangkok Service from May 2012
Jet Airways to Eliminate 3 International Routes May/June 2012
AIRFRANCE to Start Lyon – Budapest from mid-June 2012

26 Apr 2012
Volaris to Offer Mexico City – Oakland Service from July 2012
LACSA to Start Brasilia Service from June 2012
AIRFRANCE to Increase Cancun Service in W12
THAI Revises Planned Sapporo Operation in W12
China Eastern Plans Paris CDG Service Increase in W12
Air Vanuatu to Increase Port Vila – Nadi Capacity from Nov 2012
DrukAir to Start Mumbai Service from mid-May 2012
Hainan Airlines to Start Dalian / Hefei – Bangkok Service from July 2012
Precision Air to Add 4 New Destinations from May 2012
BIMAN FY2012 New Route/Aircraft Delivery Plan
China Southern / DELTA Seeks DoT Approval for Codeshare Expansion
Lufthansa to Start Munich – Rotterdam Service from Oct 2012
Condor Postpones 2nd Weekly Panama City Service till Oct 2012
ETIHAD to Launch 3-Class 777-300ER Service to London from July 2012
Air Astana to Start Astana – Tashkent Service from May 2012
Jin Air to Start Jeju – Taipei Taoyuan from June 2012
OLT Express Poland to Launch 5th Base in Bydgoszcz in W12

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…