The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.
Oct. 12
VietJet has launched flights linking Hanoi and Prague via Almaty, Kazakhstan, marking the Vietnamese LCC’s entry into the European Union. The inaugural services operated on Oct. 10, three months later than originally planned. The route operates 2X-weekly on Tuesdays and Saturdays using Airbus A330 aircraft, with Vietjet exercising fifth-freedom rights on the Almaty-Prague sector. The launch establishes the first scheduled nonstop links between Vietnam and the Czech Republic, and between Almaty and Prague. Sabre Market Intelligence data shows that approximately 89,300 two-way O&D passengers traveled between Vietnam and the Czech Republic in 2025, with Hanoi-Prague accounting for about 72% of the market.
Ryanair has put 29 new routes on sale as the first additions to its summer 2027 schedule, which is expected to comprise more than 2,500 routes across 230 destinations. The additions include eleven UK routes: Birmingham-Wroclaw, Bournemouth-Porto, East Midlands-Gdansk, Exeter-Porto, Newcastle-Reus, Newcastle-Rhodes and Norwich-Malaga, alongside Leeds Bradford-Bari, Budapest, Corfu and Tirana. Elsewhere, new services include Alicante-Naples and Tangier, Athens-Turin, Dubrovnik-Warsaw Modlin, Krakow-Tangier, Palermo-Marrakech and Tirana, and Tangier-Turin. Ryanair says further summer 2027 routes will be announced later.
The U.S. Transportation Department has selected SkyWest Airlines to provide Essential Air Service at Bradford, Pennsylvania, under a four-year contract beginning Feb. 1, 2027. SkyWest will operate 12X-weekly round trips between Bradford Regional Airport and Washington Dulles using 50-seat Bombardier CRJ200 aircraft. The contract runs through Jan. 31, 2031, with annual subsidies rising from $5.85 million in the first year to $6.39 million in the fourth. Southern Airways Express will continue operating Bradford services to Pittsburgh and Washington Dulles until Jan. 31, 2027, or until SkyWest begins service.
Air Arabia will launch 4X-weekly nonstop service between Sharjah and Amman City Airport on Nov. 15, expanding its network between the UAE and Jordan. The new route will give Air Arabia two destinations in the Jordanian capital from Sharjah, complementing its existing flights to Queen Alia International Airport.
Indian LCC IndiGo will launch daily nonstop flights to Udaipur from both Noida International Airport and Navi Mumbai International Airport, expanding its domestic network in India. Noida-Udaipur service will begin Oct. 25, followed by Navi Mumbai-Udaipur on Nov. 15. The additions will take IndiGo’s Udaipur network to seven destinations, alongside Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur and Mumbai.
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