This week: AirAsia begins routes to Belitung; Volotea to station two A319s in Naples; Loganair to start Cornwall Newquay flights; SAS expands network with 14 new routes and more.
After several years of capacity declines, air traffic between South Africa and Nigeria is set to be boosted following the approval of new daily non-stop flights.
Ukraine’s government has laid out an action plan to grow the share of low-cost routes in the country and create conditions for a 60 percent increase in total passenger traffic over the next five years.
Slovenian flag carrier Adria Airways, which has filed for bankruptcy amid financial pressures, was this week scheduled to operate more than 350 flights across 21 routes.
Routesonline provides an update on the operations of the Airbus A380. We also reveal the network size of each operator and the top destinations served by the aircraft type.
Competition on services between Boston and London is set to further intensify from next March when American Airlines reinstates its route to Heathrow after a seven-year absence from its network.
Airlines want airports to understand their business models and demonstrate how to help them control costs, executives from airlines in three different countries have told airport delegates.
US carrier Delta Air Lines is to significantly strengthen its presence in Latin America as a result of its surprise deal to buy a 20 percent stake in LATAM Airlines Group.
Oman Air has put expansion plans on hold, preferring instead to consolidate its business. Senior vice-president network and alliances Manuel Esu explains why.
Armando Brunini, the chief executive of SEA Milan Airports, discusses the current challenges and opportunities facing Malpensa and Linate, as well as why the city is hosting World Routes 2020.
Andrea Tucci is the vice president aviation business development at SEA Milan Airports. The SEA Group manages Milan’s Malpensa and Linate airports, and will host World Routes in 2020.
Ivan Tan explains more about the ambitious growth plans for Singapore Changi Airport, the winner of the Over 50 Million Passengers category at the World Routes 2019 Awards.
Airlines and airports anticipate a huge change in city point connections enabled by new very-long range narrowbodies and widebodies, although some say they do not yet the data to validate these emerging markets.
Milan’s status at the heart of Lombardy - one of the most populated regions in Europe and the most prosperous in Italy - proved to be a key reason in EVA Air's decision to open a new route to the World Routes 2020 host.
Budapest Airport has been crowned the overall winner of the World Routes Awards. Other winners at the prestigious ceremony included Wilco Sweijen from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, who took home the Individual Leadership Award.
New generation aircraft types have dramatically expanded route and market prospects for airlines, and in the longer-term new technologies will pose more opportunities and challenges for operators, according to a panel of aviation industry experts at World Routes.
