Routes

By Richard Maslen
Airline Route Update is a comprehensive summary of route announcements, capacity increases and codeshare details from this past week. For further
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By Richard Maslen
On a visit to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, in the United States you are met with the stunning sight of a Boeing 747
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Middle East carrier Gulf Air is to inaugurate flights from the Kingdom of Bahrain to Copenhagen and Nairobi this summer, bringing its new route count
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Bristol Airport and low-cost carrier easyJet have celebrated the handling of the airline’s 25 millionth passenger from the UK facility. The milestone
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UK low-cost carrier bmibaby is to cease its operations from Cardiff and Manchester airports this winter and will instead focus on developing its
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US carrier Delta Air Lines is to close its New York JFK – Amman route from June 1. The four times weekly service is one of a number of underperforming
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Privately-owned Zambian carrier Zambezi Airlines is to inaugurate flights between Lusaka and Cape Town from June 30. The three times weekly link will
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Kenya Airways has introduced the Boeing 737-700 on its flights between Nairobi and Rome, the first time it has regularly used the narrowbodied
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LANPeru is to suspend flights to the Colombian northern coastal city of Cartagena later this month. The airline currently offers two flights per week
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Singapore Airlines has confirmed that it will reduce capacity between Singapore Changi and Los Angeles for a three month period this summer, but could
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BA CityFlyer, the wholly-owned subsidiary of British Airways (BA), that operates the airline’s flights from London City Airport, will boost capacity
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Japanese low-cost carrier Skymark Airlines is to open a new base at Tokyo Nartia launching eight daily flights to four destinations from late 2011 /
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The return of an Airbus A330-200 following its lease to Turkish Airlines (THY) will enable bmi British Midland International to upgrade its flights to
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Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) is planning to add a fourth weekly flight to New York from June 1 but it has yet to open the additional rotation
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LOT Polish Airlines took delivery of its first Embraer 195 last week and plans to introduce the type into service on a number of its European routes
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American Airlines inaugurated its new non-stop service between Budapest and New York JFK last week. As part of the celebrations, American’s Boeing 767
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South Korean low-cost carrier Jeju Air is to introduce flights between Jeju and Osaka Kansai from this summer, its fifth route into Japan. It
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Venezuelan carrier Conviasa is to introduce a Caracas – Bogota service from the end of this month, providing competition to Avianca on the route. The
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Jordanian charter carrier Royal Falcon is to expand its network from Amman with additional flights to Stockholm and Najaf. The airline operates from
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Independent Bangladeshi carrier GMG Airlines is to suspend its flights between Dhaka and Abu Dhabi and will instead focus on serving Dubai
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Irish regional carrier Aer Arann has confirmed that it will suspend three of its domestic routes from July after a state subsidy supporting these
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Low-cost carrier AirAsia is to take over responsibility for flights between Kota Kinabalu and Jakarta from its Indonesian division. The flight is
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LANChile is to suspend flights to Paris CDG from its Santiago base this summer and will instead consolidate its European activities on the Madrid
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Xiamen Airlines is to inaugurate a twice weekly service between Fuzhou and Macau from April 16. The flight will operate every Tuesday and Saturday and
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Air France has confirmed that it will use an Airbus A380 on a daily service between Paris CDG and San Francisco between June 6 and September 4. The
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