Airports & Networks

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

New European start-up carrier Volotea Airlines today announced the third stage of its planned operation for the Summer 2012 season. The latest

Air Moldova in Summer 2012 season is introducing service to Dublin, where it’ll operate 1 weekly Chisinau – Frankfurt – Dublin from 19JUN12 to 04SEP12

Taiwan-based Mandarin Airlines plans to start Taipei Taoyuan - Ishigaki service starting 16MAY12, according to the airline's inhouse reservation

For the first time in recent years, Air Madagascar is to increase service to Asia, with the introduction of 3rd weekly flight on Antananarivo -

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines from 06JUL12 to 16SEP12 is boosting service on Amsterdam - Washington Dulles route, where it'll raise overall frequencies

Emirates Airline’s (EK) dedicated Airbus A380 terminal at Dubai International (DXB) will open Jan. 1, 2013, Executive VP-passenger sales Thierry Antinori confirmed to ATW.

Aer Lingus (EI) sees an opportunity in Lufthansa’s divestment of British Midland International (bmi) to expand its slot portfolio at London Heathrow [LHR], EI CEO Christoph Mueller told ATW.

Dubai International's monthly passenger traffic surpassed the 4.5 million mark for the second consecutive month this year while freight volumes witnessed an upturn after months of flat growth, according to the monthly traffic report for February issued by Dubai Airports.

Cayman Airways from 31MAY12 to 03SEP12 will offer seasonal link between Grand Cayman and Panama City, becoming the airline's second destination in

euroLOT has outlined its service expansion plan, which sees the carrier operating service to outside of Poland under its own brand. The airline plans

ANA has announced that it will be operating Boeing 787 aircraft on Tokyo Haneda - Kumamoto once a day, starting 01JUN12. Kumamoto is the 9th

Turkish Airlines in the GDS has revealed that it'll be starting service to Kigali and Abidjan in Summer 2012 season. The Star Alliance member starting

Indonesian low-cost carrier Mandala Airlines is relaunching operation from April 2012, after Tiger Airways invested in the airline in January 2012

Bolivia state-owned Boliviana de Aviación (BoA) announced that passenger traffic grew 30.5% in 2011, up to 966,400 boarding passengers.

Qatar Airways has further expanded operations in Africa with the launch of daily scheduled flights to Rwanda.

African carrier Ethiopian Airlines is to inaugurate flights to Cotonou, the economic capital of Benin, as it further expands its network in West

Russian regional carrier Rusline in Summer 2012 is introducing a total of 5 new international routes, covering Asia and Europe. Details as follows

Philippine Airlines in the GDS has revealed its plan to restarts international service from Kalibo, outskirt of the renowned resort of Boracay. From

Saudi Arabian Airlines in Summer 2012 season, effective 25MAR12, is strengthening its operation to the US, where it'll offer a total of 12 weekly

Based on latest GDS inventory and seat map update*, Star Alliance member Thai Airways International is to introduce new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft on

Aegean Airlines launched 4X-weekly Athens-Budapest Airbus A320 service March 9. Allegiant Air will launch 2X-weekly Hagerstown, Md.-Orlando Sanford service May 25. Starflyer will launch 2X-daily Kitakyushsu-Busan A320 service July 12. Kenya Airways will launch 4X-weekly Nairobi-New Delhi 767-300 service May 15. Silver Airways will launch 10X-weekly Billings-Helena service May 1.

KLM and Ukraine International Airlines are increasing capacity between Amsterdam and Kiev and expanding their codeshare agreement, partly in response to an anticipated rise in demand owing to the upcoming 2012 UEFA European Football Championship in Ukraine.

Plans for Saudi Arabia to open up its skies to foreign and new carriers to operate domestic and international services took another step forward this week as the country's civil aviation authority GACA, confirmed 14 applications had been received by the deadline day.

Skyteam member Air Europa in this summer will offer twice weekly nonstop service on Barcelona - Santo Domingo route, on board Airbus A330-200 aircraft