Airports & Networks

UK low-cost carrier easyJet is to base a single Airbus A320 at Newcastle International Airport this summer providing an additional 13,000 seats to

Qatar Airways will reduce 14X-weekly Doha-Manchester service to 10X-weekly March 26. Emirates will add a second daily service on its Dubai-Glasgow Airbus A340-300 route June 1 and will introduce a first-class cabin on both flights.

Delta Air Lines (DL) and WestJet (WS) said Tuesday they will expand their cooperation agreement with increased codesharing starting with Jan. 23 flights.

Etihad Airways operated its maiden flight from Abu Dhabi to Tripoli today - the airline's first new destination of 2012.

Low-cost, long-haul carrier AirAsia X has confirmed it will launch daily flights between Kuala Lumpur International Airport and Sydney’s Kingsford

Slovenian national carrier Adria Airways is to launch a new route between Priština and the Italian city of Verona as part of its revised 2012 schedule

Canadian carrier WestJet has confirmed that it is considering the launch of a new short-haul, regional airline as early as 2013 using a fleet of

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Qantas have expanded their Airbus A380 networks during the past couple of days as the arrival of additional aircraft have

Virgin Australia has announced it will introduce the Airbus A330 into its domestic schedules at Melbourne from May this year as it expands its Coast

Aeroflot Russian Airlines is to introduce a 13th daily rotation between Moscow and St Petersburg, the busiest domestic route within the Russian

Russian and Spanish civil aviation authorities have agreed to add more frequencies on Barcelona (BCN)–Moscow and Alicante (ALC)–Moscow routes. According to letters published on a Russian Ministry of Transport website, the carriers of each country will be able to operate 42 flights per week between Moscow and BCN and 14 flights on Moscow–ALC route.

Peach Aviation, Japan’s newest low-cost carrier (LCC), announced Thursday that five new routes—Osaka Kansai (KIX) to Nagasaki (NGS), Kagoshima (KOJ), Okinawa Naha (OKA), Hong Kong (HKG) and Taiwan Taoyuan (TEP)—will be available during its 2012 summer schedule.

German carrier airberlin inaugurated its new link between Berlin and Abu Dhabi on January 15, 2012 as the first phase of its new co-operation with

Hawaiian Airlines is expanding its operations to create a Maui hub that will offer improved connections between The Valley Isle and other points

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC), in cooperation with Etihad Airways, welcomed this morning the first airberlin flight to Abu Dhabi International Airport.

Bahrain Air is to resume flights to Kuwait next week after suspending operations to its GCC partner during the Arab Spring uprisings.

Canadian regional carrier Porter Airlines has confirmed its schedule for its new route between Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport and Washington Dulles

American Eagle Airlines, the regional affiliate of American Airlines, has confirmed that it will switch all of its flights currently operating from

African carrier RwandAir is in discussions to acquire at least two new regional aircraft after recently finalising the sale of its two Bombardier

Russian scheduled freight carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines has inaugurated flights to Shuangliu International Airport in the western Chinese city of

US low-cost carrier Southwest Airlines has confirmed it will inaugurate a daily service between Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and

All Nippon Airways (ANA) plans to launch Tokyo Narita-San Jose Mineta Boeing 787 service in fiscal year 2012-2013. Porter Airlines will launch 3X-daily Toronto City-Washington Dulles service April 16. Southwest Airlines will launch daily Atlanta-Los Angeles service June 10. JetBlue Airlines launched daily Hartford, Conn.-West Palm Beach, Fla. service.

Lufthansa (LH), the largest foreign carrier in Russia, will transfer its Dusseldorf (DUS) and Hamburg (HAM) flights from Moscow Domodedovo (DME) to Moscow Vnukovo (VKO) beginning June 3, according to a VKO statement. In November 2011, LH revealed plans to add VKO to its network ( ATW Daily News, Nov. 23). From March 25, LH will operate two out of six scheduled daily flights from Frankfurt (FRA), and from June 3 it will add 12 flights per week from Berlin.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Scandinavian Airlines have agreed to boost air services between Singapore and destinations in Scandinavia - including the

Start-up Japanese low-cost carrier Peach Aviation has announced it will introduce services on five additional routes during the Northern Summer