Airports & Networks

Pluna Lineas Aereas Uruguayas will launch domestic services in Chile in the 2012 first quarter. The airline will operate flights between Santiago (SCL) and Antofagasta, Calama and Concepcion.

Lufthansa Adds Another Munich – London Flight German national carrier Lufthansa is to introduce an eighth daily flight between Munich and London

SAS Scandinavian Airlines is to add five new routes from Copenhagen Airport during summer 2012 as part of its recently announced summer network

RAK Airways will launch 2X-weekly Ras al-Khaimah service to Peshawar (Nov. 15) and Lahore (Nov. 12). Allegiant Air launched 2X-weekly Owensboro, Kan.-Las Vegas service. British Midland International launched 3X-weekly London-Amritsar Airbus A330-200 service. NordStar launched Krasnoyarsk Yemelyanovo Boeing 737 service to Samara (2X-weekly) and Rostov on Don (weekly).

Qatar Airways has announced plans to launch scheduled flights to Libya's second largest city of Benghazi on 1 November.

Afghanistan carrier Safi Airways is expected to announce a new route into Asia in the coming days after recently welcoming another Airbus A320 into

Velvet Sky Adds New Domestic Routes South African budget carrier Velvet Sky is to expand its network this winter with new links between Cape Town

US regional carrier Gulfstream International Airlines has announced plans to expand its network in The Bahamas with new daily links to Marsh Harbour

UK airports operator BAA has decided to sell Edinburgh airport (EDI) and keep Glasgow airport (GLA).

Frankfurt Airport (FRA) opened its €1.5 billion ($2.08 billion) fourth runway Friday when German chancellor Angela Merkel touched down onboard a government Airbus A319 on the new northwest runway.

With just six weeks remaining before the re-launch of direct flights between Bahrain and Uganda, Bahrain's national carrier Gulf Air hosted a dinner yesterday for Uganda's travel trade stakeholders and prominent travel agency representatives followed by a press conference at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel.

British Airways Adds to Nice Offering British Airways (BA) is to launch a three times daily service between London Gatwick and Nice from March 25

UK carrier easyJet has confirmed it will launch a link to Heraklion in Crete from London Luton Airport from April 21, 2012, adding to its existing UK

FlyNiki will launch 3X-weekly Vienna-Tel Aviv A321 service in February 2012. Qantas will increase 4X-weekly Sydney-Dallas/Ft. Worth service to 6X-weekly Jan. 15 and to daily July 1. Frontier Airlines will operate 4X-weekly Kansas City-Orlando Embraer 190 service Jan. 5-April 15, becoming 6X-weekly Feb. 23. It will discontinue Milwaukee-Pittsburgh service Jan. 4.

Ryanair (FR) will open a base at Wroclaw Airport (WRO) in March 2012, initially with one Boeing 737-800 and six new routes, bringing its network from the airport to 21 destinations.

Lufthansa Cargo (LHC) said the German regional court ruling halting night flights from its Frankfurt Airport (FRA) cargo hub would cost the carrier “double digit million of euros” in rescheduled flights and lost customers.

German carrier airberlin has announced that it will introduce a three times weekly link between Berlin and Los Angeles. The route will launch from

Jetstar Asia, the Singapore-based operation of Australian carrier Jetstar Airways, is continuing its rapid growth in China with confirmation that it

Lufthansa is to launch its first flights to Asia from its Düsseldorf hub, building on the long-haul links it already provides from the North Rhine

Emirates Airline has unveiled major expansion plans for Pakistan with the launch of additional flights to Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar. Allama Iqbal

Lufthansa Cargo has hit out at the temporary ban on night flights at Frankfurt Airport that will be introduced from October 30. This surprising late

Virgin Australia has launched launched commercial services with the first of its new ATR 72-500s. The inaugural flight of Virgin Australia’s first

World Routes in Berlin was just three short weeks ago but now is the time for the route development community to begin planning for 2012! The Routes

This year's World Routes saw the launch of the new World Route Development Strategy Summit, which brought together previous conference elements in to

RwandAir to Enhance Connectivity with Second 737-800 RwandAir has confirmed it will take delivery of its second Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 on