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easyJet, the UK's largest airline, has today announced that it will begin operating its first flight from Leeds Bradford International Airport on 17

easyJet has today announced that it is to operate a further three new routes from Liverpool John Lennon Airport (JLA) as a further sign of its

Ryanair announced its first services to Tallinn last week with seven new routes into the Estonian capital. The Hub analyses the battle taking place in

Oneworld member Iberia has announced that it will add new scheduled services in February with the addition of routes to Fortaleza and Recife. Can

Scandinavia's leading low-cost airline, Norwegian, opened its fourth capital city base in Scandinavia, with the news that it will establish a base in

Allegiant Air is starting a number of routes in October and November 2010. Details below: eff 07OCT10 2 weekly Las Vegas - Puebloeff 08OCT10 2 weekly

Estonian Air from 18DEC10 is introducing Saturdays-only Vilnius - Milan Malpensa service with Boeing 737-500 aircraft, a route vacated by the defunct

QATAR AIRWAYS HEADS TO STUTTGART Qatar Airways has announced that it will open new scheduled services from its Doha base to Stuttgart, Germany. The

SKYTEAM MEMBER BOOSTS HANEDA FLIGHTS SkyTeam member, Korean Air has announced that it will add a third daily service from its Seoul Gimpo base to

ONEWORLD TRANSATLANTIC VENTURE LEADS TO AMERICAN AIRLINES ROUTES Oneworld members American Airlines, British Airways and Iberia will launch new

Oneworld member American Airlines, will launch new transatlantic routes next year as part of their transatlantic joint venture. American Airlines will

Gabon Airlines this month is introducing 3 new Regional destinations (Sao Tome, Douala and Malabo), as well as New domestic destination in Franceville

China Airlines in Winter 2010 season is increasing Taipei Taoyuan - Beijing service from 5 weekly to Daily. The flight increase begins this week and

Transasia Airways in October 2010 is to increase service to Changsha, Fuzhou and Xiamen. Note these planned flight increase are subject to Government

Norwegian Air Shuttle will open a base at Helsinki Vantaa with three aircraft, and launch two domestic and 11 new international routes to Copenhagen, Malaga, Nice, Chania, Rome, Barcelona, London Gatwick, Split and Alicante next summer. Domestic routes will begin March 31, 2011, whereas international routes will start in early-to mid-May. The four-times-daily HEL–Ouluand flights and daily HEL–Rovaniemi flights are the LCC’s first domestic services in Finland. The airline currently has domestic operations in Norway, Sweden and Denmark.

Australia's Jetstar will significantly increase its New Zealand domestic services by adding 39 weekly flights between Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Queenstown in February 2011. The airline said it will add two A320s in New Zealand to facilitate the flights, which will expand its weekly services within NZ to 119, giving it a market share of around 20%.

Louisville, KY (October 5, 2010)-Vision Airlines today announced that it will begin lowfare,nonstop air service between Louisville International

Qatar Airways has announced that it will open new scheduled services from its Doha base to Stuttgart, Germany. The route will begin March 9th and will

Greater Toronto Airports Authority late last month approved reductions Australian Competition and Consumer Commission rejected an application Development and Construction Contracts and Services

Continental Airlines and United Airlines, which legally merged under a single holding company on Oct. 1, reached an agreement...

The European Continuous Descent Approach Action Plan to bring CDA to 100 airports by 2013 is on track, with CDA in place at 33 airports and a further 13 carrying out flight trials, said Eurocontrol Environment Manager Andrew Watt. Speaking to the Air Transport Action Group Aviation & Environment Summit in Geneva in September, Watt said a total of 83 airports across 25 European states have committed to implement CDA. The initiative was launched at last year's summit by Eurocontrol, ACI-Europe, Civil Air Navigation Services Organization, IATA and ERA.

British airports operator BAA concluded an agreement to sell its interest in Naples International...

Italy reportedly is abandoning the use of full-body scanners for security checks at airports...

British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell opened the World Route Development Forum in Vancouver last month by proposing to eliminate the province's aviation fuel tax of C$0.02 per liter for international and transborder flights.

St. Vincent and the Grenadines, comprising a string of 32 islands in the southern Caribbean, is investing $240 million in a new international airport that it hopes will be "a game-changer" driving a major increase in air traffic to the tropical destination.