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American Airlines on Friday filed an application with the US Dept. of Transportation for authority to launch Los Angeles-Shanghai Pudong service from April 5, 2011. "These new flights would be the only nonstops between Los Angeles and Shanghai operated by a US airline," AA Senior VP-Government Affairs Will Ris said. "Los Angeles-Shanghai is the largest US-China market for air travel and we believe it is in the public's interest to offer more air service between the two cities."

Korean Air's low-cost subsidiary Jin Air has revealed that it will add two more international gateways this winter. Effective October 26th, Jin Air

Star Alliance member, Asiana, will increase existing scheduled services from its Seoul Incheon base to Cebu and Manila in the Philippines. From

Allegiant Air will begin new non-stop services from its Las Vegas base to Bakersfield, California, beginning November 17th. The route will be operated

Icelandair has expanded codeshare service with Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air. In addition to existing codeshare service to Las Vegas, Los Angeles

Air France has announced an expansion of its scheduled services into Africa for summer 2011. The SkyTeam carrier will add services to Tripoli, Libya

Ukranian national carrier, Aerosvit will launch a 4x weekly service to Krakow from its Kiev hub from November 1st. The route will be operated with

From 01NOV10, ASIANA AIRLINES increases Seoul Incheon - Guangzhou service from 7 to 10 weekly. Per 01OCT10 GDS timetable display, extra 3 weekly

Cathay Pacific and WestJet starting 20OCT10 begins codeshare operation. This is the first major codeshare deal for WestJet being implemented. The

Japan Airlines and Qantas Airways expanded their codeshare agreement to allow JAL to place its code on QF's twice-daily Singapore Changi-Brisbane service from Oct. 1. JAL is suspending its own Tokyo Narita-Brisbane service Sept. 30 after 22 years of operating the route.

Kingfisher Airlines Chairman and MD Vijay Mallya announced Thursday that former SpiceJet CEO Sanjay Aggarwal would take over as CEO "with immediate effect."

Catchment Area Due to Vienna's ideal location in the East of Austria, Vienna International Airport serves as the primary hub to the dynamic regions of

OVERVIEW Malaysia Airlines is the flag carrier for Malaysia, operating over 3000 weekly flights to a wide-range of destinations. Malaysia Airlines

Star Alliance member Air New Zealand this week revealed its intention to analyse services to Latin America, becoming a hub for transit traffic between

Star Alliance member BMI announced new scheduled services to the Libyan capital of Tripoli this week, a move which further strengthens the carriers

SPANAIR TO FINLAND Fresh from agreeing a codeshare with Blue1, Barcelona based carrier, Spanair has revealed that effective November 1st, it will

AMERICAN MAKES CUTS AT SAN JUAN From April 5 th, 2011, oneworld member, American Airlines will discontinue five scheduled routes from its Caribbean

SkyTeam member Delta Air Lines will begin non-stop services from its main Atlanta hub to Luanda, the Angolan capital. The route will begin January

Following the consolidation of Delta-Northwest and United-Continental, the low-cost carriers in North America joined the acquisition trail this week

Low-cost giant Ryanair will begin services to Route Exchange member Tallinn with the introduction of seven new routes beginning in December. Initially

Etihad Airways customers will soon be able to fly to Malta, following the signing of a codeshare agreement with Air Malta.

oneworld member, Iberia has announced new services to Brazil with a triangle from Madrid to Fortaleza and Recife. Iberia currently serves Rio de

Abu-Dhabi based Etihad Airways will begin new non-stop services to Bangalore India in 2011. The new route will commence January 1st and will be

Air France from 31OCT10 is introducing 3rd Daily Paris CDG - Oslo and up to 4th Daily Paris CDG - Verona service. Air France competes with SAS on the

Hainan Airlines from 17NOV10 is launching 2 weekly Beijing - Cairo service on board Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The airline eventually plans to extend