Southwest Airlines will introduce service to and from South Carolina, the 36th state in its network, with routes from Greenville–Spartanburg and Charleston, beginning March 13. From Charleston, SWA will operate thrice-daily service to Baltimore, twice-daily flights to Chicago Midway, daily service to Nashville and daily flights to Houston Hobby. From Greenville, it will begin twice-daily service to Baltimore, twice-daily to Chicago Midway, daily to Nashville, daily to Houston Hobby and daily to Orlando.
Qatar Airways launched six-times-weekly Doha–Kuala Lumpur-Phuket service. Jet2.com will operate seasonal Manchester–Brive service starting May 21. Malev will operate summer 2011 seasonal service from Budapest to Heraklion (thrice-weekly, June 11-Sept. 24), Corfu (thrice-weekly, June 11-Sept. 24) and Burgas (twice-weekly, June 18-Sept. 17).
flydubai has announced it is to add Sulaimaniyah in Iraq and Yerevan in Armenia to its list of routes taking Dubai's first low cost airline's network to 26 destinations.
United Airlines launched a second daily Los Angeles–Mexico City flight Oct. 15 and will launch a third daily flight on the route Jan. 4. It will increase weekly Chicago O’Hare–MEX service to twice-daily Nov. 4, daily San Francisco–MEX flights to twice-daily Nov. 4, and will operate daily Denver–MEX service Dec. 16-Jan. 3. All flights will be operated with A319s and A320s.
Lufthansa said it will operate an average of 12,218 flights per week this winter, up 3.5% from 11,803 flights in last year’s winter period. Beginning Oct. 31, LH will offer flights to 197 destinations in 85 countries, compared to last year’s 191 destinations in 78 countries. The three latest additions to the route network are five-times-weekly Frankfurt–Bogota service using A340-300s and five-times-weekly FRA–Pointe Noire service via Libreville with a wet-leased 737-800. It will also operate twice-daily Munich–Luxembourg service with CRJ700s.
Air transport IT provider SITA has today announced details of a high tech acquisition designed to put it in a leading position in the area of mobile resource management solutions for efficient airport operations.