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British Airways flew 7.26 billion RPKs in April, down 22.4% year-over-year. on a 20.9% fall in capacity to 9.48 billion ASKs. Load factor dropped 1.5 points to 76.6%. Operations were affected by the volcanic ash cloud that closed much of European airspace April 15-21 and resulted in six days of lost flying for the airline.

Cork Airport is the Republic of Ireland's southern gateway, accounting for 3.3 million passengers in 2008. Cork Airport in Ireland serves a population

Overview Spanair has new owners from Catalonia which has driven a restructuring that covered moving to T1, a new image, new management team, transfer

The Middle East: A Key Source Market for Kenya Airways Kenya Airways has added non-stop flights to Muscat in from its main base in Nairobi. It

JetBlue Airways this week began codesharing with South African Airways (SAA) on its New York JFK-Johannesburg service. Routes News reports on the

Our sister publication, AvNews, rounds-up this week's news from the Americas and Caribbean including American Airlines Chicago-Beijing service to

This week's top talking points include Air France to deploy an A380 on London-Paris; Jetstar Asia signals long-haul plans; Emirates announces its

Air Traffic Management global umbrella organisation CANSO, has signed up Etihad Airways as a Silver Associate Member.

Etihad Airways customers around the world will soon be able to fly to two of Greece's leading holiday destinations as well as Romania and Bulgaria for the first time, following the signing of a new codeshare agreement with Olympic Air.

Cairo based Almasria Universal Airlines has revealed that from June 1st it plans to add non-stop service from Cairo to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia

Middle East Airlines has become the latest carrier to begin services to Iraq, with a 4x weekly rotation to Erbil in the North of the country. The

British Airways will increase its scheduled daily flight from London Heathrow to Kiev to a 10x weekly service. The increase in capacity will become

TAM Linhas Aereas has become the 27th official member of Star Alliance, offering Star access to the largest carrier in Brazil, offering 867,483 weekly

Effective September 19th, Delta Airlines will inaugurate a third daily rotation between JFK and London Heathrow. The lucrative route already has a

Mandala Airlines received IOSA certification from IATA and will launch its first international service from Jakarta to Singapore Changi, Macau and Hong Kong, as well as Balikpapan-SIN service, June 25. The Jakarta-based LCC said it is the first privately owned Indonesian airline to achieve IOSA registration.

The UK's new coalition government indicated it will cancel plans for a third runway at London Heathrow and refuse additional runways at Gatwick and Stansted, stating that it is committed "to implement a full program of measures to fulfill our joint ambitions for a low carbon and eco-friendly economy."

Warsaw based LOT Polish Airlines has announced that it will resume scheduled services from Warsaw to Kaliningrad. From June 28th the carrier will

Effective October 21st, Skyteam member Delta Airlines will add a new 2x weekly non-stop service from Detroit, Michigan to Sao Paulo. The route will be

AirTran Airways has announced new non-stop scheduled flights from Grand Rapids (GRR) to the Florida markets of Tampa and Fort Myers (RSW). AirTran

Jetstar is to fly long-haul from Singapore to Australia, North Asia and/or European destinations from late 2010, the airline has announced. As part of

Southwest Airlines has said it would like to serve two South Carolina airports (Charleston (CHS) and Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP) next year. Southwest

Delta has outlined its intentions to add flights between New York JFK and key business markets. Gail Grimmett, Delta's senior vice president (New York

Thai Airways International will resume non-stop services from its Bangkok base to Johannesburg, South Africa. After having discontinued the route in

The Saudi Arabian city of Medina, will gain a new 4x weekly service from Bahrain operated by Gulf Air starting June 18th. Gulf Air will be the only