Airports & Networks

Transavia France has announced its intentions to take an additional B737-800 and establish bases in Nantes and Lyon. The leisure carrier currently

oneworld member Cathay Pacific will commence 3x weekly services from Hong Kong to Moscow Domodedovo from July 13th operating the route with A340-300

Mexican budget carrier VivaAerobus has revealed plans to serve San Jose, California by launching new scheduled services from April 30. It will serve

Delta Air Lines and US Airways have softened their stance and will give up 12% of the slots originally included in their New York LaGuardia/Washington National swap deal in order to secure approval from the US Dept. of Transportation.

airBaltic is strengthening its presence in Northern Finland with a new service linking Oulu in Finland to Sweden's capital, Stockholm, starting June 1

Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) today released its monthly traffic report for Abu Dhabi International Airport, which shows strong passenger and cargo growth for February 2010, over the same month last year.

Virgin America has applied to the DOT to commence new non-stop services from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Toronto from this summer. From SFO

Skyteam member Delta Airlines has announced that it plans to start a four daily service between Los Angeles and San Francisco for its Summer schedule

airBaltic has announced that it will operate new scheduled non-stop service from its growing Tallinn base to Stockholm. It will operate twice-weekly

SilkAir will launch daily service from Singapore to Bangalore (on May 17) and Chennai (on June 14). Royal Brunei Airlines will launch four-times-weekly Brunei-Shanghai Pudong service on March 28. Midwest Airlines will operate service from Milwaukee to Seattle (thrice-weekly May 14-June 10, increasing to four-times-weekly June 11-Sept. 6, aboard an E-190) and San Diego (daily April 19-Nov. 17 aboard an A319).

On May 8, KLM will be the first airline to offer a direct service between Europe and Hangzhou, when it begins service from its Amsterdam Schiphol hub

From June 10, Delta will resume its service linking Los Angeles and Columbus, which has been without flights to the US west coast since the carrier

Virgin America continues to expand this year, announcing its intentions to serve Canada for the first time. The carrier plans to serve Toronto Pearson

From March 28, Blue Air will ramp up its schedule from London Luton, with more frequencies to its home market in Romania. From the start of its summer

airBaltic is to serve Visby and Lulea in Sweden during the summer season. The new routes will offer connections over its Riga hub to its network in

Swiss International Airlines will serve San Francisco during this year's summer timetable, which runs from 28 March to 30 October. The carrier will

Virgin America yesterday announced it will add nine A320s (six arriving this year and three scheduled in the 2011 first quarter), bringing its fleet to 37 and enabling it to launch new daily flights to Orlando International from Los Angeles and San Francisco on Aug. 19.

Delta Air Lines announced the launch of an 11-times-daily New York LaGuardia-Chicago O'Hare E-175 shuttle service beginning June 10, replacing its existing flights between LGA and Chicago Midway. It will establish dedicated check-in desks and kiosks at ORD ahead of the launch. DL also announced an expansion at Los Angeles, featuring new flights to San Francisco (daily), Columbus (daily), Hartford (six-times-weekly) and Raleigh-Durham (six-times-weekly) on June 10. Flights will be operated by a mix of 737-800s, A320s and CRJ900s.

Air New Zealand promised to slash fares, introduce more choice and cut waiting times at airports for its Transtasman and Pacific Island services. ANZ will reconfigure the A320s it uses on those routes to a single class with 171 seats, although it will continue to offer business class on its 767s for peak flights from Auckland to Sydney and Melbourne. Details of the new product offering will be unveiled before fares go on sale April 29. Eight airlines compete for a market of 5.8 million passengers per year between Australia and New Zealand.

Asiana Airlines launched daily service from Incheon to the newly opened Ibaraki Airport about 85 km. northwest of Tokyo aboard a two-class A320.

New Owners and Strategy for Spanish Carrier Operating from Barcelona (its largest base) and Madrid, Spanair's network is largely domestic

Lufthansa will be the first scheduled carrier to connect Munich with Tashkent, although in the 1990s the German carrier did serve the Uzbek capital

Hong Kong Airlines has announced new non-stop service to Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO), with the new service slated to commence on June 23. The

Emirates is poised to take delivery of another eight A380 aircraft this year, one of which will start operating between London Heathrow and Dubai from

Gol is set to be the first carrier to directly link Brazil with the island of Barbados in the Caribbean The new non-stop service between Sao Paulo and