Singapore Airlines will suspend service to Karachi, Lahore and Nanjing as part of a series of capacity adjustments announced yesterday. Twice-weekly flights to Pakistan and Nanjing will cease Feb. 17 and March 26 respectively. SIA cited the routes' performance as the reason for the decision. Other changes include addition of a fifth weekly Singapore-Moscow Domodedovo-Houston Intercontinental flight beginning Dec. 18, ncrease of five-times-weekly SIN-Newark service to daily on Jan.
Southwest Airlines announced a series of schedule changes beginning next May that include the addition of the new airport in Panama City, Fla., to its network ( ATWOnline, Oct. 22). It will serve ECP twice-daily beginning May 23 from Nashville, Houston Hobby, Baltimore and Orlando International. Overall, the schedule from May 9 features 65 new roundtrip flights and 24 eliminated flights. Additional new services comprise twice-daily flights from St.
Ryanair will open bases at Faro in March and Malaga next June, it announced yesterday. The LCC will base three 737s at Faro and invest $200 million at the airport, from which it will launch service to Bergamo (March 25), Birmingham (March 28), Billund, Derry, Kerry, Knock, Marseille, Oslo Rygge, Stockholm Skavsta (all March 30), Eindhoven, Madrid, Maastricht, Memmingen and Paris Beauvais (all April 27). It will serve 28 destinations from Faro following the expansion.
British Airways said it is "commencing legal action" in an effort to forestall the 12-day flight attendants strike set to begin on Dec. 22 ( ATWOnline, Dec. 15). It also claimed that "irregularities" in Unite's balloting of union members may render the strike vote invalid.
SpiceJet launched cargo operations in Kochi, the 14th city in its freight network. The LCC said it carries around 120 tons of freight per day aboard its 19 737NGs.
Austrian Airlines Group will rethink its network as it restructures and will focus on high-volume routes rather than connectivity between Western and Eastern Europe, CEO Peter Malanik told ATWOnline at last week's Star Alliance event in Brussels.
Worldwide Flight Services signed new cargo handling contracts with 12 airlines at Paris Charles de Gaulle: Korean Air, TAM, Air Caraibes, Air Madagascar, Air Algerie, SAS Cargo, Air Transat, Vietnam Airlines, Oman Air, Air Mali, Syrian Arab Airlines and Air Ivoire.
