Airports & Networks

Iberia will resume flights between Madrid–Barajas Airport and Tokyo Narita Airport in October 2024, restarting a route not served by the airline since 2020.

Lufthansa Group is preparing to resume flights to Tel Aviv in January.

Turkish Airlines will be able to operate up to 35 flights per week to Australia within the next two years.

Emirates has completed 15 years of operations to San Francisco.

IndiGo is the first Indian airline to carry 100 million passengers in a single calendar year.

DXB will welcome an estimated 4.4 million passengers through its doors between December 15 and December 31.

Etihad Airways and Maldivian have signed a strategic bilateral interline partnership, unlocking access to 16 dream holiday destinations in the Maldives beyond the main island of Malé.

Singapore Airlines will introduce its first nonstop service linking Singapore and London Gatwick from June 2024 onboard Airbus A350-900 equipment.

The system is designed to improve safety, operational efficiency, and navigation guidance around airport taxiways and runways.

A doubling of the number of unruly passengers onboard KLM flights has triggered a Netherlands initiative to stem the problem.

Delta Air Lines is growing its offering at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and adding two smaller-market Texas airports to its network.

JetBlue Airways and Air Canada are the latest international carriers to announce plans to serve the newly inaugurated Tulum International Airport.

After launching its first Asia-Pacific route earlier this year, WestJet will add a second to the region in May.

The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.

Virgin Atlantic indicates it will use Airbus A330-900neo and A350-1000 aircraft on both the LHR-JFK and LHR-BOS routes during the 2024 summer season.

New connections will be offered by Iberia to Cagliari, Ljubljana, Palermo and Tirana.

Jordi Pla Pintre, Director of Network Strategy and Long-Term Planning at Vueling Airlines, outlines what it meant to win the Airline Award category at this year’s Routes Awards.

Belgian airports face a weekend of disruption as activists target the country’s aviation sector with planned protests starting Dec. 15 through Dec. 17.

A global task force has developed a list of 127 recommendations to help mitigate runway incursion hazards.

Southwest Airlines is expanding trials of an AI solution aimed at improving turnaround performance, from 18 gates in Atlanta to an additional 14 in Denver.

Philippine Airlines will connect to seven of American Airlines' domestic routes via the Los Angeles gateway.

Ryanair is seeking to increase its footprint in the Moroccan market, with plans to open its first domestic routes.

Domestic air routes that connect different UK regions will now be considered for support.

Abu Dhabi Airports has revealed new development plans for its free zone arm – ADAFZ.

Turkish Airlines started flights to Osaka, Japan, on December 12.