Airports & Networks

The US is set to receive services from the Spanish leisure carrier, which operates transatlantic services from MAD.

The US carrier is restarting service to London Heathrow from Detroit and Seattle this fall.

Emirates is returning to the Scottish city after Dubai moved to the UK’s ‘amber’ list.

SunExpress is using Route Exchange’s RFP feature to expand its network in the British Isles.

FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said that airports can help combat instances of unruly and intoxicated passengers by cracking down on concessionaires who sell “to-go” alcohol, which some passengers have been bringing on to flights.

The Senate is nearing a vote on a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package that would fund $25 billion of commercial aviation priorities through 2026.

The group’s director general Subhas Menon said countries should look at sustainable ways to maintain air traffic corridors instead of the “start-stop” measures seen so far.

Flights between Istanbul and Dallas-Fort Worth will begin in September.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carriers’ networks.

Turkish Airlines has added a nonstop service from Istanbul to Dallas-Fort Worth.

Following the United Arab Emirates being added to the UK Amber List, Etihad Airways will resume passenger flights to London and Manchester from 8 August.

Emirates has announced it is restarting services to Glasgow in the United Kingdom, with four weekly flights from 11 August 2021.

Lufthansa has resumed a second route to Washington Dulles.

After a surge in domestic demand, the ULCC's CEO Barry Biffle says it sees a weakening in the traffic recovery.

Six new routes will be launched this winter, taking the number served during the season to 18.

The Singapore government is currently reviewing a feasibility study developed alongside industry players on mixing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) with conventional jet fuel in a bid to increase the uptake of SAF in the island state.

WestJet is opening a new transborder route in November, offering its first nonstop flights to Seattle (SEA) from Calgary (YYC).

The carrier has seen strong demand from the UK airport to leisure destinations this summer.

Oman Air will resume flights to Jeddah on 11 August, 2021. The twice-weekly flights will operate on Wednesday and Saturday.

Cape Town’s international airport is preparing for the post-Covid revival with Mark Maclean at the helm. The former operations manager who led the team through the redevelopment of the airport explains the plans to Robin Rabec and how the pandemic put its growth on halt.

Gatwick has launched its new Decade of Change strategy to reduce the airport's direct carbon emissions by 80% of 1990 levels.

The move comes as the Canadian carrier rebuilds its network to the US following the easing of travel restrictions.

Routes profiles Air Greenland, the World Routes 2021 attendee which is targeting new routes to North America and Europe.

The route launch forms part of a wider expansion between the UK and the Caribbean this winter.

Without a partnership between Delta and LATAM, American will have an unfair advantage in Latin America, Delta and LATAM argue.