Airports & Networks

The long-awaited loosening of restrictions is welcome news for the country’s aviation sector, but with it coming after the typical summer peak it is unclear how pent-up demand will manifest.

A feasibility study is to begin with Malaysia Airports as Volocopter and Skyports look to build out air taxi networks in the Asia-Pacific region.

The LCC is planning a robust schedule from the Scottish capital during both the summer and winter seasons.

A fourth international destination will join the long-haul LCC’s network in September.

After a big dip in May, June traffic makes a comeback.

The route has been unserved since Germania’s demise in February 2019.

Oman Air has operated two regularly scheduled passenger flights with fully vaccinated crews to two separate domestic destinations in the country – Khasab and Salalah.

Royal Air Maroc is launching 11 nonstop routes to destinations across Europe in July, essentially to France, Belgium and Holland in order to meet demand.

Research platform ForwardKeys has revealed that in the first half of 2021, Doha seized and consolidated a lead over Dubai in the battle to be the pre-eminent travel hub in the Middle East.

Twenty-one new routes are being added to the ULCC’s network over the coming months.

The Kenyan cargo airline is eying new intra-Africa opportunities created by the African Continental Free Trade Area and the potential for expansion in China.

Breeze Airways head of planning Max Barrus shared insights into the startup's process for identifying new network opportunities.

In a strategic shift under its new ownership, Cyprus Airways is moving away from the purely seasonal operation it previously ran.

Breeze Airways head of planning Max Barrus tells Routes about the startup's process for identifying new opportunities.

The country's airlines had been encouraging the government to restart international travel for vaccinated passengers.

Air Seychelles will mark another historic milestone this August by operating for the first time into Kazakhstan's largest metropolis and most popular cultural hub, Almaty.

London Heathrow will join the Cypriot carrier’s network from September as new owner SJC Group maps out a fresh strategy for the airline.

Routes’ latest infographic looks at the current state of the world’s aviation market.

The Beijing to Anchorage service via Japan will double FedEx Express' international cargo flights in and out of the Chinese capital.

Thai authorities are trying to curb the latest outbreak of COVID-19.

Royal Schiphol Group—the operator of Amsterdam’s airport—is participating in a trial to determine whether ultrafine particulate emissions around runways can be captured in mist, using a construction-industry technique.

Etihad Airways has launched its inaugural flight to Vienna, the City of Music, the first of a new twice-weekly service between Abu Dhabi and the Austrian capital.

Airport International Group has revealed that Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) welcomed 1,233,484 passengers during the first half of 2021, marking a 20.9% and 70.3% decline against 2020 and 2019 figures, respectively.

Kuwait Airways has resumed two-weekly flights to Munich.

Cally Air has conducted its maiden commercial flight on a B737-300 from Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.