Airports & Networks

The latest route cancellations follow the airline’s pause of flights to South Africa.

SpiceJet is restoring service to Pakyong Airport in India, which has been without any commercial routes since June 2019.

With ICAO reporting a 60% drop in passenger traffic globally during 2020, Routes’ latest infographic looks at the current state of the world’s aviation market.

Air China and Sichuan Airlines have each been given the green light to begin new international routes.

Fresh from expanding the number of quarantine-free routes flying to Australia, Air New Zealand is set to restart Cook Islands services.

France has set out new stricter travel measures in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus, requiring arrivals to the country from outside the EU to take a COVID-19 test both before departure and after a period of self-isolation on arrival.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China has approved two new international passenger routes.

The United Arab Emirates’ newest airline is set to begin flying to Israel.

Passengers from the Cook Islands can resume quarantine-free travel into New Zealand from Jan. 21.

Austria’s Innsbruck Airport (INN) is set to close in September for four weeks to allow a major renovation of its 2,000-m (6,562-ft.) runway.

The airline says the demand environment will remain “choppy” until the wider rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.

Finnish airport operator Finavia will begin the first phase of renovations at Helsinki Airport’s Terminal 2 (T2), one year earlier than planned

Oman Air is continuing to restore its network, increasing to 25 the number of cities to which it connects from its Muscat International Airport (MCT) hub.

Kazakhstan-based LCC FlyArystan looks to double its passenger numbers in 2021 to three million by launching 14 new routes and adding three more Airbus A320s.

The carrier which pioneered cheap transatlantic flights between Europe and the US will now focus on short-haul routes as part of a plan to exit insolvency.

Cairo and Alexandria are being restored to the airline’s route map.

After Egypt’s decision to reopen its airspace to Qatar, EgyptAir will commence a daily flight between Cairo and Doha from January 18.

As Egypt opens its airspace to Qatari flights, Routes looks at the top airports, airlines and routes in the North African country this week.

Any passenger entering Canada must now have a negative result from a recent COVID-19 test.

The two carriers contend that resuming Japan-Australia routes will be more viable if they are allowed to cooperate closely.

The Scottish regional carrier plans to use a new contract to provide air services for one of the UK’s most remote island groups as the setting for the introduction of sustainably powered aircraft.

Bahrain International Airport (BAH) plans to open its new airport terminal Jan. 28, with national carrier Gulf Air moving its operations there.

French airlines have criticized a decision to allow Paris airports operator Groupe ADP to increase charges for 2021, saying it fails to take into account of the “catastrophic” situation the country’s air transport industry finds itself in.

The airport's CEO expects BOM's domestic traffic to fully recover to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2021 or early 2022.

Traffic is continuing to rebound at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, relieving some of the severe financial pressure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year.