Airports & Networks

Héctor Fernández, CEO at Turismo Lanzarote, explains how the COVID-19 crisis has affected the island’s tourism industry and outlines his hopes for the winter season.
Airports & Networks

By Wesley Charnock
Access to medical facilities is dependent on air transport in many countries.
Airports & Networks

By Wesley Charnock
Restoring air connectivity is critical to countries and their populations and therefore industry and governments must remove barriers such as border closures and slot regulations, focusing instead on collaboration, a leading airport executive has said.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Extending the temporary waiver on airport slot rules in Europe through the summer 2021 season will slow the recovery and prevent competition returning to the industry, according to the CEOs of Ryanair Group and Wizz Air.
Airports & Networks

By Kurt Hofmann
After the demise of flag-carrier Adria Airways and the negative impact of COVID-19 on air transport, the Slovenian government is taking steps to encourage foreign airlines to fly into the country.
Airports & Networks

By Kurt Hofmann
El Al Israel Airlines and Etihad Airways signed an MOU on Nov. 19 to explore ways the two flag-carriers could work together.
Airlines & Lessors

By David Casey
The two carriers have signed an MoU to explore introducing joint codeshare services between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
As Norwegian Air Shuttle files for bankruptcy protection in Ireland, Routes looks the number of seats and biggest routes currently operating in Norway.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
The Australian carriers have been provisionally cleared to cooperate on more than 40 routes despite objections from REX.
Airports & Networks

By Lori Ranson
Southwest sees O'Hare as the only path to grow in Chicago.
Airports & Networks

ASM’s VP consulting Aidan Mooney assesses the potential market demand for one of Jet2.com’s new routes from Bristol Airport in the UK.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
The Las Vegas-based ULCC is adding 15 routes to its network, including two new destinations.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
The two airlines have formed a codeshare partnership ahead of Air Canada’s plans to launch service to Qatar this December.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
The CEOs of Ryanair Group and Wizz Air have called on regulators to reinstate the 80/20 airport slot rule or risk stifling the recovery.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Airports need to use data and technology to rebuild their business models in the post-COVID recovery, industry body says.
Airports & Networks

By Wesley Charnock
The ULCC will begin the new flights in the first half of 2021.
Airports & Networks

By Vincent Chappard
The airline will resume its regional flights as from mid-December 2020.
Airports & Networks

Airlink will reconnect Tanzania with South Africa when it launches its first scheduled passenger flights between Dar es Salaam and Johannesburg on 01 December 2020.
Airports & Networks

By Aaron Karp
The agreement means Brexit will not disrupt transatlantic flying between the nations.
Airports & Networks

By David Casey
Wizz Air is wasting no time in its quest to capture share in Norway’s domestic market.
Airports & Networks

By Kurt Hofmann
Antinori explains how the Gulf carrier that kept flying through the pandemic built its network back to about 100 destinations.
Expert Opinion

By Alan Dron
With air traffic flights and passengers drastically down in 2020, the 2019 top issues of aircraft emissions and “flight shame” have all but disappeared. But they will reappear just as soon as traffic recovers.
Air Transport Month

By Kurt Hofmann
Max Kownatzki took the CEO's position on April 15, as the Turkey-based airline was coming to grips with COVID-19. He describes actions that SunExpress took, including liquidating its Germany-based branch, and the challenges the pandemic presented.
Expert Opinion

By Routes Content Team
After easyJet said it expects to fly no more than 20% of pre-pandemic capacity in the three months through December, Routes looks at the LCC's most used departure airports and aircraft this week.
Airports & Networks

By Helen Massy-Beresford
Europe’s airports will have to adapt to a “new normal” that does not take for granted ongoing traffic growth, ACI Europe said.
Airports & Networks