Airports & Networks

Uncertainty over travel restrictions and quarantine rules are causing “stagnation” in the market and could lead to “lasting damage to Denmark’s connectivity to the world,” a senior figure at Copenhagen Airports A/S has warned.

A codeshare agreement has been signed between the Brazilian airline and Ethiopia’s flag carrier.

Seven new routes are joining United Airlines’ schedule—three to destinations in Africa, two in India and two in Hawaii—as part of what the U.S

The airport serving the city at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wuhan Tianhe International (WUH), will reintroduce international services on Sept. 16.

Routes looks at the impact of Air New Zealand’s decision to ground its Boeing 777 fleet for a year.

Qatar Airways will operate four weekly flights to San Francisco – the fifth new destination launched by the national carrier of the State of Qatar since the start of the pandemic – from 15 December 2020.

Jordan has become the latest country in the Middle East to sign an aviation agreement with Israel to open up potential routes between and across the two countries. The move will also have environmental benefits.

Passenger safety is being enhanced for the reopening of Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport thanks to a donation of vital safety equipment from the UN’s International Organization for Migration (IOM).

As the airline industry begins to emerge from its Covid-19 hibernation, airports are going to be very different places for the foreseeable future.

Ryanair will close its base at Düsseldorf International Airport in Germany as the market becomes increasingly pessimistic about the prospects for summer 2021

Chief executives from some of the world’s leading airlines will be in attendance at Routes Reconnected to discuss the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on their business models and how they intend to rebuild passenger demand.

Worries have set in after the budding recovery in traffic seen in early summer stagnated.

United Airlines is beefing up its international network with the addition of three routes to destinations in Africa, two to India and two to Hawaii.

A number of regional routes are being cut from the airline’s network as part of an ongoing restructuring program.

The number of routes to be operated is way down on the more than 100 in October 2019.

Kazakhstan’s flag-carrier is expanding its European network with an additional route to Germany.

Emirates will re-start passenger services to Moscow Domodedovo Airport (DME) with two flights a week, starting 11 September.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Qatar Airways resuming Lagos; Wizz Air’s first Italian domestic routes; and American Airline adding Daytona Beach flights.

While many airlines around the world are waiting anxiously for international borders to reopen, the immediate concern for Australian carriers is closer to home.

The carrier will launch five new routes from the airport in October.

China Eastern Airlines’ new subsidiary will fly domestic regional routes once operational.

More travel restrictions to important leisure destinations have forced easyJet to cut capacity again. However, the UK government has heeded calls to adopt a regionalized approach to quarantines.

German electric aircraft start-up Lilium has partnered up with Dusseldorf and Cologne/Bonn airports to study air mobility networks in the region.

Travel Foundation CEO says severely reduced level of flying offers the industry a chance to rethink unsustainable practices.

Brussels Airlines has had to scale back its plans to restore flights in the light of Europe’s stuttering recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.