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Legacy carriers restructuring in Italy, Germany, Romania and Poland open the field for growth

Airline Routes-May 30, 2017

NAV Canada said it plans to extend the 3.9% base-rate decrease implemented in September 2016 that was set to expire in August 2017.

Air China has partnered with Beijing and Frankfurt airports to develop a new express route between China and Europe, called Easy Way Beijing-Frankfurt, in an effort to enhance its international competitiveness.

Turkish Airlines, already a substantial player in the Middle East market, is launching a new wave of routes into the region.

Azman Air has selected Saudi Arabia for its maiden international and intercontinental services, reports ch-aviation.

A global IT outage across British Airways (BA) May 27 that severely disrupted the airline’s operations and led to widespread cancelations appears to have been caused by a power supply issue, BA CEO Alex Cruz said.

Florida-based ultra-low-cost carrier (ULCC) Spirit Airlines added two routes at Pittsburgh International Airport on May 25, and plans to introduce several more throughout the summer.

Italy’s national carrier Alitalia and Argentina’s flag carrier Aerolíneas Argentinas (AA) are expanding their existing commercial agreement with a codeshare arrangement.

Russia’s S7 Airlines will start 2X-weekly Moscow Domodedovo-Tehran Airbus A319 service June 22.

Philippine low-cost carrier (LCC) Cebu Pacific is withdrawing almost all of its Middle East flights because of rising competition on these routes, the carrier said.

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Lufthansa Group low-cost (LCC) subsidiary Eurowings opened a base in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, May 24, and will launch its first Airbus A320 flight May 25 to Bremen, Germany.

Central and Eastern European low-cost carrier (LCC) Wizz Air has based a second Airbus A320 in Belgrade, Serbia.

Italian airport solutions company ENAV has delivered the first of two air traffic control towers that will be installed at the Mitiga Airport in Libya as part of an ongoing infrastructure revamp project, reports Oscar Nkala.

Aviation IT specialist, SITA, rolled out several community innovation demos with an eye toward the future at this year's Air Transport IT Summit being held in Barcelona. These forward-looking innovations are part of SITA's 2016 multi-million investment across five main focus areas to explore new solutions to some of the air transport industry's most pressing challenges.

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Dubai-based Emirates Airlines will begin a second daily Airbus A380 service to Beijing and Shanghai Pudong from July 1, replacing the Boeing 777-300ER on both routes.

Berlin-based Germania opened a base in Palma de Mallorca, Spain May 19, and will operate daily flights between Palma de Mallorca and Friedrichshafen, Muenster/Osnabruck, Dresden, Bremen and Nuremberg for the summer season.

The Trump administration has given its full backing to the creation of a “non-profit, independent corporation” separate from FAA to manage US air traffic control (ATC), proposing that the new entity be operational by 2021 after a “multi-year” transfer.

China’s Juneyao Airlines has become the first Star Alliance connecting partner in an effort to facilitate its international expansion.

Florida-based ultra-low-cost-carrier Spirit Airlines will begin nonstop service from Baltimore/Washington International (BWI) and Chicago O’Hare to Cancun International Airport beginning Nov. 9.