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Iberia’s improving financial position has encouraged it to restart one suspended South American service and launch a previously unserved sector in the continent.

Air traffic into and out of Dubai International Airport was halted for almost an hour last Friday due to members of the public flying recreational unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in Dubai terminal airspace.

Ahead of this year's Routes Americas forum, Routesonline is providing a snapshot on the leading airlines and airports and most used aircraft types across the region. Here we look closely at the airports of South America and highlight the region's top performers.

SriLankan Airlines will cut services from Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) at Mattala following the country’s government elections.

The UK government will make available £56 million ($84 million) to airlines and regional airports over the next three years to help launch new routes.

Ahead of this year's Routes Americas forum, Routesonline is providing a snapshot on the leading airlines and airports and most used aircraft types across the region. Here we look closely at the airlines serving South America and highlight the region's top performers.

The route will operate from Paris – Dublin – Halifax, beginning July 9, 2015 and running through until September 11, 2015, boosting Canadian tourism to France and Ireland, and offering a new direct destination in North America for passengers from Dublin Airport.

Unveiled by investors Irelandia Aviation and Mexican bus transportation company IAMSA in early October, Grupo Viva was established to expand the Viva brand in Latin America. Both Irelandia and IAMSA have shares in Monterrey-based VivaAerobus and Medellin-based VivaColombia.

Under the revised air services agreement, both countries’ carriers will immediately be able to operate 26,500 seats a week between Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to the major gateway cities of Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth – an increase of 18 percent on the routes.

The route to the vibrant South-Central Coast of Vietnam will commence from April 1, 2015 and will be operated on a three times weekly basis with flights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This will be the only low-cost link between Hong Kong and Đà Nẵng which is becoming increasingly popular as an alternate leisure destination for travellers.

Spanish low cost carrier Vueling – an IAG subsidiary - is to begin a weekly flight to Accra from its main base in Barcelona.

Djibouti's President, Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, has laid the first stones of two new airports as part of the country's infrastructure development drive.

Hamburg and Stuttgart airports were affected by strike action Friday by security staff belonging to the German public services trade union Verdi.

GOL is the largest low-cost airline in Latin America and offers around 910 daily flights to 69 destinations, 15 international, across South America, the Caribbean and the United States, using a modern fleet of Boeing 737-700 and 737-800 Next Generation aircraft.

American Airlines has been granted authority by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to launch Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW)-Beijing (PEK) Boeing 777-200ER flights.

Dubai Air Navigation Services (DANS) has become the first Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) air navigation services provider (ANSP) to sign a cooperation agreement with the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol).

Dubai Air Navigation Services (DANS) has become the first Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) air navigation services provider (ANSP) to sign a cooperation agreement with the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation (Eurocontrol).

The new twice weekly route will operate on Mondays and Fridays between May 1, 2015 and September 7, 2015, enabling passengers to enjoy long weekend or week long visits to each destination. The flights will be operated using a Boeing 737-300 configured with 147 seats.

This ‘start up aid’ will be made available from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund which was announced by the UK government in June 2013 and is open to airports with fewer than five million passengers per year. This fund has already been partly distributed to support strategic routes to London from Newquay and Dundee but is now being extended to bids for more routes.

The relationship between Aer Lingus and Ryanair took on an interesting twist this week when it emerged that an image of an Aer Lingus aircraft had been used in a graphic to promote Ryanair’s business offering on the budget carrier’s website.

Qatar Airways will add 30% more capacity to its three Italian routes and is adding four extra weekly flights to Madrid.

JAL Group has announced its flight frequency and fleet plans on both international and domestic routes for fiscal year 2015 (ending March 31, 2016)

Airline CEOs and leading industry experts to speak at the Routes Asia Strategy Summit in Kunming

Voting for the third regional heat of the 2015 Routes Europe Marketing Awards is now open

Frontier currently offers links from Atlanta to Chicago O'Hare, Cleveland, Denver, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Orlando, Trenton and Washington Dulles and will supplement these with a new daily flight to Miami and six times weekly services to both Austin and Indianapolis from March this year.