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A group of five European airline associations is calling on the European Commission and member states of the European Union (EU) to reject a 16.6% increase in air navigation service charges proposed by Germany.
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By Adrian Schofield
All Nippon Airways’ (ANA) plans to continue its international network growth will be supported by the arrival of several more Boeing 787s next year, particularly the stretched -9 version.
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By Adrian Schofield
Qantas is expanding its Japanese services with the launch of a new route, and promises to follow up with another addition in this market soon.
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Vietnamese startup low-cost carrier (LCC) VietJet Air has taken its first steps toward international expansion with the first flights of its new Thai VietJet Air subsidiary.
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By Richard Maslen
In what is described as a new era of cooperation between the two national flag carriers, SAA will introduce the daily link from March 29, 2015, which will complement Etihad Airways’ existing flights between the two cities to offer a combined double-daily frequency on the route.
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Flydubai has announced the addition of a flight to Hargeisa in Somaliland.
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South African Airways (SAA) and Etihad Airways have today announced a major expansion of their strategic partnership, marking a new era of cooperation between the two national flag carriers.
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By Poppy Marello
At Routesonline we've decided to take a look back at the news breaking the same week in previous years and revisit it one or two years later to see what’s happened since we released the news.
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By Richard Maslen
Norwegian will make its debut at Birmingham at the end of March 2015 with a three times weekly service from Malaga commencing on March 30, 2015 and a three times weekly route to Madrid following from March 31, 2015. The third route to Barcelona will follow from June 1, 2015 and will be flown on a twice weekly basis.
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By Victoria Jones
Scheduling for Routes Americas opened earlier this week, much earlier than in previous years, and with over 350 meetings already scheduled it is
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By Poppy Marello
The airline has added an additional 20 routes to its schedule, including three from its new Amsterdam base.
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By Richard Maslen
The North South Wales air service was established in 2007 and Linksair have been the aircraft operator on the route for the past two years on behalf of Citywing. It is now fully responsible for the route after being awarded a four-year contract to fly the route from the Welsh Government.
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By Karen Walker
The Aircraft Tracking Task Force (ATTF) set up in the wake of the disappearance of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200 in March has issued a report with recommendations to improve continuous tracking of airliners.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Flydubai is continuing its expansion into Central and Eastern Europe with the launch of 2X-weekly Dubai- Bratislava (Slovakia) flights, as well as new service to Prague (Czech Republic) and Sofia (Bulgaria) in December.
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By Poppy Marello
Both lower oil prices and an overall strengthening of worldwide GDP growth are the main drivers behind the improved profitability.
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By Richard Maslen
The latest schedule update from the airline includes the introduction of new non-stop services from Calgary to Terrace and Nanaimo; from Vancouver to Comox; from Toronto to Austin and from Montreal to Mexico City. Air Canada is also switching its existing Toronto-Kelowna and Toronto-Sydney, NS services to Air Canada rouge due to the high volumes of leisure traffic on the routes, while Air Canada rouge will also introduce a new domestic seasonal link between Calgary and Halifax.
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By Poppy Marello
The Austrian low-cost carrier is to launch flights from Bratislava to Brussels and Palma in summer 2015 and to facilitate its new services will operate one of the shortest international flights in the world between its base in Vienna and the Slovakian capital.
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By Richard Maslen
The airline believes its low fares will appeal to the large Singapore student population in Melbourne. According to data from the Australian Department of Education, there are 21,069 Singaporean students enrolled in education institutions in Victoria, as of September this year. They include students in university, pre-university courses, schools and non-award programmes.
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The US government is not wavering from its Open Skies policy and will negotiate Open Skies deals with any friendly country that is interested, despite calls for government to roll back liberalization in order to protect the US airline industry, a senior US Department of State official said.
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Air Canada, which continues to aggressively expand its international network, will add Dubai in 2015.
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By Victoria Moores
Despite its ongoing drive to attract business travelers, easyJet has no plans to introduce codeshare or interline agreements with other airlines.
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By Adrian Schofield
Singapore-based low-cost carrier (LCC) Scoot has revealed one of the new routes it will introduce with its Boeing 787 deliveries, adding Melbourne as its fourth Australian destination.
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Vienna Airport has completed a 9,500 sq m project to remodel its Pier West and C-gates area, which now offers a continuous, spacious gate area, a high-quality culinary offerings and a brighter, more pleasant overall atmosphere.
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Air Seychelles launched 2X-weekly Airbus A320 service to Antananarivo and 3X-weekly service to Mumbai. It also began 2X-weekly Airbus A320 service to Dar es Salaam. Ethiopian Airlines has begun 3X-weekly Doha service.

By Poppy Marello
The French premium start-up has reportedly announced a new route between Newark and London, to begin in March 2015.
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