Airports & Networks

For our Fun Friday article this week we’ve decided to show you what we’ve been getting up to here at Routes these past few days.

The Star Alliance member first introduced flights to Łódź in March 2014 with a six times weekly connection to the German city of Munich, providing important connection opportunities via its global alliance partner Lufthansa from its Bavarian hub.

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.

The landmark new Use and Lease Agreement will for the first time allow revenue sharing between Reagan National and Dulles International and allows as much as $300 million in revenue to be shifted from Reagan National to help offset operating costs for Dulles International over the next ten years.

The Smith Commission examined the report put forward by bosses at Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports arguing abolition of the charge, and has recommended it will now gain control over the APD tax in Scotland.

Etihad Airways and Air Seychelles have announced changes to their flight schedules on the Abu Dhabi-Seychelles route, offering their guests more choice and greater flexibility when travelling to and from Mahé in the Republic of Seychelles.

There is just one week left to place your vote in the first regional heat of the 2015 Routes Awards. If you are a member of the airline network

Next Year’s Routes Europe will be held at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) which is located just outside the city centre and there is

Vietnam’s low-cost carrier, VietJetAir, has received the delivery of its first Airbus A320 directly from Airbus at a ceremony in Toulouse.

Norway’s Avinor Air Navigation Services has implemented its Southern Norway Airspace Project (SNAP) with Point Merge arrival sequencing, making it the first air navigation services provider (ANSP) to implement a second Point Merge project.

Eurocontrol, the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation, has signed a joint work program agreement with the European Defence Agency (EDA) aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two organizations in the domain of the Single European Sky ATM research program, SESAR.

A consortium led by German airport management company Fraport in partnership with Greece’s Copelouzos Group has been selected as the preferred investor for a 40-year operating concession for 14 regional airports in Greece.

Finnair is to launch services to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, the Israeli city of Eilat, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura on the Canary Islands, as well as Madeira in Portugal, for winter 2015-2016.

The new combined contract will operate from February 1, 2015 until January 31, 2017 and may be extended for a further period of a maximum of one year, following the initial two year period, subject to a satisfactory review undertaken after the initial period of 18 months of operation.

The US carrier confirms SkyWest has purchased seven E175s from the Brazilian manufacturer to fly on its behalf under a capacity purchase agreement (CPA). The first three aircraft will arrive in the summer of 2015 and will be used to introduce daily flights from Seattle to Milwaukee and Oklahoma City and from Portland to St Louis from July 1, 2015.

With the Routes Americas event in Denver only months away, we decided to look at some of the fastest growing airports in America.

The news came after the low-cost carrier’s chief executive, Tony Fernandes, revealed the intent to resume the popular route via the social networking site, Twitter.

Austria-based airberlin subsidiary FlyNiki launched its first long-haul route with daily Vienna-Abu Dhabi Airbus A320 services Nov. 24, featuring 12 business- and 132 economy-class seats with Wi-Fi service.

Juneyao Airlines’ low-cost (LCC) subsidiary Jiuyuan Airlines has postponed its inaugural flight—from Guangzhou to Zhanjiang—to Dec. 2 following approval of its routes application.

Russia’s Sheremetyevo International Airport has again postponed the deadline for Vladivostok International Airport share offers from Nov. 21 to Dec. 12, due to numerous requests from buyers to clarify the tender documentation.

The route is expected to be popular with Belfast’s business passengers and is expected to generate 50,000 departing passengers per year. Belfast has a well-established Business and Financial Services sector, and business customers will be able to reach the city’s business district 10 minutes after leaving the airport due to the location of George Best Belfast City Airport.

The new agreement made by the US Department for Transportation will allow unlimited market access for US and Mexican carriers.

FAA is now allowing three parallel “optimized profile descents” into the Washington DC-area’s three major airports, an airspace modification the agency said will save airlines 2.5 million gallons of fuel per year.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines could be planning a competitive response to Spirit Airlines’ recent decision to add seven new routes to Mexico and Central America from Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport, one analyst said in an interview.

Greece-based Aegean Airlines has announced its summer 2015 operations will include a network of 134 destinations, including 100 international and 34 domestic routes in 42 countries.