Lufthansa low-cost subsidiary Germanwings will take over Lufthansa’s last remaining European point-to-point service, Düsseldorf-Zurich, on Jan. 8, Germanwings spokesperson Heinz Joachim Schoettes confirmed to ATW.
Korean flag carrier Korean Air has extended its codeshare agreement with LAN Peru. The new contract will bring an extension of its existing Seoul-Santiago via Los Angeles route, with an additional schedule from Los Angeles to Peru’s capital, Lima.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) regional affiliate SilkAir will start daily flights to Bali’s Denpasar International from early December, in time for the European winter holiday season.
American Airlines is laying out a case for how it thinks the US Department of Transportation (DOT) should seize Delta Air Lines’ Seattle-Haneda flights and reallocate it to the Dallas-based carrier for flights from Los Angeles without re-starting the full reallocation process.
Vietnamese low-cost carrier (LCC) Vietjet Air is looking to introduce a raft of codeshares with “major airlines” next year, MD Luu Duc Khanh said in an interview.
US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently awarded $10.2 million FAA grants to six airports to reduce emissions and improve air quality through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) program.
NAV CANADA—an efficiency initiative led by Canada’s air navigation services provider (ANSP)—has demonstrated the viability and safety of aircraft varying speeds and altitudes while transiting the North Atlantic (NAT) in airspace beyond the range of conventional surveillance systems.
Orbis hopes the new MD-10 will take to the sky next year and has provided Routesonline with an update in the progress to turn the old freighter aircraft into a fully fledged flying teaching hospital.
According to Ryanair, the first aircraft is due for delivery in March 2015 and will be used to introduce routes to London, Milan and Warsaw, with three more units due to arrive later in 2015. These will be used for an additional ten more new routes which will be announced in the New Year.
United Airlines launched its Los Angeles to Melbourne route this week, believing local traffic in both cities can buoy the new service, SVP-worldwide sales Dave Hilfman said in an interview.
Iceland-based low-cost carrier WOW Air will launch 4X-weekly seasonal Reykjavik Keflavik-Baltimore Washington International Airport (BWI) Airbus A321 services from June 4, 2015.
Dortmund is the 2nd destination from Sibiu after the London Luton service began operations on 14 June. The service is initially to operate twice weekly, with one of its Airbus A320 aircraft.
The carrier has been presently focussing on charter and ACMI work but will begin to dip its toes back into the scheduled market using a mixed fleet of Fokker 50 turboprops and two Sukhoi Superjets after signing deal to become European launch customer for the long-range SSJ100LR.
