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This month Air China has added its latest US destination to its network after inaugurating flights between Beijing and Washington, its seventh destination in North America. The airline already offers flights from the Chinese capital to Honolulu, Houston, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco in the US and Vancouver in Canada.

The sale of the slot pair for the carrier’s daily Larnaca service - flights CY346 and CY347 - will result in Cyprus Airways switching its London operations to Stansted Airport from September 14, 2014.

JetBlue Airways has launched its new premium service, Mint, on an Airbus A321 flying between New York JFK and Los Angeles (LAX).

WestJet has launched daily Boeing 737-700 flights between St. John’s, Newfoundland and Dublin, its first-ever transatlantic service.

Philippine low-cost carrier (LCC) Cebu Pacific will operate direct flights from Manila to Sydney, Australia and Kuwait in September, to serve Filipino expatriates and open more opportunities for tourism.

United Airlines will launch daily Houston Intercontinental-Santiago, Chile service from Dec. 7, pending government approval.

Berlin-based Germania is expanding its operations from Hamburg. The carrier will launch weekly flights to Rhodos June 17.

The airline, like many other low-cost carriers, has been actively studying the launch of long-haul services across the Atlantic and this route is seen as WestJet testing the water before expanding its activities further.

Ahead of Routes Africa 2014, we take a little look at the latest Airlineroute.net and The Hub news content relating to the airlines in attendance at

The two destinations join Dubai in the network of Cebu Pacific Air's long-haul division which flies Airbus A330-300s configured in an all-Economy, 436 seat arrangement.

NATS, the UK air traffic management company has today announced some new technology into its training facilities which it believes will help develop a new low-cost and flexible training concept for developing markets.

Kenya Airways has launched direct flights to Abuja in Nigeria from its hub at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, paving way for closer ties between the two countries.

Airport freight traffic, year-to-date, organized by world regions. Year-over-year percentage changes provided by Airports Council International.

Safety levels remain high within European airspace, but Eurocontrol’s Performance Review Commission (PRC) said occurrence reporting and incident analysis still need to be improved.

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Qatar Airways this week launched 4X-weekly Boeing 777-200 flights between Doha International Airport (DOH) and Miami International Airport (MIA).

With a focus on strengthening existing relationships with airlines and building new relationships with the broader business market and consumers, BAC’s Asian push signals a new era in the development of the airport as one of the growth gateways into Australia.

UK budget carrier easyJet has applied to join the London (Heathrow) Airlines Consultative Committee (LACC) and is refusing to rule out future operations from the UK hub.

Philippine Airlines (PAL) will cut services to Japan over the next few weeks, despite a recent boost to schedules between the two countries.

12th June 2014 On 30 th May 2014 Routes (part of UBM Live) and the Regional Tourism Organization of Southern Africa (RETOSA) signed a Memorandum of

Routes Silk Road , which, this year, will be held for the first time instead of Routes CIS, will take place 6-8 July in Tbilisi, the beautiful and

Routes Silk Road 2014 will take place from 6 – 8 July in Tbilisi, Georgia attracting the highest level of senior decision makers within aviation and

Routes Silk Road will take place from 6 – 8 July 2014 in Tbilisi, Georgia and will open with the Routes Silk Road Strategy Summit on Sunday 6 th July

With little over 3 weeks to go, Routes Silk Road is just around the corner so to ensure you’re well prepared for the event we’ve put together this