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Virgin Australia’s new seasonal flights to Launceston, Wizz Air adding connections from Hungary and Romania and Saudia returning to Manchester are among the latest new route announcements and services resuming.

The airline has outlined a number of routes to be restarted or expanded in terms of frequencies.

If the plans are approved, the Spanish carrier will place its IB code on domestic and international routes operated by Alaska Airlines from Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carriers' networks.

The routes are mostly to popular leisure destinations in Europe.

Frequencies between Madrid and two Latin American capitals have been increased.

Fresh from announcing flights to Madrid from Guadalajara, the Mexican airline has confirmed the launch of another route to the Spanish capital.

Mexico’s flag-carrier is increasing capacity to Spain by more than 20% with a new long-haul route from Guadalajara.

The US is set to receive services from the Spanish leisure carrier, which operates transatlantic services from MAD.

A new route to Dubai is one of a number of additions the flag-carrier is making.

The European Commission is looking into the impact of the proposed deal on 70 O&D city pairs.

The airline is converting 767 passenger aircraft into freighters for new all-cargo service.

The Spanish carrier plans to operate flights to 18 Latin America destinations in 16 countries from July.

The proposed codeshare covers an initial 24 routes from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.

Morocco’s national carrier plans to double the number of routes it offers to Barcelona.

The airline aims to connect Lisbon and Madrid with the Caribbean.

Several domestic trunk routes are expected to reach 2019 capacity levels again.

Blue Air will compete with Hungary’s Wizz Air on a city-pair basis.

As well as restarting nine routes, the carrier will begin a new service between Seattle and London Heathrow.

The carrier also plans to start a new Brussels-Frankfurt connection this summer.

The Qatar-UAE flights will be the first scheduled nonstop routes since mid-2017. Additionally, Qatar’s flag-carrier has signed an expanded codeshare deal with Iberia.

China’s aviation authority has given the go-ahead for carriers to start four new international passenger services, including flights to Madrid and Toronto.

Total seat capacity is expected to be about 25-30% less than summer 2019, with COVID-19 still causing severe restrictions in many of its destinations.

As British Airways begins a second route to Pakistan, Routes looks at the state of the country’s somewhat underexploited aviation market.

More routes are returning to Delta Air Lines’ long-haul network during the upcoming winter and summer seasons, but some destinations like Mumbai and Osaka are not currently scheduled to resume.