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The ULCC will operate more routes to Cancun this winter than any other US airline.

The latest network additions by the airline partners come despite the US Justice Department’s efforts to block the alliance.

The Reykjavik-based startup has revealed the first two destinations in the US it plans to serve as the airline pursues a low-cost long-haul connecting strategy between Europe and the US via Iceland.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

The carrier is also buttressing its domestic route network from BOS next year.

Eleven new leisure routes are being added to the Denver-based airline’s network.

Routes profiles Air Senegal, the World Routes 2021 attendee that has just revised the launch plans for its inaugural route to the US.

The airline last served the US airport between May 2018 and January 2019 when it competed with now defunct carrier WOW Air.

The LCC will fly to Costa Rica from Houston and Baltimore.

A trio of new US cities are set to join the Dallas-based carrier’s route map.

Portland, Key West and Jackson Hole are joining the Las Vegas-based airline’s network.

Southwest sees O'Hare as the only path to grow in Chicago.

Fort Myers becomes the 12th airport served by Southwest from Louisville.

Year-over-year, the airline will fly a solid schedule in July.

US leisure carrier Sun Country is hoping to extend the suspension of service to a chunk of its domestic network for a further three months.

JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines have applied for emergency exemptions to the minimum service order outlined in the US government’s CARES Act.

The second largest carrier at Baltimore/Washington International will increase its presence at the airport this spring.

Southwest Airlines will launch daily flights into Northern Kentucky International Airport from Chicago Midway and Baltimore Washington International from June 4, 2017. The no-frills operator has been keeping a close eye on the Cincinnati market since Delta Air Lines started to downsize its own operations from the city.

Ghanaian start-up carrier Goldstar Air is confident that next year will mark the end of many years of planning and will finally see it launch short-and long-haul operations from Kotaka International Airport in Accra.

Non-stop air seats from the US mainland to Martinique have increased by 193 percent this winter comparing the upcoming December 1, 2015 to March 31, 2016 peak season versus the same period in 2014-2015. The spike comes as a result of new non-stop service from the three new Northeast gateways of New York, Boston, and Baltimore/Washington, DC via Norwegian and an expansion in American Airlines flights from Miami.

July 2015 was the first time that more than 2.3 million passengers travelled through BWI Marshall in one month. The previous monthly record for passenger traffic at BWI Marshall was July 2012 with 2.22 million passengers.

Although not formally advertised by the airline as yet, the proposed four times weekly flights between Keflavik International Airport, serving the Icelandic capital Reykjavik, and both Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal and Lester B Pearson International Airport in Toronto are displayed in its website booking engine. This displays four times weekly links on each route launching from May 12, 2016 for Montreal and May 20, 2016 for Toronto.

Only two years after launching its long-haul operation, Norwegian will now be the largest foreign airline at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport in terms of number of routes as it continues to grow its capacity from the US, a market it now serves with 31 direct routes from Europe, and now the Caribbean.

The aircraft will be delivered to WOW air in mid-March in a single-class 200-seat configuration. They will enter into service on the airline’s new routes between Reykjavik and the United States, with flights to Boston beginning on March 27, 2015 and to Washington DC on May 8, 2015.

The Icelandic carrier plans to extend its Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport flight schedule, operating services between BWI and Reykjavik a month earlier than planned.