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The carrier is launching, resuming routes from its major hubs.

The ULCC has blamed a “stupid and illogical” tax imposed by the Hungarian government.

The airport will offer a permanent supply in partnership with TotalEnergies.

The Canadian carriers’ new codeshare accord also includes Air Transat placing its code on a host of WestJet’s North America routes.

The carrier is adding back service from Toronto and Quebec City to Paris.

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

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

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

A panel of airport leaders are optimistic that traffic will return to 2019 levels sooner than has been predicted.

The LCC said ORK's operator extended a COVID-19 recovery scheme at the airport until October 2022, providing an incentive to reopen the base with two aircraft.

Corsair is adding a third route between France and Pointe-à-Pitre this winter.

The network expansion is concentrated on cities with large Moroccan diaspora communities.

French MPs have voted in favor of suspending domestic airline flights that can be made by direct train.

Greece is a major focus for Wizz Air’s new routes, while easyJet is adding domestic services in France and the UK.

More than 40 new routes have been added to the carrier’s summer schedule.

Volotea plans to add competition to a market that has been left with only one operator following the bankruptcy of Aigle Azur.

Two new short-haul routes will start from Zurich and three from Geneva this summer, but the airline does not expect demand to pick-up until the third quarter of the year.

France’s national carrier expects to operate up to 55% of its 2019 domestic schedule over the Christmas period.

The Irish LCC is already the largest operator at the airport by capacity and plans to further increase its footprint during the upcoming winter season.

With COVID-19 travel restrictions easing in parts of the world, airlines are gradually rebuilding their networks. Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week: airBaltic’s new route to Dublin; Air New Zealand resuming flights to Tokyo; and Luxair re-entering a market it last served in 2007.

This week: American Airlines expands European focus; new Bordeaux route for AirBaltic; and Pakistan International Airlines to fly Karachi–Bangkok.

Airport Strategy & Marketing provides expert insight into three of this week's stand-out new routes

From the start of the Summer 2016 schedules on March 27, 2016, easyJet will introduce a new six times weekly domestic connection between Bordeaux and Marseille and a four times weekly link between Bordeaux and Berlin. A couple of weeks later a new four times weekly link from Bordeaux to Barcelona will be introduced from April 15, 2016, while a three times weekly service to Venice will follow on April 17, 2016.

The Barcelona-headquartered carrier, established by the original founders of Vueling, has developed bases in France, Italy and Spain after first launching flights in April 2012 from Marco Polo Airport in Venice, Italy using a fleet of Boeing 717-200s. It arrived in the Bordeaux market in 2012 and based on this month’s schedules the city’s Mérignac Airport now the fifth largest point in its network and second largest in France after Nantes Atlantique Airport.

CSA Czech Airlines is introducing five additional European destinations for its 2015 summer schedule, in addition to another five which were announced last autumn.