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EasyJet will add a new Italian destination to its network during the summer 2025 season with the launch of flights to Rimini.

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

The ULCC began serving Albania in 2017 from Budapest and will this summer offer more than 40 routes from the country.

After 15 years of negotiations, the EU and Ukraine have finally reached an agreement on a common aviation area.

The planned expansion from Zagreb comes as the Irish carrier pushed up its annual passenger traffic forecast on the back of growth in summer bookings.

Helvetic inaugurates BSL base while Eurowings launches lapland flights.

The carrier will base two E190s at BSL for the summer travel season.

Wizz Air is stepping up competition with Ryanair at Bari in southern Italy, while the Hungarian carrier’s Abu Dhabi offshoot is also growing.

A third destination is being added to the carrier’s route network, with four routes set to launch.

Wizz Air’s plans to open a new base in Palermo come as the Sicilian airport’s largest operator Ryanair prepares to increase its presence.

The Hungarian ULCC is stationing one Airbus A320 at the airport from May.

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Thirteen more routes have been added to Wizz Air’s summer schedule, taking the total number of new services being launched by the Central and Eastern Europe ULCC close to the 150 mark.

SkyWork is initially offering a single morning weekday rotation between London City and EuroAirport (plus a Sunday rotation) from July 19, 2015, but from September 1, 2015 it will add an evening rotation and a Saturday service to boost its schedule to 12 flights per week. All flights offer a continuation service from EuroAirport to Bern.

The basic details on the timescale for its C Series network debut were made as SWISS announced the conversion of ten of its 30 firm-ordered CS100 aircraft to the larger CS300 aircraft at the Paris Air Show. The original purchase agreement for 30 CS100 aircraft was signed by its parent company, Lufthansa, on SWISS’ behalf in 2009.

The new ‘Pharma Express’ route will see an Airbus A330-200F operate between Brussels and Basel and then on to Doha on a twice weekly basis from January 28, 2015 with flights every Wednesday and Saturday.

The budget airline will station a single Airbus A320 in Tuzla in June 2015 to open four new routes to Munich Memmingen and Oslo Torp, from June 26, 2015, and Frankfurt Hahn and Stockholm Skavsta from June 28, 2015. The addition of these services will grow its total network from Tuzla to nine destinations in five countries.

Basel has one of the highest concentrations of successful life sciences businesses in the world, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical technology organisations and this new link will provide a fast and reliable link into Russia and Asia for customers in the industry as well as the other industries that have grown up to support the healthcare market in Switzerland.

Budapest Airport, host of this year’s Routes Europe forum earlier this year, has reported positive returns from its meetings at this year’s World

Spanish low-cost carrier Vueling is to expand its services to Tenerife with the resumption of flights to the Island’s South Airport during summer 2014

Central and Eastern European low-cost carrier Wizz Air is to base a second Airbus A320 at Alexander the Great Airport in the Macedonian capital Skopje

EasyJet at the start of Summer 2013 season is expanding operation from Basel, with the launch of 2 weekly flights to Antalya and Catania flights