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CEO Scott Kirby has confirmed the airline plans to return to New York John F Kennedy next year and compete aggressively on routes to the US West Coast.

The carrier already has a major presence in both cities' secondary airports.

The carrier will serve nine US destinations when the Doha-SFO service gets underway Dec. 15.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at the latest route being opened by Eastern Airways; Jazeera Airways’ plans to enter the Bangladesh market; and United Airlines’ restoration of a service to Germany.

The US carrier is restarting nonstop service to Shanghai later this month and in November plans to resume flights on almost 30 international routes, targeting leisure and VFR traffic.

The Japanese LCC previously operated 10 Japan-Taiwan routes before suspending flights in March because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The carrier is restarting service to destinations in Africa, South Asia and the US.

Two Mexican airlines are adding new services from the city despite COVID-19.

ExpressJet, the regional carrier which operates routes exclusively for United, will cease operations at the end of next month.

The Tennessee regional airport will get service to both Houston and Chicago on Oct. 1.

A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports seek to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

Adelaide in Australia and Auckland in New Zealand are returning to Qatar Airways’ network later this month, with flights to two more US gateways resuming in September.

United Airlines plans to resume service on nearly 30 international routes in September.

ExpressJet will no longer be a regional affiliate for United Airlines after the Chicago-based carrier opted to consolidate its Embraer ERJ-145 flying with CommutAir.

The airline sees demand coming back despite COVID-19 pandemic in US.

Mint service from Newark to LAX and SFO will come first.

The move is just the first step in what the former rivals say will be an extensive partnership.

Routes' latest update on how airlines and airports across North America are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The US Department of Transportation relied on precedent in its ruling regarding regional carrier Cape Air.

American Airlines has applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to halt or curtail flying to a dozen markets across the country.

Most US transborder services will be eliminated as Canada and the US scramble to contain COVID-19 coronavirus.