Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority

The latest airline route news, featuring network changes, schedule alterations, codeshares and interline agreements.

The Washington Airports Task Force (WATF) is adamantly opposed to any additional flights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) whatsoever.

Paul Bobson, Vice President of Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, speaks to Routes about its continued success and focus on connecting global capitals.

The management team at Washington Reagan National Airport have plans to keep flight disruptions to a minimum.

The airline will also open new SAN routes to Oregon and Florida.

The carrier’s summer schedule will include more transatlantic frequencies.

The initial phase of the codeshare partnership covers nearly 300 routes from Chicago O’Hare, Dubai, Houston and San Francisco.

The planned changes coincide with China dropping quarantine requirements for inbound travelers.

Boston, São Paulo and Caracas are among the destinations gaining additional flights.

United is the only airline flying between Washington Dulles and CPT.

The airport is benefiting from people moving inland from California’s coast, an executive tells Routes.

The LCC will fly to both Washington Dulles and Baltimore Washington from next April.

The route is the result of a recent awarding of frequencies by the US Transportation Department.

The battle between Delta Air Lines and United Airlines for three of the available four frequencies between the US and South Africa is nearing a conclusion—and both carriers are set to be winners.

The ADD-LFW-IAD route joins an existing one-stop service Ethiopian operates to Washington.

The carrier is now serving five US airports.

The project would follow a similar one completed at Washington National in 2021.

The carrier opened a new regional Dublin-UK route.

The airline is also increasing frequencies on existing routes from Dublin to both Chicago O’Hare and Washington Dulles.

The Star Alliance member will be operating to 12 US destinations by June.

The Atlanta-based carrier has pulled no punches in its response to United Airlines’ request to launch a second route to Cape Town in South Africa.

An order has been issued by the US Transportation Department that prevents regional carrier SkyWest from ending routes to 29 small communities until a replacement carrier has been found.

United hopes to begin flying between Washington and Cape Town from November but will face competition for the available weekly frequencies under the US-South Africa air services agreement.

The carrier is also planning to add frequencies on UK-US routes it has already relaunched.

The carrier will also resume suspended San Francisco service.