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Four new destinations are joining Allegiant Air’s network, including Minneapolis-St Paul, the home of rival Sun Country.

Routes profiles Avianca, the flag-carrier of Colombia and Routes Americas 2021 virtual attendee.

The Indian carrier is poised to add destinations in the US to its long-haul network.

Approval is being sought to begin scheduled flights from Vietnam during the third quarter of 2021.

The regional service has been suspended since May 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The carrier expects a jump in demand in July as the US market appears be normalizing.

The airline will become the only African carrier to offer a nonstop link between Senegal and the US.

Routes details a selection of new air services scheduled to start this month.

As Indian carrier Vistara signals its intention to begin flying to the US, Taiwanese airline Starlux has made headway in its efforts to serve the North American country.

New seasonal long-haul routes to Croatia, Greece and Iceland are set to begin in July.

Including the latest additions, JetBlue customers now have access to more than 80 destinations in Qatar’s network from its main DOH hub.

Denver becomes the second base to be opened by the carrier in the past six months.

Iceland’s decision to open its borders to vaccinated travelers is prompting the carrier to launch a new route to the country in May, as well as resuming two other services.

The carrier hopes the point-to-point routes will stimulate business travel this summer as well as attracting leisure traffic.

The carrier also plans to start a new Brussels-Frankfurt connection this summer.

The carrier has revived plans to add flights between West Africa and the US.

The network additions increase the US carrier’s footprint from Las Vegas to 44 destinations and Miami to 27.

The carrier intends to fully restore its domestic networks in Norway and Sweden to meet demand over the Christmas period.

Total seat capacity is expected to be about 25-30% less than summer 2019, with COVID-19 still causing severe restrictions in many of its destinations.

The US carrier plans to launch eight new routes and add more flights to 19 destinations in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico.

The airline’s long-haul flying is curtailed because of COVID-19, with only three US destinations being served.

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.

United Airlines is beefing up its international network with the addition of three routes to destinations in Africa, two to India and two to Hawaii.

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