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JetBlue Airways has secured slots at London Gatwick (LGW) and London Stansted(STN), but was denied slots at London Heathrow (LHR), the UK’s largest airport.

Robin Hayes believes the US carrier’s entry into the transatlantic market will be “brilliantly timed.”

Miami and Phuket are among the airports being restored to the national carrier’s route map.

New transcontinental flights will operate alongside United routes from Newark, New Jersey.

The New York-based carrier expects high VFR traffic over the holiday.

The lifting of restrictions will see more international flights return to LIM.

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The carrier believes a US-UK travel corridor could be used as a template for more long-haul route resumptions.

Flights to Boston and New York are among the US mainland routes returning to the airline’s network.

The flag-carrier sees demand for cargo and transit passengers on the route.

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

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Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Los Angeles are among destinations returning.

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.

Montrose Regional Airport in western Colorado has secured its second new airline partner in as many weeks.

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

Airlines do not have to meet usual 80%-schedule standard.

Finnair expects to offer around 275 fewer daily flights this winter compared with last but hopes to boost frequencies during spring 2021.

The Belgian flag-carrier will increase its flying to the continent by 40% compared to now from the beginning of December to early January.

The bilateral deal allows for the potential launch of new routes between the two countries.

Flights from Bogota and Medellin will connect to 16 cities, including Miami and New York.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week: RwandAir swaps Gatwick for Heathrow, Ukraine International Airlines returns to New York via Iceland, and Alaska Airlines adds another sun route from Los Angeles.

Israel’s flag-carrier will next month begin operating scheduled flights from Tel Aviv to Athens, London, New York and Paris.

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.

The number of routes to be operated is way down on the more than 100 in October 2019.