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The airline will operate 95 transborder routes during next year’s summer season.

The airline is offering a limited number of new routes in its summer schedule.

Alongside BA’s latest transatlantic plans for summer 2022, Atlantic Joint Business partners American Airlines, Finnair, Iberia and LEVEL are also increasing connectivity between the US and Europe.

Alaska joined oneworld, which also includes Qatar Airways and American Airlines, at the end of March.

The airline says leisure bookings are exceeding pre-COVID-19 levels.

Belize will be served by Alaska Airlines from Los Angeles and Seattle, beginning in November.

The Central American nation will become the fourth overseas country served by the carrier.

The planned transpacific route is returning to the US carrier’s network after a 22-year absence.

The Las Vegas-based carrier is confident that leisure travel will drive the recovery.

Portland, Key West and Jackson Hole are joining the Las Vegas-based airline’s network.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at ZIPAIR Tokyo’s second passenger service; the latest connection planned between Seattle and London Heathrow; and a new leisure destination joining airBaltic’s network.

More routes are returning to Delta Air Lines’ long-haul network during the upcoming winter and summer seasons, but some destinations like Mumbai and Osaka are not currently scheduled to resume.

The US carriers are this month expanding their codeshare partnership to cover a further 60 routes.

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

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.

Seattle becomes the only mainland market served by the airline other than LAX and SFO.

After being denied a request to suspend service to dozens of cities across the US, Spirit Airlines has asked again for certain destinations to be removed from its CARES Act obligations.

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

JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines have applied for emergency exemptions to the minimum service order outlined in the US government’s CARES Act.

The carrier is slashing daily flying to Japan in response to COVID-19.

This week: British Airways is adding a 27th destination in the US to its network; WestJet plans to increase its presence in Boston; and Sun Country Airlines is expanding to Canada for the first time.

Alaska Airlines will significantly expand at Newark Liberty International Airport and introduce new services from Portland, Oregon and San Diego, California from the start of November 2016, with new service to San Jose, California beginning in March 2017.

Delta and Virgin Atlantic’s joint venture is based around offering customers more options and a seamless experience between the US and the UK. The airlines are continuously evaluating their joint Transatlantic network to match the right aircraft to the right destinations and the summer 2017 network growth and route switches are a clear example of this.

The network growth will be facilitated by the expansion of the airline’s Embraer E-Jet fleet, which is flown on its behalf through a capacity purchase agreement with SkyWest Airlines. The first three E175 aircraft arrived earlier this summer and were introduced into passenger operations at the start of this month, including launching a new link between Portland and St Louis.