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The progressive reopening of long-haul markets will see Europe’s passenger traffic rebound in 2022, but the pace of recovery is happening at two speeds and air connectivity remains “markedly degraded” compared with 2019 levels.

The SkyTeam partners have been given the go-ahead to expand an agreement that has been in place for the past three years.

Italy’s new national carrier plans to expand its network to 89 routes by 2025.

World Routes 2021 host Milan and Routes Europe 2022 host Bergen are among the European destinations set to receive new routes.

The new Italian flag-carrier will launch additional US routes in 2022.

France’s flag-carrier becomes the third European airline to operate the aircraft type alongside airBaltic and Swiss.

The new Italian flag-carrier will operate the routes for at least seven months.

Routes to Copenhagen, Paris and Rome will be available from October.

The tie-up becomes the Greek airline’s seventh interline agreement.

CEO Ed Sims says the carrier will proceed with 'caution' when building back its European network.

Alitalia’s successor plans to launch four long-haul routes to the US later this year.

Canada’s flag-carrier is rebuilding its European network with the resumption of service to Munich and plans to launch seasonal flights to Milan.

Eighteen routes to destinations in nine countries are being launched as part of the ULCC’s latest expansion in Italy.

The move strengthens the ULCC’s presence in the Italian capital, from where it is set to have more than 470 departing weekly flights.

Past attempts at scheduled services from Balzano have failed economically.

The ULCC plans to offer more than 4 million departure seats from Italy during the current summer season—a huge increase from the 1.9 million available during summer 2019.

Blue Air will compete with Hungary’s Wizz Air on a city-pair basis.

As well as restarting nine routes, the carrier will begin a new service between Seattle and London Heathrow.

The airline says the demand environment will remain “choppy” until the wider rollout of COVID-19 vaccines.

The Italian start-up has outlined plans to fly domestic routes this summer.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Qatar Airways resuming Lagos; Wizz Air’s first Italian domestic routes; and American Airline adding Daytona Beach flights.

The carrier will launch five new routes from the airport in October.

The two carriers have agreed a codeshare deal less than four months after signing a Memorandum of Understanding to increase their cooperation.

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.

Romanian carrier Blue Air will grow its network at home and in Italy later this year.