Routes Insight

The LCC plans to open domestic and international routes from the new base.

Capacity nudged back above the 79 million mark but remains more than 30% down on 2019 levels.

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

The carrier, which serves three airports in Nigeria, has not flown to Enugu since 2019.

Air Arabia is launching a new route to Uganda at the same time as Uganda Airlines is entering the United Arab Emirates market.

Nine new routes are being added to the airline’s route map from the Texan airport.

Ryanair’s domestic expansion in Sweden, Swoop adding a fourth destination in Mexico, and Austrian Airlines returning to Montreal are among the latest new route announcements and service resumptions.

Sixteen peak-time slots at Newark Liberty will be made available to a low-cost operator in order to increase competition with United Airlines.

The Connecticut-Florida route will be the fifth connection the carrier is set to launch on the east coast this fall.

The network addition coincides with the Expo 2020 Dubai event, taking place from October until March 2022.

Sri Lanka’s flag-carrier is returning to the Colombo-Paris market at the same time as Air France is preparing to enter it.

Additional frequencies are being added by the Japanese carrier on select international routes as passenger traffic recovers.

The carrier cites ‘soaring vaccination rates’ in Cuba as one reason why it is restarting flights to the island nation.

Transavia France is adding a sixth new route from Paris Orly for the winter season.

Two new long-haul routes from Stockholm Arlanda are among the latest network additions as Finland’s flag-carrier responds to 'increased travel demand' across its key markets.

The network growth includes a new route between Pune and Raipur.

The world’s largest A380 operator has been using the Boeing 777-300ER aircraft on the route.

Although global capacity reduced by nearly 600,000 seats, there were some brighter spots as Canada reopened its borders to vaccinated travelers.

The Canadian carrier has resumed international flights and announced plans to launch a new route to Kingston in Jamaica.

The carrier’s winter schedule will see it return to Birmingham for the first time since 2018.

Aeroflot’s latest long-haul leisure service will launch in October.

The service increases to Russia and Saudi Arabia follow additions made to the airline’s South Africa network.

LCC easyJet is targeting leisure travelers seeking a warm-weather vacation with its new route to Jordan.

Virgin Australia’s new seasonal flights to Launceston, Wizz Air adding connections from Hungary and Romania and Saudia returning to Manchester are among the latest new route announcements and services resuming.

The turboprop operator is building back its network from its Toronto Bishop Airport base.