Routes Update

The UK’s Secretary of State for Transport, Rt Hon Philip Hammond MP, officially opens Birmingham Airport’s new terminal today (May 13) at a VIP event

Russian freight carrier AirBridgeCargo Airlines (ABC), the scheduled division of the Volga-Dnepr Group, is to offer flights to Chicago, its first

Afghanistan carrier Safi Airways is to inaugurate flights from Kabul to Delhi. The airline will operate four flights per week on the route from June

A large group of spectators were forced to endure a nervous penalty shoot-out as route development and commercial executives from airlines and

In summer 2012 a new international airport will open in southeastern Spain with ambitions to become one of the main gateways to the region. Región de

Qatar Airways has used this year’s Arabian Travel Market to announce the latest stage of its network growth. Having already opened services to five

Virgin Blue Holdings, which has operations under the Virgin Blue, V Australia and Pacific Blue names, has been rebranded as Virgin Australia Holdings

Air Canada resumed service at the City Airport in downtown Toronto on May 1, providing customers with additional options for flying Canada's busiest

Air China is to introduce a seventh daily flight between Beijing and Hong Kong from July 1 as it seeks to increase its share of this busy and

New Caribbean low-fare carrier REDJet is set to launch operations this month with flights linking Bridgetown, Barbados; Georgetown, Guyana; Kingston

This section of your weekly update will keep you up to date on all the key aircraft orders and deliveries and what they could mean for the route

CONDOR TO OFFER WINTER LINKS TO ANTALYA German carrier Condor is to add winter flights to the Turkish city of Antalya from Dusseldorf and Frankfurt

KOREAN AIR BOOSTS CONNECTIONS FROM HONOLULU South Korea’s national carrier, Korean Air, is to modify the schedule of one of its two daily flights

YEMENIA REDUCES CAPACITY TO GUANGZHOU Yemenia reduced capacity on its Sana’a – Dubai – Guangzhou route to twice weekly on May 1 having served the link

JETBLUE BOOSTS FORT LAUDERDALE TO NASSAU CAPACITY JetBlue Airways has confirmed it will introduce a third daily rotation on its flight from Ft

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CLOSES AIRTRAN ACQUISITION US low-fare carrier pioneer Southwest Airlines has closed its purchase of all of the outstanding common

Airline Route Update is a comprehensive summary of route announcements, capacity increases and codeshare details from this past week. For further

Following on from a previous survey highlighting some of the strangest, most unusual requests its staff have received over the past few years, Virgin

Routes is pleased to reveal that long-haul, low-cost carrier AirAsia X will be using Routesonline's Route Exchange platform for the placement process

As exclusively revealed by The HUB last month, Vietnam Airlines is to inaugurate flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to London this winter

Aeromexico is to boost its presence in the competitive Mexico - US market with two new routes to California and increased frequencies on three

Australian carrier Strategic Airlines has made a formal application to the International Air Services Commission (IASC) for permission to launch

Taiwanese airline Far Eastern Air Transport (FAT) has returned to the air after an almost three year grounding due to financial problems. The

American Airlines and Delta Air Lines have applied to the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to operate more flights into Brazil by the end of this

Bamako is the capital and largest city of the land-locked West African country of Mali, and currently estimated to be the fastest growing city in