Routes Update

By Poppy Marello
A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using social media to communicate with their customers. We’ve broken the report down to analyse each social media platform separately, and add some of our own insights.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Red Wings has committed to receive three aircraft on lease from the manufacturer during the first half of this year. They will be operated by the carrier under an initial three year lease term but this is open to extension subject to success of the new regional expansion.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The new route strategy into Italy will see airberlin introduce a new daily service from Stuttgart to Rome from March 29, 2015, operated by an Airbus A320, as well as a 17 times weekly, up to three times daily link from Stuttgart to Milan Linate from May 2015, flown by a Bombardier Dash 8-Q400. In addition, starting the same month, airberlin will expand its service on the existing Stuttgart to Venice route to a daily summer schedule.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using social media to communicate with their customers. We’ve broken the report down to analyse each social media platform separately, and add some of our own insights.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The confirmation of the landmark link ends over a year of speculation about the service after Gu Zhongqin, president of Xinjiang Airport Group, revealed in December 2013 that the airport authority was in discussions with the budget carrier to introduce the link, around a 4 hour and a half to five hour sector.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
bmi regional will introduce the three new routes from the start of the summer 2015 schedule in late March and will offer up to two rotations per day to Liege and up to three a day to Berne and Rotterdam. The Liege route will be served by an Embraer ERJ-135, the Rotterdam link with a larger ERJ-145 and the Berne service by a mix of the two aircraft types.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The US Treasury and Commerce Departments unveiled a new set of rules that ease travel and trade restrictions to the island, as long as US citizens certify they are travelling through one of 12 approved categories, which include family, educational and humanitarian trips.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The move comes after the airline applied to use a Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) mechanism to start stopgap flights to the area with the emergency arrangement, following the sudden closure of Queensland-based Syktrans.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
This year, Airbus have adjusted the prices for its “modern, comprehensive and fuel-efficient aircraft family,” increasing the average list prices of its aircraft by 3.27 percent across the product line, in comparison to 2014.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The launch is pending regulatory approval, and the airline will operate the route with its 291-seat Boeing 777-200LR wide-body jets, configured with 37 full flat-bed BusinessElite seats, 36 Economy Comfort seats and 218 standard Economy seats.
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Jones
Scheduling for Routes Americas will close on Friday 23 rd January, just one week from now! If your delegate package includes a diary of pre-scheduled
Airports & Networks

By Victoria Jones
There is just one week left to place your vote in the second regional heat of the 2015 Routes Awards. If you are a member of the airline network
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The new route, which will launch on a twice weekly basis from June 19, 2015, is the latest in a series of moves by the budget airline to reinforce its position as the largest operator in Gdansk and will be the only direct flight between Aberdeen and Poland.
Airports & Networks

By Routes Marketing Team
Want to know how to make the most of your time at Routes events? Join our webinar on Wednesday 21 January to find out more
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
At Routesonline we've decided to take a look back at the news breaking the same week in previous years and revisit it one or two years later to see what’s happened since we released the news.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
This year we have expanded the depth of detail in our popular country by country air capacity statistics series. Every week Routesonline provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic market.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
This year we have expanded the depth of detail in our popular country by country air capacity statistics series. Every week Routesonline provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual international market.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The two governments resolved the air row between both countries, lifting the suspension of air services between the two, and allowing the designated airlines to resume air services from this month.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The new ‘Pharma Express’ route will see an Airbus A330-200F operate between Brussels and Basel and then on to Doha on a twice weekly basis from January 28, 2015 with flights every Wednesday and Saturday.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
For the maximum permissible period of seven months from November 7, 2014, the extension of the contract will see Changi Airports International (CAI) continuing to work alongside GACA to strengthen the position of KFIA in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
Kalstar Aviation, which is based in the Indonesian province of Kalimantan on Borneo Island will lease the aircraft from Aldus Aviation in Ireland.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The new 97 tonne MTOW option for the A321neo will have the longest range of any single aisle airliner at 4,000 nautical miles and is viewed as a successor to the Boeing 757 which remains in service with US majors American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines on longer distance routes across the Atlantic, to Hawaii and to Latin America.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
Two of Britain’s biggest airports recorded the highest passenger numbers ever in 2014, alongside many other UK airports who have recorded an increase in passengers since 2013.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
American low-cost carrier, jetBlue has recently launched a social media campaign to encourage passengers to be more considerate of one another.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The closure of the carrier follows a ruling from the European Commission that the Cypriot government had breached rules on support for struggling companies when it offered state support to the ailing carrier between 2007 and 2013 and that the carrier must repay over €65 million of illegal state aid.
Airports & Networks