Routes Update

The Lufthansa Group has successfully transferred its Dusseldorf – Zurich route from Lufthansa to Germanwings.

The carrier currently operates two flights per week to the UK capital from Hanoi and two from Ho Chi Minh City. These will move across to Heathrow from March 30, 2015 and a third weekly rotation on the Hanoi route introduced from July 4, 2015. These will initially be flown by a Boeing 777-200ER but will be switched to Vietnam Airlines’ new Boeing 787 Dreamliner from July 1, 2015.

The introduction of the second A380 into the Manchester market will mean that half of Emirates’ 16 daily flights to the UK will be operated by an A380 from the start of next month.

Brussels Airlines this year will operate 824 charter flights for holiday specialist Thomas Cook, an increase of 26% year-on-year.

The low-cost carrier, a subsidiary of fastjet has received confirmation from the Zambian Civil Aviation Authority that is has successfully completed the critical ‘Phase 1’ of its application for an Air Operating Certificate (AOC).

Our Fun Friday instalment this week comes from Chapman Freeborn, the global aircraft charter specialist.

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According to data from OAG Schedules Analyser, Southwest Airlines has more than doubled its departure capacity from Colorado's largest air gateway between 2008 and 2014 to hold a 27.1 per cent share of available departure seats last year.

According to data from OAG Schedules Analyser, overall departure seat capacity from DEN increased 0.9 per cent from 30.79 million annual seats in 2013 to 31.05 million seats last year. This return to growth followed declines of 0.9 per cent in 2011, 0.6 per cent in 2012 and 2.4 per cent in 2013.

Bristol Airport and airBaltic have topped the charts in a recent report by OAG which has revealed its punctuality league for 2014, highlighting on-time performance results for airlines and airports.

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.

The Low-cost subsidiary of Kenya Airways has been licensed to operate flights to nine major destinations in East Africa.

During the inauguration ceremony for the Qatar Airways A350XWB, the GCEO of the airline, Mr Akbar Al Baker responded to questions including those relating to future routes for the A350.

The SkyTeam alliance member initially planned to debut the aircraft on a weekly service to New York from April 12, 2015 and a three times weekly route to Montevideo from April 13, 2015. However, this week it has emerged that the aircraft will instead be used on the airline’s Madrid – Miami route from April 12, 2015, originally due to be served by an Airbus A330-200.

Uganda’s ‘adopted’ airline planned to launch its Entebbe – Nairobi route on January 10, 2015 after it was granted 5th freedom rights by the Uganda CAA. However, delays securing slots at Jomo Kanyatta International Airport in Kenya's capital has delayed the launch.

The carrier will introduce new scheduled services from Amsterdam to Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK; Krakow, Poland and Montpellier, France from May 18, 2015 with flights to be operated by its KLM cityhopper regional business.

Here's our January 2015 instalment of our regular series of industry trivia questions where we ask readers to vote on a particular subject during the month before revealing the actual results at the end of the month.

The filings, citing underutilisation of a scarce resource, have been prompted by the US DOT's decision last month to review the public interest served by Delta Air Lines' Seattle - Tokyo route after the US major reduced its frequency from daily to a basic seasonal schedule.

With the addition of the city of Amsterdam, the total number of European destinations offered by Qatar Airways will grow to 34 – just under a quarter of the airline’s total route map. The carrier has witnessed rapid growth in its 17 years of operation and now operates a fleet of 146 aircraft to 146 business and leisure destinations across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) low-cost carrier Air Arabia is to set up an operation in Jordan after agreeing terms to acquire a 49 per cent stake in local carrier Petra Airline. The agreement will see the carrier relaunched as Air Arabia Jordan before the end of the first quarter of this year and will see Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport established as a fifth hub for the expanding low-cost business.

Ryanair will be basing an additional Boeing 737-800 at Athens International Airport during summer 2015, increasing its based fleet to four aircraft and plans to double its Athens traffic to approximately 2.2 million passengers per annum.