Routes Update

The Luxembourg based cargo airline is expanding its services to Vietnam, with the addition of a second flight into Ho Chi Minh City, and a fourth frequency to Hanoi.

It appears that Qatar Airways will inaugurate scheduled passenger flights with its new Airbus A350XWB from January 15, 2015 on the Doha – Frankfurt route. The Gulf carrier, the launch customer for the next-generation airliner, has already revealed the German city would be the first destination for the aircraft, but it has yet to confirm when the flights will launch.

We took a look at the top 20 airlines in the world by operating carrier, analysing the network capacity in December 2013 against the same month this year.

Emirates first introduced flights to Dar es Salaam in conjunction with its services to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. However, in March 2006 the airline initially split the route and introduced its first non-stop flights to the Tanzanian city, later establishing a dedicated daily flight to the destination from December 2006.

We’ve taken a look at the top 20 airports in the world in terms of departure capacity for December 2014.

Two years can be an eternity for a startup airline and there are examples in East Africa that some did not survive the first two months of operations before folding again. The same cannot be said for Fastjet, Tanzania which celebrating its second birthday.

Although the Airbus A380 has now been in passenger service for seven years there remains a lot of interest in the Super Jumbo and new routes are being

With an increasing number of airlines now operating the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, every month The HUB provides an update on the current Dreamliner flight

Every month The HUB will provide an update on the current Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100 flight schedule and the routes the aircraft is being deployed upon

Every month The HUB provides an update on the current schedules of three latest aircraft programmes, highlighting the routes the types are being

The airline has updated its Winter 2015/16 schedule effective from October 25, 2015.

For our Fun Friday article this week we’ve decided to show you what we’ve been getting up to here at Routes these past few days.

The Star Alliance member first introduced flights to Łódź in March 2014 with a six times weekly connection to the German city of Munich, providing important connection opportunities via its global alliance partner Lufthansa from its Bavarian hub.

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 landmark new Use and Lease Agreement will for the first time allow revenue sharing between Reagan National and Dulles International and allows as much as $300 million in revenue to be shifted from Reagan National to help offset operating costs for Dulles International over the next ten years.

The Smith Commission examined the report put forward by bosses at Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports arguing abolition of the charge, and has recommended it will now gain control over the APD tax in Scotland.

There is just one week left to place your vote in the first regional heat of the 2015 Routes Awards. If you are a member of the airline network

Next Year’s Routes Europe will be held at Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC) which is located just outside the city centre and there is

Vietnam’s low-cost carrier, VietJetAir, has received the delivery of its first Airbus A320 directly from Airbus at a ceremony in Toulouse.

The new combined contract will operate from February 1, 2015 until January 31, 2017 and may be extended for a further period of a maximum of one year, following the initial two year period, subject to a satisfactory review undertaken after the initial period of 18 months of operation.

The US carrier confirms SkyWest has purchased seven E175s from the Brazilian manufacturer to fly on its behalf under a capacity purchase agreement (CPA). The first three aircraft will arrive in the summer of 2015 and will be used to introduce daily flights from Seattle to Milwaukee and Oklahoma City and from Portland to St Louis from July 1, 2015.

The news came after the low-cost carrier’s chief executive, Tony Fernandes, revealed the intent to resume the popular route via the social networking site, Twitter.

The route is expected to be popular with Belfast’s business passengers and is expected to generate 50,000 departing passengers per year. Belfast has a well-established Business and Financial Services sector, and business customers will be able to reach the city’s business district 10 minutes after leaving the airport due to the location of George Best Belfast City Airport.

The new agreement made by the US Department for Transportation will allow unlimited market access for US and Mexican carriers.

The new services to Heathrow Airport will bring the number of daily rotations on this route to up to five and will end the monopoly currently held by the oneworld alliance.