Star Alliance

The Star Alliance member plans to increase Latin American-US connectivity from December.

After piloting a number of health verification applications since the start of the year, China Airlines and EVA Air will now trial the IATA Travel Pass.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carriers’ networks.

The route returns to the carrier’s network after an absence of five years.

The carriers started a codeshare three years ago between Helsinki and Shanghai and will now cooperate commercially.

Air Canada is targeting VFR traffic on its new route to North Africa.

The carrier has scheduled two Airbus A380 flights to Honolulu in August.

Austrian plans to operate to more than 100 summer destinations of which around 30 are in the Mediterranean region.

Three new nonstop services to Hawaii are planned as the carrier targets demand for winter vacations.

A route to Star Alliance partner United Airlines’ Newark hub will start later this month.

Portugal’s flag-carrier hopes to be operating 100 routes in August.

Star Alliance will set up a second headquarters in addition to its Frankfurt office, but this may be the first step towards giving up its German base.

Newly appointed Benedikt Escher says SWISS will reconsider its mix of destinations and frequencies as it notes strength of VFR and leisure.

Five new seasonal routes are being added to the US airline’s network from the Windy City.

Star Alliance is in the process of giving up its headquarters at Frankfurt Airport.

Several Star Alliance airlines have reduced their February capacity further after stricter travel restrictions designed to stem the spread of COVID-19 made air travel nearly impossible.

Nonstop service between the two cities last operated on a regular basis in October 2008.

The Star Alliance member plans to begin the new international route in July.

Five routes planned from Tokyo Haneda to destinations in Europe and the US are among the cancellations.

Air India has revealed plans to launch two new long-haul routes to the U.S. early next year, one of which will become the farthest service in the airline’s network.

The two airlines have formed a codeshare partnership ahead of Air Canada’s plans to launch service to Qatar this December.

Korean Air believes its takeover of Asiana Airlines will lead to network expansion and increase the carrier’s overall competitiveness.

The decision to suspend the routes, alongside the closure of nine Canadian stations, hinges on the outcome of talks with Canada’s government.

CEO Scott Kirby has confirmed the airline plans to return to New York John F Kennedy next year and compete aggressively on routes to the US West Coast.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Qantas resuming trans-Tasman flights; Air India expanding with a new Canadian service; and Air Arabia Abu Dhabi’s latest network addition.