Ural Airlines

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

Flights between Abu Dhabi and Moscow Vnukovo will start in December.

Virgin Australia’s new seasonal flights to Launceston, Wizz Air adding connections from Hungary and Romania and Saudia returning to Manchester are among the latest new route announcements and services resuming.

Russian airlines are adding routes to Egypt’s Red Sea resorts following the ending of a six-year flight ban.

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

Smartavia plans to re-enter the market later this month.

Aircraft delivery delays mean that Ural Airlines’ flights between Russia’s capital and Montpellier in southern France will not resume during the summer season.

This week: VietJet is launching its first direct service to Australia; Ethiopian Airlines is returning to Athens after 18 years; and Ural Airlines to enter Moscow - London market.

With a temporary ban on passenger flights between Russia and Georgia set to start on 8 July, Routesonline looks at the airlines and routes that will be affected.

In the first part of a new series focusing on the five former Soviet republics in Central Asia, often referred to as ‘the Stans’, Routesonline takes a closer look at the aviation market in Tajikistan.

The reciprocal bans have the potential to hit both nations' already struggling economies, reroute flights across a large part of Europe and lead to further economic disentanglement between the neighbouring states. Latest data from the World Bank's shows Ukraine's real GDP was expected to fall by over 7 per cent, making Russia and Ukraine the world's two worst-growing economies.