Route Changes & Development News
11-Aug-2009
BA, the troubled airline that says it's fighting for survival, today highlighted the scale of its own dominance on key routes between London Heathrow and the US.
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22-May-2009
British Airways is to launch new twice-weekly services from Gatwick to Montego Bay and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, reinforcing its position as the airline with more flights to the Caribbean than any other UK carrier.
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26-Mar-2009
UNITED KINGDOM :
This week bmi launches a second daily service between London Heathrow and Tel Aviv. Following high demand for the first daily service which launched last March the additional flight will offer greater flexibility and more convenient connections at both London Heathrow and Tel Aviv.
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13-Jan-2009
Eastern Airways connected Newcastle International Airport with Oslo as it started its first ever link to the Norwegian capital from 12-Jan-09. The airline is offering a five times weekly connecting service from Newcastle to Oslo via Aberdeen.
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20-Nov-2008
SRI LANKA :
SriLankan Airlines has become the world’s first airline to operate non-stop return flights direct between London and Male. Sri Lankan Airlines introduced its new service from Male to London Heathrow on 26-Oct-08.
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10-Nov-2008
NETHERLANDS :
transavia.com is going to start operations in Denmark. Due to the disappearance of Sterling Airlines, transavia.com sees good opportunities on the Danish market. Willem Hondius, Chief Commercial Officer said, “The Danish market is attractive. We see many opportunities on the charter market as well as the Danish market for regularly scheduled flights, especially for routes that appeal to tourists.”
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16-Oct-2008
flyLAL will perform flights to the Irish capital Dublin during Christmas and New Year’s period. flyLAL started sale of tickets to the flight Vilnius-Dublin-Vilnius to be performed on 20, 22, 23, 28, 30 of December and 3 and 4 of January.
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26-Sep-2008
airBaltic will launch its winter timetable on 26-Oct-08, offering four new destinations and increased numbers of flights along nine routes. The timetable will remain in effect until 28-Mar-09.
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25-Sep-2008
AUSTRIA :
Austrian cargo and Ukraine International have passed another milestone in the expansion of their air cargo connection between Vienna and Kiev. A Boeing 737-300SF cargo-only aircraft put into service recently by the Ukrainian carrier begins operating the route immediately.
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25-Sep-2008
Blue Air operates 5 weekly flights between Brussels and Bukarest. Starting with the winter schedule, Blue Air will also introduce three weekly flights between Brussels Airport and London Stansted.
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03-Sep-2008
Manx2 reportedly plans to increase Isle of Man-Gloucestershire frequency, though further details were not disclosed.
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25-Aug-2008
RUSSIAN FEDERATION :
Transaero is to make the first flight on Saint Petersburg - Yekaterinburg route on 26-Oct-08.
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14-Aug-2008
IRELAND :
Aer Lingus announced plans to increase Edinburgh-Dublin frequency in Nov-08.
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08-Aug-2008
In Oct-08 flyLAL will open new direct flights to Madrid, capital of Spain, and Budapest, capital of Hungary. flyLAL is the only air company in the Baltic States to directly fly to these cities.
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08-Aug-2008
Demavia airlines will offer a weekly Thursday flight from Brussels direct to Kinshasa. The new scheduled service will be operated with a leased Cargolux B747-400 Freighter aircraft. It will serve Kinshasa and the central African market directly from Brussels airport.
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19-Jun-2008
GERMANY :
Lufthansa announced that its regional subsidiary, Eurowings, will launch new weekly flights Dusseldorf International Airport to Newquay Cornwall Airport on 21-Jun-08 with Bombardier CRJ-200 aircraft.
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19-Jun-2008
GERMANY :
Air Berlin announced it will be operating non-stop flights to the Azores for the first time starting with the Winter schedule 2008/09. From 03-Nov-08, a weekly Air Berlin flight to the Azores will take off every Monday via Nuremberg. Feeder flights to Nuremberg are available from 12 German cities (Berlin, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt, Leipzig-Halle, Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne-Bonn, Münster-Osnabrück, Paderborn) and also from Vienna. Passengers will arrive in the capital of the Azores, Ponta Delgada, on São Miguel. Air Berlin is the only German airline that operates non-stop flights to the Azores.
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19-Jun-2008
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES :
Etihad Airways will become the first airline from the Gulf region to operate to Belarus when the Abu Dhabi-based carrier launches its twice weekly flights to the country’s capital, Minsk, on 05-Aug-08.
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19-Jun-2008
Air Mauritius launched a series of weekly flights from Madrid on 17-Jun-08 with A340 equipment. This direct flight will operate every week until Oct-08, providing close to an additional 11,000 seats for the market to develop.
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17-Jun-2008
GERMANY :
Southwest Florida International Airport is offering passengers easier access to Europe this Summer with the help of Air Berlin. Air Berlin, which recently acquired LTU, resumed its twice-weekly non-stop service to Munich, Germany, from Southwest Florida International Airport in May-08. A third weekly non-stop flight to Düsseldorf will be added to Air Berlin’s schedule on 24-Jun-08. These flights offer passengers more flexibility and the ability to connect to major European travel destinations, including Berlin, Hamburg, Vienna, Zurich and London.
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16-Jun-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Virgin Atlantic is to increase its frequency between London Heathrow and Hong Kong from daily to twice a day. The extra services will lead to the creation of 100 new cabin crew roles.
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16-Jun-2008
PAKISTAN :
Pakistan International Airlines will launch flights operations from Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBIA) to Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, effective from 02-Jul-08. Pakistan International Airlines will operate the flights twice a week.
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13-Jun-2008
GERMANY :
Air Berlin’s services too Russia for the coming Winter season of 2008/2009 have been made available for booking by the carrier from 12-Jun-08. A Saturday flight will be added to the route from Berlin to Moscow when the winter timetable comes into operation. This means that there will be a daily non-stop flight from Berlin-Tegel to Moscow in the winter. From Düsseldorf and Munich there will be a service six times a week (every day except for Saturday or Sunday respectively) to Moscow-Domodedovo airport. Air Berlin also operates daily non-stop flights from Berlin-Tegel to St. Petersburg.
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12-Jun-2008
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES :
Etihad Airways is set to boost its Summer Geneva service from 22-Jun-08, as a result of increased demand from leisure travellers wishing to visit Switzerland’s second biggest city. Etihad currently operates four flights a week from its Abu Dhabi home-base to Geneva which will increase to five a week with an additional flight operating every Sunday until 07-Sep-08.
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10-Jun-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Jet2holidays and Jet2.com have announced they will begin holidays and flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh, direct from Leeds Bradford International Airport. Jet2.com flights to Sharm el Sheikh will depart from Mar-09. On sale now, Jet2holidays to Sharm el Sheikh will begin from Feb-09, with prices from GBP375.
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10-Jun-2008
POLAND :
Wizz Air announced that it would commence new flights from Warsaw to Rome Ciampino, complementing its network of currently 17 destinations from Warsaw. The first flight between Warsaw and Rome Ciampino will take off on 16-Sep-08 and will be operated thrice weekly initially.
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10-Jun-2008
NORWAY :
Norwegian Air Shuttle continued its expansion from Stockholm-Arlanda Airport by offering air service to Aleppo, Syria, on 09-Jun-08. Norwegian Air Shuttle will operate the route once a week during the Summer using an MD 80 aircraft
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05-Jun-2008
FRANCE :
Air France launched its new non-stop Paris-Charles de GaulleSalt Lake City service on 02-Jun-08. The flight is operated by a Delta Air Lines’ Boeing 767-300ER, equipped with 36 seats in BusinessElite and 178 seats in Economy. The flight is operated on a codeshare basis by Air France and Delta.
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04-Jun-2008
JAPAN :
Japan Airlines (JAL) commenced offering twice-daily codeshare flights operated by British Airways (BA) between Manchester and London (Heathrow) from 03-Jun-08. The expanded codeshare agreement adds Manchester to JAL's Japan-Europe network by providing connections from the UK city onto daily services operated by JAL between London-Tokyo (Narita) and London-Osaka (Kansai).
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03-Jun-2008
American Airlines launched its first flight from the United States to Russia on 02-Jun-08. American Airlines, a founding member of the oneworld Alliance becomes the first US airline to operate directly out of Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Moscow’s Domodedovo International Airport.
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03-Jun-2008
Delta Air Lines commenced non-stop service between Salt Lake City International Airport and Paris Charles de Gaulle International Airport on 02-Jun-08. The flights, operating as part of Delta’s joint venture with SkyTeam partner, Air France, will be the first trans-Atlantic service offered by any airline from Salt Lake City and will be the only non-stop service operated by a US carrier between the Western United States and Paris. Delta will operate the daily service with a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft seating up to 216 passengers.
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03-Jun-2008
FINLAND :
Finnair launched its non-stop flights to Seoul on 02-Jun-08. The inaugural flight departed from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport at 17:30. Seoul is Finnair’s eleventh destination in Asia. Finnair is the only airline operating non-stop from South Korea to Northern Europe. The flight time from Helsinki to Seoul is 8 hours and 55 minutes. The route completes Finnair’s Asian network and supports the important status of Helsinki-Vantaa Airport as a hub for traffic between Europe and Asia.
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02-Jun-2008
CANADA :
Air Canada launched its direct, daily service between Ottawa and Frankfurt, Germany, at 18:00 on 01-Jun-08 with B767-300 equipment.
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28-May-2008
GERMANY :
Air Berlin is reducing the number of its flights between Düsseldorf and Shanghai from the end of June. From July onwards there will only be three flights a week, rather than five. The outbound flights will operate on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, the inbound flights on Wednesdays, Fridays and Mondays.
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26-May-2008
Czech Airlines is planning direct flights between Prague and Florida, in the United States. The plan to introduce this new connection has been approved by the Airline’s Management Board, with the commencement of operations being conditioned on the cancellation of the visa requirement for Czech citizens, which is expected later this year.
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19-May-2008
ITALY :
Air One announced it is launching its first intercontinental flights between the US and Italy, with the launch of its non-stop flights from Boston and Chicago to Milan, the industrial and financial heart of Italy, as well as the point of departure to some of Northern Italy’s top destinations including Turin, Verona, Lake Como and the Alps.
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13-May-2008
UK regional airline, Eastern Airways launched its first direct international service from Newcastle International Airport with non-stop flights to Stavanger on 12-May-08. Newcastle’s most punctual scheduled airline* provides a daily weekday service from the north east of England to Norway’s fourth largest city, which was named European Capital of Culture 2008.
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12-May-2008
SWISS inaugurated its new daily service between Switzerland and Shanghai on 09-May-08, when flight LX 188 departed from Zurich at 13:05 operated by an Airbus A340. The passengers aboard the first flight included Swiss Federal Councillor and Minister for Economic Affairs Doris Leuthard. The inaugural ceremony in Zurich prior to departure was attended by H.E. Dong Jinyi, China's Ambassador to Switzerland, Thomas E. Kern, CEO of airport operator, Unique, and Rolf P. Jetzer, Chairman of the Board of Swiss International Air Lines. The flight's boarding was formally opened by SWISS CEO, Christoph Franz, together with Federal Councillor Leuthard.
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12-May-2008
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines stated it will give its slot time operation to Kenya Airways, commencing 29-Apr-08 to 30-May-08. The extra operation by Kenya Airways is prompted by the fact that KLM is in the process of servicing their Boeing B747 fleet, which creates a shortage of aircraft availability within the KLM network. This means that Kenya Airways will now operate a total of ten weekly flights to and from Amsterdam during this period.
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12-May-2008
FINLAND :
Finnair announced plans to launch flights from Helsinki to the city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals region of Russia, commencing early-Sep-08. The route will be served three times a week with Airbus A319 aircraft. The flight time will be just three hours, with connections in both directions.
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09-May-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
Jet2.com and Jet2holidays.com confirmed that they will commence the first ever transatlantic flights to New York, from Leeds Bradford Airport. Jet2.com will have New York flights on sale from GBP579.98 including taxes. Jet2holidays.com will offer four-day Christmas shopping breaks direct from Leeds Bradford to Newark Airport from GBP699.
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21-Apr-2008
UNITED KINGDOM :
British Airways announced it is boosting services from London to New York JFK by launching daily flights from Gatwick on 27-Oct-08. The new flights mean that the airline will operate 62 flights each week from the capital to JFK as the Gatwick flights will operate in addition to its current 55 weekly flights from Heathrow.
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15-Apr-2008
GERMANY :
Lufthansa announced the launch of its daily non-stop service between Calgary and Frankfurt. Lufthansa's Calgary-Frankfurt service was last offered in the 1980s. It is the only airline in Calgary to offer first class amenities and services to Continental Europe.
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15-Apr-2008
ICELAND :
Iceland Express announced plans to commence a new Gatwick service, operating a five times weekly service between London Gatwick and Reykjavik from 16-Sep-08. The new Gatwick service will complement Iceland Express’ Stansted Winter 2008 Schedule, which includes a daily service between London Stansted and Reykjavik. Iceland Express will be operating the new Gatwick service on the Boeing 737- 700 aircraft with 148 seats of sister company, FlyStar/Astraeus.
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11-Apr-2008
airBaltic announced plans to launch new flights from Riga to Venice and Nice, during the Summer season of 2008. The first flight to Nice will commence on 17-Apr-08, and the first from Riga to Venice will commence on 18-Apr-08.
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04-Apr-2008
HUNGARY :
Malév announced plans to operate a twice daily service between Cluj-Napoca and Budapest during its Summer timetable period.
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17-Mar-2008
GERMANY :
As of April 1st, 2008, Lufthansa German Airlines will fly Non stop from Dammam to Frankfurt three times a week and four times a week from Bahrain on First, Business and Economy class with the Airbus 330-300, thus enabling the airline to offer daily non-stops flights throughout the week.
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