Red Wings adds Moscow – Bukhara service from late-Oct 2020
Russian carrier Red Wings in winter 2020/21 season plans to operate regular scheduled service on Moscow Domodedovo – Bukhara route,… Read More »
Pobeda adds Istanbul – Kazan service from Nov 2020
Russian low-cost carrier Pobeda in winter 2020/21 plans to add new service to Turkey, as the airline schedules Istanbul –… Read More »
Eurowings moves forward Beirut / Erbil launch to late-Dec 2020
Eurowings last week opened reservation for its planned new service to The Middle East. Previously reported on Airlineroute, the airline… Read More »
Eurowings adds Stuttgart – Bucharest service in S21
Eurowings in summer 2021 season plans to offer Stuttgart – Bucharest service, on board Airbus A319 aircraft. From 01APR21, the… Read More »
Thai AirAsia W20 Bangkok Suvarnabhumi network adjustment
Thai AirAsia at the launch of winter 2020/21 season is adjusting service at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi, including the addition of 3… Read More »
Bangkok Airways schedules new domestic routes in W20
Bangkok Airways in winter 2020/21 season schedules 2 new domestic routes, subject to Government Approval. Planned new routes include the… Read More »
US-Bangla Airlines Oct 2020 International operations
Bangladeshi-carrier US-Bangla Airlines during the month of October 2020 schedules following International routes, between 01OCT20 and 24OCT20. Planned operation remains… Read More »
Airbus ramps up deliveries in September, seen targeting 500 jets in 2020
Airbus AIR.PA reached the highest number of monthly deliveries of passenger planes so far this year in September, but logged no new… Read More »
Denmark’s Sun-Air to relaunch in mid-4Q20
Sun-Air (EZ, Billund) has announced that it would restart its scheduled services from Billund on November 2, 2020, adding a… Read More »
Wealth fund strongly denies Turkish Airlines share sale
Turkey’s sovereign wealth fund has vociferously denied claims it has been in talks to provide emergency funding to Turkish Airlines… Read More »
Canada’s Pivot Airlines reveals regional plans
Canadian charter start-up, Pivot Airlines (ZX, Toronto Pearson) is to launch scheduled domestic air services from Ontario’s Kitchener, the airline… Read More »
The Philippines’ gov’t ready to help airlines but not alone
The government of the Philippines is ready to step in and assist the troubled airlines in the country but would… Read More »
St Kitts & Nevis to reopen to commercial pax traffic
Caribbean regional carrier Winair (WM, St. Maarten) will resume flights to Saint Kitts and Nevis when international commercial flights reopen… Read More »
Nigeria cherry-picks airlines
Nigeria has granted daily traffic rights to British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, and Turkish Airlines, while continuing to ban other European… Read More »
Malaysia Airlines funding to stop if talks with lessors fail
Malaysia Airlines (MH, Kuala Lumpur Int’l) parent company Malaysia Aviation Group (MAG) has warned lessors that its own parent, state-run… Read More »
Southwest seeks union deal to avoid furloughs in 2021
Southwest Airlines (WN, Dallas Love Field) Chief Executive Gary Kelly has asked the low-cost carrier’s employees to accept voluntary pay… Read More »
Ryanair warns of Cork, Shannon base seasonal closures
Ryanair (FR, Dublin Int’l) has warned that it will temporarily close its bases at Cork and Shannon airports for the… Read More »
Eastern Airways, Aurigny to turn Southampton into a hub
Eastern Airways (T3, Humberside) has announced that it has entered into a codeshare partnership with Aurigny Air Services (GR, Guernsey)… Read More »
Japan Airlines prioritises LCC network over business travel
More positive about the prospects for domestic leisure travel than for international or business travel, JAL – Japan Airlines (JL,… Read More »
Western Global Airlines set to change business structure
Western Global Airlines (KD, Fort Myers Southwest Florida) is planning to convert its business structure from a Florida-based Limited Liability… Read More »
Kenya Airways in contempt over labour issues
Kenya Airways (KQ, Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta) management has been found guilty of contempt of court for recruiting 800 workers on… Read More »
BA jumbo jets bid farewell to London but bad weather prevents synchronised dual take off
British Airways’s jumbos bade farewell to London Heathrow on Thursday but rain and cloud prevented a rare synchronised dual take… Read More »
ASL Airlines Ireland to take five ATR72-600 freighters
ASL Airlines Ireland (ABR, Dublin Int’l) has confirmed it will be the ATR72-600 freighter’s launch operator when it takes delivery… Read More »
Bhutan and India resume “air bubble” flights
Bhutan’s Drukair (KB, Paro) has announced it will be operating several weekly flights to India under a special “air travel… Read More »
Liberian gov’t inks MOU for Lone Star Air
The Government of Liberia has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Ghanaian start-up Goldstar Airlines (Accra) over the proposed establishment… Read More »
Spain’s Privilege Style reconfigures a B757 into all-premium
Privilege Style (P6, Palma de Mallorca) has converted one of its two B757-200s into an all-premium cabin configuration, business charter… Read More »