Frontier plans domestic growth
Frontier is adding three US domestic services and increasing frequencies on seven other popular leisure routes. Denver-based Frontier is expanding… Read More »
Poland scraps aircraft capacity restrictions
Airports across Poland have been successful in convincing Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to relax air travel restrictions put in place… Read More »
JetBlue adding 30 domestic flights, cites leisure travel upswing
Mint service from Newark to LAX and SFO will come first. JetBlue Airways will add 30 new routes to its… Read More »
US fines Copa Airlines over Venezuela flights
The US, which banned all air transport with Venezuela 13 months ago, has fined Copa Airlines $450,000 for “unlawfully transporting… Read More »
LATAM Argentina to cease operations indefinitely
COVID-19 pushes LATAM subsidiary over the brink. LATAM Airlines Group announced its Argentinian subsidiary will cease operations indefinitely, as the… Read More »
Wizz Air is further expanding outside of its Central and Eastern Europe
Wizz Air has revealed plans to station three Airbus A320s at Dortmund Airport (DTM) in Germany–its third new base announcement… Read More »
Swoop eyes new airport partners
Swoop is using the Route Exchange platform as it seeks to expand its network. Canadian ULCC Swoop has issued a ‘Request… Read More »
Europe’s airlines are expected to lose $23.1 billion in 2020
Europe’s airlines are expected to lose $23.1 billion in 2020. By Helen Massy Bresesford The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic… Read More »
Qantas cancels most international flights until October
Australia’s flag carrier originally intended to operate almost 50 international routes over the coming months, but the actual total is… Read More »
Thai Vietjet increases domestic flights
Thai Vietjet is increasing its footprint in Thailand’s domestic market with the launch of five new routes. Thai Vietjet’s domestic… Read More »
St Petersburg to become Wizz Air’s first base in Russia
Wizz Air’s expansion shows no signs of slowing, with the carrier set to exploit St. Petersburg’s seventh freedom rights and… Read More »
Norwegian to restore some short-haul European flights
Norwegian Air Shuttle will resume flights on 76 routes in Europe halted during the coronavirus outbreak and bring back 12… Read More »
Delta ramps up flying for the summer season
A significant number of flights to Latin America and the Caribbean will be resumed in July. Delta Air Lines is… Read More »
Iceland is set to triple its flights
Scheduled capacity from Iceland is set to triple by the start of next month as COVID-19 travel restrictions begin to… Read More »
Azul Airlines and LATAM Airlines to codeshare in Brazil
Azul Brazilian Airlines and LATAM Airlines Brazil have signed a codeshare agreement to connect routes in their respective domestic networks…. Read More »
Wizz Air to open seventh Romanian base
While many airlines are fighting for survival, Wizz Air is continuing its bold expansion plan with the opening of a… Read More »
Swiss startup airline flyBAIR will launch in July
Swiss startup was delayed by two months because of COVID-19 pandemic. Swiss startup airline flyBAIR will launch on July 18… Read More »
Singapore Airlines sees passenger traffic plummet
COVID-19 pandemic has frozen airline travel in much of Asia. As the lockdown and border closures drag into a second… Read More »
The North American flights grew by 13% early June
As airlines and airports around the world recover from the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The North American market… Read More »
Europe prepares for route ramp-up
IATA calls for the resumption of free movement within the EU. The European Commission has called on member states to… Read More »
Malaysia sees domestic traffic return
Charting the resurgence of air transport in markets around the word, Routes looks at the easing of travel restrictions in… Read More »
British Airways, Alitalia, Cathay Pacific, Air France on recovery mode
A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports begin to recover from the… Read More »
Sun Country seeks service waiver extension
US leisure carrier Sun Country is hoping to extend the suspension of service to a chunk of its domestic network… Read More »
Air Canada CEO calls on government to ease COVID-19 travel restrictions
Calin Rovinescu tells an Aviation Week Network webinar that his airline expects to carry 25% of last year’s number of… Read More »
Zhengzhou cargo network strengthened by regional carrier
A new route between Guangzhou and Seoul via Zhengzhou is bolstering Henan province in its bid to become a key… Read More »
Brazil’s GOL will restore 20% of network
GOL Linhas Aéreas expects to increase flight operations to about 20% of last year’s June schedule and reopen a further… Read More »