In the Air
Airline route news - SEPTEMBER 2010
British Isles: South-east Airports
AIRBERLIN launches a four-times weekly Stansted-Salzburg service on 2nd December.
AIR NEW ZEALAND is increasing its Auckland-Hong Kong-Heathrow service to daily over the coming Christmas and New Year period, between 19th December and 11th January.
BA CITYFLYER is launching an 11 times-weekly London City-Copenhagen service on 12th September.
BRITISH AIRWAYS is launching a twice-daily Heathrow-Gothenburg service on 28th November. The airline is also restoring its seventh daily Heathrow-New York JFK service on 1st December. Including its service from London City, the airline will be operating nine daily services to JFK and three to Newark from this date.
EASYJET launches a twice-weekly Gatwick-Luxor service on 3rd November, and a four-times weekly service from Gatwick to Zagreb on 11th February.
RYANAIR launches services Gatwick to Bergamo, Bologna, Faro, Oslo (Rygge), Porto, Rome (Ciampino) and Seville at the beginning of November. A Luton-Fuerteventura service is launched on 5th November. From Stansted, Verona is launched on 31st October, with Plovdiv following on 2nd November, Grenoble on 18th December, and Cuneo and Lourdes in early January.
SAS is launching a Saturday-only Lulea-Heathrow service on 6th November.
British Isles: Other Airports
AERLINGUS’ Cork-Manchester service will be replaced by a twice-daily AerLingus Express service on 31st October, operated by AerArann.
EASYJET will be launching four-times weekly services from Edinburgh to Cologne on 26th November, and to Basel on 3rd December. A Liverpool-Lyon service starts on 18th December. A twice-weekly Belfast-Malta service is launched on 11th February.
FLYBE has launched a seasonal service between Humberside and Malaga.
JET2.COM will be launching a Newcastle-Prague service on 5th November. Next year, services from Newcastle to Krakow, Alicante, Faro and Toulouse will follow. As in previous years, the airline will be operating a short season of services to Newark from Leeds/Bradford and Newcastle in the first half of December.
MEXICANA is shilly-shallying over the cancellation of its Gatwick service, but one way or another the route looks unlikely to survive the summer. Its Madrid operation is similarly affected.
OLYMPIC AIR will now be operating its new Thessaloniki-London route into Gatwick rather than Heathrow. The thrice-weekly service starts at the end of October.
RYANAIR will be operating new services from Leeds/Bradford this winter, to Barcelona, Dusseldorf (Weeze), Gdansk and Fuerteventura. From Edinburgh, a twice-weekly service to Fuerteventura will start on 31st October, and a thrice-weekly service to Gothenburg on 3rd November. A weekly Cork-Fuerteventura service is launched on 31st October. The airline’s Bournemouth services will temporarily cease at the end of October and resume on 1st February, as part of Ryanair’s spring schedule.
Rest-of-World Developments
1TIME has launched a Johannesburg-Maputo service, operated five times weekly.
ADRIA has launched a four-times weekly Ljubljana-Banja Luka service, and starts a daily Munich-Pristina service on 31st October.
AEGEAN AIRLINES is cancelling several services this autumn from its Athens base. Internationally, Tirana ends on 13th September, and Belgrade, Venice and Vienna will cease on 31st October.
AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS restarts its Buenos Aires-Mexico service on 11th December, on a daily basis.
AEROSVIT begins a four-times weekly Odessa-Milan service on 20th September.
AIR ASIA X launches a daily Kuala Lumpur-Seoul service on 1st November.
AIR CANADA is to maintain some of its new North American services through the coming winter. Routes from Toronto to Cincinnati, Portland and Syracuse were originally intended to be summer-only routes but will now be flown twice daily through to next year. The carrier launches a daily Vancouver-Tokyo Haneda service on 29th January.
AIR NIGERIA has launched a daily Lagos-Brazzaville service, operated via Cotonou and Douala.
AMERICAN AIRLINES launches a New York JFK-Tokyo Haneda service on 20th January.
ARMAVIA is introducing a twice-weekly Yerevan-Munich service on 2nd November.
AUSTRIAN is relaunching its Vienna-Baghdad service on 31st October, after nearly 20 years’ suspension.
CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES is resuming its service to Lagos on 31st October, with the extension of its Guangzhou-Dubai route to Nigeria’s commercial capital, three times a week.
COMAIR (British Airways franchisee) launches a five-times weekly Johannesburg-Dar es Salaam service on 2nd November.
CONTINENTAL AIRLINES is launching a daily Newark-Cairo service on 18th May 2011.
DELTA launches a daily Honolulu-Nagoya service on 22nd December. New services from Detroit and Los Angeles to Tokyo Haneda will be launched on 29th January, and a daily New York JFK-Reykjavik service has also been announced, to commence on 1st June.
EGYPTAIR has launched a twice-weekly service to Juba in southern Sudan, operated via Khartoum.
ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES is introducing its first Boeing 777 this winter on its Addis Ababa-Washington route. The service will continue to be flown via Rome westbound, but eastbound it will be operated non-stop. Frequency increases to daily.
EVA AIRWAYS is launching a twice-daily Taipei-Tokyo Haneda service on 31st October.
HAWAIIAN AIRLINES launches a four-times weekly Honolulu-Seoul service on 15th January.
ICELANDAIR has announced three summer-only services for next year, from Reykjavik to Billund, Gothenburg and Hamburg. Flights start in June.
JETSTAR is launching a daily Auckland-Melbourne service on 13th December. Twice-weekly services from Melbourne and Gold Coast to Queenstown follow on 16th December.
KENYA AIRWAYS launched a twice-weekly Nairobi-Luanda service on 17th August.
LAN ECUADOR launches a four-times weekly Guayaquil-Miami service on 4th October, to complement its daily service from Quito.
LOT POLISH AIRLINES’ planned thrice-weekly Warsaw-Hanoi service has been postponed four weeks until 13th November. The airline launches a thrice-weekly service from Warsaw to Damascus on 2nd November.
MEXICANA is undergoing dramatic restructuring. The carrier is concentrating US services on its main hubs Mexico City, Cancun and Guadalajara, resulting in the cancellation of 13 services.
OLYMPIC AIR is dropping its Athens-Milan Malpensa service from its winter schedule.
OMAN AIR adds a service to Milan Malpensa on 1st November, operated four times a week via Munich.
PACIFIC BLUE will be cancelling all its domestic services in New Zealand by 18th October.
ROYAL AIR MAROC is starting a twice-weekly service to Yaounde on 2nd November.
SATA has launched a twice-weekly Ponta Delgada-Funchal-Las Palmas service.
THAI launches a daily Bangkok-Tokyo Haneda service on 31st October.
TURKISH AIRLINES launches a five-times weekly Istanbul-Washington Dulles service on 7th November, a four-times weekly service to Ho Chi Minh City via Bangkok on 29th December, and a four-times weekly Istanbul-Los Angeles service next March.
VUELING launches a four-times weekly Bilbao-Milan Malpensa service on 31st October.
YEMENIA is launching a thrice-weekly service to Nairobi and Dar es Salaam from Sana’a this December.
OTHER NEWS
Services to or from Warsaw’s Frédéric Chopin airport are subject to revised schedules during September because of extensive runway rebuilding and maintenance. LOT Polish Airlines, Czech and Swiss have already published schedule changes and other airlines are likely to follow.
