Routes

CEO Johan Lundgren said five additional aircraft allocated to the bases in Spain and Portugal would bolster easyJet's presence at the 'key' destinations.

The airline concedes its plan to operate 30% of pre-pandemic capacity in the final three months of 2021 will not be possible.

The LCC plans to open domestic and international routes from the new base.

Capacity nudged back above the 79 million mark but remains more than 30% down on 2019 levels.

The carriers plans to build on an agreement that has been in place since for the past seven years.

Fifty aircraft will be based in Hainan to support the Chinese province’s free trade hub masterplan.

Flights to Lagos will operate from late November as the airline continues to expand its African network.

The partnership in Boston and New York has also been challenged by Spirit Airlines, among others.

Routes to Copenhagen, Paris and Rome will be available from October.

The carrier, which serves three airports in Nigeria, has not flown to Enugu since 2019.

Air Arabia is launching a new route to Uganda at the same time as Uganda Airlines is entering the United Arab Emirates market.

The aircraft manufacturer’s newest 20-year forecast cites statistics showing resiliency on domestic, short-haul routes and lagging long-haul flying.

Nine new routes are being added to the airline’s route map from the Texan airport.

Ryanair’s domestic expansion in Sweden, Swoop adding a fourth destination in Mexico, and Austrian Airlines returning to Montreal are among the latest new route announcements and service resumptions.

Sixteen peak-time slots at Newark Liberty will be made available to a low-cost operator in order to increase competition with United Airlines.

Routes profiles British Airways, the World Routes 2021 attendee that is adding destinations and frequencies back to its global network.

The tie-up becomes the Greek airline’s seventh interline agreement.

The Connecticut-Florida route will be the fifth connection the carrier is set to launch on the east coast this fall.

The network addition coincides with the Expo 2020 Dubai event, taking place from October until March 2022.

Argentina’s flag carrier is adding a new route from Mendoza after the city’s airport was cleared to resume international flights.

The Lufthansa Group LCC will base five Airbus A320s at the Swedish airport and initially serve 10 destinations.

American Airlines is to buy a minority stake in Brazil’s GOL as it seeks to better compete against Delta Air Lines and its regional partner LATAM.

Sri Lanka’s flag-carrier is returning to the Colombo-Paris market at the same time as Air France is preparing to enter it.

Additional frequencies are being added by the Japanese carrier on select international routes as passenger traffic recovers.

The carrier cites ‘soaring vaccination rates’ in Cuba as one reason why it is restarting flights to the island nation.