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Sixteen new routes and nine new cities are joining the Minnesota-based LCC’s network.

Flights from Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver affected.

The carrier is restoring more international warm-weather routes during January.

The Chilean carrier is planning further international expansion from Peru’s capital Lima, including its inaugural routes to the US.

Depressed passenger demand is enabling the New York-based airline to explore new routes.

This week one-way seats between the US and Mexico are down just 12% year-on-year.

The ULCC will begin the new flights in the first half of 2021.

Routes to secondary European cities, popular prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, have been scrapped.

The US carrier plans to launch eight new routes and add more flights to 19 destinations in the Caribbean, Central America and Mexico.

Montrose Regional Airport in western Colorado has secured its second new airline partner in as many weeks.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week: RwandAir swaps Gatwick for Heathrow, Ukraine International Airlines returns to New York via Iceland, and Alaska Airlines adds another sun route from Los Angeles.

Four routes are being launched from Hartford’s Bradley International Airport as the US carrier seeks to stimulate leisure demand.

The carrier believes demand exists for passengers wanting to visit ski resorts and beach destinations.

WestJet is adding more warm weather leisure routes next month, as well as resuming flights between Toronto and London Gatwick.

The Portuguese airline plans to offer six new routes during the summer 2021 season.

Mexico’s flag-carrier has opened two leisure routes from Guadalajara designed to help kickstart the country’s tourism recovery.

Two dozen new routes are joining JetBlue’s network in regions where the New York-based airline expects increasing demand for leisure travel.

WestJet’s ultra-low-cost subsidiary Swoop will operate four domestic and five international routes from Toronto Pearson International.

Alaska Airlines is beefing up its network from San Diego with the addition of three new routes.

Virgin Atlantic is closing its operations at LGW and cutting almost a third of its 10,000 staff as the airline scales back its business in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

French carrier Air Caraïbes is pushing ahead with plans to launch a new route to Mexico in October.

This week: Etihad Airways is launching a new service to Vienna; leisure carrier Condor is introducing long-haul flights from Dusseldorf; and Eastern Airways is once again operating its own scheduled network of routes.

Spirit Airlines is increasing service between the US and Honduras with the launch of a new 3X-weekly route.

This week: Malindo Air is to begin a new service to India; Flydubai expands presence in Russia; Air Canada rouge to introduce Caribbean service from Routes Americas 2019 host.

As Routes Americas 2019 gets underway in Québec City today, Routesonline can reveal the top ten busiest passenger air routes in the Americas region, as well as those which have grown at the fastest rate over the past year.