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France’s national carrier expects to operate up to 55% of its 2019 domestic schedule over the Christmas period.

New transcontinental flights will operate alongside United routes from Newark, New Jersey.

US market seeing leisure demand for flights to warm weather destinations and ski resorts.

The New York-based carrier expects high VFR traffic over the holiday.

The lifting of restrictions will see more international flights return to LIM.

The carrier believes a US-UK travel corridor could be used as a template for more long-haul route resumptions.

Flights to Boston and New York are among the US mainland routes returning to the airline’s network.

The flag-carrier sees demand for cargo and transit passengers on the route.

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

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Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Los Angeles are among destinations returning.

CEO Scott Kirby has confirmed the airline plans to return to New York John F Kennedy next year and compete aggressively on routes to the US West Coast.

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

Airlines do not have to meet usual 80%-schedule standard.

The carrier is restarting flights to 10 US mainland destinations and Tokyo.

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.

Delta Air Lines is the airport’s primary tenant and will use 25 gates at the newly built terminal.

Virgin Australia will focus on domestic and short-haul international flying for the time being.

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.

Routes looks at the impact of Air New Zealand’s decision to ground its Boeing 777 fleet for a year.

Southwest is expanding its route network with the addition of two new domestic leisure destinations.

Spirit Airlines is expanding in the Los Angeles area with the addition of John Wayne Airport to its route map.