News In Brief AsiA-PAcific Singapore Airlines is to


introduce services to Canberra and Wellington with a Capital Express route. The flight will be operated four times a week from September 2016 on a Singapore-Canberra- Wellington routing, using a retro-fitted Boeing 777-200 with 38 business class seats and 228 economy class.


THAI Smile has started flying to Siem Reap in


middlE EAst Turkish Airlines is


reported to be looking to bring in longer-range aircraft capable of supporting its plans to launch flights linking Istanbul to Sydney in the second half of this year.


Kuwait Airways plans to increase operations on its Kuwait-Riyadh route, from six weekly flights to 13.


Emirates will launch a second daily rotation between Dubai and Los Angeles from July 1, using an Airbus A380- 800ULR configured with 491 seats.


russiA And thE cis Ural Airlines is starting a new service to Israel with the launch of its Krasnodar- Tel Aviv route. The flight will operate once a week using an Airbus A320.


Pobeda – Aeroflot’s LCC subsidiary – has begun flights between Moscow Vnukovo and Cologne Bonn.


Cambodia from Bangkok. The route will run 10 times a week but will not use Thai’s TG code.


China Aircraft Leasing has signed a deal with Sichuan Airlines for three Airbus A320 aircraft on a 144-month lease. It has also signed a Letter of Intent with Jetstar Pacific for two A320 aircraft, in addition to the agreement for two aircraft signed in November 2015. All four A320 aircraft are scheduled to be delivered in 2016.


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Frontier Airlines will add new non-stop services across 42 markets throughout the US, beginning in April 2016.


American Airlines Allegiant Air is offering six new routes from Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood


EuroPE Ryanair’s summer schedule from Stansted will include a new route to Palanga in Lithuania (in addition to Milan Malpensa, Sofia and Verona). The complete schedule offers 130 routes and 1,120 weekly flights.


Iberia is to introduce flights from Madrid to Shanghai and Tokyo. The oneworld alliance member will introduce a three-times- weekly service between Madrid and Tokyo from October 18, 2016. The Madrid-Shanghai route, also expected to be flown three times weekly, will


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operator Hanjin Travel will introduce a summer charter service from Seoul to Glasgow. The flights, using an Airbus A330, will operate in August.


Singapore Airlines will offer more than 700,000 seats a year between Brisbane and Singapore when it adds a fourth direct service operating three days a week from late May 2016, with the aim of increasing it to daily later in the year.


Marshall Airport in 2016: Asheville, North Carolina; Cincinnati, Ohio; Knoxville, Tennessee; Lexington, Kentucky; Savannah, Georgia; and Tulsa, Oklahoma.


NewLeaf Travel,


Canada’s newest low-cost carrier has begun operations at Halifax


commence at a similar time, but Iberia is still awaiting final approval from Chinese authorities and slots at Pudong International Airport before opening reservations.


New French routes from London City and Southampton are on flybe’s network plans. From London City, the airline plans to operate flights to Paris CDG and Rennes, while Southampton receives a non-stop link to Biarritz and Toulon.


VLM Airlines has started flying from Friedrichshafen to Berlin Tegel, Dusseldorf


SpiceJet has launched two new services to Dubai from Jaipur and Hyderabad. The Jaipur-Dubai service will be operated five times weekly, while the Hyderabad-Dubai service will be daily. Both services will be operated using Boeing 737-800s.


China Aircraft Leasing Group Holdings Ltd has completed delivery of four aircraft (one Airbus A320 and three Airbus A321s) to Air Macau.


International Airport. NewLeaf will operate a twice-weekly service from Halifax to Hamilton, Ontario. Other departure cities include Regina, Saskatoon and Abbotsford.


Mexican low-cost


carrier Interjet has added a service to Los Angeles with an Airbus A320 aircraft.


and Hamburg using Fokker 50 aircraft.


From late March 2016,


Wizz Air will connect Budapest to Liverpool. It will also add a twice-weekly service to Iceland and, during the summer months, head to the warmer climes of Ibiza.


Air France will serve Krakow from Paris CDG from July. An Airbus A319 aircraft will connect the cities three times a week with an A318 adding a fourth frequency.


Lyon and Budapest will be connected three times a week by easyJet, beginning in late April 2016.


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