Routes News 1, January 2016

News In Brief

AfricA Iberia is to resume flights

from Madrid to Johannesburg in August 2016. Iberia will fly to Johannesburg three times a week, on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays, and return on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. It will use new Airbus A330-300s, with 36 seats in business and 242 in economy.

middlE EAst Oman Air is using the first of its six Boeing 787s to fly non-stop to Frankfurt four times a week.

Royal Jordanian now connects Amman and Ankara in a bid to stimulate bilateral commercial relations and tourism and cater for business people and students.

A revised bilateral deal has allowed Emirates to add two destinations in the Philippines. Cebu and Clark will form part of the airline’s network in 2016.

Oman Air is connecting

Muscat and Dhaka six times a week using Airbus A330-300s, configured with 204 Economy Class seats and 26 Business Class seats.

From March, 2016, Turkish Airlines will connect Istanbul and Basra three times a week using a Boeing 737-800. It will also serve Stockholm and Copenhagen daily as part of its 2016 summer schedule.

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fastjet Tanzania has been given clearance by the Kenyan government to operate flights between Kenya and Tanzania under the Bilateral Air Services Agreement between the two countries. Fastjet Tanzania began daily flights between Dar es Salaam and Nairobi and between Kilimanjaro and Nairobi in January.

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American Airlines has announced a twice-daily, non-stop service between Austin and Philadelphia from April 5, 2016, using an Embraer E190 aircraft.

Hawaiian Airlines will increase options between Kaua‘i and California. A daily service between Lihu‘e and Oakland and Los Angeles will be offered from mid-June until the end of September.

Aeromexico will increase

EuropE Finnair will operate a new weekly route from Helsinki to Enontekio in Finland to take snow sports fans to Lapland, from February 20 to April 9 2016 using an ATR turboprop.

Latvian airline airBaltic will launch a route between Riga and Reykjavik on May 28, 2016. It is also offering Riga-Verona and Riga-Salzburg for winter holidaymakers.

Wizz Air is flying from Malmo to Debrecen twice weekly with an Airbus A320.

Flights between Zanzibar and Nairobi and Dar es Salaam and Mombasa are expected to be added to the network later in 2016.

Air Cote d’Ivoire will begin a new service to Nigeria in February 2016, serving Abuja from Abidjan three times a week using a Dash8-Q400 aircraft.

its Madrid service to 12 times weekly from May with a 13th flight being added in June.

Air Canada is expanding its codeshare deal with LOT Polish Airlines and will have its AC code on LOT’s domestic flights from June, 2016.

Fiji Airways will run

seasonal twice-weekly direct services from Nadi to San Francisco starting in June 2016. The flights will connect the two countries in June, July, August, and December, 2016 and January, 2017.

From Malmo, Wizz Air connects to Belgrade, Budapest, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Gdansk, Katowice, Poznan, Nis, Vilnius, Skopje, Sofia, Tuzla and Warsaw.

Blue Air now connects Glasgow to Bucharest twice a week. By summer 2016, it will fly 66 routes within Europe.

Aer Lingus Regional will launch two routes this summer: Cork-Southampton and Cork-Leeds Bradford. Stobart Air will boost capacity on its Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle routes.

AsiA-pAcific Philippine Airlines

(PAL) has started a Manila-Cairns-Auckland service. The flight will operate four times a week and add to the PAL network of 30 domestic and 39 international destinations.

Hong Kong Airlines

is flying twice-weekly direct to Kumamoto, Japan from its base in Hong Kong.

Tigerair Australia

has launched three weekly return services between Melbourne and Coffs Harbour, delivering 1,080 additional seats weekly to both destinations.

AirAsia has a new direct flight to Guangzhou, China from Langkawi, Malaysia. It will operate four times a week.

Tigerair now serves Lucknow from Singapore, three times a week on an Airbus A320. Lucknow will be its sixth destination in India.

Bangkok Airways is expanding its Indo-China network with services from Chiang Mai to Luang Prabang and Bangkok to Da Nang – three times a week from March, and four times a week from May, respectively.

russiA And thE cis Aeroflot has launched flights between Moscow and Saratov – a daily service using a Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft.

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