Airline Route Update

Airline Route Update is a comprehensive summary of route announcements, capacity increases and codeshare details from this past week.

For further analysis on selected stories visit our Breaking News section on Routesonline.

04 May 2011
• Garuda Indonesia to launch Ujung Padang/Makassar – Singapore from Jun 2011
• Korean Air New Boeing 737-900ER Planned Operation: Update as of 04MAY11
• airberlin Winter 2011/12 Planned Long-haul expansion: Update 3 as of 04MAY11
• Korean Air Summer Seasonal service to Irkutsk Jul – Aug 2011
• China Southern Guangzhou – Dubai service reduction in Aug/Sep 2011
• Malaysia Airlines moves forward new A330-300 intro date to May 2011 for Osaka flight
• Thai May/June 2011 Japan Service Reductions
• Aeroflot capacity changes to Seoul and Tokyo in May/Jun 2011
• Aegean Airlines/TAP Portugal expands codeshare service from Jun 2011
• GOL to cancel Sao Paulo – Bogota service starting June 2011
• Qatar Airways increasing Dammam from Jun 2011; Launch Madinah from Jul 2011
• Air New Zealand extra Los Angeles/London service in Oct 2011
• Frontier Airlines canceling 4 routes out of Milwaukee from June 2011

03 May 2011
• TACA Peru to Double Lima – Havana service from Aug 2011
• Qatar Airways increasing Cairo service from July 2011
• Bangkok Airways to add 4th weekly flighs to Maldives in W11
• Romanian carrier Medallion Air to start scheduled operation from Constanta
• Air France expands JAL Domestic Japan codeshare service
• Icelandair initial W11 UK Operation Changes
• Alitalia temporary reductions on Rome – Tokyo service in May 2011
• Lufthansa Italia cancels 3 Routes
• Cameroon’s Camair-Co Latest Operation Changes as of May 2011
• Turkish Airlines Initial W11/12 Long-haul Operation Changes
• China Southern May 2011 Sydney Operation changes
• Qatar Airways to launch Madinah, Entebbe, Baku and Tbilisi service in FY2011/12
• transavia.com Winter 2011/12 Expansions from Netherlands
• TransAsia Airways May 2011 Hualien – Zhengzhou charter service
• Delta/Virgin Australia expands codeshare service

02 May 2011
• Qantas expands American Airlines codeshare out of Los Angeles in S11
• Qantas ends San Francisco service 07MAY11
• Syrian Airlines resumes Boeing 747 service from Jul to Oct 2011
• Syrian Airlines to start Aleppo – Abu Dhabi service from Jun 2011
• Cathay Pacific extends 7th Daily Nonstop Hong Kong – Singapore service beyond July 2011
• Croatia Airlines launches SAS Trans-Atlantic Codeshare service
• Air New Zealand initial NS12 San Francisco/Vancouver Operation Adjustments
• Vietnam Airlines launches Da Nang – Hai Phong service
• Asiana Airlines launches Dayong and Tunxi service in China
• Asiana Airlines May/Jun 2011 Asia Changes: New Busan – Vietnam Routes and SE Asia Increases
• Jet Airways boosting capacity to Hong Kong and Brussels/Newark
• Bangkok Airways to launch Bangalore flights from late-Sep 2011; Mumbai increase in W11
• Qatar Airways increasing Bangkok and Vietnam capacity from late-May 2011

30 Apr 2011
• Jet Airways to boost capacity on Delhi – Singapore from mid-Sep 2011
• United/Continental Asia-Pacific Cross-Fleeting Changes from W11: Update 2

29 Apr 2011

• AeroMexico boosts Barcelona service from late-Jun 2011
• AeroSur Bolivia to resume Washington service from Jun 2011
• Turkish Airlines increases Vietnam service to Daily from late-Jun 2011
• European Carriers Tehran service Changes Apr/May 2011
• bmi Apr/May 2011 changes to Middle East & North Africa operation
• Air Astana S11 Service Increase
• China Eastern starts Yantai – Busan service
• JetBlue to add 5th Daily New York JFK – Los Angeles service Jun – Sep 2011
• China Airlines A330 to Okinawa in May 2011
• China Airlines reduce Surabaya service in May 2011
• New Caribbean low-fare carrier REDjet to launch service from May 2011
• Vietnam Airlines increasing Moscow service to Daily in W11
• TACV to offer Munich Winter service from Nov 2011
• Condor to launch Antalya service in W11
• Asiana Airlines to resume Seoul Incheon – Tokyo Haneda service from Jun 2011

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…