ANA Aeroportos de Portugal – Lisbon Airport

The airline has outlined a number of routes to be restarted or expanded in terms of frequencies.

SkyUp will rival Wizz Air for traffic between the capitals of Ukraine and Portugal.

The carrier is looking to increase connecting capabilities while reducing seasonal variations to ultimately improve aircraft utilization.

The route is one of four launched by TAP Air Portugal to destinations in North Africa.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carrier’s networks.

The airline aims to connect Lisbon and Madrid with the Caribbean.

The oneworld alliance member hopes to fly to more than 60 destinations this summer.

Portugal’s flag-carrier hopes to be operating 100 routes in August.

Blue Air will compete with Hungary’s Wizz Air on a city-pair basis.

The agreement comes as TAP 'looks at potential expansion opportunities' in the United Arab Emirates.

Two new short-haul routes will start from Zurich and three from Geneva this summer, but the airline does not expect demand to pick-up until the third quarter of the year.

The carrier also plans to start a new Brussels-Frankfurt connection this summer.

The start-up carrier plans to launch two routes from the Romanian city in April.

After opening two new bases in the UK in recent days, Wizz Air UK’s MD Owain Jones discusses the rationale behind the airline’s increased focus on leisure routes to points in Western Europe.

The LCC expects to fly just a quarter of its normal schedule over the coming months although looking ahead to next summer and two new seasonal bases will open in Spain and Portugal.

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

Wizz Air has put the brakes on plans to increase capacity to 80% in the next quarter amid heightened travel restrictions across Europe. However, the Hungarian carrier’s UK subsidiary has signaled its intention to expand from Doncaster Sheffield, just weeks after announcing a new base at the airport.

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Canada’s Air Transat plans to fly to 40 destinations during the winter season, with a focus on warm weather locations.

TAP Air Portugal has reinstated its service between the Azores and Boston after nearly two decades.

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TAP Air Portugal is resuming flights to North America later this week, with New York the first destination to make its way back onto the airline’s schedule. Three new routes will also be added to its schedule from July 1.

Wizz Air is to open a new base at Lviv in Ukraine and launch seven new routes from the country.

Central and Eastern European ULCC Wizz Air this week plans to restart selected routes from London Luton and Vienna, subject to no further government restrictions being put in place.

This week: TAP Air Portugal to increase US routes; United to offer new Frankfurt connection; and Juneyao Airlines to deploy new 787-9 on Singapore service.