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Canada's indecision regarding its airline industry amid the COVID-19 pandemic could cripple the future prospects of Air Canada and WestJet.

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

Canada’s second-largest airline said it is operating a 90%-reduced schedule.

Nolinor Aviation president Marco Prud’Homme tells Routes why the Canadian company has launched leisure airline OWG and what the startup will bring to an already crowded market.

Frankfurt, Melbourne, San Francisco and Vancouver are among the routes being canceled.

The latest network reductions affect 17 services to destinations in the US and overseas.

Sun destinations hit as airlines asked for service suspensions.

Leisure carrier revises winter schedule but maintains some international routes.

The move comes after Transport Canada lifted the ban on the MAX in Canadian airspace.

The carrier is restoring more international warm-weather routes during January.

Canadian North and Air Greenland plan to explore the launch of new routes between the territories.

China’s aviation authority has given the go-ahead for carriers to start four new international passenger services, including flights to Madrid and Toronto.

COVID-19 testing will be critical to building back consumer confidence, airlines and airports say.

The airlines have blamed “arbitrary and capricious” conditions imposed by the US Department of Transportation for the decision.

The two airlines have formed a codeshare partnership ahead of Air Canada’s plans to launch service to Qatar this December.

While Jetstar and Sunwing are resuming suspended routes, Porter Airlines has further delayed its planned restart and Norwegian is preparing to ground 15 of the 21 aircraft currently in operation.

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

Routes to secondary European cities, popular prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, have been scrapped.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Air Canada’s plans to launch a route to Qatar; Qantas adding Tasmania capacity; and Jazeera Airways returning to Muscat after more than a decade.

'It has become unviable to serve these markets and these decisions were regrettably inevitable as demand is being obliterated by the Atlantic bubble and third-party fee increases,' WestJet president and CEO Ed Sims said.

WestJet is adding more warm weather leisure routes next month, as well as resuming flights between Toronto and London Gatwick.

Two Mexican airlines are adding new services from the city despite COVID-19.

WestJet’s ultra-low-cost subsidiary Swoop will operate four domestic and five international routes from Toronto Pearson International.

A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports begin to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

Gulf carrier Emirates looks set to permanently suspend four long-haul routes, including halting service to one of its 12 destinations in the US.