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The Star Alliance member will offer a five times weekly link between Frankfurt and Tampa from September 25, 2015, reducing to four times weekly during the winter schedule. The Tampa - St Petersburg-Clearwater area, a rapidly growing metropolitan region with nearly three million residents, sits on the Gulf of Mexico and boasts some of America’s best beaches. It will join Miami and Orlando in Lufthansa’s Florida network.

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has announced its plans to increase its direct services to Trivandrum International Airport, Thiruvananthapuram with a daily operation launching from December 5, 2014.

Ryanair has been serving MR Štefánik Airport for almost ten years and is now firmly established as the largest scheduled operator with a 79.1 per cent share of departures and 93.2 share of capacity this month.

Ahead of next year's Routes Asia forum we look in more detail at the continued growth of the Chinese market, and in particular aviation in Kunming and the Yunnan province, which will play host to the event between March 15 - 17, 2015.

Qantas and China Eastern have announced a five year agreement anticipated to commence in mid-2015.

It’s the penultimate week for our Aviation History Months articles, and this week we’re looking at airlines that began operation from 1960 – 1980.

The UK carrier served the small Caribbean island from London Gatwick in association with a triangle flight also serving Grenada, but the route was switched to a seasonal only operation from winter 2012/2013, returning in winter 2013/2014 as an extension to the carrier’s London Gatwick – St Lucia service. The latter will also be the case when the flight resumes next year.

This will be the only link between London Heathrow and Krakow, which will be the host city of Routes Europe in 2016. Alongside the point-to-point demand it will also facilitate transfer traffic to and from the wider network of British Airways and its oneworld partners from and to the UK capital.

African low-cost carrier fastjet has taken a significant step towards launching operations in Zambia after its new local business received an Air Service Permit (ASP) from the authorities in Zambia, while fifth freedom rights from Uganda will enable it to grow its network from Entebbe International Airport.

Operating initially twice weekly on Thursdays and Sundays, it will allow Gibraltarians to reconnect by air with the historic city of Tangier, as well as allowing Moroccans to discover all that Gibraltar has to offer. It will be one of the world’s shortest intercontinental services.

Every Friday Routesonline will have a look back at an alternative story of the past week. Humourous, interesting, enlightening or simply just a bit different, this addition to our coverage will enable us to feature more from the world of aviation and have a little bit of fun on a friday.

SWISS Airlines has announced it is to introduce eight new destinations to its Geneva-based network for its summer 2015 schedule.

Boston is currently the fourth largest US - Tel Aviv origin-destination market without non-stop service behind San Francisco, Chicago and Miami and averages an estimated 91 passengers a day in each direction, generating more than $45 million in ticket sales last year alone.

Both Air China and Air Canada have announced their plans for an enhanced partnership on routes between Canada and China in order to stimulate traffic growth between the two countries.

At Routesonline we've decided to take a look back at a breaking article from the same time last year and revisit it two years later to see what’s happened since we released the news.

In 2015 the 8 th Routes Americas will take place on 1-3 February in Denver, Colorado marking the first time that the event has taken place in the US

Routes’ 2015 calendar of events begins with Routes Americas in February and with registrations for all of next year’s events including the 21st World

The British carrier has announced 26 new routes for its summer schedule, including two entirely new destinations.

The Scottish airport is to welcome the new link to Bergen in Norway on November 24, 2014.

UK low-fare regional carrier Flybe is to reopen its base at Aberdeen, begin base operations from Bournemouth and launch a new limited programme of domestic flights from London Stansted in summer 2015 as it continues to work to enhance connectivity within and from the UK.

To mark the 25th anniversary since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, airberlin offered passengers three sightseeing flights with special views of the WALL OF LIGHT.

The budget airline will station a single Airbus A320 in Tuzla in June 2015 to open four new routes to Munich Memmingen and Oslo Torp, from June 26, 2015, and Frankfurt Hahn and Stockholm Skavsta from June 28, 2015. The addition of these services will grow its total network from Tuzla to nine destinations in five countries.

ACI- Global passenger traffic grows by 4.7% by the end of the 3rd quarter; air freight volumes post robust increases for September.

Under the terms of this agreement Flybe and Finnair accordingly have signed an agreement under which it is intended that Flybe will exit Flybe Nordic by the end of 2014, subject to approval being received from competition authorities.

Here is the first of our regular series of industry trivia questions where we ask readers to vote on a particular subject during the month before revealing the actual results at the end of the month.