Routes

With a little over a week to go until World Routes opens in Chicago, we have put together a list of top tips to ensure that you are fully prepared for

Make sure you’re fully prepared for this year’s event by downloading the World Routes Smartphone App, for all the event essentials right at your

Like much of Icelandair’s existing North American network the destination will be served to support business and leisure demand in and out of Iceland as well as to provide new connectivity options for US travellers into the wider European market via the carrier’s Keflavik International Airport hub.

The 469-seat A380 will substitute a smaller Boeing 747-400 on the five London – San Francisco services boosting weekly capacity by just under 20 per cent. All nine other weekly rotations will continue to be served using the smaller Jumbos which are configured in either 299- or 337-seat arrangements.

United began operations in Costa Rica in 1990 and from December 19, 2014 will offer 64 weekly non-stop services between San Jose Juan Santamaría International Airport and four United US hubs (Houston, Newark, Chicago and Washington Dulles) and between Liberia International Airport and Chicago, Houston and Newark.

All three markets have previously been served by Finnair with flights to Athens and Malta last operating in summer 2010 and services to Dublin last being flown in summer 2007. The flights will operate through the summer months only but strong performance could result in them being extended to year-round services in the future.

Basel has one of the highest concentrations of successful life sciences businesses in the world, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and medical technology organisations and this new link will provide a fast and reliable link into Russia and Asia for customers in the industry as well as the other industries that have grown up to support the healthcare market in Switzerland.

The Tanzanian capital becomes the third destination in Air Seychelles’ Indian Ocean and African network, after Mauritius and Johannesburg and the new route will be operated using a two-class Airbus A320 aircraft with 16 Business Class and 120 Economy Class seats.

With a little over 2 weeks until World Routes opens in Chicago, we have created a brief guide on the best things to see and do during your time in the

There are just over two weeks left until World Routes opens in Chicago, and we have a large number of airports, airlines and tourism authorities

As Delta Air Lines’ expansion continues unabated and connecting traffic flows begin to shift toward this Pacific Northwest city, it is becoming increasingly clear that the industry is witnessing something that hasn’t been seen in a long time in the airline industry — a US legacy carrier developing a new airport hub from the ground up.

The network growth is being facilitated by the continuous growth of the airline’s fleet and the new non-stop Doha - Cape Town route will be operated by one of the carrier’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliners which are configured in a two-class arrangement with 22 Business Class and 232 Economy Class seats.

In its role as an active and committed partner, Changi Airport Group is rolling out additional short-term measures to help airlines. The new incentives are targeted at long-haul flights and transfer traffic, two important segments of the hub’s air traffic mix and a key part of Changi Airport’s global connectivity.

UK carrier Virgin Atlantic Airways is to suspend flights to Cape Town, Mumbai, Tokyo and Vancouver as it instead looks to strengthen its transatlantic partnership with shareholder Delta Air Lines. The latest network changes are part of an ongoing network review and business recovery plan to return the carrier to long-term profitability.

Condor will provide 518 seats per week to Portland and Providence including a Business Class offering using a Boeing 767-300 configured in three-class with 18 Business Class, 35 Premium Economy and 206 Economy seats. The Portland service will mark the return of flights to Oregon’s largest city from Frankfurt, a route previously served by Lufthansa up until September 2009.

The new Aer Lingus Regional operation will launch on October 23, 2014 and will be flown with 13 weekly services with two flights every day except Saturday when there will be just a single rotation. The carrier expects to carry up to 70,000 customers annually on the new route.

Having a single UK hub with spare capacity to add new routes to emerging markets is critical to the UK’s long-term sustainable growth, according to a

Every month The HUB provides an update on the current schedules of three latest aircraft programmes, highlighting the routes the types are being

Every month The HUB will provide an update on the current Sukhoi Superjet SSJ100 flight schedule and the routes the aircraft is being deployed upon

Although the Airbus A380 has now been in passenger service for more than six years there remains a lot of interest in the Super Jumbo and new routes

Every month The HUB provides an update on the current schedules of three latest aircraft programmes, highlighting the routes the types are being

With an increasing number of airlines now operating the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, every month The HUB provides an update on the current Dreamliner flight

World Routes 2014 is a little over three weeks away and we already have more airline delegates registered for the event than ever before. The number

Scheduling for World Routes will close on Friday 5 th September, just one week from now! If your delegate package includes a diary of pre-scheduled

Voting has now closed for the World Routes Marketing Awards 2014 and the shortlisted airports and destinations were announced earlier this week