Routes

Blue Air’s decision to set up a permanent base at Larnaca is a natural step given the lack of LCC traffic in Cyprus. With this new opportunity, is this the first stage for the airport in becoming low-cost? Routes News puts the question to Ken Hassard, marketing manager at Hermes Airports.

AirAsia X pulled its Middle East connection this week by announcing that it has “temporarily” dropped its Kuala Lumpur to Abu Dhabi service – a route it served for just three months. Routes News offers a perspective on why it failed and analyses on to which markets AirAsia X is instead shifting focus.

Hanover and Munich new destinations

Carrier to fly to Stuttgart

Carrier firms up Panhandle service

Nagoya now being served from Abu Dhabi; Tokyo to follow next month

First foreign carrier to fly the route

new international routes will open in the first half of the year

The Canaries are among the airline's most popular routes

Carrier adds B737-800 to Danish base

From Dubai, Kuala Lumpur has an extra daily service; new double daily flights to Rome (replacing 12-weekly)

Carrier temporarily drops Kuala Lumpur-Abu Dhabi service; Route was served for less than three months

New Shanghai service

New route shows Qantas Group's "two brand strategy"

TAROM will serve four-times weekly flights to Bucharest

India’s first same-day delivery cargo service

Edinburgh will be served and resumption of four seasonal services

NYK (Newark) to receive two additional daily frequencies from LHR this year

Two new routes from its Canada bases

New services to Lima

Carrier adds new points from Muscat

Malaysia: The carrier's 14th international destination

Low cost carrier adds two new routes

Carrier to open Riga-Mancheser link

Russian carrier to resume Japan links