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Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carriers' networks.

The airline will start with three domestic routes in Norway before scaling up its network.

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

Norway’s domestic market is set for further changes as Flyr enters and Wizz Air exits.

The Reykjavik-based airline plans to serve seven destinations in Europe, with flights beginning in late June.

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

The decision follows the findings of the Global Travel Taskforce, set up by the UK government to examine how non-essential travel could be reopened safely after lockdown.

An initial three routes will be served by the LCC from Stockholm Arlanda.

EasyJet’s network additions come a week after the UK airport secured AnadoluJet as a new airline partner.

Peak summer season 2021 passenger numbers could reach 70% of 2019 levels, Ryanair Group CEO Michael O’Leary predicts.

The nine new routes will target leisure traffic between Spain and Scandinavia.

Five new routes will launch from Oslo Gardermoen this summer.

Ryanair grows Italian presence with additional base and 18 new routes.

The base becomes the third in the UK to be announced by the ULCC since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis.

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.

Total seat capacity is expected to be about 25-30% less than summer 2019, with COVID-19 still causing severe restrictions in many of its destinations.

Lufthansa's LCC steps in to offer flights from DUS to the vacation destinations in Greece, Portugal and Spain.

Seven new routes are being launched from Doncaster Sheffield Airport following Wizz Air’s latest expansion.

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

KLM plans to further expand its European and intercontinental flying in the coming months, restoring connectivity to 78% of the destinations it originally intended to serve this summer.

Ryanair plans to restart flying about 40% of its normal flights from July, restoring 90% of its pre-COVID-19 route network.

The UK Government’s Regional Air Connectivity Fund was launched last year as a way of encouraging new routes to and from UK regional airports and improving connectivity for business and leisure travellers.

Irish budget carrier, Ryanair is to significantly grow its activities from Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle airports in the UK next year, introducing a total of ten new routes from the three facilities as part of an expanded offering from the summer schedule.

The additional aircraft will arrive ahead of a July 22, 2016 launch of the four new routes and will also facilitate frequency growth in some of its existing markets. Wizz Air will offer new twice weekly links between Cluj-Napoca and Alicante, Berlin Schoenefeld, Billund and Doncaster Sheffield, with the German capital become the newest destination in its network of 113 airports.

The Barcelona-headquartered carrier, established by the original founders of Vueling, has developed bases in France, Italy and Spain after first launching flights in April 2012 from Marco Polo Airport in Venice, Italy using a fleet of Boeing 717-200s. It arrived in the Bordeaux market in 2012 and based on this month’s schedules the city’s Mérignac Airport now the fifth largest point in its network and second largest in France after Nantes Atlantique Airport.