Bilbao Airport

Three of the four new destinations are currently unserved from Warsaw.

Bilbao, Lisbon and Verona are among the new destinations set to launch this summer.

The summer Bilbao service will be the only air route connecting the British Overseas Territory to neighboring Spain.

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

Three new routes are being launched and capacity will be added to popular existing links.

The carrier is adding 10 seasonal routes to its network, including four Spanish domestic services and three in France.

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.

Key decision makers from the Basque Country are in Hannover this week to further build on the work started when the region hosted Routes Europe a year ago.

Europe’s aviation industry leaders will gather in Bilbao this weekend (22-24 April) at the 13th annual Routes Europe to plan and negotiate new air services within the region.

In the second of a two part feature, Routesonline takes a closer look at the airports named finalists in the Routes Europe 2018 Marketing Awards.

With all eyes on the Basque Country ahead of Routes Europe, the government's minister of tourism Alfredo Retortillo outlines the region's key route development targets and what delegates can expect when they arrive later this month.

Senior decision makers from Europe’s top airlines will be at the event.

Routes Europe 2018, the key route development forum for the region, is taking place in Bilbao from 22-24 April 2018. Routesonline takes a look at some of the facts and figures shaping the Basque Country's aviation market.

Low-cost carrier Volotea is to open a base in Bilbao, the host city of Routes Europe 2018.

The largest route development forum in Europe is heading to Bilbao in 2018.

The annual Routes Europe air service development forum was officially handed over to the Basque city of Bilbao today (25 April) at a ceremony in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

At present, Bilbao Airport serves more than four million people a year. The airport directly provides services within Europe, but after hosting Routes Europe in 2018, long-haul services could be on the horizon for the Basque Country.

The airport, famous for its sleek terminal building designed by Spanish neofuturistic architect, structural engineer, sculptor and painter, Santiago Calatrava Valls, reported a second successive year of year-on-year traffic growth in 2015 and fifth rise in the past six years.

The Basque Government and Basquetour have won a highly competitive bid to host the Routes Europe air service development forum in Bilbao in 2018.

Vueling’s latest uploaded schedules show the Airbus A321 entering scheduled service on July 3, 2015 operating a morning return rotation on the Barcelona – Nantes route. The same day the aircraft will operate from Barcelona to Brussels and back and then in the evening to Granada and back before operating an overnight flight to Moscow.

CSA Czech Airlines is introducing five additional European destinations for its 2015 summer schedule, in addition to another five which were announced last autumn.

The airline has added an additional 20 routes to its schedule, including three from its new Amsterdam base.