Routes Update

By Poppy Marello
Air travel is set to flourish over the next week in the Asia Pacific region, with Chinese New Year just around the corner.
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By Richard Maslen
The new four times weekly route was inaugurated on February 13, 2015 and is the only direct flight between the Malaysian capital and Jiangbei International Airport in Chongqing, one of the five national central cities in China. The city is a major manufacturing centre and transportation hub and serves as the economic centre of the upstream Yangtze basin.
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By Poppy Marello
Over a twelve-month period, preliminary data shows a growth rate of 5.1 percent year over year, with both international and domestic traffic posting strong growth rates of 5.8 percent and 4.5 percent respectively.
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By Poppy Marello
Greek start-up, SkyGreece will launch services to Canada, with new routes between Athens, Thessaloniki, Zagreb and Budapest to Toronto, following approval from the Greek and Canadian authorities.
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By Poppy Marello
Aena, which runs 46 Spanish airports, saw its shares rocket as high as 17 percent on the day the company listed on the Madrid stock market, in Spain’s biggest initial public offering (IPO) since 2007.
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By Poppy Marello
With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, Lufthansa Cargo has begun flying 1,500 tonnes of roses right across Europe.
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By Victoria Jones
Read on to find out which airports and destinations have been shortlisted in this year’s Asia heat of the Routes Marketing Awards.
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By Routes Marketing Team
With over 850 meetings already scheduled, be sure to make you requests early to ensure you meet with your top targets.
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By Routes Marketing Team
There is just one week left to place your votes in the Routes Europe Marketing Awards
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By Richard Maslen
American has confirmed the type will initially will be deployed between its hubs at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and Chicago O'Hare International Airport from May 7, 2015. The aircraft will substitute for other equipment on the domestic sector which is served more than 100 times a week, mainly using McDonnell Douglas MD-80 equipment
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By Richard Maslen
Here's our latest instalment of our regular series of industry trivia questions where we ask readers to vote on a particular aviation subject. This time, ahead of Routes Asia, we look at airports in China.
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By Poppy Marello
The airline, part of the Lufthansa Group, has been forced to cancel a number of its domestic and European short-haul routes as a result of the walkout by the Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) union which has failed to reach an agreement on working contracts for its members with the Lufthansa Group.
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By Jim Liu
In partnership with our Airline Route blog, Routesonline is launching a new weekly 'Historic Airline Schedule Snapshot' as part of our Throwback Thursday series, where we look back at the historic flight operations of a current or defunct airline.
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By Richard Maslen
In 1984 when Punta Cana International Airport (PUJ) became the world’s first privately-owned international airport, nobody would have predicted that today it would among the busiest facilities across the Caribbean and a major economic driver for the Dominican Republic. Over the past 30 years it has been regularly recognised among the fastest growing airport in Latin America in terms of passenger traffic, and is now gearing up to welcome Airbus A380 operations by the end of this year.
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By Richard Maslen
Ecuador certainly has a lot to offer and has a growing inbound appeal as the new Quito International Airport, the largest gateway into the country, makes the destination more accessible to international arrivals without the operational restrictions that had affected its downtown predecessor.
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By Richard Maslen
Watch highlights from this year's Routes Americas, which made its debut in North America in the US city of Denver, hosted by Denver International Airport and Visit Denver.
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By Poppy Marello
The four-times-weekly flights will operate between Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY) and the airlines main base in Panama City, and will offer convenient connections to more than 55 destinations in Central and South America.
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By Poppy Marello
From November 16, 2015, the airline will operate year-round flights between Frankfurt and Panama City five times weekly, subject to government approval.
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By Poppy Marello
CSA Czech Airlines is introducing five additional European destinations for its 2015 summer schedule, in addition to another five which were announced last autumn.
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By Poppy Marello
Central and West Africa’s largest airline will commence scheduled flight operations from Lagos, Nigeria to the Ivorian city via Cotonou, Benin Republic.
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By Poppy Marello
Ryanair initially announced it would fly from Copenhagen – Milan Bergamo and Warsaw Modlin daily, as well as from Copenhagen – London Luton twice daily; increasing to three times daily from October 25, 2015, but has since announced a further four routes for later this year, including Madrid, Rome, Brussels and Stockholm.
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By Routes Marketing Team
Known as 'The City of Eternal Spring' due to its pleasant climate and flowers blooming all year long, Kunming is the capital and largest city in Yunnan Province, located in Southwest China.
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By Routes Marketing Team
As Routes Europe 2015 draws closer, we recommend booking your hotel accommodation early to avoid disappointment
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By Victoria Jones
Routes Middle East & Africa will see route development professionals from across the Middle East and Africa gather to discuss air service development to, from, and within the region.
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By Richard Maslen
According to SAS, currently the fifth largest holder of slots at London Heathow, the transaction will generate positive earnings of $60 million. Following the closure of this deal, SAS will now hold 20 daily slots at London Heathrow which it uses to offer non-stop flights to Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo, Stockholm and Stavanger.
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