Routes Update

By Richard Maslen
Frontier currently offers links from Atlanta to Chicago O'Hare, Cleveland, Denver, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Orlando, Trenton and Washington Dulles and will supplement these with a new daily flight to Miami and six times weekly services to both Austin and Indianapolis from March this year.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using mobile devices and applications to increase their services and growing functionality.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
At Routesonline we've decided to take a look back at the news breaking the same week in previous years and revisit it one or two years later to see what’s happened since we released the news.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The Tokyo Narita – Kuala Lumpur flight will return to the ANA network from September 1, 2015 and will be flown on a daily basis by a Boeing 787-8. It will compete directly with AirAsia X, Japan Airlines and Malaysia Airlines on the route, with indirect competition also coming from AirAsia X through its Tokyo Haneda – Kuala Lumpur link.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
This year we have expanded the depth of detail in our popular country by country air capacity statistics series. Every week Routesonline provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic market.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
This year we have expanded the depth of detail in our popular country by country air capacity statistics series. Every week Routesonline provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual international market.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The airline will restructure its operations to increase its activity as a provider of contract services for other carriers in Europe.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The Icelandic carrier plans to extend its Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport flight schedule, operating services between BWI and Reykjavik a month earlier than planned.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The new route will initially launch on a four times weekly basis before growing to a daily operation from the middle of June 2015 and will be flown by Airbus A320 equipment. This will be the first direct flight between Reno-Tahoe and the greater New York market in more than ten years after Continental Airlines ended a weekly link to the Nevada city from its Newark Liberty International Airport hub in April 2005.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using social media to communicate with their customers. We’ve broken the report down to analyse each social media platform, and add some of our own insights.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Transaero will offer a daily flight to the Czech capital as part of its growing Moscow Vnukovo international network from March 29, 2015 using a Next-Generation Boeing 737. The route will complement the airline’s flights from both Moscow and St Petersburg to Pardubice which have been in operation since 1996 and which witnessed a nine per cent year-on-year rise in passenger demand in 2014.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Air Canada says it will continue to evaluate future market opportunities as new aircraft are introduced into its mainline fleet and existing aircraft are released for operation by Air Canada rouge as market demand warrants.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
Services between London and Moscow will be reduced from 13 to 11 weekly from February 1, 2015, eventually decreasing to once daily on March 29, 2015.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
In the past 12 months, JetBlue and Southwest Airlines has added new links from the US mainland, while in the international market Avianca has introduced a number of flights to Bogota, Columbia. The airport’s latest coup was securing a twice-weekly Madrid-San Juan service from Spanish carrier Air Europa.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the north-eastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic. The island is only 100 miles long by 35 miles wide, making it the smallest island of the Greater Antilles.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Emirates first launched flights between Dubai and Kolkata in March 2006 as its seventh destination in India with a split schedule offering greater connectivity via its hub. A daily operation with this split schedule was introduced from early 2008, while a dedicated daily flight on the ‘EK570’ and ‘EK571’ departures came online from December 2009.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using social media to communicate with their customers. We’ve broken the report down to analyse each social media platform separately, and add some of our own insights.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
Red Wings has committed to receive three aircraft on lease from the manufacturer during the first half of this year. They will be operated by the carrier under an initial three year lease term but this is open to extension subject to success of the new regional expansion.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The new route strategy into Italy will see airberlin introduce a new daily service from Stuttgart to Rome from March 29, 2015, operated by an Airbus A320, as well as a 17 times weekly, up to three times daily link from Stuttgart to Milan Linate from May 2015, flown by a Bombardier Dash 8-Q400. In addition, starting the same month, airberlin will expand its service on the existing Stuttgart to Venice route to a daily summer schedule.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using social media to communicate with their customers. We’ve broken the report down to analyse each social media platform separately, and add some of our own insights.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
The confirmation of the landmark link ends over a year of speculation about the service after Gu Zhongqin, president of Xinjiang Airport Group, revealed in December 2013 that the airport authority was in discussions with the budget carrier to introduce the link, around a 4 hour and a half to five hour sector.
Airports & Networks

By Richard Maslen
bmi regional will introduce the three new routes from the start of the summer 2015 schedule in late March and will offer up to two rotations per day to Liege and up to three a day to Berne and Rotterdam. The Liege route will be served by an Embraer ERJ-135, the Rotterdam link with a larger ERJ-145 and the Berne service by a mix of the two aircraft types.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The US Treasury and Commerce Departments unveiled a new set of rules that ease travel and trade restrictions to the island, as long as US citizens certify they are travelling through one of 12 approved categories, which include family, educational and humanitarian trips.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
The move comes after the airline applied to use a Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) mechanism to start stopgap flights to the area with the emergency arrangement, following the sudden closure of Queensland-based Syktrans.
Airports & Networks

By Poppy Marello
This year, Airbus have adjusted the prices for its “modern, comprehensive and fuel-efficient aircraft family,” increasing the average list prices of its aircraft by 3.27 percent across the product line, in comparison to 2014.
Airports & Networks