The Hub

Lufthansa Launches New Tashkent Service

Hong Kong Airlines to Serve Moscow

Emirates Ups London–Dubai Capacity

Gol's New Barbados Service

Five For Friday

Promotion for Beijing Capital’s Dong Zhiyi

Serving Short-haul Markets

Active on Airport Charges

African expansion for Fly540

Fly540, which has bases in East Africa in Kenya and Tanzania, is now embarking on a new expansion towards West Africa, with a view to establishing...

Where is Shenzhen Airlines Headed?

Air China is sizing up a possible take-over of regional carrier Shenzhen Airlines. What does the national carrier stand to gain from this possible...

Five For Friday: News You Need to Know

Ciudad Airport lands new Ryanair service

German Sky: New in the Germany–Turkey market

German-based tour operator GTI Travel is to launch a new charter airline called German Sky on April 1. This will initially fly between Düsseldorf...

Airline Profile: Astraeus Airlines

Focused on operating wet or damp leases, Astraeus Airlines tailor-makes solutions to fit all markets.

Looking for Carriers to serve New Markets

Warsaw Chopin Airport is among the largest airports in Central and Eastern Europe. It handled a little over 550,000 passengers in January 2010 – a...

Popular in Poland

Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport (RZE) is the gateway to the Podkarpackie region in South Eastern Poland – home to the expanding 'Aviation Valley'. The...

Iberia’s New Strategy: Will the Regional Subsidiary Work?

Overwhelmed with high staff costs, an expensive Madrid hub, intense pressure on its short-haul network from budget carriers, and announcing record...

Growing from all Bases

Latvian national carrier airBaltic is the largest airline at its main base at Riga International Airport and at its secondary hub in Vilnius, while...

Ryanair: Gaining In Greece?

Ryanair is making its first foray into Greece with six new seasonal summer routes. The Greek Government is, meanwhile, struggling to contain its...

All Go in Ghana: New West African Flights

Ghana’s capital Accra gained two new international services this week from Virgin Atlantic and United Airlines. Virgin’s thrice-weekly service will...

Q&A: Horst Findeisen, vice president of business development, Star Alliance

Airline alliance activity is at an all-time high, with barely a week passing with out an announcement of a carrier joining, exiting or switching...

Sydney Airport’s Consistent Traffic Growth

Sydney Airport’s international traffic growth has continued into 2010 – the gateway shares its recent success with the Routesonline community.

Making History: Air Arabia Egypt

Originally based in Sharjah in the UAE, Air Arabia established itself in Morocco last year through its Air Arabia Maroc start-up and it is trying...

oneworld Catches Kingfisher

Kingfisher Airlines announced new routes from Delhi to London Heathrow and Hong Kong in the past week, along with plans to join oneworld in the...

Jet Airways Grows in a Downturn

Jet Airways is currently India's second-largest international airline and the largest operator in the domestic market. It operates over 400 daily...

Australia’s ‘Resort-Style’ Low-Cost Hub

Last month’s opening of Gold Coast Airport’s second passenger terminal coincided with double-digit month-on-month growth of international passenger...

Flybe’s Rise to the Top – but for how Long?

Operating from 36 UK airports, Flybe is the largest UK domestic operator (measured by weekly seat capacity and number of destinations). Announcing...

AirAsia moves into Vietnam

Vietnam is the latest Asian country to get an AirAsia subsidiary. Routes News examines what the establishment of Vietjet AirAsia means for the...

Strategy Forum Report: Routes Americas 2010

Michael Bell, partner and consultant at Spencer Stuart moderated this year's Routes Americas Strategy Forum. Here he offers a round up of the top...

Orlando: Serving a Diverse Local Economy

Best known as a gateway for Disney tourists, Orlando International (MCO) is less well-known for its central role in feeding traffic to a diverse...

Norwegian’s “Natural” Expansion in Nordics

Norwegian Air Shuttle recently announced its first service into the Finnish market with scheduled services from Oslo and Stockholm (two of its...

Flydubai: Proactive in New Markets

Flydubai’s fleet of six Boeing 737-800s along with its low fares are helping the Dubai-based carrier to serve the shorter sectors and thinner...

The Impact of the Global Recession on UK Airports

Only three airports out of all the UK’s airports with more than 150,000 yearly passengers actually experienced traffic growth in 2009, according to...

Low-cost Carriers Move in as Air Jamaica Cuts Caribbean-US Links

By April, debt-ridden Air Jamaica will turn away from six key markets between the Caribbean and US, and lose three A320s –the latest restructuring...

A Leading Leisure Hub in the Americas

As a key leisure destination in Mexico, Cancun Airport continues to expand its infrastructure and network, having opened a second runway and a new...

Monarch’s Long-haul Leisure Market

Monarch Airlines is also a newcomer to Routes event and is attending Routes Americas in Lima this week. Among its wish list of new long-haul...

Capacity Stretch: The Strength of Turkish Airlines’ Hub

Turkish Airlines is increasing its fleet and is targeting the huge Europe to Asia traffic flows. TK is now larger in terms of weekly frequency...

Gothenburg to Become the Next Swedish Hub

It’s an unusual move, but the niche Swedish carrier, City Airline - which operates a small domestic and European network mainly for the business...

Serbia: An Emerging Market for Low-cost Carriers

Limited competition in Serbia for low-cost traffic has prompted Wizz Air to test its market potential. It will serve scheduled flights to...

Singapore: Jetstar Expands Asian Base

It’s a time of exciting change for Jetstar, which this week announced it would expand its Asian hub at Singapore Changi. This comes just a few...

Ryanair’s Place in the European Market

Fresh from announcing its fiscal Q3 losses this week, Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary announced that the airline is vying to grow its market share where...

Oneworld v SkyTeam: The Battle Continues for JAL

Japan’s national carrier may be flying on empty reserves, but its newly appointed chairman-in-office, Kazuo Inamori, has announced that JAL will...

Baghdad: Back in Business

Post-war Iraq has seen a resurgence of interest from foreign carriers, who are tapping in to a high net worth business market and the Iraqi expat...

Larnaca Airport: Going Low-Cost?

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...

AirAsia X falls Flat in the Middle East: What Went Wrong?

AirAsia X pulled its Middle East connection this week by announcing that it has “temporarily” dropped its Kuala Lumpur to Abu Dhabi service – a...

SWIFT Growth

Carriers to Copenhagen’s new low-cost facility, CPH SWIFT, must meet 30-minute turnaround times. The airport also seeks to process six million...

The Evolution of TACA

TACA’s proposed “merger of equals” with Avianca – expected this year - will create one of the largest airline groupings in Latin America. Combined...

A380 Debut at Zurich

Touching down at Zurich airport in dense fog, the A380 was still impossible to miss among the thousands of onlookers, who caught a glimpse of the...

AirAsia - Jetstar: A Perfect Partnership?

The new decade kicked off in January with the news of AirAsia and Jetstar’s cost-based alliance but the question remains: does this mark the start...