The Hub
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Changing Hands
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Lufthansa Launches New Tashkent Service
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Hong Kong Airlines to Serve Moscow
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Emirates Ups London–Dubai Capacity
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Gol's New Barbados Service
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Five For Friday
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Promotion for Beijing Capital’s Dong Zhiyi
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Serving Short-haul Markets
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Active on Airport Charges
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African expansion for Fly540
Posted 11/03/2010Fly540, 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...
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Where is Shenzhen Airlines Headed?
Posted 11/03/2010Air China is sizing up a possible take-over of regional carrier Shenzhen Airlines. What does the national carrier stand to gain from this possible...
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Five For Friday: News You Need to Know
Posted 11/03/2010Ciudad Airport lands new Ryanair service
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German Sky: New in the Germany–Turkey market
Posted 11/03/2010German-based tour operator GTI Travel is to launch a new charter airline called German Sky on April 1. This will initially fly between Düsseldorf...
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Airline Profile: Astraeus Airlines
Posted 11/03/2010Focused on operating wet or damp leases, Astraeus Airlines tailor-makes solutions to fit all markets.
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Looking for Carriers to serve New Markets
Posted 11/03/2010Warsaw Chopin Airport is among the largest airports in Central and Eastern Europe. It handled a little over 550,000 passengers in January 2010 – a...
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Popular in Poland
Posted 04/03/2010Rzeszow-Jasionka Airport (RZE) is the gateway to the Podkarpackie region in South Eastern Poland – home to the expanding 'Aviation Valley'. The...
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Iberia’s New Strategy: Will the Regional Subsidiary Work?
Posted 04/03/2010Overwhelmed with high staff costs, an expensive Madrid hub, intense pressure on its short-haul network from budget carriers, and announcing record...
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Growing from all Bases
Posted 04/03/2010Latvian national carrier airBaltic is the largest airline at its main base at Riga International Airport and at its secondary hub in Vilnius, while...
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Ryanair: Gaining In Greece?
Posted 04/03/2010Ryanair is making its first foray into Greece with six new seasonal summer routes. The Greek Government is, meanwhile, struggling to contain its...
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All Go in Ghana: New West African Flights
Posted 04/03/2010Ghana’s capital Accra gained two new international services this week from Virgin Atlantic and United Airlines. Virgin’s thrice-weekly service will...
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Q&A: Horst Findeisen, vice president of business development, Star Alliance
Posted 04/03/2010Airline alliance activity is at an all-time high, with barely a week passing with out an announcement of a carrier joining, exiting or switching...
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Sydney Airport’s Consistent Traffic Growth
Posted 25/02/2010Sydney Airport’s international traffic growth has continued into 2010 – the gateway shares its recent success with the Routesonline community.
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Making History: Air Arabia Egypt
Posted 25/02/2010Originally 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...
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oneworld Catches Kingfisher
Posted 25/02/2010Kingfisher Airlines announced new routes from Delhi to London Heathrow and Hong Kong in the past week, along with plans to join oneworld in the...
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Jet Airways Grows in a Downturn
Posted 25/02/2010Jet Airways is currently India's second-largest international airline and the largest operator in the domestic market. It operates over 400 daily...
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Australia’s ‘Resort-Style’ Low-Cost Hub
Posted 25/02/2010Last month’s opening of Gold Coast Airport’s second passenger terminal coincided with double-digit month-on-month growth of international passenger...
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Flybe’s Rise to the Top – but for how Long?
Posted 25/02/2010Operating from 36 UK airports, Flybe is the largest UK domestic operator (measured by weekly seat capacity and number of destinations). Announcing...
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AirAsia moves into Vietnam
Posted 18/02/2010Vietnam is the latest Asian country to get an AirAsia subsidiary. Routes News examines what the establishment of Vietjet AirAsia means for the...
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Strategy Forum Report: Routes Americas 2010
Posted 18/02/2010Michael Bell, partner and consultant at Spencer Stuart moderated this year's Routes Americas Strategy Forum. Here he offers a round up of the top...
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Orlando: Serving a Diverse Local Economy
Posted 18/02/2010Best known as a gateway for Disney tourists, Orlando International (MCO) is less well-known for its central role in feeding traffic to a diverse...
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Norwegian’s “Natural” Expansion in Nordics
Posted 18/02/2010Norwegian Air Shuttle recently announced its first service into the Finnish market with scheduled services from Oslo and Stockholm (two of its...
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Flydubai: Proactive in New Markets
Posted 17/02/2010Flydubai’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...
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The Impact of the Global Recession on UK Airports
Posted 11/02/2010Only three airports out of all the UK’s airports with more than 150,000 yearly passengers actually experienced traffic growth in 2009, according to...
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Low-cost Carriers Move in as Air Jamaica Cuts Caribbean-US Links
Posted 11/02/2010By April, debt-ridden Air Jamaica will turn away from six key markets between the Caribbean and US, and lose three A320s –the latest restructuring...
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A Leading Leisure Hub in the Americas
Posted 11/02/2010As a key leisure destination in Mexico, Cancun Airport continues to expand its infrastructure and network, having opened a second runway and a new...
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Monarch’s Long-haul Leisure Market
Posted 11/02/2010Monarch 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...
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Capacity Stretch: The Strength of Turkish Airlines’ Hub
Posted 11/02/2010Turkish Airlines is increasing its fleet and is targeting the huge Europe to Asia traffic flows. TK is now larger in terms of weekly frequency...
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Gothenburg to Become the Next Swedish Hub
Posted 11/02/2010It’s an unusual move, but the niche Swedish carrier, City Airline - which operates a small domestic and European network mainly for the business...
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Serbia: An Emerging Market for Low-cost Carriers
Posted 11/02/2010Limited competition in Serbia for low-cost traffic has prompted Wizz Air to test its market potential. It will serve scheduled flights to...
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Singapore: Jetstar Expands Asian Base
Posted 04/02/2010It’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...
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Ryanair’s Place in the European Market
Posted 03/02/2010Fresh 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...
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Oneworld v SkyTeam: The Battle Continues for JAL
Posted 03/02/2010Japan’s national carrier may be flying on empty reserves, but its newly appointed chairman-in-office, Kazuo Inamori, has announced that JAL will...
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Baghdad: Back in Business
Posted 03/02/2010Post-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...
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Larnaca Airport: Going Low-Cost?
Posted 03/02/2010Blue 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...
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AirAsia X falls Flat in the Middle East: What Went Wrong?
Posted 03/02/2010AirAsia X pulled its Middle East connection this week by announcing that it has “temporarily” dropped its Kuala Lumpur to Abu Dhabi service – a...
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SWIFT Growth
Posted 27/01/2010Carriers to Copenhagen’s new low-cost facility, CPH SWIFT, must meet 30-minute turnaround times. The airport also seeks to process six million...
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The Evolution of TACA
Posted 27/01/2010TACA’s proposed “merger of equals” with Avianca – expected this year - will create one of the largest airline groupings in Latin America. Combined...
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A380 Debut at Zurich
Posted 27/01/2010Touching 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...
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AirAsia - Jetstar: A Perfect Partnership?
Posted 27/01/2010The 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...
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