Lufthansa Group’s SWISS will add new flights to Washington, D.C. and Osaka, Japan beginning in March 2020. These two destinations will be added to SWISS’ long-haul network which already sees service to seven U.S. cities and one other destination in Japan. The flag carrier of Switzerland will become the 35th international airline to offer flights to Washington’s Dulles International Airport. The new daily route will be operated with an Airbus A330-300, which the airline currently has a fleet of 14.…
After a 15 years hiatus, the state-owned carrier of one of the most secretive countries in the world, North Korea, will relaunch direct flights from its capital, Pyongyang to Macau, China. The airline will operate two weekly flights services beginning on Aug. 2, 2019. According to Macau’s Civil Aviation Authority’s…
Growing independent regional airline Via Airlines has abruptly ended all scheduled commercial flights with plans to revert back to its original business model of conducting charter operations. Known by its shortened name, ViaAir, the airline began flying in 1997, specializing in both public and private charter flights catered for corporations,…
Fort Worth-based American Airlines announced a new connection to Georgetown, Guyana on Thursday from its hub at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. The new flight will add to the carrier’s current flights to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, and seasonal service to Rio to be the fourth nonstop flight…
JetBlue Airways has announced it will begin transatlantic operations to Europe in 2021. The long-awaited announcement was made via video from JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes to employees, aided by JetBlue President and COO Joanna Geraghty, at a crewmember-only event held at the airline’s New York maintenance hangar at John F.…
Spain’s national airline, Iberia, has announced it will be canceling its route between Madrid and Johannesburg as of Sept. 1, 2019. The airline cited poor profits in its decision to end the three-year-old route. This is the second time that the airline has ended the route, previously ending it in…
JetBlue Airways launched a new transcontinental route today from Boston to Palm Springs, marking the airline’s 71st destination from Beantown and complementing the airline’s current seasonal service from New York. The city is the latest in the Western United States to be added to the route network of Boston, following…
Sun Country Airlines will be the 12th carrier to serve San Antonio International Airport starting on May 23, 2019. As part of the privately-held airline’s largest route announcement ever, Sun Country is also adding seven other new airports to its route network From San Antonio, the airline will first add…
Air Italy has announced a new route to Toronto, Ontario as it continues to expand its North American network. The flight from Milan Malpensa to Toronto will begin on May 6, 2019, marking the fifth route in Air Italy’s expanding North American push, the first of which to be in…
Mexican low-cost airline VivaAerobus inaugurated a new route on Thursday from Mexico City to New York. The first flight, VB3940, departed Mexico City on-time just after 7:00 a.m. and arrived 4 hours later just before 1:00 p.m. Its arrival in New York marked the sixth U.S. destination for the airline…
