Lets keep this thread alive by posting new international airline routes. Any airline, anywhere in the world, just keep it to international flights.

Singapore Airlines will start flying to its seventh destination in India, Amritsar, with 3x/week service.

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/singapore/story/0,4386,276001,00.html?

Air Canada
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Canada and Colombia, June 30, 2004
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Toronto and Caracas, Venezuela, July 1, 2004
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Toronto and Lima, Peru, November 1, 2004

Freedom Air: Christchurch, New Zealand to Fiji: weekly: 13 May 2004
Air Pacific: Christchurch, New Zealand to Fiji: 2 per week: 30 June 2004
Emirates: Christchurch, New Zealand to Melbourne, Australia: 6 per week: 2 August 2004
Air New Zealand increased existing routes from Christchurch to Melbourne and Brisbane in Australia in Jul 2004

http://www.christchurchairport.co.nz/airport/new_airline_services/

Bangkok Airways
3 flight/weekly non-stop Bangkok-Shenzhen start form 22 September
3 flight/weekly non-stop Bangkok-Male(Maldives) start form 31 October

a new airline has been launched in pakistan called SAFE AIR, it is a domestic airline right now but will go international soon.

air blue is also a new airline in pak and will be going international soon.

Phuket Airlines
Daily flight Bangkok-Yangon start from 1 October

Air Canada
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Canada and Colombia, June 30, 2004
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Toronto and Caracas, Venezuela, July 1, 2004
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Toronto and Lima, Peru, November 1, 2004
You can say whatever you want about Air Canada, about their services 'n stuff, but man, it's impressive the number of flight they have linking Canada and Toronto with nearly everywhere in the world. I was quite impressed when I knew they had daily flights from Sao Paulo to Toronto and also that most of them were already sold out (is it that what you say for plane tickets?)!

NEW Emirates daily service to Brazzaville (Congo) via Libreville (Gabon) with A330.....sorry, just kidding. There's no harm in hoping!

Continental to begin nonstop daily 757 service between Newark(NYC) and Belfast, Northern Ireland, effective May 26, 2005!!

See http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041007/dath038_1.html if you don't believe me.

Assuming they can stay in business US Airways is going to start flying from Charlotte to:

George Town, Bahamas starting 12/18/04 (their 3rd Bahamas destination from CLT)
Barbados starting 2/12/05
Liberia, Costa Rica starting 2/12/05 (their 2nd Costa Rican destination from CLT)

Mexicana has been in Charlotte because they are thinking of starting service to CLT. US Airways already flies to Mexico City, Cancun, and Cozumel from CLT.

Air Canada plans to fly to Pakistan

Bangladeshi Airline is also in the process of introducing flights to Pak.

Air Canada
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Canada and Colombia, June 30, 2004
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Toronto and Caracas, Venezuela, July 1, 2004
- 3x weekly non-stop service between Toronto and Lima, Peru, November 1, 2004

But which city in Colombia!? And I would assume the originating Canadian city is Toronto (duh!).

Mexicana has been in Charlotte because they are thinking of starting service to CLT. US Airways already flies to Mexico City, Cancun, and Cozumel from CLT.


I knew it would come!!!!!! :yes:
I used to work for Mexicana and while I was there I noticed that there is a clear demand for flights to and from Mexico to Charlotte. I am sure that if they do (should I say when they do) the route(s) will be successful.

On the other hand Mexicana is in the process to get clearance from the Chinese government to operate flights into China. In the mean time Aeromexico is doing market studies to find out whether it would be profitable to operate flights into China that would depart from either Tijuana or Guadalajara. Currently there is no non-stop service between China and Mexico :eek:

I knew it would come!!!!!! :yes:
I used to work for Mexicana and while I was there I noticed that there is a clear demand for flights to and from Mexico to Charlotte. I am sure that if they do (should I say when they do) the route(s) will be successful...

Don't get too excited just yet. Nothing has been finalized. Below is the little article from the Charlotte Observer. As you can see they were interested in Charlotte last year, but nothing ever came of it, so it's possible that nothing will happen this year too.

"Mexicana Airlines is again considering starting service from Charlotte. Airline officials met last week with Charlotte business and airport executives to review travel needs and other demographics of the state's rapidly growing Hispanic population. The airline expects to complete its evaluation of the Charlotte market in October, said George Edelmann, regional sales manager in Mexicana's Miami office.

Early last year, the airline also indicated an interest in the city. Charlotte would give the airline, based in Mexico City, an East Coast midpoint between existing service to New York and Miami."

Qantas will start Adelaide-Auckland, December 14, 2004
I think it will be 3X weekly to start off then frequencys shall up in 2005

China Eastern started 3x weekly service from Shanghai to Vancouver this june. it's the second airline to fly this route (the first is Air Canada, daily).



3x weekly service from Shanghai to London are expected to become daily by the end of the year.

Delta to start daily nonstop service from JFK to Berlin Tegel beginning May 2, 2005. Equipment will be a 767-300ER.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041008/clf012_3.html

Icelandair will inaugurate nonstop service from Keflavik to San Francisco on May 18th 2005. The airline will operate this route on a seasonal summer basis through October 15th.
Until June 1st and from September 1st the airline will operate 2 flights a week, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and in peak period from June to August it will operate 4 flights a week, on Mon/Wed/Thu/Sat, all with a Boeing 767-300.

Garuda is considering resuming service to the Philippines and the US and starting new routes to India in 2005. Manila service was terminated in 1998 and could resume next year. For the US the airline is considering New York as well as Honolulu and Los Angeles which it served until 1994. In India Garuda is looking at Mumbai, Kolkut, Chennai and New Delhi.

Don't get too excited just yet. Nothing has been finalized. Below is the little article from the Charlotte Observer. As you can see they were interested in Charlotte last year, but nothing ever came of it, so it's possible that nothing will happen this year too.

"Mexicana Airlines is again considering starting service from Charlotte. Airline officials met last week with Charlotte business and airport executives to review travel needs and other demographics of the state's rapidly growing Hispanic population. The airline expects to complete its evaluation of the Charlotte market in October, said George Edelmann, regional sales manager in Mexicana's Miami office.

Early last year, the airline also indicated an interest in the city. Charlotte would give the airline, based in Mexico City, an East Coast midpoint between existing service to New York and Miami."

Well, maybe nothing yet, but I'm sure it will come sooner than later. :yes: Mexicana is now flying to Portland which they didn't do before. They openned a route into Austin but it was not successful so they discontinued it. I'm sure Charlotte will be added within a year or two (I hope :) )

United Airlines To Launch Nonstop San Francisco-Nagoya Service

September 23, 2004

Chicago, September 23, 2004 -- United Airlines today announced it will begin offering daily, nonstop service between San Francisco International Airport and the new Central Japan International Airport, opening in February 2005 near Nagoya, Japan.* Flights open for sale on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2004, with service from San Francisco to Nagoya beginning June 1, 2005, and service from Nagoya to San Francisco beginning June 3, 2005.

But which city in Colombia!? And I would assume the originating Canadian city is Toronto (duh!).
in colombia is Bogotá :)

United Airlines
- service between Ho Chi Minh City and San Francisco via Hong Kong beginning December 11
- first service for a US carrier to Vietnam since the Vietnam War

Virgin Atlantic
- daily services between London and Sydney via Hong Kong beginning December 7

Route to profits flying overseas


United, other old-line carriers beefing up lucrative international service


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By Susan Chandler and Mark Skertic
Tribune staff reporters

October 10, 2004

The nation's traditional carriers are getting their tail fins kicked by one discount airline or another in virtually every major U.S. market.

So it is hardly a surprise that they are looking for a haven, a place where there is less competition and higher fares, a place where customers value--and are willing to pay for--the amenities old-line carriers offer, such as a plush first-class seat and a glass of champagne.

For United Airlines and longtime rivals such as American Airlines and Delta Air Lines, that place is Europe or Asia or Latin America.

In short, anywhere but here.

"You want to get out of harm's way," said Jon Ash, president of aviation consulting firm InterVistas-ga2. "And harm is Southwest, JetBlue and AirTran."

United's announcement last week that it was expanding its international operations by 14 percent met with almost universal approval from industry experts.

In one of its most major strategic redirections since filing for bankruptcy protection in late 2002, United will add capacity in Asia, expanding flights to China and initiating service to an economically resurgent Vietnam.

It also will use its discount carrier, Ted, to expand flights to Mexico and the Caribbean.

The goal: to ratchet up profitable international operations to more than 40 percent of United's available seat capacity by March. That number currently is 35 percent.

The strategy makes sense, airline experts say, because discount carriers, by and large, don't cross the oceans.

In Europe and Asia, governments long have resisted complete deregulation of fares in order to protect the turf of their national carriers.

Even as fare structures have loosened, many premier foreign carriers, such as British Airways and Air France, have chosen to compete largely on service, not price. In Asia, Japan Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific also have relied on pampering by flight attendants and delicious meals to keep their seats supplied with well-heeled travelers.

Outside the U.S., "the supply-demand balance is better, so the pricing is better," said Ash. "If you're going from Columbus [Ohio] to Chicago to [London's] Heathrow, you're going to pay."

How far can United go in shifting capacity overseas? Can it become a sort of new millennium version of Pan American Airways, the storied carrier that got its start delivering U.S. mail to the Caribbean and Latin America?

The short answer is no.

For decades, Pan Am was the first choice of many Americans affluent enough to travel abroad. Its fleet of wide-body 747 Boeing jets took off from a handful of so-called gateway airports, such as New York's John F. Kennedy and San Francisco, after collecting passengers ferried there by a host of domestic airlines.

But airline deregulation in the late 1970s allowed international flights to take off from more U.S. cities. It wasn't long before domestic carriers launched their own international flights, siphoning passengers away from Pan Am and starting a long decline for the carrier that ended with its liquidation in the early 1990s.

What did in Pan Am was a lack of a domestic system to collect passengers for international flights, said Michael Boyd, an airline consultant in Evergreen, Colo. And that's why United can't afford to move too many assets away from its domestic network, he said.

"No one is going back to the days of Pan Am. It cannot work. You have to have local domestic feed," Boyd said.

United may be able to shift as much as 50 percent of its mainline capacity to overseas flying, but that's a little deceiving, said Ash. As part of the overseas emphasis, United is outsourcing more of its domestic routes to independent regional carriers that fly under the United Express banner.

Delta is taking a similar tack and is out in front in moving a larger share of its capacity to international travel, said Robert Mann, an airline consultant based in Port Washington, N.Y.

Delta has been shifting much of its domestic business to connection carriers, such as ASA and Comair, both Delta subsidiaries, Mann said. More than half of Delta's domestic departures are flown by such carriers.

"That's kind of a secret fact," he said, "but it's a bombshell."

As United's and Delta's mainline operations shrink, that makes international a bigger percentage, even if new flights aren't added.

Eventually, though, there's a point of diminishing returns, experts say.

"At some point, you take yourself out of play because you don't have enough feed left," Ash said.

Discounter threat

Even as United and others place their bets overseas, there's no guarantee that discount carriers won't spring up to challenge those routes, too, industry experts say. It's happened before.

Sir Freddie Laker, a feisty Brit, launched no-frills discount service between London and New York in the late 1970s.

Laker Airways' Skytrain service was very popular, despite the fact that passengers were required to buy tickets the day they traveled and pay extra for meals. But overexpansion and fare-matching by traditional carriers on both sides of the Atlantic put Laker out of business by 1982.

Some international discount carriers, such as Ryanair in Great Britain and Air Deccan in India, have sprung up, but at this point they are small and mostly stay within a region.

United and other carriers probably have years before discount competition starts to seriously cramp profitability on international routes, industry experts predict.

Until then, United is well positioned to capitalize on its international strengths.

Today, United carries the most passengers between U.S. and Asia of any airline in the world, having built on the lucrative Asian route system it purchased from cash-strapped Pan Am in 1986 for $750 million.

United also has Pan Am to thank for its prized London routes, which it purchased four years later. Only two U.S. carriers are allowed to fly directly to London's Heathrow Airport: United and American, which purchased its routes from distressed TWA.

The combination of access to Heathrow and Beijing make United unique among U.S. airlines that fly internationally, industry experts say.

"Basically, United is in the top two in the two most important markets," said Dave Emerson, an airline expert with consultant Bain & Co.

In Asia, "Japan is currently the most important market, but you could argue China is on the horizon to be as important to Japan," Emerson said.

That gives United an advantage that only Northwest Airlines can match. They are the only two U.S.-based carriers with permission to fly directly to Beijing and Shanghai.

That's a position the airlines won't hold forever.

China expansion

This summer, the United States and China reached an agreement that allows additional carriers to serve each nation and could boost the total number of flights between the countries fivefold.

The agreement allows United to expand service to Shanghai this month, and the airline has applied for permission to begin serving Guangzhou, a city in southern China. But rival carriers also are planning moves into China. Continental Airlines, Delta and Hawaiian Airlines are among those that have applied for routes.

Other international expansion also is under way.

Houston-based Continental, for example, announced last week that it will begin offering daily non-stop service between Newark's Liberty International Airport and Belfast. US Airways, struggling to emerge from its second bankruptcy in two years, has been expanding flights to the Caribbean.

Establishing a market presence in a new country and establishing an image and distribution network takes time, consultants say, and United has a big head start in Asia.

That region is critical to the company's recovery, said Emerson.

"The ability to grow, protect that franchise and extend it from Japan to China is really, long term, a critical strategic piece of the puzzle for them," he said.

- - -

International flavor

By March 2005, United Airlines plans to decrease the number of its domestic flights and increase its international flights--a move the carrier expects will improve its bottom line.


NATION'S LARGEST AIRLINES BY PASSENGERS
AIRLINE PASSENGERS PERCENT OF FLIGHTS
International Domestic
American 88.8 million 19% 81%
Delta 84.1 million 8% 92%
Southwest 74.8 million 0% 100%
United 64.8 million 13% 87%
Northwest 50.2 million 14% 86%
US Airways 41.3 million 10% 90%
Continental 38.8 million 20% 80%
Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Chicago Tribune

@samsonyuen: Thanks for the good article. ^^^ But, let's try to keep this thread solely for the announcement of new international air routes. We don't want to veer off topic too much. Thanks. :)

Air Canada Toronto - Beijing/Shanghai direct one-stop flight, starts next year, (april or may). daily with A340-300(Beijing), and 767-300(Shanghai)

I need CONFIRMATION, a friend of mine told me this, and i couldn't find anything on AC's website, however if u use the online booking system, it shows there will be a direct flight with one stop (usually it shows two flights, one is from toronto to vancouver and the other is from vancouver to beijing/shanghai)

Hey, when I was in Toronto the woman in whose house I stayed in went to Mexico City via Charlotte! I don't know with what company though... She found a stop in Charlotte quite weird.

Continental is also going to be flying between Newark and Bristol, England starting May 19, 2005 using a 757. http://www.continental.com/vendors/default.asp?SID=30A264A79B2444B39A327A037BE0CFCD&s=&i=PRNews

Many people at airliners.net have found some evidence that Continental is also going to start flying to Berlin (in addition to Delta from JFK) though it's not official yet.

Edit: Now it is official. http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041011/dam036_1.html I'm not sure there is suddenly room for two airlines on this route considering that it's been so long since an airline has operated it.

British Airways

For winter 2004:

Introduction of a three times a day Heathrow to Basle service from 31 October , 2004.
Introduction of a twice a day Gatwick to Zurich from 31 October , 2004.


For the summer 2005 season (from late March 2005):

Introduction of a four times a week Gatwick to Thessaloniki (Greece) service.
Introduction of a three times a week Gatwick to Split (Croatia) service.
Introduction of a five times a week Gatwick to Vilnius (Lithuania) service.

Also...

Following discussions with the Georgian Government, the UK Department of Transport and the British Embassy in Tbilisi, agreement has been reached to allow British Airways to resume services to Tbilisi, Georgia.

Therefore after a prolonged absence British Airways is pleased to announce a resumption of services to Tbilisi, Georgia, from 1 November 2004.

These services will be operated by British Mediterranean Airways, the sole British Airways longhaul franchise partner.

As plans are still being finalised, these flights are not currently open for sale. Further information will be available shortly.

Schedule information: Flights will depart London Heathrow Terminal 4 at 13:20 on Friday and Sunday arriving in Tbilisi at 21:30 the same day. Return flights from Tbilisi to London will depart at 10:30 and arrive in London at 13:15 local time.

Asiana Airlines
Clark (DMIA) - Incheon (Seoul)
Manila (NAIA) - Busan

Philippine Airlines
Manila (NAIA) -Vancouver-Las Vegas

LTU International Airways, one of Germany's leading airlines, announced the addition of New York as a new route beginning in May of 2005. LTU will be operating six weekly flights, every day except for Wednesday, from John F. Kennedy International Airport Terminal 4 nonstop to Dusseldorf, Germany, LTU's hub centrally located in the heart of North-Rhine Westphalia.

LTU will service the route with its modern fleet of Airbus A330-200 that seats 305 in economy and 18 in First Comfort, LTU's business class service.

Continental Airlines has applied with the Department of Transportation to operate daily 767 service between Newark and Moscow, on 5 May 2005.

The service will operate daily during peak season, and 4 to 5x weekly during off-peak times.

From SE asia, Indonesia particulary.

Star air Jakarta - Kuala Lumpur daily (december)
Star air Jakarta - Singapore daily(december)
Air asia KL - padang 4 times a week
Air asia KL - Medan Daily
Australian Airlines Bali - Perth

cheers

Continental Airlines today announced it will launch daily non-stop flights between its New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Hamburg, Germany, effective June 9, 2005, subject to government approval.

The news comes two days after the airline announced it would launch daily service between New York/Newark and Berlin effective July 1, 2005. Continental already offers daily service from New York/Newark to Frankfurt.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041013/daw016_1.html

Ignore!

Lufthansa has announced that it will launch a thrice-weekly service between Frankfurt and Hyderabad from February next year, opening up its fifth gateway in India. Lufthansa currently operates 29 flights a week between Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore.


KLM-Northwest has announced the launch of its second daily flight between Amsterdam and Mumbai. The new flight will become operative from November 1. In addition to the new flight, KLM will continue to operate a daily flight between Delhi and Amsterdam in cooperation with Northwest Airlines.

Delta Airlines has also announced a second daily flight between Mumbai and the USA via Europe. The new flight will start in November.

SriLankan Airlines will fly 77 times per week to 10 Indian cities. SriLankan Airlines, announced that it is adding a further 11 flights from October 31st 2004, increasing flights to 77 into this emerging market. Nine of its ten Indian destinations will then have daily or more frequent flights, including Madras which has 15 flights per week, and Trivandrum which has 11. Ahmedabad will be the eleventh destination in the next schedule.

Air-India has taken three Boeing 777s on lease for a five-year period beginning December 2004. The 777-200 ER (extended range) are to be used for three additional flights to Los Angeles and three terminator services to London, A-I sources said in Mumbai on Thursday.

Japan Airlines will launch a new Nagoya=Guangzhou route 3 times weekly using a B-767 Aircraft from the openign of the New Chubu Int' Airport on Feb. 17th, 2005.

Emirates to fly double daily
Perth Airport welcomes the announcement by Emirates that the airline will double its services to Perth from October 2005.

"This announcement highlights Emirates confidence in the growth of travel to and from Western Australia" Perth Airport Acting CEO Richard Gates said.

"Perth Airport and the State Government have worked closely with Emirates Airline to deliver this service to the state. It is a fantastic boost for travel especially to and from European countries using Emirates extensive network connections" Mr Gates said.

Perth Airport and Emirates are finalising plans to build a quality business lounge within the International Terminal to ensure passengers receive a first class experience from the start of their journey.

Westralia Airports Corporation is also upgrading the International Terminal to provide an additional 2500m2 of floor space including state of the art equipment in the form of new check-in counters, an automatic baggage handling system and high technology baggage security system Mr Gates said.

Emirates began flying 4 weekly services to Perth in August 2002, increasing to daily services in May 2003 Launched in 1985, Emirates is one of the worlds leading airlines, currently servicing more than 70 destinations worldwide.
http://www1.perthairport.com/content.aspx?ContentID=289

TAP-Air Portugal, through partnership co-operation agreements, has increased the number of destinations available on the Company network to give our passengers still greater choice on business trips, weekend breaks or Autumn/Winter holidays.

Among these are the daily code share flights to interesting Warsaw, ?own in partnership with the Polish airline LOT. Another partnership agreement, this time with the Brazilian company Varig, will begin operating in October and is aimed at strengthening commercial ties between the two carriers to provide greater collaboration between the respective networks, products and services. This will, in turn, further consolidate air links between Europe and Brazil to shorten distances and bring worlds closer together.

From Charlotte, North Carolina:
In February, US Airways will initiate service to Guatemala City, Guatemala; Panama City, Panama; Kingston, Jamaica; and San Salvador, El Salvador, all subject to foreign government approval.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041018/dcm014_1.html

Emirates Airlines will add four new destinations to its network over the next year and a half:
Daily to Seoul, effective May 1, 2005;
Daily to Hamburg, effective October 30, 2005;
Daily to Geneva, effective December 1, 2005;
Daily to Beijing, effective February 1, 2006.

These flights are assumed to be nonstops from EK's Dubai hub.

From Charlotte, North Carolina:
In February, US Airways will initiate service to Guatemala City, Guatemala; Panama City, Panama; Kingston, Jamaica; and San Salvador, El Salvador, all subject to foreign government approval.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041018/dcm014_1.html

Didn't you mean to say these flights are from Ft. Lauderdale instead of Charlotte?

America West Airlines:
Phoenix AZ USA-Monterey NL Mexico.
Phoenix Az USA-San Jose Costa Rica.

Didn't you mean to say these flights are from Ft. Lauderdale instead of Charlotte?

Ooops! You are correct. Those flights will be from Ft. Lauderdale.

Continental Airlines today announced it will launch daily non-stop flights between New York/Newark and Stockholm effective June 2, 2005, subject to government approval. Continental's New York/Newark-Stockholm flights will be operated with a 172-seat Boeing 757 aircraft, carrying 16 passengers in the BusinessFirst cabin and 156 in Economy.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041019/datu052_1.html

American Airlines announced today that it has applied to the U.S. Department of Transportation for authority to resume daily nonstop service between Dallas/Fort Worth and Osaka, Japan, on Nov. 1, 2005, and to launch daily nonstop service between Chicago and Nagoya, Japan, on April 3, 2005. American will fly the DFW-Osaka and Chicago-Nagoya routes with 236-seat Boeing 777s.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041019/datu059_1.html

Turkish Airlines is reportedly planning to introduce a series of new routes once it takes delivery of its 5 new Airbus A330s from October 2005. Initially the airline would start flying to Washington followed by Toronto. Sometime in 2006 the airline plans Australia service with flights to Melbourne and Sydney likely to be operated via Bangkok or Singapore.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Continental will inaugurate service from Guam to Hiroshima in April 2005. Initially the airline will operate 2 flights a week increasing to 4 a week in July.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Air Canada today announced that it will launch the first ever non-stop flights between Australia and Canada with the introduction of double daily flights December 16, 2004 in time for the peak travel season in the southern hemisphere. Flights will be operated using 282-seat Airbus A340-300 aircraft enabling Air Canada to offer non-stop service northbound from Sydney to Vancouver. Southbound flights, requiring a brief stopover in Honolulu for refueling, will allow customers to stay on board thus eliminating U.S. customs clearance and transit visas for some travelers including citizens of Australia. With a flight time of 14 hours and 40 minutes, Air Canada's new daily A340 non-stop service will reduce northbound flying time by two hours and 15 minutes compared to the carrier's second daily one stop service and will be almost five hours faster than other carriers' alternate routings.

Air Canada today announced that it will launch the first ever non-stop flights between Australia and Canada with the introduction of double daily flights December 16, 2004 in time for the peak travel season in the southern hemisphere.

Qantas used to fly Sydney to Vancouver non-stop with their B747SP's.

Starting March 2005.
Aer Lingus will serve the following cities from Dublin, Ireland:
-Hamburg, Germany
-Marseille, France
-Seville, Spain
-Naples, Italy
-Bergamo, Italy

No news on equipment or frequencies yet.

On Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, United Airlines will begin daily nonstop service between Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport (EZE), with connecting service to Montevideo, Uruguay.

United Flight 855 departs Chicago at 9:25 p.m. (CST) and arrives in Buenos Aires the next morning at 11:45 a.m. local time. United Flight 854 departs Buenos Aires at 8:45 p.m. local time and arrives in Chicago at 5:10 a.m. (CST) the following morning. United plans to operate its Chicago-Buenos Aires route with a Boeing 767 aircraft.

WestJet will commence its new non-stop service to Tampa, Florida on October 31. WestJet will offer four non-stop flights each week between Toronto and Tampa.

WestJet will also begin offering non-stop flights from Toronto to Fort Lauderdale, Florida on November 1, from Vancouver to Los Angeles on December 19, and from Calgary to Palm Springs on January 7.

Flybe announced 7 new European routes from Birmingham International Airport and the introduction of its first Boeing 737-300. Flybe will offer new services from Birmingham to Alicante, Malaga, Murcia, Faro, Palma, Almeria and Geneva in March 2005.

http://www.justplanes.com/

GOL will inaugurate nonstop service from Sao Paulo Guarulhos Airport to Buenos Aires on December 22nd. The airline plans to operate 2 flights a day with a Boeing 737.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Air Paradise will inaugurate service on 3 new routes in December. In additional to flights on routes to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth the airline will begin service from :
Bali to Brisbane from Dec 2nd
Bali to Osaka from Dec 26th
Bali to Seoul from Dec 2nd

http://www.justplanes.com/

Air France will inaugurate new nonstop "Dedicate service" from Paris CDG to Riyadh on December 1st. The airline will operate 3 flights a week with its Airbus A319ER departing Paris on Wed/Fri/Sun and Riyadh on Mon/Thu/Sat.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Corsair will inaugurate nonstop service from Bordeaux to Point-a-Pitre on December 22nd. The seasonal service will operate through February 23rd 2005 with a weekly flight operated on Wednesdays with a Boeing 747.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Xiamen Airlines will launch its first service to Japan next month when it inaugurates nonstop service from Xiamen to Osaka Kansai on November 8th. The airline will operate 3 flights a week on this route.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Austrian Airlines announced that it will operate daily flights between Delhi and Vienna during the limited Open Sky period till March next year and it would add Mumbai to its destination from May next year.

http://www.justplanes.com/

TAT, which stands for Toumai Air Tchad, was to make its inaugural flight today. The new airline, based in N'Djamena, has planned an inaugural flight to Bangui, Cotonou and Douala. TAT will operate 3 weekly flights to Douala, 2 to Bangui and 1 a week to Cotonou and Niamey with its single Fokker 28.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Hemus Air will inaugurate nonstop service from Sofia to Cologne on December 16th. The airline will operate 2 flights a week, Mondays and Thursdays, with a BAe146.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Etihad will inaugurate nonstop service from Abu Dhabi to Karachi on November 1st. The airline will operate 4 flights a week, Tue/Thu/Sat/Sun, with a Boeing 767-300.

Etihad will inaugurate nonstop service from Abu Dhabi to Delhi on December 1st. The airline will operate 3 flights a week, Wed/Fri/Sun, with a Airbus A300-200.

http://www.justplanes.com/

Dude....do try to consolidate your posts into one, especially when they are spaced merely a few mins apart...

Thanks.

American Airlines:
New nonstop destinations from Miami include Manchester, England; St. Lucia, British West Indies; and St. Kitts/Nevis in the Leeward Islands. Manchester and St. Lucia service starts today, while flights to St. Kitts/Nevis begin Nov. 3. In addition, new nonstop service from Miami to Montevideo, Uruguay, starts Dec. 16. Currently, Montevideo is served via Buenos Aires.

JetBlue Airways:
JetBlue Airways today launched new daily service between New York's JFK Airport and Nassau, Bahamas. Nassau becomes the carrier's third international destination following a launch last June to Santiago and Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.

LAN Airlines:
Starting December 1, 2004, LAN Airlines will operate three flights a week between Santiago, Chile and Ushuaia, Argentina. The flights will depart Santiago on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8:30 a.m. and arrive in Ushuaia at 2:30 p.m. Return flights will depart Ushuaia on the same days at 3:15 p.m. and arrive in Santiago at 9:20 p.m. The route (Santiago-Puerto Montt-Punta Arenas-Ushuaia) will be operated by Airbus A319 aircraft.

American West Airlines:
On March 4, 2005, America West will begin nonstop service from San Diego to Vancouver, Canada. Today, November 1, 2004, America West begins non-stop service between San Diego and Los Cabos, Mexico. Yesterday, October 31, 2004, the airline inaugurated service between San Diego and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

Thanks dude. ;)

Btw, not sure if anyone mentioned it before, but Transaero launched its Moscow-Singapore flight on the 30th of October, reinstating a route abandoned by Aeroflot last year.

Northwest Airlines Corp. has started a new passenger service between Guangzhou, China and the carrier's hub in Tokyo.

The Eagan-based airline announced direct flights will leave Tokyo every evening except Wednesday and return from Guangzhou every morning except Thursday. Tokyo passengers have direct connections to various destinations in the United States including Northwest's hub in the Twin Cities.

Northwest Airlines Corp. has started a new passenger service between Guangzhou, China and the carrier's hub in Tokyo.

The Eagan-based airline announced direct flights will leave Tokyo every evening except Wednesday and return from Guangzhou every morning except Thursday. Tokyo passengers have direct connections to various destinations in the United States including Northwest's hub in the Twin Cities.

See #38!

Whoops, sorry! I looked at the last couple of pages, but I guess I missed it.

Nick, maybe you can answear a question I have about www.justplanes.com

In the A380 orders list in the bottom of the main page, where are the Intl. Lease Finance Corp. 10 orders?

American Eagle:
American Eagle announced today that beginning Jan. 5, the carrier will add daily service between Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport and San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The carrier will operate one flight each day with its 44-seat ERJ-140 regional jets. The new flights will depart Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) at 6:16 p.m., arriving in San Luis Potosi (SLP) at 8:38 p.m. The return flight departs San Luis Potosi at 7:05 a.m., and arrives Dallas/Fort Worth at 9:15 a.m.

Emirates:
On May 1, 2005, Emirates will start operating daily flights to Seoul, South Korea. On October 30, 2005, daily service to Hamburg, Germany, will start. On December 1, 2005, Geneva, Switzerland, will start daily service.

Nick, maybe you can answear a question I have about www.justplanes.com

In the A380 orders list in the bottom of the main page, where are the Intl. Lease Finance Corp. 10 orders?

I don't see them either and I do remember hearing about an order from one of the big aircraft leasing companys. Send them an email at their "Comments" section and keep us posted on their answer.

Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, has disclosed that it will start passenger flights to another three cities in 2005, in Europe and the Far East.

When added to the airline’s new three-weekly route to the Seychelles, due to start on 2 January as announced earlier, the new routes will expand the Emirates network to 81 destinations by the end of next year.

On Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, United Airlines will begin daily nonstop service between Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG).

United will now serve Shanghai nonstop and daily from its hubs in Chicago and San Francisco. In addition, it serves Beijing daily from both of these U.S. cities, and has applied for air rights to serve Guangzhou from San Francisco.

On Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, United Airlines will begin daily nonstop service between Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) and Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport (EZE), with connecting service to Montevideo, Uruguay.

"United's reinstated nonstop flight between our Chicago hub and Buenos Aires complements our existing nonstop service from our Washington Dulles hub and this vibrant city," said Martin White, senior vice president-Marketing.

On 1 May Emirates will start operating daily flights to Seoul, the capital and largest city of South Korea. Daily services to Hamburg will start on 30 October, making it the airline’s fourth gateway to Germany, presently served by five daily flights to Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Munich. On 1 December, Geneva will become the second Swiss city with daily Emirates services, besides Zurich.

@HKSkyline: I think I beat you by almost a day on Emirates' new routes. :) :) Look back two posts.

Nick, maybe you can answear a question I have about www.justplanes.com

In the A380 orders list in the bottom of the main page, where are the Intl. Lease Finance Corp. 10 orders?

I emailed JustPlanes the following question:

On the A380 order list at the bottom of the main page you don't list the order by the International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC) of ten planes.

They replied:

Please note our list contains Airline orders... That does not include leasing companies. If/when an airline places an order from ILFC, it will appear in the listing.

I emailed JustPlanes the following question:

On the A380 order list at the bottom of the main page you don't list the order by the International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC) of ten planes.

They replied:

Please note our list contains Airline orders... That does not include leasing companies. If/when an airline places an order from ILFC, it will appear in the listing.

I did the same this afternoon, and they answered me the same.
So, there are 144 A380 orders by now.

@Nephasto: I personally would count the ten planes that ILFC ordered, because it shows what the worldwide demand is for the A380 more accurately. I mean we have to assume that ILFC are not idiots and believe that they will have buyers or lessors for the ten planes.

BWIA:
British West Indies Airlines (i.e.,BWIA) will launch new flights to Glasgow Prestwick Airport in Scotland and Belfast International in Northern Ireland. Both new flights, which begin January 16, 2005, will be nonstop to Barbados continuing on to Port Of Spain, Trinidad. The weekly flights, each of which will operate via Manchester in one direction, will operate using two-class Airbus A340-300s.

British Airways:
British Airways will increase Vancouver, Canada, to London Heathrow from 7 to 10 weekly 747-400's.

British Airways will cut Toronto, Canada, to London Heathrow's second daily flight from a 747-400 to a 777-200 and the 3rd flight will go from four weekly flights to three weekly flights.

Aeropostal:
Early next year, Aeropostal will add two daily flights from Miami, Florida, to Caracas, Venezuela. All the flights will operate with MD-82s with all business-class seats but economy fares.

Aero Honduras:
Aero Honduras is adding three weekly flights, from Miami, Florida, to Managua, Nicaragua, in late November.

South African Airlines:
South African Airlines announced that in February, 2005, they will launch flights from Sao Paulo to Johannesburg to Mumbai, with no change of aircraft.

British Airways:
British Airways will suspend service from London to Bogota, Colombia, and Caracas, Venezuela, from February 6, 2005, because of heavy losses on these routes.

Qantas:
Qantas will add three extra weekly flights on both the Perth-Singapore-London and Sydney-Hong Kong-London routes. These six new flights will increase the number of flights offered by Qantas to the UK from 21 to 27 a week. Qantas will add a fourth weekly flight on the Sydney-Hong Kong-London route in 2005 and has approval to operate three more weekly flights starting April, 2006.

Phuket Air:
Phuket Air will inaugurate service from Bangkok, Thailand, to Amsterdam, Netherlands, in March, 2005. Initially the airline will operate two flights a week with a Boeing 747-200 increasing to three a week in April, 2005. The Bangkok to Amsterdam flight will operate nonstop, while the return flight will stop in Dubai, UAE.

Cayman Airways:
Cayman Airways will resume service from Grand Cayman to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, on November 12th and Chicago, Illinois, on December 18th. The airline will inaugurate service to Boston, Massachusetts, on December 17th with one flight a week.

Austrian Airlines:
Austrian Airlines will inaugurate nonstop service from Vienna, Austria, to Naples, Italy, on March 19th, 2005. The airline will operate 3 flights a week, on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, with a mix of Boeing 737s and Douglas MD83s.

Finnair:
The following changes are to Finnair's Summer schedule, operating between May 30th and August 31st, 2005. Finnair will operate three weekly nonstop flights between Helsinki, Finland, and Hong Kong, China. Departures will be on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays from Helsinki and on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Mondays from Hong Kong. Additionally, all flights between Helsinki, Finland, and Singapore will be operated daily, with the addition of three weekly flights. Finnair's Hong Kong and Singapore flights are all operated using MD-11s.

Uair:
Uair, Uruguay's low cost carrier (LCC), has cancelled their planned Montevideo, Uruguay to Buenos Aires, Argentina service, which was due to begin on November 19, 2004.

Uair has been operating Fokker 100s for less than a year from Montevideo, Uruguay to Córdoba, Mendoza and Rosario, Argentina and Curitiba, Porto Alegre and Sao Paolo, Brazil, and had Buenos Aires at the top of their list of future destinations, until today.

Jet Airways and Air Sahara:

The Indian government plans to allow private carriers like Jet Airways and Air Sahara to start flights to all international destinations across the globe, except to Persian Gulf countries. Operations to the Persian Gulf nations will be handled by Indian Airlines and Air India.

Since private carriers have started flights to Kathmandu, Nepal, and Colombo, Sri Lanka, they have taken away a lot of traffic from the international airlines operating on these sectors.

The airlines will be in a position to start flights on these routes by April, 2005.

Gol:
Gol, a Brazilian low cost carrier (LCC), will begin flying to Teresina, Piaui, in Northeastern Brazil, on November 11.

Aero Airlines:
Finnair subsidiary, Aero Airlines, will launch nonstop flights from Helsinki, Finland, to Kuresaare, Estonia, on the island of Saaremaa. The flights will operate twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays, and will be flown next summer from May 19 until September 11 with ATR-72s.

Silk Air:
Silk Air will add service to Danang, Vietnam, beginning January 3, 2005. The outgoing thrice-weekly flights from Singapore to Danang will stop in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays using A320s. The return flights from Danang to Singapore will be nonstop.

United Airlines:
United Airlines will move up by more than two months the launch of daily, nonstop service between San Francisco, California, and Nagoya, Japan. Service to the new Central Japan International Airport near Nagoya will now begin March 26, 2005, rather than the original start date of June 1, 2005.

United will also double service between Los Angeles, California, and Tokyo, Japan, with a second daily flight beginning June 7, 2005.

Both the San Francisco-Nagoya service and the additional daily Los Angeles-Tokyo service will use Boeing 777s.

BWIA:
BWIA will inaugurate service from Prestwick, Scotland, (near Glasgow) on January 16, 2005, and from Belfast, Northern Ireland, on January 17, 2005. Each route will operate nonstop to Barbados and continue on to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, with one flight a week each on an Airbus A340.

Qatar Airways:
Qatar Airways will add six new destinations this winter season, with service to Beijing, China, beginning on November 25, 2004, London Gatwick, UK, beginning November 26, 2004, Mahe, Seychelles, beginning December 1, 2004, Yangon, Myanamar, beginning January 8, 2005, and Cape Town/Johannesburg, South Africa, beginning January 16, 2005.

In the 2005 summer season, service is planned to begin to Algiers, Algeria, Athens, Greece, Melbourne, Australia, Osaka, Japan, and Tunis, Tunisia.

Bosnia Airlines:
Bosnia Airlines, a new airline based in Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, was to begin operations on November 8th with a Let-410 with 3 times a week service to Zagreb, Croatia. The airline plans to lease an ATR-42 at a later stage.

Neos Air:
Neos Air will begin long haul charter service on December 17 from Milan, Italy, to Havana, Cuba, via Montego Bay, Jamaica, with a Boeing 767-300ER.

Cathay Pacific:
Cathay Pacific Airways will increase the frequency of its service from Hong Kong, SAR, to Beijing, China, from three to seven flights a week by December 3rd. An Airbus A330 is used on this route.

Emirates:
Emirates will increase frequency on its Dubai, UAE, to Birmingham, UK, route from one to two flights a day on June 1, 2005. Emirates will then switch aircraft from a Boeing 777-200 to an Airbus A330-200.

Air India:
Air India plans to increase its flights to the US from 10 a week to 25, by the end of December, 2004. These will include new weekly flights to New York, Newark and five flights to Los Angeles. Next year it will add six flights to Chicago, after receiving two new leased Boeing 777s.

Flights to New York are via London, Newark flights are via Paris and Chicago flights will be via London and Frankfurt (three each.) The Los Angeles flights will be via Frankfurt. Ultimately plans are for non-stop flights to the US.

Air India is also considering launching flights to South Africa, Nigeria, Australia, Beijing, China, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, California, Manchester, UK, and Seoul, Korea.

KLM:
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will begin service to Khartoum, Sudan and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Effective March 31, 2005, Amsterdam-Khartoum-Addis Ababa-Amsterdam will operate twice weekly with a Boeing 767-300ER. Departing Amsterdam, Netherlands on Thursdays and Saturdays.

Air Canada:
Air Canada expects to add six large used jets on its Asian and Latin American routes by next summer. The airline is looking for six wide-body, long-haul Boeing 767 and Airbus A340 jets and will continue to increase the schedule with a particular focus on Asia and Latin America. Air Canada's international operations have been extremely profitable and the airline wants to increase activity there.

Star Air:
Star Air of Indonesia started daily passenger flights between Jakarta, Indonesia and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Star Air is the fourth Indonesian carrier to serve this route. The airline currently operates three Boeing 737-200s and four MD 82/83s.

Flynordic:
Swedish low-cost carrier, Flynordic, will launch new routes in the spring; from Stockholm, Sweden to Dublin, Ireland, Berlin, Germany, Munich, Germany and Tallinn, Estonia in March 2005. Additional routes include Gothenburg, Sweden to Munich, Germany and Copenhagen, Denmark to Tallinn, Estonia.

US Airways is going to start daily seasonal service between Philadelphia and Venice starting May 9 and Philadelphia and Barcelona starting May 16, 2005. They'll also resume their service between PHL and Dublin, Shannon, and Glasgow. All flights are seasonal and will end on October 29, 2005. All will be flown with 767-200s.

US Airways:
US Airways will begin nonstop daily seasonal service from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Venice, Italy, beginning May 9, 2005. Philadelphia to Barcelona, Spain service will begin May 16, 2005. Nonstop seasonal service from Philadelphia to Dublin and Shannon, Ireland and Glasgow, Scotland will resume May 7th to Dublin, May 8th to Shannon and May 14th to Glasgow, and will operate on a daily, nonstop schedule until October 29, 2005. A Boeing 767-200ER aircraft will be utilized.

Aerolineas del Sur:
Aerolineas del Sur was cleared by the Chilean government to operate as a local Chilean company. It will fly from Santiago, Chile to Buenos Aires, Argentina and within Chile. Flights will begin when it receives technical authorization from another regulatory agency in Chile.

Finnair:
Will start direct flights from Helsinki, Finland to Guangzhou, China in September, 2005. The service will be offered three times a week. Finnair will fly to Guangzhou on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays and from Guangzhou on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The flight time is expected to be about 10 hours.

Spirit Airlines:
Spirit Airlines starts service today from Fort Lauderdale, Florida to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

AirAsia:
AirAsia is completing the final stages for its Indonesian joint venture. The first flight out of Jakarta, Indonesia to a destination within Indonesia will begin as early as January, 2005, and would probably be to Bali, Medan or Surabaya. AirAsia flies daily to several destinations in Indonesia from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Malaysia Airlines:
Malaysia Airlines will double its operations in India in the next year. The airline currently operates from five cities in India; Chennai (Madras), New Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay), Bangalore and Hyderabad. It will launch nonstop flights to Ahmedabad from Kuala Lumpur on December 16, 2004, followed by flights to Kolkata (Calcutta) and Amritsar. Malaysia Airlines operates daily flights from Chennai, four weekly flights from New Delhi and Mumbai, twice weekly flights from Bangalore and once weekly from Hyderabad. The Airbus A330-300 will be utilized, with a total of 290 seats per flight.

Air Canada today announced that it will launch the first ever non-stop flights between Australia and Canada with the introduction of double daily flights December 16, 2004 in time for the peak travel season in the southern hemisphere. Flights will be operated using 282-seat Airbus A340-300 aircraft enabling Air Canada to offer non-stop service northbound from Sydney to Vancouver. Southbound flights, requiring a brief stopover in Honolulu for refueling, will allow customers to stay on board thus eliminating U.S. customs clearance and transit visas for some travelers including citizens of Australia. With a flight time of 14 hours and 40 minutes, Air Canada's new daily A340 non-stop service will reduce northbound flying time by two hours and 15 minutes compared to the carrier's second daily one stop service and will be almost five hours faster than other carriers' alternate routings.

Bout time!

the sooner they start flying Vancouver - Melbourne & Vancouver - Brisbane the better, stopping in Sydney for an intl is a pain in the arse.

^I think Canada 3000 used to fly the Vancouver-Sydney-Melbourne route before too (with the obligatory brief stop in Honolulu). Don't they have planes that don't need to do that anymore? Does Qantas fly into Vancouver now? Hope they start offering service from Toronto soon.

Celestair, a turkish based carrier, launched twice daily direct services from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso to Paris Orly a week ago.The carrier uses an Airbus A319 on this route.

Malaysia Airlines:
Malaysia Airlines is adding nonstop flights between Ahmedabad, India and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The flight will use a 290 passenger Airbus A330 and will operate three times a week, beginning December 16, 2004, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

Wizz Air:
The Polish airline will begin flights from Budapest, Hungary and Katowice, Poland to Frankfurt, Germany's Hahn Airport beginning March 27, 2005.

Swiss:
Swiss will begin flights from EuroAirport at Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg in the Summer of 2005 to Valencia and Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Seasonal flights to Corsica, France and Sardinia and Naples, Italy will be offered from June to September, 2005.

LAN:
LAN Airlines, which already has flights throughout the Americas, and to Europe, Australia, and Asia, wants a greater presense in Asia. LAN is looking at adding a flight between Sydney, Australia and Bali, Indonesia.

Varig:
Nonstop service between Sao Paulo, Brazil and Munich, Germany will resume February 1, 2005. Four flights a week will operate with an MD-11 that will originate and terminate in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Brazilian departures will be on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday and Munich departures will be on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Varig will increase frequency on its Porto Alegre, Brazil to Buenos Aires, Argentina service from 7 to 11 flights a week on December 13, 2004, by adding a second flight on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. Flights will use Boeing 737s.

Varig will begin a weekly nonstop flight from Florianopolis, Brazil to Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 4, 2004. The flight will operate on Saturdays with an MD-11 through January 15, 2005, when it will switch to a Boeing 777-200.

Capacity on the Sao Paulo to Buenos Aires route will increase on December 6, 2004, with the addition of a evening departure. The fourth flight of the day will switch from a Boeing 737-800 to a Boeing 757-200. Two of the other flights will operate with an MD-11 and the third flight will use a Boeing 737-300. Beginning January 13, 2005, both MD-11 flights will use a Boeing 777-200.

Capacity of several other flghts will increase in December, 2004. Sao Paulo to Bogota, Colombia will increase from three to four nonstops a week. Sao Paulo to Lima, Peru will change equipment from a Boeing 737-800 to a Boeing 757-200. The Sao Paulo to Caracas, Venezuela flight will use a Boeing 777-200.

Flybe:
Nonstop service from Exeter, England to Paris, France (Charles de Gaulle) will begin on March 27, 2005, and will consist of two flights a day.

Bmi:
Bmi is upgrading its Manchester, England to Las Vegas, Nevada service from winter operation to year-round service. Service will remain the normal three weekly flights with an Airbus A330, but in the summer it will operate twice weekly.

InterSky:
Nonstop service from Friedrichshafen, Germany to Graz, Austria and Prague, Czech Republic will begin in January, 2005. Four flights a week will operate on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday with Dash 8-300 equipment. Service will also begin to Venice, Italy.

Ryanair:
New service from Blackpool, England to Dublin, Ireland will begin on May 22, 2005.

In spring, 2005, Ryanair will begin service from Liverpool, England to Barcelona, Granada and Murcia, Spain, Pisa and Venice, Italy, Nimes and Limoges, France, and Cork and Shannon, Ireland.

Ryanair will also start to fly next spring from London Stansted to Wroclaw in Poland, and Brno in Chezch Republic.

Thanks Nephasto for the info.

Just wanted to remind potential posters that I started this thread hoping to have only posts of new international flights. I kind of hope we can keep it for that and keep replies about posts on this thread off this thread and on other threads. Thanks, Nick in Atlanta.

Air Zimbabwe:
At an unstated date, Air Zimbabwe will the operation of a twice-weekly nonstop flight from Harare, Zimbabwe to Singapore, continuing on to Beijing, China. The flights from Harare will arrive in Singapore and Beijing on Tuesday and Saturday. The return flight departs every Wednesday and Sunday. No news on equipment to be utilized.

Direct air link: India, Brazil to meet
Monday, 22 November , 2004, 18:29

New Delhi: India, Brazil and South Africa will meet next month to finalise the process of having direct air links between the Latin American country and New Delhi with a stopover at Johannesburg.

The Indian government has given its approval for signing of air services agreement between India and Brazil. Accordingly, the two countries will have four flights a week.

At present, the European or South African route can be used to go to Brazil.

Marconi Ferreira Perillo Jr, Governor of the State of Goias, Brazil, said ''a meeting is scheduled for December between the civil aviation authorities of India, Brazil and South Africa where we would also finalise the designate airlines to provide connectivity between the two countries through stoppage at Johannesburg.'' He said Brazil is also thinking about having a direct shipping line between the two countries ''but it is too early to commit anything in this regard.'' The governor asked the Indian businessmen to take advantage of the technological and productive complementarities and ''exploit the vast market beyond the national boundaries''.

http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=13614789

Easyjet:
Italian operations are expanding with four new routes from the U.K. and Germany. London (Gatwick) to Olbia, Italy begins May 27, 2005. London (Luton) to Cagliari, Italy begins April 21, 2005. Berlin, Germany to Olbia begins April 8, 2005. Berlin to Pisa, Italy begins April 8, 2005. All service is once daily, but the London (Luton)-Cagliari service will increase to twice daily in the summer.

Pacific Blue:
Applied for authorization to double its flights between Australia and Fiji, which it just started in September.

URGENT:::

SOmeono could tell me a cheap airline that works from Budapest(or a close city to Budapest) to Paris??????????????

@Sir Rene: Try Travelocity.com, Expedia.com, Priceline.com, Orbitz.com or a number of other travel booking sites available for you with a little search on a website called G-O-O-G-L-E!!

This piece of news is making lots of Singaporeans (and regional travellors) VERY excited!!! :lol:

Posted: 25 November 2004 1809 hrs

Jetstar Asia to start flying to seven routes from Singapore

SINGAPORE : Asia's newest budget carrier, Jetstar Asia, says it will fly to seven destinations from Singapore when it starts operations next month. The airline will initially have flights to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Manila, Pattaya, Jakarta, and Surabaya. It plans to open up more routes early next year.

Jetstar did not give any price details, or say exactly when it will start flying in December. Those details, it says, will be out in the next two weeks.

Jetstar had said previously that it wants to differentiate itself by flying further than its competitors in this region to make up for its late entry into the market. Two other Singapore-based budget airlines, Valuair and Tiger Airways, now fly to a number of Asia-Pacific cities, including Bangkok, Hong Kong, Perth and Jakarta -- but not to mainland China, Taiwan or the Philippines. The Malaysian no-frills carrier, AirAsia, also flies between Bangkok and Singapore but is not based in the city-state.

Jetstar is 49 percent owned by Australia's Qantas Airways. Its other stakeholders are Singapore investment firm, Temasek Holdings, and two Singapore businessmen. - CNA

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES: Manila - Nagoya Chubu | 4x Weekly
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Philippine Airlines to fly to Chubu Centrair airport
Japan Today | Friday, November 26, 2004 at 04:56 JST

NAGOYA — Philippine Airlines said Thursday it will run four weekly flights between Manila and Chubu Centrair International Airport from early March soon after the airport opens near Nagoya in February next year.

It will be the first time for the Philippine carrier to serve central Japan. Philippine Airlines said it expects to see solid demand for its flights in central Japan due to the number of Philippine workers in the area. (Kyodo News)

Cayman Airways:
Beginning November 27, Cayman Airways began operating weekly nonstop service from Miami, Florida to Cayman Brac. The Boeing 737 service will operate on Saturdays.

Qatar Airways:
Has begun nonstop service from Doha, Qatar to Beijing, China. Qatar Airways will operate three weekly flights with its Airbus A330-200 departing Doha on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, with returning flights departing Beijing the following day.

Blue Panorama:
Beginning November 30, 2004, Blue Panorama will operate weekly service from Milan, Italy's Malpensa Airport to Shanghai, China, via Venice, Italy. The service will utilize a Boeing 767-300ER. The service will continue once a week departing Tuesdays through the winter season. During the 2005 summer season the frequency will increase to three flights a week.

Ryanair:
Four new routes from the London area will begin after the New Year. All will be operated once a day with a Boeing 737. London, England's Gatwick Airport to Knock, Ireland will begin January 19, 2005. London Stansted to Brno, Czech Republic begins March 24, 2005, to Granada, Spain from February 7, 2005, and to Wroclaw, Poland from March 24, 2005.

There will be an increase on the frequency on the following routes:
London Stansted to Cork, Ireland from three to four flights a day, beginning January 19, 2005. London Stansted to Shannon, Ireland from two to three flights a day beginning January 19, 2005, and from three to four flights a day beginning March 24, 2005.

Nonstop service from Gerona, Italy to Blackpool, England will begin March 31, 2005. The daily service will use a Boeing 737.

Ryanair will further expand into the Italian market, to fill the void left by the collapse of Volare Airlines. New twice-daily service from Paris' Beauvais Airport to Venice, Italy's Treviso Airport will begin shortly.

Syrianair:
Direct service from Damascus, Syria to Copenhagen, Denmark will begin on December 8, 2004. Two flights a week will operate with an Airbus A320 with a stopover in Aleppo, Syria.

JAT:
Nonstop service from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro to Basel, Switzerland will begin on December 10, 2004. Two flights a week on Fridays and Sundays will use a Boeing 737-300.

Corsair:
Weekly nonstop charter service from Basel, Switzerland to La Romana, Dominican Republic will begin on December 22, 2004. The flight will originate in Lyon, France. An Airbus A310-300 will be used through the end of March 2005.

Hapag Lloyd:
Frequency on the Basel, Switzerland to Palma de Mallorca, Spain route will increase from three to seven flights a week beginning May 12, 2005.

Eurofly:
A seasonal summer service will operate from Naples, Italy to New York's JFK Airport from June 2005 through September 2005. Three flights a week will be operated with an Airbus A330-200 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Emirates:
The frequency of flights from Dubai, UAE to Paris' CDG Airport will increase from seven to twelve flights a week beginning in the 2005 summer season. By the 2006 summer season, Emirates will be allowed to operate two daily flights on this route.

Wizz Air:
New service will begin March 27, 2005, that includes service from Budapest, Hungary to Frankfurt, Germany's Hahn Airport, from Budapest to Barcelona, Spain's Girona Airport, from Budapest to Athens, Greece and Budapest to Katowice, Poland. In additon, service will begin from Katowice to Frankfurt's Hahn Airport, Katowice to Barcelona's Girona Airport, Katowice to Budapest, and Gdansk, Poland to Stockholm, Sweden. Service to Palma de Mallorca, Spain will be from Budapest and Katowice between June 15, 2005 and September 14, 2005.

Alaska Airlines:
Will begin new daily nonstop service between Vancouver, Canada and San Diego, California on February 13, 2005.

Existing service between Vancouver and Las Vegas, Nevada and Vancouver and Palm Springs, California will be increased. The Vancouver-Palm Springs additional service will operate daily, except for Sundays and Thursdays. Two additional flights per week, for a total of nine weekly nonstops, will be operated between Vancouver and Las Vegas. Flights will be added on Thursdays and Sundays.

Helvetic:
Next summer there will be daily flights from Zurich, Switzerland to Valencia, Malaga and Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and daily service from Zurich to Naples, Italy. Further destinations in southern Italy are planned.

AirBaltic:
Beginning December 15, 2004, AirBaltic will start nonstop flights from Riga, Latvia to St. Petersburg, Russia. Initially, there will be four direct flights a week to St. Petersburg, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The flight will be operated by Fokker 50s.

PHILIPPINE AIRLINES: Manila - Nagoya Chubu | 4x Weekly
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Philippine Airlines to fly to Chubu Centrair airport
Japan Today | Friday, November 26, 2004 at 04:56 JST

NAGOYA — Philippine Airlines said Thursday it will run four weekly flights between Manila and Chubu Centrair International Airport from early March soon after the airport opens near Nagoya in February next year.

It will be the first time for the Philippine carrier to serve central Japan. Philippine Airlines said it expects to see solid demand for its flights in central Japan due to the number of Philippine workers in the area. (Kyodo News)

this new destination is now confirmed and has been added to PAL's list of destinations in its website... here are the schedules for the new routing:

Manila - Nagoya 13:30 18:30 PR438 non-stop A330-300 T|T|S|S
Nagoya - Manila 09:30 12:30 PR437 non-stop A330-300 M|W|F|SUN

Air France will start, Belgrade-Paris CDG service in March this year.

Air Canada will be starting non-stop service between Toronto and Seoul, expressing confidence that it will entice foreigners wanting to bypass visa restrictions and fees in the United States.


The airline has benefited from picking up business from travellers going between Asia and South America, especially the Japan-Brazil and Japan-Peru flights, via airports in Toronto and Vancouver.


The new route between Toronto and the South Korean capital of Seoul will begin July 1 and will be offered three times a week using 282-seat Airbus A340-300 aircraft. Air Canada will continue its daily flights from Vancouver to Seoul.


The U.S. government, as part of beefed-up security since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, toughened visa requirements for "transit passengers" landing in the United States and then changing planes en route to other global destinations.


"Air Canada offers international travellers between Asia and South America the added convenience of avoiding U.S. transit visa requirements," Air Canada planning vice-president Ben Smith said in a statement yesterday.


The carrier saw its traffic soar last year on international routes as many foreigners opted for lower airport congestion and less red tape in Canada compared with the United States.


Montreal-based Air Canada already operates daily non-stop flights starting at Toronto's Pearson International Airport to Delhi, Hong Kong and Tokyo. From Vancouver, the airline also offers daily non-stop flights to Seoul, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Beijing and Shanghai.


In adding international destinations, Air Canada is seeking to promote Canada as a gateway to Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, said Triant Flouris, a business professor at Concordia University.

Suprising Aeroflot doesn't fly more to the US. Where do they fly in the US?
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Russia OKs Delta flights

By RUSSELL GRANTHAM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/23/05

Delta Air Lines said it has the Russian government's approval to start flights between Atlanta and Moscow, marking the first nonstop link between the two cities.


The U.S. Transportation Department approved Delta's application last month to start Atlanta-Moscow flights to launch daily service June 1, dropping to four flights a week between October and April.





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Delta plans to use extended-range Boeing 767s carrying up to 204 passengers.


"This is probably our most significant international initiative to Europe this year," said Delta marketing chief Paul Matsen. "If you look around the landscape today, Delta flies to every major business market in Europe."


Delta has been the only U.S. carrier flying to Russia since it inherited New York-Moscow flights from Pan Am in 1991. American, Northwest and United sell seats on flights by European partners.


Matsen said the New York flights to Moscow have been "consistently profitable." The direct link to Atlanta will offer more connections in the U.S. for Russian travelers, and a quicker route to Russia's oil industry for many American business travelers, he said.


"We expect this service to do well," he said, projecting about 27,000 passengers annually originating through Atlanta.


Delta, whose latest turnaround plan includes beefed-up international service, recently lost out to American and Continental for DOT approval to launch flights to China. Continental is likewise seeking to begin flights between its Newark, N.J., hub and Russia.


Tuesday, Delta listed a round-trip price of $1,292 for the first non-stop flights to Russia, at least $75 lower than one-stop flights on competitors Air France, Alitalia and Lufthansa.

Singapore's Tiger Airways To Fly To Padang In Indonesia


Budget carrier Tiger Airways, an offshoot of Singapore Airlines, said Monday it will begin flying to the Indonesian city of Padang from May

@Samsonyuen: How did you find this thread? It's been "out-of-use" for about two months and without the search function you must have had to dig through the pages of old Aviation threads. I used to enjoy updating this thread everyday with new international flights, but it was taking almost an hour to look through all my sources.

Air France to start Paris - Bangalore(India) 5 weekly nonstop service from Oct 31 2005
Northwest Airlines to start Seattle - Bangalore daily via Amsterdam from Oct 31 2005

Here's a followup to the MNL-NGO route...

1 March 2005

PAL launches service to Nagoya today

MANILA – Philippine Airlines will operate its maiden flight to Nagoya today, opening up a potentially lucrative avenue for business and tourist traffic to the Philippines from Japan’s industrial heartland.

Flight PR 437 departs NAIA Centennial Terminal 2 at 1:30 p.m. following simple send-off ceremonies. On board the Airbus A330-300 is a high-powered delegation composed of top PAL executives, ranking government officials, and leaders of the travel trade and Japanese business community.

“Today, Philippine Airlines notches another milestone in its long history of service to Japan,” said PAL president Jaime J. Bautista, who heads the list of passengers on the inaugural flight. “Nagoya is PAL’s fifth destination in Japan and we expect much from this new service.”

Joining Bautista are PAL executive vice president Henry So Uy and vice president for sales Enrique Javier.

Also on board are Foreign Affairs undersecretary Franklin Ebdalin, Tourism undersecretary Evelyn Pantig, Civil Aeronautics Board executive director Tomas Manalac and NAIA general manager Alfonso Cusi.

The local Japanese business establishment is represented by Kobayashi Hiroashi, president of Sony Philippines; Susumi Kifune, executive vice president of Mitsubishi Motors Philippines; and Matsuoka Tetsuya, chairman of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

At the controls of Flight PR 437 is Capt. Emmanuel Generoso, chief pilot of PAL’s widebody Airbus division, assisted by Capt. Dwight Galsim and Allan Gonzales.

The flight is expected to touch down at 6:30 p.m. at the new Central Japan International Airport, just south of Nagoya, where simple welcome ceremonies will be held.

A formal reception will take place on the evening of March 2 at the Nagoya Hilton, with the mayor of Nagoya and the governor of Aichi prefecture expected to attend.

Nagoya, Japan’s fourth largest city, is the hub of the booming central Japan region, where most of the country’s manufacturing industries are based. The region is home to industrial giants Toyota Motor, Noritake, Aiphone Co., Toyo Electric and Asahi-Seiki Manufacturing.

PAL’s new service operates four times weekly, with departures from Manila every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. The return service departs Nagoya the following day.(end)

Continental Airlines announces launch date for start of service to China
Daily nonstop service between Newark and Beijing will begin June 15 and will be operated by a 283-seat Boeing 777-200ER.

SriLankan Airlines
From March 27, SriLankan will inaugurate the first direct service between Colombo and New York, operated as a codeshare flight on a daily basis with partner Emirates via Dubai, and in the summer, Beijing will join the carrier’s network with the launch of three weekly flights via Bangkok.

In the Middle East and Indian sub-continent region, SriLankan will introduce daily flights from Colombo to Abu Dhabi this summer, using wide-bodied A330 aircraft, with four of the services continuing to Doha and three to Bahrain.

@Nick in Atlanta: Sorry/Your welcome. I really like this thread too. I think it was like in page 20 or somewhere far far away. I wanted to post the Delta article, and I don't like adding a thread just for a tidbit of information.

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Finnair launches Flights to Venice

Finnair begins scheduled flights for Finnish passengers and those travelling from Far East destinations to Venice as of March 28, following the implementation of the summer timetable on March 27. The flights continue through the summer period until October. The non-stop service operates twice a week, Mondays and Fridays.

Monday flights depart at 16.30, arriving 18.15. Return flights depart at 19.00, arriving at Helsinki at 22.45. Friday flights depart from Helsinki at 9.30, arriving at Venice at 11.15. Departures from Venice are at 12.00, landing at Helsinki at 15.45.

"There is plenty of demand for flights to Italy from Finland and from the Far East," says Petteri Kostermaa, Vice President, Network Strategy and Planning. "Venice is an 'evergreen' favourite for Finns and one that travel agents receive many enquiries about. Italy is a best-selling destination in the Japanese and Chinese markets. The flights connect well with our many Far East services."

From Venice, there are many excellent onward connections by road to Verona, for example, as well as to the Adriatic coast and Florence and Tuscany. The region of Veneto is also an important area for business travel, including the majority of the Italian shoe and clothes industries.

Flights are operated using Boeing MD-80 aircraft on a one class basis, without Business Class.

United begins Nonstop Service between San Francisco and Nagoya, Japan


United Airlines is to begin nonstop daily service on Saturday, March 26, from San Francisco International Airport to the new Central Japan International Airport near Nagoya, Japan.

Emirates marks new Bangkok-Sydney connection

Emirates, the Dubai-based international airline, marked a new connection between Bangkok, Thailand and Sydney, Australia . The airline started operating additional flights from its Dubai hub to Sydney via Bangkok on 29th March.

China Southern Airlines is to expand its Summer operations between China and Vietnam with a new double daily service.

Available until the end of October, China Southern is offering a daily service from Ho Chi Minh City to Guangzhou with flights departing at 8:10 a.m. and arriving in the new Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou at 11:30 a.m. Returning flights depart Guangzhou at 7:55 p.m. and arrive in Ho Chi Minh City at 9:15 p.m.

April 6, 2005, 2:43PM
Continental to fly nonstop from U.S. to India
By BILL HENSEL JR.
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle

Continental Airlines will begin the first nonstop flights between the U.S. and India when it launches service to New Delhi next fall.

Houston-based Continental said it will start the daily nonstops Oct. 31 between its New York-area hub at Newark's Liberty International Airport and New Delhi. The launch is subject to government approval.

Continental said the service will reduce the travel time between New York and New Delhi by more than two hours by eliminating any stops or connections en route. It will take about 13 hours and 55 minutes to fly east from New York to New Delhi and 15 hours and 50 minutes*to fly*west.

Continental, in recent months, has been expanding its international flights. New Delhi is set to be the twenty-fifth city in the airline's trans-Atlantic route network.

The New Delhi service will be Continental's second-longest nonstop trip at 7,323 miles. The longest is its New York- to-Hong Kong trip, which is 8,060 miles.

The flights will feature a 283-seat Boeing 777 aircraft, according to Continental.

Delta adds Atlanta to Moscow route
By ROGER BRAY
26 May 2005
Financial Times

From Wednesday next week Delta Airlines is to start flying between Atlanta and Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, which it already serves from New York. The route will be flown daily in summer and four times a week in winter.

ACE Globe says ACE pulls out the stops in new routes
3 June 2005

The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, June 3, edition that Air Canada plans to introduce new non-stop routes this year. The Globe's Brent Jang writes that starting Aug. 1, Air Canada's regional Jazz airline will provide Edmonton-Regina and Edmonton-Saskatoon service. On Sept. 18, Jazz will launch Hamilton-Montreal and Hamilton-Ottawa routes, and on Oct. 30, Air Canada's mainline will begin Vancouver-Las Vegas, Calgary-Las Vegas and Montreal-Las Vegas flights. Air Canada is also launching non-stop service Nov. 3 to Santo Domingo from Toronto.

BA sees profit for Shanghai link in three years
Mark O'Neill in Shanghai
3 June 2005
South China Morning Post

After starting a new five-day a week service from London to Shanghai yesterday, British Airways (BA) said that it expected the route to be profitable within three years but it would not open a service to another Chinese city in the short term.

BA's first new long-haul service since November 2002 landed at Pudong Airport and was met by Christopher Hum, the British ambassador to China. It takes the number of direct weekly flights on the route from five operated by a single carrier, Virgin Atlantic, up until the spring of last year to 15 operated by three, also including China Eastern Airlines.

AIRASIA BEGINS FLIGHTS TO CAMBODIA - Flights Launched from Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok to Phnom Penh

AirAsia, the leading low fare no frills airline in Asia, has become the first low cost carrier (LCC) to commence services to the Kingdom of Cambodia. Both AirAsia and its sister company Thai AirAsia, have simultaneously launched daily direct flights to Phnom Penh from its hubs in Kuala Lumpur (KL International Airport) and Bangkok ( Don Muang International Airport) since November 1 st 2005.

A reception was held today with officials from the Cambodian government to welcome guests from both the AK and FD flights which touched down at the Phnom Penh international Airport at 8.10 am and 4.05 pm respectively. Present at the welcome ceremony were President of the National Assembly of the Kingdom of Cambodia, HRH Samdech Krom Preah Norodom Ranariddh, Minister of Phnom Penh Tourism, H.E. Lay Prohas, Minister of Public Works and Transport, H.E. Sun Chanthol, Secretary of State, Secretariat of Civil Aviation, H.E. Mao Has Vannal, AirAsia Chairman, Dato’ Pahamin A Rajab, AirAsia Group CEO, Dato’ Tony Fernandes and Thai AirAsia CEO, Mr Tassapon Bijleveld.

“ We are thrilled to bring low fares to the people of Cambodia. AirAsia has revolutionized the way people think about air travel, and in the process, has made air travel affordable for everyone. Our newly launched service to Phnom Penh, will connect to two of the busiest capital cities in Asia. We strongly believe that the added convenience of affordable travel and improved connectivity between Phnom Penh with the rest of ASEAN will serve to benefit trade, tourism and economic growth in the region. - Tassapon Bijleveld, Chief Executive officer, Thai AirAsia

“AirAsia and its associates have been instrumental in stimulating travel and promoting trade and tourism to each of the markets that we served. With our most recent flights

served to Hanoi from Bangkok, and now Phnom Penh, ASEAN is now even closer than one can ever imagine.

Phnom Penh marks our progressive expansion into IndoChina. It is a market which has over the years turned itself into a key tourism industry player. As the region’s premier low fare airline, we remain strongly committed to developing the route into yet another winner for AirAsia. - Dato’ Tony Fernandes, Group Chief Executive Officer, AirAsia Berhad

Including Cambodia, the AirAsia Group presently operates domestic and international flights to 8 countries across Southeast Asia including destinations from/to Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, Macau, China, Philippines, and Vietnam.

LOW FARES FOR SALE

To commemorate AirAsia’s inaugural services to Phnom Penh, seats for the Phnom Penh – Kuala Lumpur route can be purchased from USD 29/RM 99.99 one way, travel period from November 1 st 2005 to 26 th March 2006. Seats must be purchased from online & mobile booking only from now on. On the other hand, Phnom Penh- Bangkok one way fares are from USD 25/THB 999. Seats can be purchased from all channel starting now, for travel from January 1 to March 26, 2006.

AirAsia is no stranger to charting milestones throughout its almost 4 years operation. Since its take -over in 2001, AirAsia has revolutionized air travel in the region to become a leading low fare airline in South East Asia. In 2004, AirAsia formed successful joint ventures in Thailand and Indonesia where AirAsia holds 49% stake in both companies. Thai AirAsia, a joint venture with Shin Corporation, Thailand’s largest telecommunication conglomerate, took to the skies in Feb 2004 while PT AWAIR was re-launched as an Indonesian based low fare airline on Dec 8th 2004. To date, the AirAsia Group has carried over 13 million passengers.

The Group operates over 100 domestic and international daily flights with a fleet of Boeing 737-300s from its hubs in KL International Airport and Senai International Airport (Johor Bahru) in Malaysia, Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok, Thailand, and at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia. To date, the Group commands a fleet of 31 Boeing 737-300s based at the various hubs.

AirAsia is also a new customer for Airbus in Asia - Pacific and the single largest customer for the aircraft in the region. With up to 100* A320s commitment lined up over the next 5 years, AirAsia is on course to becoming the largest LCC in the region. AirAsia has started their countdown to receive their first Airbus by this December 2005.

The award winning airline has been named Asia Pacific Low Cost Airline of the Year 2004 by Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), Asia Best Managed Company in the Airlines & Aviation Sector by Euromoney and had clinched the prestigious Market Leadership Award by Air Transport World.

American Airlines:Is to launch a daily nonstop service between Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Delhi, India, on Nov. 15, 2005, subject to government approval. The route is nearly 7,500 miles and will be the longest nonstop route in American's growing international network. The airline will fly the route with its 236-seat Boeing 777-200 aircraft daily. :)

Vueling is a low fare airline based in Barcelona created in 2004 with the objective of joining major European capitals and the western Mediterranean.
Vueling has 6 Airbus A320’s (as per 01/07/05). Additionally, Vueling is the first Spanish company that allows you to choose your favourite seat...

The first commercial flight (Barcelona-Ibiza) took place on 1st July 2004. The destinations currently are (will only consider from BCN):

Amsterdam, Bilbao, Brussels, Ibiza, Lisbon, Madrid, Málaga, Menorca, Milan, Palma, Paris, Rome, Seville, Valencia

They are planning to fly to Alicante or Santiago very soon

Air Madrid is a low fare airline based in Madrid in 2004 with the objective of joining major Spanish cities and both Central and South America

Air Madrid has 3 Airbus A330-200, 1 Airbus A340-300, 1 Airbus A310-300 and awaiting 1 Airbus A330-300

The first commercial flight took place on 30 May 2004. The destinations currently are (will only consider from Madrid):

México, Tenerife, Cartagena de Indias and Bogotá (Colombia), San José (Costa Rica), Panamá, Quito and Guayaquil (Ecuador), Lima, Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires

So it's a low-cost carrier that flies trans-Atlantic? Wow.

There are low-cost carriers flying across the Atlantic already, such as Zoom.

Zoom is technically a charter, isn't it?

No, they now offer regular scheduled services to Europe with internet reservations. They do offer charter flights as well though.