British Airways will transfer flights to St Petersburg and Pisa from London/Heathrow to Gatwick in March and introduce a four weekly Gatwick to Riga service, subject to government approval. The UK carrier is withdrawing its twice daily Heathrow-Turin service.
Japan Airlines will codeshare with Air France on the latter's daily Paris/CDG-Istanbul service from April, subject to government approval.
Continental Airlines is set to inaugurate daily services between New York/Newark and Birmingham, UK in July.
Lufthansa will introduce the first international air services to Kazan and Perm in the Russian Federation in March, with twice-weekly services from Frankfurt.
All Nippon Airways has resumed daily Nagoya-Honolulu flights and will commence four weekly Hiroshima-Guam services in June, subject to government approval.
Turkish Airlines will link Istanbul with Manchester three times a week from June. LOT plans a thrice-weekly Warsaw-Manchester service.
United Airlines will operate daily nonstop flights between Chicago/O'Hare and Sïo Paulo from October. United has also signed a block space arrangement with Saudi Arabian Airlines to link the latter's twice-weekly Jeddah-New York/JFK services with United's New York-Los Angeles service.
Air France has launched a non-stop weekly flight from Paris/Charles de Gaulle to Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
America West Airlines has initiated daily flights between Phoenix and Acapulco and Miami and Phoenix.
Delta Air Lines started codesharing services with Aeromexico from Cancun to Atlanta five times weekly and to Dallas-Fort Worth four times weekly in March.
The Irish high court has approved the restructuring plan of Irish regional CityJet and lifted bankruptcy protection. Malmö Aviation is to take a 42 per cent stake in the restructured airline, Yeoman International will take a 17 per cent holding and Standard Life Assurance a 16 per cent stake.
Lufthansa's charter arm Condor Flugdienst is to start a weekly Cologne-Tampa service and two weekly Frankfurt-Tampa flights.
Air UK is to add Inverness-Amsterdam/Schiphol to its summer schedule and transfer Glasgow services from Gatwick to London/City.
German regional Eurowings has launched daily flights from Düsseldorf to Wroclaw.
Augsburg Airways has pulled off its London/City-Augsburg route via Cologne/Bonn.
British Airways Express franchisee Brymon Airways is to transfer its Plymouth and Newquay services from Heathrow to Gatwick at the end of March.
Source: Airline Business
