Routes

Delta Air Lines has received tentative approval from the US Department of Transportation to begin a daily Boeing 757 service between Atlanta and Bogota, Colombia, on 1 December. From 1 August, Delta, with SkyTeam partner Aeromexico, will add codeshare services between Mexico City and Durango, and Mexico City and Torreon. It will also reinstate codeshare flights between Mexico City and Cuidad Obregon and Los Mochis. Flights between Monterrey and Acapulco begin on 1 September. Air Canada has begun daily non-stop Boeing 767 services between Amsterdam and Toronto. Vanguard Airlines starts a twice-daily service to New Orleans from Kansas City on 1 August. Swissair is increasing services between Geneva and Paris from five to seven daily round trips from 29 October. The extra flights will be operated by Swissair's French partner airline AOM. All seven services will serve Paris Orly rather than Paris Charles de Gaulle, to provide better transport links with central Paris. Meanwhile, Swisscargo and Malaysia Airlines Cargo have increased their cargo capacities in a specific route agreement to include a new joint freighter service to Basle, and blocked space agreements for Swisscargo on Malaysia's existing flights from Hahn, Germany, to Kuala Lumpur and from Chicago to Europe. American Eagle has begun a non-stop ERJ-135 regional jet service between Boston Logan Airport and Toronto. US low-fares carrier Spirit Airlines begins four daily flights from Washington National to Ft Lauderdale and Melbourne, Florida, in October. At the same time, Spirit will launch eight daily flights from Chicago O'Hare to Ft Lauderdale, Ft Myers and Orlando, Florida. A service to Myrtle Beach, North Carolina, begins in the second quarter of next year, and Spirit may add a Washington-Myrtle Beach service. The service additions come after the US Department of Transportation awarded Spirit slots at National and O'Hare.

Source: Flight International