Routes

Cathay Pacific has signed a codeshare agreement with Turkish Airlines covering flights between Hong Kong and Istanbul. Under the deal, Turkish Airlines will place its code on Cathay Pacific's two weekly frequencies between the two cities. The deal is subject to government approval. Italian airline Meridiana is to launch the only daily service from London-Gatwick to Turin and Catania, on 29 October. The flights will be operated by Boeing MD-82. Virgin Express (Ireland) has got around an Italian Government decision blocking any airline from operating more than one flight a day from Brussels to Milan Linate. The airline is to start flying between Brussels and Linate from 29 October, joining Belgian-based Virgin Express. which already operates one flight a day. Qantas Airways is to discontinue its three weekly direct Toronto-Australia flights in November, replacing them with daily Toronto-Los Angeles codeshare service with oneworld partner American Airlines, connecting with Qantas flights from Los Angeles to Sydney and Melbourne. The Australian airline will also increase Vancouver-Sydney service from four to five flights a week. AeroMexico has begun four weekly flights between Merida, Mexico and the Atlanta, Georgia, hub of SkyTeam alliance partner Delta Air Lines. LanChile will launch a daily service between New York Kennedy and Santiago, Chile, on 7 October, with onward service to Buenos Aires, Argentina, United Airlines is to begin a daily non-stop Boeing 747-400 service between New York Kennedy and Hong Kong on 1 April. American Airlines will launch new international services from San Jose, California, on 1 April, with daily Boeing 767-300 flights to Paris Charles de Gaulle and daily Boeing 777 flights to Taipei, Taiwan. Northwest Airlines will increase services between Detroit and Nagoya, Japan, and onwards to Manila, The Philippines, from four weekly to daily from 1 April.

Source: Flight International