-Alaska Airlines is to offer a twice-weekly roundtrip service from Los Angeles to La Paz in Mexico from 25 October, using a Boeing MD-80 originating in Seattle.
-Aero Lloyd will operate a weekly service from Alicante, Spain to Linz, Austria, from June.
-Braathens has started a three times daily service from Amsterdam Schiphol to Stavanger, while partner KLM will offer a similar service to Bergen.
-Sun Air of Scandinavia has started to fly from Bergen to Billund in Denmark four times a week.
-LTU has a new service to Tromso in Norway from Düsseldorf on Thursdays.
-Canada 3000 has launched a new weekly service from Düsseldorf to Halifax and on to Toronto.
-Aeroflot is to start services in June from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Tivat in Montenegro.
-Eva Air is to divide its three-times weekly flight to Paris and Vienna from Bangkok and Taipei on 3 June, when Vienna will be served by a Boeing MD-11 and Paris will be served via Dubai using a Boeing 747-400 Combi. Eva Air is also introducing new routes from its southern hub of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, to Ho Chi Minh City, Cambodia and Los Angeles.
-Futura Direct will start a service between Leeds/Bradford Airport to Palma in Mallorca on 2 July.
-Air Bosnia is to fly from Vienna in Austria from Sarajevo three times a week.
-Atlantic Coast Airlines is to revamp United Express operations at Washington Dulles International Airport in early June, to improve connections with United Airlines, step up frequencies and increase regional jet services.
-South Korea's two international carriers are moving to form alliances with US carriers. Korean Air wants to strengthen co-operation with Delta Air Lines and its two partners Swissair and Austrian Airlines, while Asiana Airlines says it is looking for an alliance agreement with American Airlines.
-Belfast will become Sabena's 100th destination when it starts operating daily from Brussels on 2 June, using a British Aerospace 146.
Source: Flight International
