Routes

Air Canada has launched thrice-weekly Vancouver, Canada-Taipei, Taiwan non-stop schedules using Airbus Industrie A340s, in harmony with codeshare partner EVA Air's three Boeing 747 nonstop flights. Delta Connection Atlantic Southeast Airlines is introducing jet services between between Atlanta and Austin, Houston and San Antonio on 1 August using 50-seat Canadair Regional Jets. The services are supplementing existing Delta flights. Qantas has applied for capacity to add three weekly Sydney-Melbourne-Singapore-London services, with the three return flights operating London-Singapore-Sydney. Silkair is to cease its 12 weekly flights from Singapore to Jakarta to enable it to focus on flights to other destinations in Indonesia. Virgin Atlantic is aiming to introduce daily London Heathrow-Chicago services using Airbus A340s from November, despite not yet receiving US Department of Transportation approval for the route. LanChile has introduced three weekly nonstop Boeing 767 flights from Santiago, Chile to Los Angeles. Japan Airlines will launch services between Tokyo and Sao Paolo via New York in November and suspend its Tokyo-Los Angeles-Sao Paolo services. Southwest Airlines is continuing its expansion into the US Northeast, with new services from Connecticut's Bradley International Airport from 31 October. The low-fare carrier will operate 12 daily flights initially, to Baltimore/Washington, Chicago Midway, Nashville and Orlando. Relaunched SriLankan (formerly AirLanka) is to open new destinations from November, including Beirut, the Lebanon, Stockholm, Sweden and Sydney, Australia. Garuda Indonesia will only make one stop on its Boeing 747-400 Indonesia-Europe services from October. Flights to London and Amsterdam will stop only at Bangkok. Nonstop services to Europe will begin in April 2001, using new Boeing 777s.

Source: Flight International