Routes

Virginia-based Raytheon Beech 1900 operator Colgan Air is to drop its marketing pact with Continental Airlines to enable it to become a US Airways Express carrier in December. The new partnership adds six new cities to the US Airways route system, while expanding service at others. CityBird and the Congolese flag carrier Lignes Aeriennes Congolaises (LAC) are expanding their services between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Europe. CityBird will add a second weekly flight for LAC using a Boeing 767 between Lubumbashi and Brussels in mid-November, stopping in Paris. British Airways is reportedly aiming to reinstate services from London to the South Korean capital Seoul next year. The route was one of the first to be terminated as a result of the Asian economic downturn. Finnair is to cease operating between the Aland Islands and the mainland city of Turku from November. SAS subsidiary Air Botnia will take over the route and launch services between Aland and Stockholm. Atlantic Coast Airlines (ACA) will introduce two daily roundtrips between Charleston, South Carolina, and Chicago O'Hare next month using Bombardier Canadair Regional Jets (CRJ). Charleston-Washington Dulles services are being expanded to include three CRJ roundtrips, with two turboprop flights. ACA's four roundtrip flights between Burlington, Vermont and Washington Dulles will be upgraded to CRJs from turboprops at the end of the month. Sudan Airlines has begun serving Ethiopia again after a four-year hiatus, with a once-weekly flight from Khartoum to Addis Ababa. Air France is expanding its London City Airport schedule. This includes an increase in frequencies from four to six flights a day to Paris, and two new services to Rennes and Le Havre. Russia's Domodedovo Airlines is this month introducing scheduled weekly flights between Moscow and Macau. Air Portugal is operating two daily flights from Oporto to Madrid.

Source: Flight International