Route news | December 2017

A lot of new routes have been announced during past month. Let's take a look at some of them!

China airlines will fly daily from Taipei, Taiwan to Ontario, California. This flight will be operated by Boeing 777-300ER and it will start in March 2018. This is also first Transpacific service for Ontario airport.

Photo source: China Airlines

LATAM announced new seasonal route from Sao Paulo (GRU) to Las Vegas (LAS). This flight will be operated by Boeing 767-300, 3 times weekly starting from June 2018.

Scoot added another destination in Europe. They will fly 4 times weekly from Singapore (SIN) to Berlin (TXL). Flights will start in the middle of 2018 and will be operated by Boeing 787. This will be Scoot's second destination in Europe after Athens.

Photo source: Airwaysmag.com

Qantas will fly from Melbourne to San Francisco with their Boeing 787-9. Flights will start late 2018. Qantas already flies to San Francisco from Sydney with their Boeing 747.

Fly Dubai will fly from Dubai (DXB) to Krakow daily starting April 2018 and from Dubai to Catania also daily starting June 2018. Both flights will be operated by Boeing 737MAX8

Photo source: Worldairlinenews.com

Air France is announcing Paris to Taipei service 3 times a week, starting April 2018, operated by Boeing 777-200

Easy Jet is expanding their shorthaul network from Berlin Tegel airport (TXL) with domestic flights to Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich they all will start in January 2018. And also with some international flights to Copenhagen, Paris, Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Rome, Catania, Vienna, Budapest and Zurich starting January 2018. To Tel Aviv starting February 2018 and to Helsinki, Stockholm and Milan starting March 2018.

Photo source: Wikipedia

Joon is expanding their network with new flights from Paris (CDG) to Oslo up to 18 times per week, to Rome up to 7 times daily, to Naples 2 times daily, to Istanbul up to 7 times weekly and to Tehran up to 3 times weekly starting March 2018. Also starting April 2018 they will fly to Cairo up to 7 times weekly and to Cape Town 3 times weekly. Frequency of these flights is varying. In my opinion this is pretty big start for a new airline.

Etihad airways is cancelling service to Tehran in January 2018. They also cancelled service to San Francisco and Dallas due to bad economic situation.

Condor will start service to Asia after expanding their network to North America. They will fly from Frankfurt to Kuala Lumpur with their Airbus A330-200, 3 times weekly starting from November 2018.

Photo source: nst.com

And last, but not least Norwegian is announcing new transatlantic service from three European cities. They will fly from Frankfurt to New York 4 times weekly starting May 2018. From Milan Malpensa airport to Los Angeles 4 times weekly starting June 2018 and from Madrid Barajas airport to New York 3 times weekly and to Los Angeles 4 times weekly starting July 2018. All flights will be operated by Boeing 787-9.

Thanks for reading!

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