Airline Route Announcement Tracking Thread

Nice to see DFW → HKG return after AA dipped

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Yeah I’m really happy to see it! I think the likelihood is Cathay asked if they were bringing it back as it was a codeshare and when they said no they decided to do it themselves.

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Sun Country has decided to resume nonstop service from Duluth - Fort Myers for 2025!

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Finally!

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Here’s more information

The flights will begin June 12th in 2025 and will be used with the A350!

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Very nice to finally see a destination in Asia being added to SLC!

I know this is completely irrelevant but why aren’t US carriers returning back to Manchester? I understand that Delta is partners with Virgin Atlantic so it makes sense to use them from Manchester as they have a hub there but UA and AA? They used to have daily services to Manchester. I think a seasonal MAN - LAX route would be beneficial as Manchester sees a lot of holiday routes and maybe a new Texas route since Singapore Airlines are pulling out of the MAN - IAH route from April 2025.

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I don’t know about United but American primarily used the 757s on that route and they don’t have a viable aircraft to use I don’t think even sending widebodies seasonally was profitable enough.

I think the B788 would’ve done the job. Or maybe get JetBlue in and fly a MAN - BOS route? Maybe a JFK route if they think they can compete with VS and EI.


Source: Air Serbia touches down in Guangzhou

Today Air Serbia started flights between Belgrade 🇷🇸 to Guangzhou 🇨🇳 using their A332 long haul fleet, Air Serbia says they plan to 2 weekly flights, and plan to operate the flights on Thursdays and Sundays!

Read more here: Air Serbia touches down in Guangzhou

It’s pointless for Manchester flights as delta already serves EDI,LGW,LHR

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Frontier announces 22 new routes including three from vail.

Turkish Airlines launches flights to Sydney 🇦🇺 starting December 4th!

as well as to Santiago 🇨🇱 starting December 18th!

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Icelandair is starting seasonal service to Nashville next year.

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Aer Lingus is also starting service to Nashville next year.

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Wow 3 new European Routes added to BNA in the last couple of months all starting next year nice to see!

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Delta announced that in May of 2025, there will be three flights from Minneapolis/St. Paul to Copenhagen per week with an Airbus A330-300.

In addition, they announced that in June of 2025, there will be a 3x weekly service to Shanghai from Los Angeles aboard an Airbus A350-900WXB, making Delta have a total of 17 flights between the US and China, including from its hubs in Seattle and Detroit.

Read the rest of the article here

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Yay! More Europe routes! It’ll be interesting to see if SAS still expresses interest in starting MSP-CPH as well, which they said was something they were looking at. Given they’re both SkyTeam, it would be kinda redundant, but it’s still certainly possible.

I would also anticipate Turkish coming to Minneapolis in the very near future. They seem quite interested in MSP-IST.

https://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2024/06/13/turkish-airlines-eyes-msp-as-future-destination.html

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United has announced some very strange routes.

Newark → Nuuk, Greenland | 737 MAX 8
Newark → Bilbao, Spain | 767-300ER
Newark → Palermo, Italy | 767-300ER Thanks for the reminder, @Butter575 !
Newark → Maderia, Portugal | 757-200/737 MAX 8
Tokyo-Narita → Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | 737-800
Tokyo-Narita → Kaohsiung, Taiwan | 737-800
Tokyo-Narita → Koror, Palau | 737-800
Washington, D.C. → Dakar, Senegal | 767-300ER
Houston (IAH) → Puerto Escondido, Mexico | E175 (Operated by Mesa)
San Francisco → San José, Costa Rica | 737 MAX 8


https://avgeekery.com/uniteds-big-summer-2025-expansion/

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Mongolia is definitely the odd one out here. A very interesting and unique choice indeed

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