After a four-year suspension due to the pandemic, Hainan Airlines resumed its services to Vienna in the Austrian capital. The first flight arrived on May 29th at 07:33 local time from Shenzhen, following an eleven-hour flight.

Hainan will offer two operations per week on this route with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft configured for 289 passengers (2,600 monthly seats on each leg).

Wednesday and Saturday

• HU 789  Shenzhen SZX 02:10 · 07:55 VIE Vienna
• HU 790  Vienna VIE 11:05 · 04:00+1 SZX Shenzhen

Shenzhen becomes Vienna’s third connection to China after Beijing and Shanghai. Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo are other destinations in the region.

United Airlines launched non-stop flights between San Francisco and Barcelona last May 23rd. Operations will have a daily frequency, to be carried on 275-seat Boeing 777-200(ER) jets.

The two cities will have 12 weekly services by summer 2024, including seven flights of United and the remaining five of Level, which operates using Airbus A330-200s.

Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife South are the Spanish cities served by United Airlines (during summer season).

On May 30th, Norse Atlantic Airways commenced its first route in the U.S.-Greece market.

The airline will perform five flights a week between New York JFK and Athens with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner planes with a capacity of 338 passengers.

Norse operates to JFK from Berlin, London LGW, Oslo, Paris CDG and Rome, in addition to Athens, reaching more than 40 weekly services to/from New York with all its connections.

Other highlights of the European market during May and June:

• Aeroitalia adds a new domestic route.

• airBaltic started flights between Palanga and Amsterdam.

• American and Delta also began new connections to Europe.

• Animawings continues increasing the number of routes with its new Airbus A220.

• Austrian Airlines to fly to Ivalo.

• Azerbaijan Airlines inaugurated operations between Baku and Sofia (Bulgaria).

• British Airways will boost flights to Riga in winter.

• Discover Airlines to resume transatlantic services from/to Munich.

• easyJet will have more than 60 new routes.

• FlyOne is set to commence flights between Chisinau and Manchester.

• Lufthansa will have operations to Rovaniemi.

• Mykonos and Rhodes, two new Gulf Air destinations in Greece.

• T’Way to operate from Seoul to Barcelona and Rome.

• Thai will resume flights between Bangkok and Brussels.

• Tromsø keeps adding new airlines.

• Turkish Airlines inaugurated services between Istanbul (IST) and Denver.

• Wizz Air and its new summer routes from Varna.

Aeroitalia

Milan Bergamo – Palermo, Aeroitalia’s new route.

Starting July 1st, the company will launch operations between the two cities, which will be carried out on Boeing 737-400s.

Daily except Tuesday and Thursday

• XZ 2036  Milan BGY 16:55 · 18:35 PMO Palermo
• XZ 2037  Palermo PMO 19:25 · 21:05 BGY Milan

airBaltic

The airline opened its services between Palanga and Amsterdam last May 29th. As can be seen through our database, the flights will have two frequencies per week on Airbus A220-300 aircraft:

Wednesday and Sunday

• BT 1061  Riga RIX 11:25 · 12:10 PLQ Palanga
• BT 1061  Palanga PLQ 12:50 · 14:00 AMS Amsterdam

• BT 1062  Amsterdam AMS 14:45 · 17:45 PLQ Palanga
• BT 1062  Palanga PLQ 18:25 · 19:10 RIX Riga

Current routes offered from Palanga are Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Dublin, London Stansted, Oslo and Riga.

Air Greenland

During mid-September, the carrier schedules more flights on its Nuuk – Iqaluit route, to be operated once weekly as of June 26th.

The frequency will increase from one to two a week between September 16th and 22nd, with a special flight on the 19th.

Wednesday (regular flight)

• GL 1771  Nuuk GOH 13:45 · 12:50 YFB Iqaluit
• GL 1772  Iqaluit YFB 13:50 · 18:50 GOH Nuuk

Saturday (special flight · September 19th)

• GL 1771  Nuuk GOH 17:30 · 16:35 YFB Iqaluit
• GL 1772  Iqaluit YFB 17:35 · 22:35 GOH Nuuk

American Airlines

At 10:05 a.m. local time on Monday, June 5th, American Airlines’ inaugural flight landed in Naples.

Operations will be conducted to/from Philadelphia with 234-seat Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, seven weekly.

Daily

• AA 780  Philadelphia PHL 19:15 · 10:00 NAP Naples
• AA 781  Naples NAP 12:15 · 16:00 PHL Philadelphia

American’s fourth connection in Italy after Milan, Rome and Venice.

The following day, the company began services between Philadelphia and Copenhagen.

In the case of the Danish capital, flights will have a daily frequency on Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner jets with capacity for 285 passengers.

Daily

• AA 744  Philadelphia PHL 21:35 · 11:10 CPH Copenhagen
• AA 745  Copenhagen CPH 14:00 · 16:25 PHL Philadelphia

Animawings

According to its website, the airline will start flying between Bucharest and Stockholm beginning October 1st. Services will be three per week using Airbus A220-300 planes.

Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday

• A2 610  Bucharest OTP 11:10 · 13:05 ARN Stockholm
• A2 611  Stockholm ARN 13:50 · 17:35 OTP Bucharest

Animawings’ fleet consists of 2 Airbus A320-200s. The first 2 Airbus A220-300s will enter regular operations on September 15th, with routes to Cluj-Napoca, Iasi, Larnaca, Oradea and Paris Charles de Gaulle from Bucharest.

Aurigny

Effective October 19th, Aurigny is scheduled to commence flights between Guernsey and Porto with 69-seat ATR 72-600 aircraft. At the time of publication, as listed on its website, services will run until early November.

Saturday

• GR 800  Guernsey GCI 12:15 · 14:55 OPO Porto
• GR 801  Porto OPO 15:35 · 18:35 GCI Guernsey

Austrian

Vienna – Ivalo, Austrian Airlines’ new route for winter season.

Operations will start on January 25th, 2025 and will be available until March 1st, in line with its website. During the 35 days of service, Austrian will offer 5 flights each way.

Saturday

• OS 339  Vienna VIE 09:30 · 14:05 IVL Ivalo
• OS 340  Ivalo IVL 15:05 · 17:35 VIE Vienna

AZAL

At 11:52 local time on June 7th, Azerbaijan Airlines’ inaugural flight from Baku arrived at Sofia airport. The company will offer twice-weekly flights between the two capitals on 106-seater Embraer 190s.

Tuesday and Friday

• J2 43  Baku GYD 09:45 · 12:10 SOF Sofia
• J2 44  Sofia SOF 13:00 · 17:10 GYD Baku

AZAL reaches 59 routes from/to Baku GYD, including the following countries: Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, China, Czech Republic, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Montenegro, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.

British Airways

During winter 2024/25, British Airways will add more flights between London Heathrow and Riga. The carrier will increase from three to seven services a week from October 28th, which will be operated by Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 aircraft.

British had resumed this route, after 16 years, on October 29th, 2023.

Schedule between London LHR and Riga RIX (winter 2024/25)

BA 880 LHR – RIX

• 08:00 · 12:50 (Monday)
• 07:45 · 12:35 (Tuesday)
• 06:05 · 10:55 (Wednesday)
• 07:40 · 12:30 (Thursday)
• 07:30 · 12:20 (Friday)
• 07:55 · 12:45 (Saturday)
• 14:45 · 19:30 (Sunday)

BA 881 RIX LHR

• 13:45 · 14:55 (Monday)
• 13:25 · 14:35 (Tuesday)
• 11:45 · 12:55 (Wednesday)
• 13:20 · 14:30 (Thursday)
• 13:10 · 14:20 (Friday)
• 13:40 · 14:50 (Saturday)
• 20:20 · 21:30 (Sunday)

Delta Air Lines

As well as American, Delta inaugurated new flights to Naples (NAP).

On May 24th at 07:37 local time, the airline’s first service from New York landed at the Italian airport. Operations will be daily with 226-seat Boeing 767-300(ER) jets.

Daily

• DL 232  New York JFK 16:30 · 07:30+1 NAP Naples
• DL 233  Naples NAP 09:30 · 13:30 JFK New York

Delta’s current routes in Italy

Milan

• Atlanta (ATL): 7 weekly · Boeing 767-400(ER)
• New York (JFK): 14 weekly · A333/764

Naples

• New York (JFK): 7 weekly · Boeing 767-300(ER)

Rome

• Atlanta (ATL): 14 weekly · A333/A359
• Boston (BOS): 7 weekly · Airbus A330-300
• Detroit (DTW): 7 weekly · Airbus A330-300
• New York (JFK): 19 weekly · A333/A339/764

Venice

• Atlanta (ATL): 10 weekly · Boeing 767-300(ER)
• New York (JFK): 7 weekly · Boeing 767-300(ER)

Discover

Discover Airlines, part of the Lufthansa group, announced it will restart its long-haul flights to/from Munich.

At time of publication, according to its website, Calgary, Orlando and Windhoek will be its new destinations, operated with Airbus A330-300s seating 283 passengers in three classes.

Orlando · March 31st, 2025

Monday, Wednesday and Friday

• 4Y 80  Munich MUC 15:30 · 20:05 MCO Orlando
• 4Y 81  Orlando MCO 22:00 · 13:35+1 MUC Munich

Windhoek · April 1st, 2025

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

• 4Y 142  Munich MUC 21:45 · 07:20+1 WDH Windhoek
• 4Y 143  Windhoek WDH 20:40 · 06:45+1 MUC Munich (Wed, Fri, Sun)

Calgary · April 12th, 2025

Daily except Wednesday and Friday

• 4Y 90  Munich MUC 13:25 · 15:25 YYC Calgary
• 4Y 91  Calgary YYC 17:10 · 10:40+1 MUC Munich

In addition, Discover will start three international connections, also from Munich:

• Hurghada (HRG): 2 weekly · November 5th
• Funchal (FNC): 2 weekly · November 6th
• Fuerteventura (FUE): 3 weekly · November 7th

All three will be on Airbus A320-200.

easyJet

The ultra low cost carrier confirmed the addition of more than 60 new routes, scheduled to commence effective October 2024.

Some of the highlights include the inauguration of flights to Strasbourg and Tromsø, which will begin in November, in accordance with its website:

Strasbourg

• Barcelona (BCN)
• London (LGW)
• Naples (NAP)
• Nice (NCE)

Tromsø

• Amsterdam (AMS)
• Bristol (BRS)
• Geneva (GVA)
• London (LGW)
• Manchester (MAN)
• Milan (MXP)
• Paris (CDG)

Edelweiss

On June 10th at 15:31 local time, Edelweiss Air’s inaugural flight from Zurich landed in Evenes (Harstad). According to our database, the airline will have a weekly frequency with Airbus A320 aircraft.

Monday

• WK 316  Zurich ZRH 11:45 · 15:20 EVE Evenes
• WK 317  Evenes EVE 16:15 · 19:55 ZRH Zurich

Evenes becomes the third Edelweiss destination in Norway, after Bergen and Tromsø.

Eurowings

Between October and January 2025, Eurowings will have five new routes in Europe, four of them from/to Hamburg:

Hamburg

• Thessaloniki (SKG): 2 weekly · October 27th
• Nuremberg (NUE): 6 weekly · November 4th
• Rovaniemi (RVN): 1 weekly · December 22nd
• Kittila (KTT): 2 weekly · January 12th, 2025

Stuttgart

• Tromsø (TOS): 2 weekly · January 25th, 2025

Finnair

The carrier will expand frequencies on two of its routes offered at Helsinki as of October 27th, in both cases using ATR 72 with 68 or 72 seats.

• Rovaniemi (RVN) – Tromsø (TOS): from 2 to 5 weekly
• Trondheim (TRD): from 3 to 6 weekly

FlyOne

As of December 20th, the airline will start operations between Chisinau and Manchester. FlyOne will have, at the time of publication, one service per week on Airbus A320-200 jets configured for 180 passengers.

Friday

• 5F 598  Chisinau RMO 17:10 · 18:45 MAN Manchester
• 5F 599  Manchester MAN 19:45 · 01:10+1 RMO Chisinau

At present, FlyOne has more than 10 aircraft in its fleet, including its three subsidiaries (Moldova, Armenia and Romania).

Gulf Air

Bahrain’s flag carrier added two new destinations to Greece in early June.

Gulf Air will operate two weekly flights with Airbus A320neo on the Bahrain – Mykonos – Rhodes – Bahrain route.

Thursday and Saturday

• GF 50  Bahrain BAH 09:40 · 13:55 JMK Mykonos
• GF 50  Mykonos JMK 14:55 · 15:45 RHO Rhodes
• GF 51  Rhodes RHO 16:45 · 20:25 BAH Bahrain

As well as Mykonos and Rhodes, the company serves between Bahrain and Athens on Airbus A321neo planes.

Hainan

An overview of Hainan Airlines’ destination network to/from Europe.

Austria

• Shenzhen (SZX) – Vienna (VIE): 2 weekly · Boeing 787-9

Belgium

• Beijing (PEK) – Brussels (BRU): 11 weekly · Boeing 787-9
• Shanghai (PVG) – Brussels (BRU): 2 weekly · Boeing 787-9
• Shenzhen (SZX) – Brussels (BRU): 3 weekly · Boeing 787-9

Czech Republic

• Beijing (PEK) – Prague (PRG): 3 weekly · Boeing 787-9

France

• Chongqing (CKG) – Paris (CDG): 1 weekly · Boeing 787-9
• Shenzhen (SZX) – Paris (CDG): 2 weekly · Boeing 787-9

Germany

• Beijing (PEK) – Berlin (BER): 5 weekly · Airbus A330-300

Ireland

• Beijing (PEK) – Dublin (DUB): 4 weekly · Airbus A330-300

Italy

• Chongqing (CKG) – Milan (MXP): 2 weekly · Boeing 787-9
• Chongqing (CKG) – Rome (FCO): 2 weekly · Boeing 787-9
• Shenzhen (SZX) – Milan (MXP): 3 weekly · Boeing 787-9
• Shenzhen (SZX) – Rome (FCO): 3 weekly · Boeing 787-9

Serbia

• Beijing (PEK) – Belgrade (BEG): 2 weekly · Airbus A330-300

Spain

• Chongqing (CKG) – Madrid (MAD): 2 weekly · Boeing 787-9

United Kingdom

• Beijing (PEK) – Edinburgh (EDI): 2 weekly · Airbus A330-300
• Beijing (PEK) – Manchester (MAN): 7 weekly · Airbus A330-300
• Changsha (CSX) – London (LHR): 3 weekly · Boeing 787-9

Hainan also offers a weekly frequency between Beijing and St. Petersburg (Russia) using Airbus A330-300 aircraft.

Jet2

Newcastle – Marrakesh, Jet2’s new route.

The airline plans to launch flights between the two cities from October 10th, 2025. At time of publication, it will be twice per week on Boeing 737-800s.

Tuesday

• Newcastle NCL 06:30 · 10:25 RAK Marrakesh
• Marrakesh RAK 11:15 · 15:20 NCL Newcastle

Friday

• Newcastle NCL 17:40 · 21:35 RAK Marrakesh
• Marrakesh RAK 22:25 · 02:30+1 NCL Newcastle

Lufthansa

The German company will operate twice-weekly flights between Frankfurt and Rovaniemi, its brand new route starting November 30th.

In accordance with its website, Lufthansa will offer these services with Airbus A319 and Airbus A320 aircraft.

Tuesday and Saturday

• LH 852  Frankfurt FRA 08:50 · 12:50 RVN Rovaniemi
• LH 853  Rovaniemi RVN 13:50 · 16:50 FRA Frankfurt

Lufthansa’s A319s have 146 seats and the A320s 182.

Norwegian

On October 31st, for winter season 2024/25, Norwegian will begin two new routes from/to Tromsø (TOS):

• Brussels (BRU): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
• Stockholm (ARN): 1 weekly · Boeing 737-800

Plus Ultra

In partnership with Polish operators, Plus Ultra will offer charter flights between Warsaw and Cartagena. The first service is scheduled for November 2nd, and will be available in European winter (South American summer).

Saturday

• PU 921  Warsaw WAW 06:00 · 13:10 CTG Cartagena
• PU 922  Cartagena CTG 15:10 · 10:20+1 WAW Warsaw

Bogotá, Caracas, Cartagena, Lima, Madrid, Malabo and Tenerife are the Spanish airline’s current regular destinations.

Ryanair

The ultra low cost company will modify its operations to Venice Marco Polo and Venice Treviso, switching two routes starting in late October.

• Venice (VCE) – Trapani (TPS): 2 weekly · October 27th

Replaces Treviso – Trapani.

• Treviso (TSF) – Lisbon (LIS): 2 weekly · October 28th

Replaces Venice – Lisbon.

In addition, according to Italian media, Ryanair would launch services to Salerno in winter 2024/25. Bergamo and Turin would be the regular destinations, although no flights are currently on sale.

T’Way

T’Way Airlines, the South Korean low cost airline, has announced a new expansion to Europe between August and September.

Barcelona and Rome will enter T’Way’s regular schedule, both to/from Seoul Incheon on 246-seat Airbus A330-200s.

Rome · August 8th

Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday

• TW 405  Seoul ICN 12:35 · 19:15 FCO Rome
• TW 406  Rome FCO 21:15 · 16:05+1 ICN Seoul

Korean Air offers 7 weekly services with Boeing 777-300(ER) aircraft and Asiana 5 using Boeing 777-200(LR).

Barcelona · September 11th

Monday, Wednesday and Friday

• TW 407  Seoul ICN 11:05 · 18:50 BCN Barcelona
• TW 408  Barcelona BCN 20:50 · 16:10+1 ICN Seoul

Korean Air and Asiana also operate this route, 4 and 3 times a week respectively.

Thai

Effective December 1st, Thai plans to resume operations between Bangkok and Brussels. In line with its website, the airline will offer one daily frequency on Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner jets.

Daily

• TG 934  Bangkok BKK 00:30 · 07:05 BRU Brussels
• TG 935  Brussels BRU 13:10 · 06:10+1 BKK Bangkok

Copenhagen, Istanbul (IST), Frankfurt, London Heathrow, Munich, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Stockholm and Zurich are part of Thai’s current schedule in Europe.

Transavia France

Tromsø, Transavia France’s new destination from Paris Orly.

Operations, for winter season 2024/25, will commence on December 21st with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Saturday

• TO 7980  Paris ORY 12:20 · 16:25 TOS Tromsø
• TO 7981  Tromsø TOS 17:10 · 21:30 ORY Paris

Turkish Airlines

At 15:47 local time on Tuesday, June 11th, Turkish Airlines’ inaugural flight from Istanbul (IST) arrived in Denver. The company will perform three services per week with 327-seat Airbus A350-900 aircraft, although the first two flights were on Boeing 777-300(ER).

Denver becomes Turkish’s 14th destination in the United States.

Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

• TK 201  Istanbul IST 13:55 · 17:40 DEN Denver
• TK 202  Denver DEN 19:35 · 16:25+1 IST Istanbul

Turkish Airlines routes in USA

• Atlanta (ATL): 10 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Boston (BOS): 7 weekly · A333/A359
• Chicago (ORD): 14 weekly · 77W/789
• Dallas (DFW): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Denver (DEN): 3 weekly · Airbus A350-900
• Detroit (DTW): 5 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Houston (IAH): 10 weekly · 77W/789
• Los Angeles (LAX): 14 weekly · 77W/789
• Miami (MIA): 10 weekly · 77W/789
• New York (JFK): 21 weekly · Boeing 777-300(ER)
• Newark (EWR): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• San Francisco (SFO): 10 weekly · A359/789
• Seattle (SEA): 7 weekly · Airbus A350-900
• Washington DC (IAD): 14 weekly · A359/77W

United Airlines

We review United’s schedule between San Francisco and Barcelona, to be operated with Boeing 777s.

Daily

• UA 672  San Francisco SFO 17:30 · 14:00+1 BCN Barcelona
• UA 673  Barcelona BCN 16:00 · 19:05 SFO San Francisco

Wizz Air

The company will add four new routes from Varna for summer season.

According to its website, Wizz Air will operate by Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 jets:

• Prague (PRG): 2 weekly · August 1st
• Frankfurt Hahn (HHN): 2 weekly · August 2nd
• Tel Aviv (TLV): 3 weekly · August 2nd
• Vienna (VIE): 3 weekly · August 2nd

Many European airlines incorporated new aircraft during May and June:

• Aegean Airlines (x3)

• Air France (x3)

• Binter Canarias

• British Airways

• Brussels Airlines

• Condor

• Corsair

• easyJet

• Eurowings

• ITA Airways

• Lufthansa

• LOT Polish Airlines

• Ryanair (x5)

• Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS)

• Transavia

• Turkish Airlines

• Virgin Atlantic (x2)

• Wizz Air (x2)

• Wizz Air Malta

*This is Spain’s first Airbus A321-200(P2F).

The aircraft will soon receive the EC-OHH registration (it still holds the registry OE-IHW).

Other reports we have published:

• Asia and Oceania
• Africa and Middle East
• United States and Canada
• Latin America
• Lufthansa sending the A380 to Washington
• Luck of the Irish: Aer Lingus begins flights to Vegas
• Aurora Borealis and Saudi Arabia’s commercial center: BA announces two new routes

Cover photo: Maciej Bartnik – JetPhotos (Vienna, Austria).