Europe route updates – April 2024
Highlights
Air France
The airline confirmed it will increase its flights between Paris and Fortaleza. Currently, Air France offers three weekly services with 324-seat Airbus A350-941 aircraft.
According to its reservation system, starting October 26th, the company will expand to five per week, and will also switch to Boeing 777-200(ER) planes seating 328 passengers.
This schedule will be available during the European winter (Latin American summer).
Daily (except Monday and Saturday)
It currently operates on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Air France in Brazil
Animawings
The carrier will add two new seasonal routes from/to Bucharest in summer 2024. Flights will be operated weekly on 174-seat Airbus A320-200s.
BA CityFlyer
The British Airways subsidiary will begin services between Edinburgh and London Gatwick effective May 26th. In accordance with its website, the airline will offer this route until early October, as it will be seasonal.
Sunday
Routes between Edinburgh and London
Gatwick (LGW)
Heathrow (LHR)
London City Airport (LCY)
Luton (LTN)
Stansted (STN)
British Airways
As of October 27th, British will be modifying its operations to Islamabad, Pakistan.
British Airways will start flights between London Gatwick and Islamabad, replacing the current offered to/from Heathrow.
Tuesday, Friday and Sunday
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday
Brussels Airlines
The carrier will commence services between Brussels and Nairobi, Kenya, on June 3rd. These flights, which will perform during the summer season 2024, will be offered four times a week non-stop, and two with a stopover in Kigali.
Monday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Wednesday and Sunday
Delta
On April 10th at 07:51 local time, the first Delta Air Lines flight arrived in Munich from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport.
Services will be three weekly with the following schedule:
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
Delta in Munich
Discover Airlines
During May, Discover Airlines plans to operate routes between Frankfurt and Spain with Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
Flights to Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca and Tenerife South will be carried out as follows:
Hebridean Air Services
The Scottish carrier inaugurated regular services between Stornoway and Benbecula on April 12th. Operations, in line with its website, will be conducted six times per week (3 days with 2 flights) with Britten Norman Islanders configured for 8 passengers.
Monday, Tuesday and Friday
Monday, Tuesday and Friday
Iberia
Salzburg and Tromsø, new Iberia destinations.
The Spanish company will start operations to these cities in Austria and Norway as of November and December, respectively. Both routes, according to the press release, will have a frequency of two weekly flights.
Salzburg · November 30th
Wednesday and Saturday
Tromsø · December 1st
Thursday
Sunday
In addition, last March 28th, Iberia began services between Madrid and Tirana, Albania:
Tuesday and Sunday
On Thursdays it will depart from Madrid at 08:40 and 12:25 from Tirana.
Iberia will be competing on this route with Wizz Air Malta, which commenced operations on April 2nd, and will fly three times a week on Airbus A321 planes (flight W4 5152/5153).
ITA Airways
At 12:31 local time on Sunday, April 7th, ITA Airways’ inaugural flight from Rome arrived in Chicago. The Italian airline will offer five weekly services with Airbus A330-200 and Airbus A330-900neo aircraft.
Chicago becomes ITA’s seventh connection in the United States.
Daily except Monday and Wednesday
ITA Airways routes between Italy and the USA
Rome
jetBlue
The airline commenced its second route between the United States and Paris.
Operations to the French capital from Boston began on April 4th. In accordance with our database, jetBlue will offer a daily frequency with Airbus A321neo jets configured for 138 passengers.
In addition to jetBlue, Air France and Delta Air Lines operate between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Boston:
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Daily
Daily · A350-900
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday · A350-900
Daily · A330-900neo
Lufthansa Cargo
On April 2nd, Lufthansa Cargo inaugurated flights between Brussels and Chicago. The company will operate twice-weekly services with Boeing 777(F) aircraft, carrying mainly pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
Monday
Wednesday
Until March 27th, Lufthansa’s cargo subsidiary served Frankfurt-Chicago non-stop.
Norwegian
The carrier resumed two additional connections between Munich and Spain, which had been suspended since 2020 due to the COVID pandemic.
Málaga, which will be operated with Boeing 737-800s and Boeing 737 MAX 8s, was launched on March 31st, while Alicante started on April 1st with SunExpress’ Airbus A320-200.
Málaga
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
Alicante
Monday
Friday
Norwegian’s routes from/to Munich
Plus Ultra
Charter services of the Spanish company between Madrid and Havana will begin next June 29th.
As can be seen on its website, Plus Ultra will have flights to Cuba once a week until September 7th with Airbus A330-200 jets.
Saturday
At present, this route is operated by Air Europa, Iberia, World2Fly and Cubana de Aviación, and with the latter there is an interesting detail.
Cubana offers flights on the Madrid – Santiago de Cuba – Havana – Santiago de Cuba – Madrid route on Plus Ultra’s Airbus A330-200 and Airbus A340-300.
The Cuban state airline operates to Argentina and Spain with Plus Ultra aircraft, as its Ilyushin Il-96-300 is not in service. This plane, registered CU-T1250, remains in Havana since December 2023 after months of maintenance work in Russia.
Plus Ultra routes in the Americas
Colombia
Perú
Venezuela
SAS
Scandinavian Airlines System will inaugurate flights between Copenhagen and Oslo Sandefjord beginning April 28th. These operations will be offered six weekly with ATR 72-600s.
Daily except Saturday and Sunday
Sunday
Swiss
On April 2nd, Swiss International Air Lines launched its Zurich – London Gatwick route, which will be operated once a day with Airbus A220, Embraer 190 and Embraer E-2 aircraft.
With this new addition, the carrier will offer 112 weekly services to the English capital from Zurich and Geneva.
Daily
Furthermore, Swiss began regular flights between Zurich and Washington last March 28th, its eighth connection in the United States.
Daily
Vistara
At 18:27 local time on March 28th, Vistara’s inaugural flight from Mumbai landed at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. The company will offer six operations per week with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner airplanes.
Daily except Friday
Air France also serves this route:
Daily
Vistara routes in Europe
Mumbai
New Delhi
Vueling
Effective June 13th, the Spanish low cost airline, part of the IAG group, will commence seasonal operations between Barcelona and Comiso. Vueling will perform these flights until September 8th, according to its reservation system.
Thursday
Sunday
Current routes to/from Comiso
Wizz Air
The company confirmed the addition of two new connections from/to Tirana. These routes are available for sale on Wizz Air’s website.
Comiso · August 2nd
Monday and Friday
Stuttgart · October 28th
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Which European airlines have added new aircraft during March/April?
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