Southwest may not be growing in terms of passenger numbers right now but it is venturing into new markets. This week it arrived in the Big Apple and will soon be making an appearance in Boston and Milwaukee. Read more »

Vueling CEO Alex Cruz will lead the merged clickair/Vueling participation in “BASEJUMPING” at the 2nd Joint ACI EUROPE-anna.aero Network Planning Marketplace hosted by Aena Spanish airports in November. BASEJUMPING is a session of the event entirely devoted to the route opportunities presented by the bases of a particular large low cost carrier. Three other airlines have been invited to adopt a BASEJUMPING session. Read more »

Surrounded by Romania and Ukraine this former Russian territory has a growing national airline and an airport aiming for one million passengers per year. Which other carriers operate into the country? Read more »

With a small fleet of ERJs City Airline has been operating for over seven years, but where does it fly to? How different is its summer schedule from its winter one? Read more »

Greece is seeing growing airline competition but which new routes have Aegean and Athens Airways started in the last year? Which LCCs serve the airport and who operates to where? Read more »

London - New York is still the busiest transatlantic route but how has the market evolved during the last 20 years? Which carriers and connections have been and gone in recent years and who’s left? Read more »

Proving that China isn’t the only country whose domestic market is still growing we take a look at Australian domestic traffic trends in 2008/09. Which were the fastest growing routes in 2008 and which new routes may soon be stimulated thanks to Tiger Airways? Read more »

IATA’s members report traffic down less than 10% in May but how are load factors compared with a year ago? What’s happened to business traffic and what might this mean for airline revenues? Read more »

Los Angeles and Las Vegas are both attractive places to visit for different reasons. Four legacy carriers and Southwest compete head-to-head but how do return fares for the rest of July compare? Read more »

This week we counted over 80 new routes launches including 18 from Ryanair. But there are also new routes from the likes of Aeroflot, AirAsia X, airBaltic, Andalus, clickair, Continental, Danubewings, Delta/Northwest, easyJet, firefly, flybe, Mahan Air, Norwegian, Southwest, Tiger Airways, Transaero, US Airways, Volaris, Widerøe, Wind Jet and Wizz Air. Read more »