91 routes were launched this week around the world, but there were other celebrations as well, including the opening of new taxiway in Brisbane. But which airline’s route launch cake from last week has now reached us? And services from which German airports generated 200,000 passengers on Lufthansa to Moscow Vnukovo?
Aeroflot launches twice-weekly flights from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Tenerife South.
Aeroflot starts flying from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Ashgabat in Turkmenistan; Samarkand in Uzbekistan and Sanya in China; adds services to Hurghada, Miami and Tallinn.
Aeroflot now flies between Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport and Bologna in Italy. The airline already flies from the Russian capital to three other Italian airports.
Aeroflot now flies from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport to Tomsk in Siberia and Odessa in the Ukraine.
Aeroflot starts new services from Moscow Sheremetyevo to Stuttgart and Krakow.
Aeroflot now flies from its Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport hub to Donetsk and Dniepropetrovsk in the Ukraine, Orenburg and Nizhnekamsk in Russia, and Vilnius in Lithuania.
Aeroflot now flies non-stop between the capitals of Russia and Sri Lanka; Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport and Colombo.
Aeroflot again flies from Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport in Russia to Saigon in Vietnam.
53 new routes saw the light of day in the last week. But which low-cost airline took on three network carriers? And which airline returned to Baghdad after 21 years of absence? We have lots of pictures to go with the analysis and of course the downloadable spreadsheet detailing all the routes.
World Cup success, WikiLeaks revelations, and EU criticism of its aviation industry; it’s not been a dull time for Russia recently. But how are its airlines and airports actually performing in 2010? How does it differ from 2009?
