US Airways will resume daily nonstop service from Charlotte to Melbourne, FL twelve years after they discontinued it. Service will be operated using 70-seat CRJ700s with three flight daily and will begin February 11th.
United Airlines will inaugurate its first service to Africa this May when it begins daily service from Washington-Dulles to Accra, Ghana. The flight will continue on to Lagos, Nigeria, before returning to Accra and onward to Dulles.
They will add service to Bahrain on April 18th, as an extra leg to its Washington to Kuwait service.
We’re not sure of the loads on these routes, but this sort of add-on is not as common as it once was for airlines. More airlines fly point-to-point flights.
United will also add service from Chicago-O’Hare to Brussels on March 28th and will be timed to connect with Brussels Airlines flights.
Domestically, they will add service from O’Hare to Muskegon MI and Paducah KY beginning February 11th, and to Eau Claire WI and Hancock/Haughton MI on March 1st. Service will be operated by 50-seat CRJs operated by Skywest.
Alaska Airlinesannounced that it would inaugurate three times weekly service from San Jose, CA to Kahului, Maui, and four-times a week to Kona. It will begin March 11th and March 12th, respectively. Daily service from Sacramento to Maui will start March 26th.
Air Canada will add daily service from Iqaluit, Nunavit to Ottawa with continuing service to/from Montreal on March 28th. The service will use CRJ705 aircraft.
Meanwhile, Westjet last week inaugurated service from Toronto to Holguin, Cuba.
After 20 years, Iraqi Airways will resume service from Baghdad to Paris. Iraqi Airways recently began direct flights to Stockholm, and is eyeing direct flights to Germany.
Midwest Airlinesannounced it would add daily service from Milwaukee to San Francisco(April 19th) using Airbus A319s(operated by Frontier), as well as twice daily to Raleigh/Durham(April 1st), operated by Embraer 170s.
