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Here’s a round-up of February’s route news and announcements.

British Isles: South-east Airports

AIR SEYCHELLES launches a weekly Seychelles-Gatwick service on 19th April. Its twice-weekly service to Heathrow remains.

BIMAN BANGLADESH has launched a thrice-weekly Dhaka-Heathrow service. The routing via Dubai continues to be operated twice weekly.

CONTINENTAL AIRLINES is adding a fourth daily service between Heathrow and Newark on 28th March, and a fifth will follow in October.

KINGFISHER AIRLINES launches a daily Delhi–Heathrow service on 28th March.

NORWEGIAN launches a six times-weekly Stockholm-Gatwick service on 29th April.

RYANAIR is launching services from Luton to Bratislava in April, and from Stansted to Fuerteventura, Fez and Figari in May.

TURKISH AIRLINES is increasing its Istanbul–Heathrow service from three to four daily on 28th March.

British Isles: Other Airports

AIRBALTIC is launching seasonal services from Vilnius to Manchester and Dublin at the end of March.

CIMBER STERLING launches a four times-weekly Billund-Dublin service on 31st March.

CSA CZECH AIRLINES resumes its Prague–Manchester service on 28th March, operated six days a week.

EASYJET launches a Liverpool-Isle of Man service on 21st May.

FLYBE is launching a six times-weekly year-round service between Manchester and Bournemouth on 27th May. It is also launching a daily summer-only service between Edinburgh and Manston on the same day. The carrier also plans a seasonal thrice-weekly Birmingham-Perpignan service for seven weeks from 13th July.

LUFTHANSA is introducing a six times-weekly services between Stuttgart and Manchester on 12th April, and between Dusseldorf and Edinburgh on 26th April.

NORWEGIAN launches a thrice-weekly Stockholm-Edinburgh service on 6th May.

RYANAIR is launching services from Bristol to Bydgoszcz and Kaunas in May, from Cork to Alicante, Arrecife, Bordeaux, Faro, La Rochelle, Malaga and Reus in June, and from Knock to Reus also in June.

VARSITY EXPRESS has launched a weekday service from Oxford to Edinburgh, and will launch a second via Newcastle starting on 5th April.

VIKING HELLAS has launched a thrice-weekly Athens-Manchester service. Frequency increases to four a week in March, and is scheduled to connect with the carrier’s services to Iraq.

Rest-of-World Developments

AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS is transferring several services from Buenos Aires’ Ministro Pistarini airport to Jorge Newbery (Aeropark), which has until now only handled domestic and Uruguayan services. The transfer will take place on 14th March. Affected routes are to Florianopolis, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Santiago de Chile.

AEROMEXICO has cancelled its Mexico City–Montreal service and will operate its last Mexico City–Toronto service on 4th April, marking an end of the Skyteam carrier’s scheduled operation to Canada.

AIR CHINA has launched a twice-weekly Shanghai–Chengdu–Bangalore service.

AIR FRANCE launches a twice-weekly service to Bata, its second destination in Equatorial Guinea, via Malabo on 1st April.

AIRBALTIC launches a thrice-weekly Riga–Tehran service on 8th June.

ALITALIA is cancelling services from Milan (Malpensa) to Algiers, Istanbul, Kiev, Sofia, Tel Aviv and Tripoli on 28th March.

AUSTRIAN cancels its services to Ekaterinburg and Odessa on 28th March.

BA OPENSKIES launches a weekday Paris (Orly)–Washington (Dulles) service on 17th May.

CHINA EASTERN AIRLINES has launched a twice-weekly Kunming–Dhaka–Dubai service.

CSA CZECH AIRLINES launches a twice-weekly Prague–Astana service on 1st June.

HAINAN AIRLINES launches a thrice-weekly Shanghai–Brussels service on 28th May. However, planned increase on its Beijing–Brussels route from four a week to daily has been shelved.

IBERIA launches a twice-weekly Madrid-Amman service on 3rd July, and a weekly Madrid–Damascus service on 13th July.

JET AIRWAYS launches a daily Mumbai–Johannesburg service on 14th April.

KINGFISHER AIRLINES launches a six times-weekly Delhi–Hong Kong service on 7th April. It already operates a daily service from Mumbai.

PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES is to resume services to Chicago in June.

PLUNA will launch a daily Montevideo–Buenos Aires Ministro Pistarini (Ezeiza) service on 5th April. This complements an up-to-11 times daily service to Buenos Aires Jorge Newbery (Aeropark).

ROYAL AIR MAROC launches services to Bangui and Pointe Noire at the end of March.

SWISS begins services from Zurich to Macedonia on 28th March – weekly to Ohrid and twice weekly to Skopje.

YAKUTIA is launching a four times-weekly seasonal service from Omsk to Hanover on 12th June.

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