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Air Canada 77w flew to CAI to pick up Canadian nationals as did Air China aircraft type not known, any other such carriers going there?

Kabul to come online this year as well, if aircraft avalable.

Just a year after having returned to Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh and the Gulf/Middle Eastern region after a four year hiatus, they will suspend service from 31 March, MNL-RUH was operated with 747s four weekly nonstop, later downgraded to A330 and then a mix of 747/A330. They do however maintain co...

According to KU schedule they will stop serving Lahore in Pakistan and Chittagong in Bangladesh from 24th and 26th July respectively. That leaves them with just one destination each in both countries, KU also used to serve Pakistani city Karachi uptil a years back. Last October Kuwaiti LCC Jazeera q...

Looks like some fart with nostalgic feelings has suggested this, minus the cheatlines and the metal belly its JAL circa 1970s back again with bolder title. Anyways it looks like they are heading to becoming laughing stock of the industry, there are many airlines with better older schemes who got rid...

TK will drop Dhaka if new deal with PIA goes ahead in April, they will also launch Lahore and Islamabad.

Edited to change topoic title, PIA unions and Pilots all now vowing not to let deal go through.

I have flown with SV on routes they wouldnt really care about maintaining standards on, but surprisingly inflight service, IFE and aircraft were all great.

Rumor has it that Birmingham and Bradford may also go with UK network being limited to LHR and MAN, as for ATH its not confirmed.

regi PIA is a victim of its own inept management and employees, plus state interference.

AF passenger service to the Libyan capital resumes after 20 years with 5 weekly CDG-TIP effective 6th June. http://corporate.airfrance.com/en/press/press-releases/article/item/air-france-ouvre-une-liaison-paris-tripoli/back/61/ However AF Cargo have been flying to Tripoli for the past few years usin...

Europe routes to go are Barcelona, Frankfurt, Amsterdam and Milan if a new deal being worked with Turkish Airlines gets approved.

Launch of Sydney speculated.

Jeddah – Riyadh – Guangzhou eff 29MAR11 PLANNED NEW 3 weekly service. Reservation not yet open.

SV880 JED1815 – 1945RUH2115 – 1100+1CAN 77L 246
SV881 CAN1245 – 1630RUH1730 – 1900JED 77L 357

77L = 772ER with new interior.

Saudi Cargo fly to CAN at present since 2008.

With the lease of 10 more A332/A333, AI are looking at returning to the continent with resumption of Lagos, Johannesburg, Dar-Es-Salaam and Nairobi but no set time frame given. African ops ended in 2009 with NBO being suspended, DAR went offline a year earlier, JNB in the 1990s and LOS in 1987 which...

The second Korean carrier to fly to Turkey, OZ resumes ICN-IST service from 29th Mar. with 777-200ER after ten year suspension. Originally Asiana were the only Korean airline approved to operate to Turkey, this did so for a while in the 90s using 767s, after suspending IST they began codesharing on ...

Pakistan International and Turkish airlines are working on an MoU that will see PIA drop US operations, and some European routes as well transferring traffic to TK from IST, Turkish in return will also be allowed daily flights to KHI and the same to ISB and LHE which have been planned for launch sin...

Bright Cedars, Wataniya dont serve India and Jazeera also pulled out from there.

Theeuropean as for LCCs in the Gulf theres FlyDubai, NAS and Bahrain Air, while Sama shut down but plan to return to the skies and RAK Airways have relaunched as an LCC after a year or more of no activity.

Financially troubled Kuwaiti airline are dropping out of Jordan, Syria, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia all from 5 December, the other Kuwaiti Jazeera also met similar fate and have cut half their routes, storing or leasing out some aircraft as well.

Are SQ quitting BRU or have just moved hub to AMS? is it going to be same for SV or will they drop BRU? SV are still flying to New York and Houston according to their latest schedule.

Dhaka begins 26th Dec as IST-KHI-DAC with A330/340 http://airlineroute.net/2010/11/07/tk-khidac-w10/#more-26816 "Turkish Airlines from 26DEC10 launches service to Bangladesh, offering 4 weekly Istanbul – Karachi – Dhaka service on board Airbus A330 and A340-300. For Karachi, this represents an ...

Istanbul has become a terminator with new routing via Abu Dhabi from the previous ISB-IST-AMS service. frequency remains twice weekly with A310. AMS continues to be linked to Frankfurt and Paris.