Cancelled services and discontinued routes in 2016

[sn26567]

KLM suspends flights to Cairo

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/klm-roy ... ice-cairo/

[theeuropean]

Aegean reverts Jeddah service back to summer seasonal.

The previous schedule for the winter was:
A3946 ATH2210 – 0250+1JED 320 37
A3947 JED0350 – 0640ATH 320 14

http://www.routesonline.com/news/38/air ... on-in-w16/

[globetrotter]

EVA Air will not resume Istanbul as they had planned to from March, they had suspended the route in July, reported in an earlier post on this thread.

Air China will suspend Pyongyang from winter schedule, the route will only operate during summer now.

[globetrotter]

Mainline Air Canada are leaving Bogota it will be operated by Rouge from October.

[brusselsairlinesfan]

Mainline Air Canada are leaving Bogota it will be operated by Rouge from October.

... strange...

[sn26567]

From Summer 15 to Summer 16, Vueling has added 67 routes, but also cancelled 39 routes (including one from BRU), detailed hereunder:

Using OAG Schedules Analyser data, anna.aero has identified 39 routes that operated last summer (w/c 3 August 2015) but were not operating this summer (w/c 1 August 2016). These are summarised in the following table, grouped by country-pairs.

Country pair / Route (Weekly Frequency in S15)
France – Morocco Paris ORY – Tangier (2)
Italy – Belgium Rome FCO – Brussels (9)
Italy – Croatia Rome FCO – Pula (1), Turin – Split (1)
Italy – Cyprus Rome FCO – Larnaca (2)
Italy – France Bologna – Paris ORY (5), Bari – Paris ORY (2)
Italy – Greece Rome FCO – Limnos (1), Rome FCO – Mytilene (1)
Italy – Hungary Rome FCO – Budapest (3)
Italy – Italy Rome FCO – Genoa (12), Rome FCO – Turin (14)
Italy – Morocco Rome FCO – Marrakech (2)
Spain – France Fuerteventura – Paris ORY (2), Tenerife North – Paris ORY (1)
Spain – Germany Barcelona – Dortmund (3), Santiago de Compostela – Düsseldorf (2), Santiago de Compostela – Munich (2)
Spain – Greece Barcelona – Kos (1), Barcelona – Rhodes (2), Bilbao – Athens (1), Bilbao – Santorini (1)
Spain – Italy Alicante – Turin (2), Ibiza – Genoa (1), Menorca – Genoa (1), Menorca – Turin (2), Palma de Mallorca – Genoa (1)
Spain – Malta Madrid – Malta (2)
Spain – Morocco Barcelona – Rabat (2)
Spain – Romania Madrid – Bucharest (2)
Spain – Russia Malaga – Moscow DME (3), Malaga – St. Petersburg (2), Palma de Mallorca – Moscow DME (1)
Spain – Spain Alicante – Tenerife North (1), Bilbao – Santiago de Compostela (3), Ibiza – Asturias (3), Valencia – Tenerife North (1)
Spain – Tunisia Barcelona – Djerba (2)
Spain – UK Barcelona – Belfast City (3)

Source: anna.aero, derived from OAG Schedules Analyser data for w/c 3 August 2015 and w/c 1 August 2016.

[Stij]

I'm wondering how long the BRU base with 1 aircraft will remain...Most of the days in the week, the aircraft is only used for 2 rotations... this can't work for a LCC...

Cheers,

Stij

[globetrotter]

Scoot to end Hong Kong flights from October, marking first ever cancellation for the airline.

[globetrotter]

Smartwings drop Muscat launch which was to start in winter.

Somon air of Tajikistan ended Lahore, Pakistan service in July, Kabul suspended indefinitely.

Iran Air have also suspended Beijing along with Kuala Lumpur due to lack of long haul aircraft to serve the routes.

[globetrotter]

Taiwan's V Air will end Philippines service from July, where they serve Manila.

This airline merged with Trans Asia Airways, all routes transferred.

Mihin Lanka routes being taken up by Sri Lankan as the two merge in October.

[globetrotter]

Flydubai quit Zagreb from November.

[globetrotter]

Aero Logic have quit Lahore sometime during the year.

[globetrotter]

Jetstar Australia have ended China service where they were serving Wuhan with charters, previously also did Beijing.

[globetrotter]

British Airways will drop Chengdu from January.

[sn26567]

EasyJet ceased operations on its Copenhagen – London Luton route.

[sn26567]

Czech Airlines discontinues flights from Prague to Skopje despite plans to maintain the service throughout the winter season.

[globetrotter]

Air Serbia quit Warsaw couple of days back.

Turkish drop Osaka from January and following seasonal destinations ill not resume:

Aalborg
Aqaba
Genoa
Ivano-Frankivsk
Kermanshah, Iran
Osh, Kyrgyzsran
Kano
Khudzhand, Tajikistan
Rotterdam

Temporary suspensions

Batna, Algeria
Tiemcen, Algeria
Bordeaux
Karlsrhue/Baden-Bden
Friedrichshafen
Mumster
Gassim, Saudi Arabia

and five domestic points

[sn26567]

United Airlines axes Belfast International - New York Newark route as of 9 January 2017 (the only transatlantic route from Belfast).

[globetrotter]

Alitalia to drop Istanbul later this month.

[sn26567]

Lufthansa suspends Tokyo Narita service in 1Q17. NRT is now served thrice weekly.