Korean Air will increase services to China and Japan over the coming months to meet rising demand. The airline says it will restart its daily Busan-Shanghai Pudong and Jeju-Beijing routes from 1 July, while Seoul Incheon-Hefei services will resume at a five times weekly frequency from 19 August. It will also start a new Busan-Beijing route with six weekly flights from 16 September, and Incheon-Kunming service with four weekly flights from 14 October. Moreover, the airline will increase the frequency on the Incheon-Yanji route to daily flights from four weekly flights starting 1 June, while Incheon-Dalian route will temporarily increase by four flights to 11 weekly flights from 1 July until 15 September. It will also boost the daily Incheon-Tianjin route to two daily flights from 5 August to 20 October and Incheon-Ulaanbaatar route will be increased by two flights, to operate eight weekly flights from 1 June until September 30. In Japan, the carrier will resume the Jeju-Tokyo Narita route thrice a week from 19 July to 25 October, and boost frequencies on the Incheon to Okayama and Kagoshima routes from three to five weekly flights starting 3 August and 2 September, respectively.

Kenya Airways resumed thrice-weekly flights between Nairobi and Mozambique's capital Maputo on 19 June. The new route complements its existing service to Nampula in Mozambique, and is part of Kenya Airways' efforts to enhance intra-Africa connectivity within its broader network strategy, it says. This includes increased frequencies to New York, Paris, Lagos, Accra and Freetown.

Steven Greenaway, the chief executive of Saudi Arabian low-cost carrier Flyadeal, thinks "there is a market" for low-cost long-haul travel to the kingdom, although the airline is not currently planning new services.Speaking on the Future Flying podcast from insurer AIG, Greenaway told host John Strickland that in his view long-haul budget travel "can be done in this region" because of its two unique market segments. These are the transport of foreign workers to and from the country and the huge numbers of people who travel to Saudi Arabia for religious reasons. Greenaway describes demand from the latter as "insatiable", held back only by restrictions on visa numbers. Noting that these two segments are low-yield and high-volume, he says they are markets "we would like to target in the future". Greenaway has experience of launching budget long-haul routes from his time as chief commercial officer at Singapore-based Scoot. However, for the time being "there's plenty [of demand] in our backyard with the fleet that we have", he says. This fleet is made up of Airbus A320s, soon to be joined by A321s. This reflects that a huge swathe of the world's population, from India to southern Europe, is within a 5h flight of the kingdom. He adds that, in his view, Saudi Arabia remains underserved by low-cost airlines, the country having only relatively recently opened up to tourism and become easier for business travellers to visit. Previous efforts to run budget carriers in the country were additionally stymied by a lack of funding and price caps on certain routes, but "that's all gone now", he says, as the kingdom enacts reforms. Greenaway remains bullish on the prospects of the country's travel market, given its young population – 80% are under 40 – plus relatively high disposable incomes and rapidly developing new markets, including domestic tourism and female travellers. He notes that, for example, it would have been "unheard-of 10 years ago that a single woman wants to go shopping with her girlfriends in Dubai, but now it happens".