British Airways will begin a new service from the UK to mainland China after a hiatus of two years. From London Heathrow, the carrier will begin daily flights to Shanghai Pudong international on 23 April, the IAG-owned carrier says. Additionally, flights to Beijing Daxing airport from Heathrow will commence on 3 June to be operated four times per week, it adds. Virgin Atlantic announced today that it would resume its service from London Heathrow to Shanghai on 1 May. Air China and China Eastern also connect London with Shanghai.

The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has announced an interim price cap of £31.57 ($38.88) per passenger at London Heathrow airport, in line with its final proposals released in June 2022. The interim cap replaces a current cap of £30.19 that was put in place in 2022 and expired on 1 January. The CAA says the interim cap will safeguard the right of passengers ahead of the final decision and licence modifications for a five-year price control being published in March. "We are implementing these licence modifications to protect consumers and to give certainty to the airport and airlines on the level of the price cap for 2023," states Paul Smith, consumer and markets director at the regulator. In June 2022, the CAA stated that the average maximum price per passenger for airlines at Heathrow would fall to £26.31 by 2026. The CAA has also confirmed its decision to make a minor changes to Heathrow's licence, which will remove some obligations under the service quality framework that are deemed no longer necessary. These licence modifications will take effect in six weeks' time.

Japan's ANA will resume daily Airbus A380 flights on its flagship Tokyo-Honolulu route since the pandemic began, as it plans to increase services on routes to Asia and North America. The airline will commence a daily return service between Tokyo Narita and Honolulu from 21 July, using A380s on three weekly roundtrips and Boeing 777s on the remaining four services. Also on the same Narita-Honolulu route, an existing five-times weekly return service will be increased to daily from March, with the A380 initially operating three and 777s the remaining four. From 20 April, the A380s will be exclusively operating on the daily route. The airline will maintain its existing daily return service between Haneda and Honolulu, although it did not specify the aircraft type serving this route. With these changes, this will bring the total number of services between Tokyo and Honolulu from 12 to 21 weekly return services by July. Schedules data shows that prior to the pandemic, ANA's A380s operated up to 10 out of the 21 weekly return services on the sector. The superjumbos were stored amid the pandemic, and only returned to service in July 2022. ANA has a trio of A380s, which are dedicated to operating its Tokyo-Honolulu routes, data shows. The first example entered service in May 2019, flying between Narita and Honolulu. Elsewhere on its North American network, ANA plans to ramp up services between Haneda and New York, from an initial 10 weekly services by end March to a total of 14 from September. On its Asian network, the airline will increase flights on its Haneda-Seoul Gimpo route to thrice daily from mid-March, which it says is "in response to strong demand". It will also add a weekly flight from Tokyo Narita to Beijing from 16 February.