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Alaska Airlines adds 18 new routes to winter schedule
July 12, 2024
Alaska Airlines is expanding its network for the winter season with 18 new routes including destinations in Mexico and North America. The US carrier says it will begin daily flights between Fresno and Guadalajara from 3 December until 12 February. It will also add five times weekly service between Boise and Bozeman from 19 December until 17 March and a daily year-round service between Boise and Santa Ana from the same date. The seasonal daily Los Angeles-Kelowna and San Diego-Reno routes will likewise commence from 19 December. Beginning 6 January until 21 April, the airline will serve Los Cabos, Tucson and Orlando from Sacramento. The Tucson service will be operated daily, while the Los Cabos and Orlando routes will be operated five times and four times a week, respectively. The thrice-weekly Boise-Orlando service will start from 7 January until 25 March. The airline will operate seasonal weekly flights between Kansas City and Cancun and Puerto Vallarta from 18 January and 25 January, respectively. Puerto Vallarta will also be served from Sacramento once a week from 11 January until 19 April. The airline will add new thrice-weekly services to Vail, Colorado, from San Diego and Seattle from 20 December until 16 March. Weekly services between St Louis and Puerto Vallarta will also be launched from 25 January until 5 April. Moreover, the airline will also operate New York JFK- Puerto Vallarta route at a four-times-a-week frequency from 8 January until 20 April. In addition, weekly seasonal flights to Liberia in Costa Rica from San Francisco and Seattle will begin from 21 December. The airline will deploy Boeing 737s and Embraer E175s on these routes.


​Regulator trims Heathrow airline charges
July 12, 2024
The UK's Civil Aviation Authority has lowered the cap on charges that London Heathrow airport can levy on airlines in the period to end-2026, following a review by the country's competition authorities. This means that the hub will be able to charge airlines a maximum of £23.73 ($30.56) per passenger in 2025 and £23.71 in 2026, a reduction of £1.52 and £1.57, respectively, from what the CAA originally decided in March 2023. This reflects a review of the charging regime by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), which last October said that despite the CAA having struck "broadly the right balance" between affordability for passengers and encouraging investment in the airport from investors, there were some smaller issues for the CAA to re-examine, such as the recovery of charges from the pandemic and the calculation of Heathrow's cost of capital. In March last year, the CAA ordered Heathrow to cut its fees for 2024 by 20%, after the airport had requested permission to significantly increase charges. Airlines have argued that Heathrow's fees are consistently too high, and that the decision-making process surrounding the issue should be reviewed.


T'way Air adds Paris to European network
July 12, 2024
T'way Air is expanding its network in Europe with flights between Seoul Incheon and Paris Charles de Gaulle from 28 August. The South Korean low-cost carrier says flights on the route will be operated four times a week from 28 August and five times a week from 6 October using 246-seat Airbus A330-200s. Air France and Korean Air currently operate daily flights on the route, while Asiana operates six flights a week. T'way Air already flies to Croatia and will launch flights to Rome, Barcelona and Frankfurt this year.


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