Alaska Airlines has announced a major expansion of its route network in Europe, with the launch of two new connections from Seattle. The airline will operate flights to London Heathrow and Reykjavik starting in Spring 2026 on Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner and Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, respectively.
The capitals of the United Kingdom and Iceland will join Rome, the first destination in Europe to be confirmed by Alaska Airlines. As with London, the airline will operate Boeing 787-9 aircraft, which are configured for 300 passengers.
Routes
- Rome (FCO): 4 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner · May 2026
- London (LHR): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
- Reykjavik (KEF): 7 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX 8
Rome will also operate from/to Seattle.
Furthermore, Alaska Airlines unveiled its new livery, set to be featured on its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners. The 787 is scheduled to debut the new scheme in January 2026, and by Spring 2026, all Dreamliners will feature this new paint livery.
Porter will fly between Hamilton and the United States effective December.
The Canadian airline will offer service to Fort Lauderdale and Orlando from John C. Munro International Airport with 136-seat Embraer E195-E2 aircraft, marking Porter’s first connections in the Hamilton-USA market.
Routes
Regarding US cities, Porter operates to Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Newark, New York, Orlando, Phoenix, San Francisco, and Washington D.C., mainly from Toronto.
As of September 16th, China Southern Airlines will resume its services between Guangzhou and Vancouver, which will operate with 361-seat Boeing 777-300(ER) aircraft.
Guangzhou, its first destination from the Canadian city, will be conducted twice a week under the following schedule:
Tuesday and Saturday
According to our database, the Chinese carrier operates four times weekly to Toronto from Guangzhou by the same aircraft, being its only regular route in the China-Canada market.
GOL Linhas Aéreas will once again operate between São Paulo and Punta del Este after seven years, and will also fly a route it has never performed before from the Uruguayan city: Punta del Este – Buenos Aires.
Beginning December 21st, the Brazilian airline will serve the São Paulo – Punta del Este – Buenos Aires (Aeroparque) route and vice versa, two times per week with Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft configured for 176 passengers. These operations will take place during the South American summer, with the last flight scheduled for February 23rd, 2026.
Thursday and Sunday
GOL’s last flights to Punta del Este were in February 2020, while in the Argentine capital it has a significant route network, all of them to/from Brazil.
For Northern Summer 2026, American Airlines has announced the launch of six routes from different cities in the United States, being five to Europe and one to South America.
Athens, Budapest, Buenos Aires, Milan Malpensa, Prague, and Zurich will have the following additions, as published by American Airlines through a press release:
Miami – Milan · March 29th, 2026
Daily
Dallas · Athens · May 21st, 2026
Daily
Dallas – Zurich · May 21st, 2026
Daily
Philadelphia – Budapest · May 21st, 2026
Daily
Philadelphia – Prague · May 21st, 2026
Daily
For the 2026 World Cup, American Airlines will operate between Dallas and Buenos Aires from May 21st, 2026, to August 3rd, 2026. The airline usually serves this route between late October and late March, as it is seasonal.
Daily
All routes will be operated with 234-seat Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft, except for Miami-Milan, which will be provided by 273-seat Boeing 777-200(ER) aircraft.
Wizz Air is expanding its presence in the Bulgarian capital with six new regular routes, five of which are within Europe and one to Africa, the latter being its first route between Sofia and the African continent. Operations will be carried out with Airbus A320 and Airbus A321 aircraft with 180 and 230 seats, respectively, under the following schedule:
Routes
Currently, Wizz Air serves from Sofia to Alghero, Barcelona, Bari, Basel, Brussels, Dortmund, Eindhoven, Frankfurt Hahn, Hamburg, Krakow, Larnaca, London Luton, Lyon, Madrid, Málaga, Memmingen, Milan Bergamo, Naples, Nice, Paris Beauvais, Rome, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Valencia, and Yerevan.
The Indian airline has confirmed the launch of flights between Mumbai and Copenhagen effective early October, while the Delhi-London Heathrow route will commence in late October. Both will be offered daily on Norse’s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft.
Copenhagen and London will join Amsterdam, Istanbul, and Manchester as its current destinations in Europe. You can find out more data about these flights, as well as its wide-body aircraft operations, in this post.
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From June 23rd, 2026, Qantas will return to daily service on the Sydney-Auckland-New York route and vice versa, which it currently provides five times weekly with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft. The airline will operate daily to John F. Kennedy International Airport again after a six-year hiatus.
Daily
Dallas, Honolulu, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Santiago de Chile are Qantas’ current destinations on the American continent.
The Australian airline will fly between Brisbane and Rarotonga starting May 18th, 2026. These services, to be conducted with 232-seat Airbus A321neo aircraft, will operate three times a week, offering 696 seats per week on each leg.
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday
Effective May 2026, Jetstar will have a daily frequency between Australia and the Cook Islands, with four flights from/to Sydney and the remaining three to/from Brisbane.
The Chinese airline will operate four times weekly between Hangzhou and Hanoi as of October 26th, using Airbus A320-200 aircraft with a capacity for 158 passengers. Hangzhou will be Air China’s first destination from the Vietnamese capital, with the following schedule:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday
AZAL has announced that it will begin services to the Iranian city from the Azerbaijani capital on September 3rd. Flights will be performed twice-weekly by Embraer 190 aircraft as follows:
Wednesday and Sunday
Tehran is Azerbaijan Airlines’ other destination in Iran, offering four flights a week from/to Baku with the same aircraft.
Lufthansa, flynas, and Saudia plan to add routes from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital.
The German airline will resume flights between Munich and Riyadh starting October 26th, operating three times a week with 308-seat Airbus A350-900 aircraft. As for Saudi airlines, flynas will begin services to Nairobi on October 2nd, while Saudia will launch operations to Moscow and Kozhikode on October 7th and 27th, respectively.
Riyadh – Nairobi · flynas
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Munich – Riyadh · Lufthansa
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
Riyadh – Moscow · Saudia
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
Riyadh – Kozhikode · Saudia
Daily except Wednesday
The Tanzanian airline, based in Dar-es-Salaam, will commence flights between Julius Nyerere International Airport and Lagos on September 19th. This will be Air Tanzania’s first route to Nigeria, which will be performed with Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, three times weekly.
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
RAM will add new domestic routes in Morocco starting in October, with two connections to/from Menara International Airport in Marrakech, to be operated by Embraer 190 aircraft configured for 96 passengers in two classes.
Marrakech – Laayoune · October 10th
Wednesday and Friday
Marrakech – Dakhla · October 13th
Monday and Thursday
Angola’s state-owned airline will begin services between Angola and Kenya on September 1st, with the Luanda Quatro de Fevereiro – Nairobi route. These flights will operate from/to LAD until October 1st, when they will move to Luanda’s new airport (NBJ/FNBJ), Dr. Antonio Agostinho Neto.
Luanda – Nairobi
Nairobi – Luanda
Effective October 19th, Hainan Airlines will resume its flights between Haikou and Abu Dhabi, to be offered once per week with Airbus A330-300 aircraft configured for 303 passengers in two classes (24 seats in Business and 279 seats in Economy).
Sunday
As you can see in our database, Hainan’s last flight on this route was on February 5th, 2025, which was operated by the Airbus A330-243 with registration B-5963.
Royal Jordanian plans to restart flights to Casablanca after 20 years.
The Jordanian airline expects to fly twice-weekly between Amman and the Moroccan city starting October 16th with Airbus A320neo and Airbus A321-200 aircraft, configured for 180 and 214 passengers, respectively.
Thursday and Sunday
| Aircraft | Registration | Airline |
|---|---|---|
| Airbus A320-251N | EI-NSH | Aer Lingus |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | XA-AMP | Aeromexico |
| Airbus A319-153N | B-32M1 | Air China |
| Airbus A321-252NX | B-32LE | Air China |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | B-20DS | Air China |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | EC-OPA | Air Europa |
| Airbus A220-300 | F-HPNU | Air France |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N334AL | Air Lease Corporation |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N553AL | Air Lease Corporation |
| Airbus A321-271NX | B-MBU | Air Macau |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | TC-OHB | AJet |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | TC-OHD | AJet |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | N311UN | American Airlines |
| Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner | N847MF | American Airlines |
| Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner | N849AN | American Airlines |
| Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner | JA986A | ANA |
| Boeing 777-F | B-227M | China Cargo Airlines |
| Airbus A321-251NX | B-32MZ | China Eastern |
| Airbus A321-251NX | B-32M6 | China Southern |
| Airbus A321-251NX | B-32M7 | China Southern |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | B-224L | China Southern |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | B-226L | China Southern |
| Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner | B-227L | China Southern |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | HP-9807CMP | Copa Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | HP-9808CMP | Copa Airlines |
| Airbus A220-300 | 9A-CAP | Croatia Airlines |
| Airbus A220-300 | N334DU | Delta Air Lines |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N594DA | Delta Air Lines |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N599DA | Delta Air Lines |
| Airbus A330-941 | N438DX | Delta Air Lines |
| Airbus A350-941 | A6-EXI | Emirates |
| Boeing 777-F | A6-EFZ | Emirates SkyCargo |
| Airbus A350-1041 | ET-BAZ | Ethiopian |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | ET-BAM | Ethiopian |
| Airbus A321-251NX | A6-LRB | Etihad |
| Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner | B-17889 | EVA Air |
| Airbus A320-271N | EI-KFI | FlyArystan |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | A6-FQJ | flydubai |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | A6-FQL | flydubai |
| Airbus A320-251N | HZ-NS94 | flynas |
| Airbus A321-251NX | B-32MT | Hainan Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | B-225V | Hainan Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | B-225X | Hainan Airlines |
| Airbus A321-251NX | VT-NCS | IndiGo |
| Airbus A321-251NX | VT-NCT | IndiGo |
| Airbus A321-251NX | VT-NCU | IndiGo |
| Airbus A321-251NX | VT-NCW | IndiGo |
| Airbus A321-251NX | VT-NCX | IndiGo |
| Airbus A220-300 | EI-HHV | ITA |
| Airbus A350-941 | JA17XJ | Japan Airlines |
| Airbus A220-300 | N3271J | jetBlue |
| Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner | PH-BKQ | KLM |
| Airbus A321-251NX | 9K-AQC | Kuwait Airways |
| Airbus A320-271N | CC-BHK | LATAM Airlines |
| Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner | D-ABPF | Lufthansa |
| Airbus A330-941 | 9M-MNJ | Malaysia Airlines |
| Airbus A330-941 | 9M-MNL | Malaysia Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 9M-MVN | Malaysia Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | SE-RTY | Norwegian |
| Boeing 777-F | G-ONEG | One Air |
| Airbus A321-251NX | TC-RFR | Pegasus |
| Airbus A321-251NX | TC-RFS | Pegasus |
| Airbus A321-251NX | TC-RFT | Pegasus |
| Airbus A321-271NY(XLR) | VH-OGB | Qantas |
| Airbus A350-1041 | A7-AOE | Qatar Airways |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | CN-RHF | Royal Air Maroc |
| Airbus A320-271N | JY-RAI | Royal Jordanian |
| Airbus A320-271N | JY-RAJ | Royal Jordanian |
| Airbus A320-271N | JY-RAL | Royal Jordanian |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | EI-IKR | Ryanair |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | EI-IKS | Ryanair |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | EI-IKT | Ryanair |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | EI-IKW | Ryanair |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | EI-ILD | Ryanair |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | EI-ILF | Ryanair |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | SP-RZR | Ryanair (Buzz) |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8-200 | SP-RZT | Ryanair (Buzz) |
| Airbus A321-253NX(LR) | A4O-OXH | SalamAir |
| Airbus A321-253NX(LR) | A4O-OXI | SalamAir |
| Airbus A320-251N | SE-RZB | SAS |
| ATR 72-600 | SE-MNU | SAS |
| Airbus A320-271N | 9V-TNI | Scoot |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | B-226G | Shanghai Airlines |
| Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner | B-220G | Shanghai Airlines |
| Boeing 777-F | VP-BAA | Silk Way West |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | 9V-MBS | Singapore |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | N8964L | Southwest |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | N8965Q | Southwest |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | N8966S | Southwest |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | HL8579 | T’Way Air |
| Airbus A321-251NX | CS-TJS | TAP Air Portugal |
| Airbus A321-252NX | PH-YHE | Transavia |
| Airbus A320-252N | F-HXST | Transavia France |
| Airbus A321-271NX | TC-LPS | Turkish Airlines |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N14541 | United Airlines |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N14544 | United Airlines |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N14546 | United Airlines |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N54538 | United Airlines |
| Airbus A321-271NX | N54543 | United Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 9 | N17406 | United Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 9 | N17407 | United Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 9 | N17408 | United Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 9 | N17410 | United Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 9 | N17411 | United Airlines |
| Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner | N22995 | United Airlines |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | VH-8IJ | Virgin Australia |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | VH-8IK | Virgin Australia |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | VH-8VA | Virgin Australia |
| Airbus A319-153N | B-32MF | West Air |
| Airbus A321-271NX | 9H-WMF | Wizz Air Malta |
| Airbus A321-271NX | 9H-WMJ | Wizz Air Malta |
Cover photo: Alaska Airlines’ new livery – Alaska Airlines pressroom