New airline routes highlight global connectivity expansion

ITA Airways has inaugurated a new route from Rome to Dakar, operating four times weekly on a 165-seat A321neo. This marks ITA's first venture into this market segment since replacing Alitalia. Neos also serves this route weekly with a Boeing 737 MAX 8.

Volaris has introduced flights between McAllen, Texas, and Cancun twice-weekly using an A320ceo aircraft. This is Volaris' first service from McAllen and the airport pair had not been previously served.

Ethiopian Airlines has started flights from Addis Ababa to Warsaw via Athens four times weekly on a Boeing 737 MAX 8. From late October, the stopover will switch to Vienna with an upgrade to an A350-900 aircraft.

New China-Europe routes continue to emerge as international travel recovers post-pandemic. Juneyao Airlines now flies three times weekly from Shanghai Pudong to Brussels using a Boeing 787-9, while Shanghai Airlines offers three-weekly services from Shanghai to Marseille.

Pegasus Airlines has begun direct flights between Ankara and Dublin three times weekly during summer on an A320neo aircraft. This marks Pegasus’ second-longest European route after Ankara-Lisbon.

Additional recent launches include LATAM’s Bogota-Madrid service; flynas’ Riyadh-El-Alamein route; Volotea’s new Bari base; Frontier’s San Juan-Barbados connection; Pegasus’ Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen-Mashhad flight; Gol's Belo Horizonte-Buenos Aires resumption; SAS’ Copenhagen-Tirana among others; Jet2’s Manchester-Porto flight; Solomon Airlines' Brisbane-Luganville reinstatement; easyJet's Pisa-Barcelona link; Ryanair's Sarajevo-Thessaloniki route; and Transavia's Montpellier-Rabat connection.