Southwest Airlines added nine domestic routes within the Lower 48 states, all starting on either August 5 or 10. Four of these routes have previously been served by Southwest, including San Francisco-Austin. Among the additions are five of Southwest’s shortest mainland routes: Sarasota-Orlando; Fort Myers-Orlando; West Palm Beach-Orlando; Louisville-Nashville; and Indianapolis-Chicago Midway. Most of these operate twice daily to support connecting flights. The Fort Myers-Orlando route marks Southwest's third attempt at this connection, following previous periods of service between October 2005-November 2012 and November 2020-January 2024.
Qatar Airways resumed flights to Aleppo on August 10 after a suspension of nearly thirteen and a half years due to Syria’s civil war. The Doha-Aleppo route is being served three times weekly in August with both A330-200 and A330-300 aircraft, increasing to four times weekly in September with exclusive use of the A330-300 during winter months. This follows Turkish Airlines’ return to Aleppo the previous week. Qatar Airways now serves thirty Middle Eastern cities across ten countries in the region, with Damascus also receiving resumed service since January.
Kuujjuaq in northern Canada saw two notable air service changes within three days. Air Inuit began nonstop Montreal-Kuujjuaq flights on August 6 using primarily Boeing 737-300 or -200 aircraft, replacing a previous stopover in Québec City. Later this year, the airline plans to introduce the Boeing 737-800 Combi on this route. On August 9, Canadian North launched a weekly Ottawa-Kuujjuaq service as part of an Ottawa-Kuujjuaq-Iqaluit link using a Boeing 737-400, replacing its former Montreal-Kuujjuaq-Iqaluit routing after Air Inuit’s nonstop launch.
ASKY Airlines has expanded its network with new service to Nouakchott via Conakry three times weekly using Boeing 737-800s. The Mauritanian capital is now ASKY’s most northerly destination, connecting through Lomé hub operations that rely on overnighting aircraft at outstations rather than adding more waves of flights—an approach chosen for cost reasons.
Wizz Air marked carrying its three millionth passenger at Sibiu Airport in central Romania last week while also welcoming its second based aircraft there. Since joining Wizz Air’s network in 2014, Sibiu has seen twenty different routes operated by the carrier; eleven remain active as of August 2025: Basel, Dortmund, Hamburg, Hahn, Karlsruhe, Luton, Madrid, Memmingen, Nuremberg, Rome Fiumicino, and Vienna. Wizz Air holds about sixty percent share of Sibiu’s activity with forty-two weekly departures.
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