New airline routes connect global cities amid shifting demand

Fly Sola now connects Karlstad and Stockholm Arlanda six times weekly using a Saab 340 operated by NyxAir. In Germany, skyhub PAD introduced service between Paderborn and Munich with 17 weekly ATR 72 flights operated by Danish Air Transport. Lufthansa previously served this city pair until May 2025.

Kenya Airways has added a temporary one-stop route from Nairobi to Paris Charles de Gaulle and Amsterdam before returning to Nairobi. This twice-weekly service does not offer traffic rights between Paris and Amsterdam but allows Kenya Airways to maintain morning France-bound connectivity despite a shortage of widebody aircraft. The arrangement is scheduled through March 2026.

In the United States, Allegiant launched South Bend’s first nonstop flight to Fort Lauderdale on August 29 with an Airbus A320neo; Boeing 737 MAX 8s will be used starting October 3. Allegiant now operates seven routes from South Bend—the most it has ever served from the city—after adding Fort Lauderdale alongside existing destinations such as Las Vegas and Orlando Sanford.

Jiangxi Air has started international operations again by launching twice-weekly flights from Nanchang, China, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This marks Jiangxi Air’s debut in both Kuala Lumpur and Southeast Asia; it previously flew internationally only until early 2024.

Batik Air Malaysia inaugurated direct service between Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) and Dunhuang, China, on August 29—the first time this city pair has been linked by air. The weekly flight runs until October 24. KLIA now offers nonstop connections to thirty airports in mainland China with a total of approximately fifty-six daily departures in September—a growth of forty-two percent compared to pre-pandemic levels in September 2019.

easyJet marked two milestones at Hamburg Airport: twenty years of operation there since launching its Basel route in August 2005 and carrying its eleven millionth passenger through the German airport. While easyJet was once based at Hamburg (2013–2018), its share of airport capacity has declined from nearly nine percent then to under three percent today as other carriers such as Eurowings, Lufthansa, Condor, Turkish Airlines, SWISS, Ryanair, and SunExpress have expanded their presence.