(Corrects number of Qatar Airways routes)
May 27 (Reuters) - Airlines are starting to restore services to
some destinations and plan more route openings in an expected easing of
travel restrictions around the world. By May, airlines around the world
had grounded about 95% of their capacity as air travel all but came to
a standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Here are some of the airlines restoring routes (in alphabetical
order):
AMERICAS
Name Service Share of Routes Link
resumption fleet opening
date operational
Aeromexico May 1 50% Mexico City
-Vancouver/Ma
drid
Copa June 1 12% of
Airlines scheduled
routes
Delta Air June Q2 schedule several major
Lines expected to routes (some
be 85% Trans-Atlanti
smaller than c and
year ago Caribbean
destinations)
ASIA
Name Service Share of Routes Story Link
resumption fleet opening
date operational
Asiana June 13
Airlines international
routes
Bangkok June 1 Domestic nFWN2CX0EZ
Airways routes
Kazakh May 1 NA some domestic
airlines flights
Vietnam June 1 NA International
Airlines flights (need
government
approval)
EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA
Name Service Share of Routes Story Link
resumption fleet opening
date operational
Air France mid-June 10% 600 flights
per week to
110
destinations
Alitalia June 2 NA New York,
Spain and
domestic
routes
Brussels June 15 30% of Destinations
Airlines original in Europe,
planned include
summer Spain, France
schedule and Italy Route to New
York to
resume in
July
easyJet June 15 primarily
domestic
flights in
Britain and
France
Etihad June 16 NA flights
Airways across its
network
Eurowings May 2020 NA Will fly from bit.ly/3fHDFmZ
5 different
German
airports
Finnair July about 30% of key Asian
its normal destinations
amount of (Beijing,
flights Hong Kong,
Shanghai,
Nagoya,
Osaka, Tokyo
Narita,
Singapore,
Seoul,
Bangkok)
August Delhi, New
York
IAG July passenger
capacity
about 50%
lower
Lufthansa Mid to end of 160 aircraft 1,8000 weekly
June flights to
130
destinations
including Los
Angeles,
Toronto and
Mumbai 20
destinations
to start
mid-June from
Frankfurt
Ryanair July 1 40% of its 1,000 flights
planned per day,
flight restoring 90%
schedule of its
pre-Covid-19
route network
Lufthansa's June 15-20% of up to 190 bit.ly/2Tek0BF
SWISS original flights from
services in Zurich and
June Geneva to 41
European
destinations;
plans to
offer flights
from Zurich
to New York
JFK, Chicago,
Singapore,
Bangkok,
Tokyo,
Mumbai, Hong
Kong and
Johannesburg
SAS June 1-15 Will have 30 Nordic
aircraft in routes,
service Amsterdam,
New York,
Chicago
Turkish June NA 60% of
Airlines domestic
flights
99 countries
by September
Qatar By the end of NA Up to 80
Airways May, June destinations
(33 in
Asia-Pacific,
23 in Europe,
20 in the
Middle East,
four in
the
Americas)
Wizz Air May 1, June, NA Sofia -
16 July London
London -
Faro,
Portugal
London -
Greece
(Reporting by Tommy Lund and Jagoda Darlak in Gdansk; Editing by Mark
Potter, Louise Heavens and Tomasz Janowski)
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