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Route Update December 2017

by Harriet Baskas

Dec 20, 2017
General

Aer Lingus will begin flying between Dublin (DUB) and Seattle (SEA) starting May 18, 2018. The route will be served by an Airbus A330, with flights on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday.

Air Canada announced several new non-stop, trans-border routes starting May 2018, including Toronto (YYZ) to Omaha (OMA) and Providence (PVD); Montreal (YUL) to Baltimore (BWI) and Pittsburgh (PIT); Vancouver (YVR) to Sacramento, Calif. (SMF); and Edmonton (YEG) to San Francisco (SFO). All flights will operate daily, year-round except for Toronto/Providence, which will be daily summer seasonal service. More details here.

Cathay Pacific will begin non-stop service between Washington, D.C.’s Dulles International Airport and Hong Kong (HKG) on Sept. 16, 2018. Flights will operate four times a week on Cathay Pacific’s new Airbus A350-1000. Flights from Washington, D.C., to Hong Kong will operate Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and leave IAD at 1:15 p.m.; flights from Hong Kong to Dulles will operate Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday and leave Hong Kong at 6:35 p.m. More details here.

United Airlines is adding 10 new routes from five of its domestic hubs, beginning April 2018, including the addition of service to two new cities: Wilmington, N.C. (ILM) (from Chicago (ORD) and Washington, D.C. Dulles) and Elmira, N.Y. (ELM) (from Newark Liberty (EWR)). Starting April 9, United will offer twice daily flights between Chicago and both El Paso (ELP) and Wilmington; between LAX and both Redmond (RDM) and Medford (MFR), Ore.; between Newark and Elmira; and between IAD and Wilmington. There will be one flight daily between Denver (DEN) and Jacksonville, Fla. (JAX). Daily seasonal service between Chicago (ORD) and Fresno (FAT), and between LAX and both Kalispell (FCA) and Missoula (MSO), Mont., begins June 7. More details here.

Norwegian Air is adding four new routes between the United States and Europe. Service from New York (JFK) to Madrid-Barajas Airport will launch July 18, 2018, and operate three times per week. Service from JFK to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport will launch May 7, 2018, and operate four times per week. Norwegian will begin flying from LAX to Madrid four times a week, beginning July 16, 2018, and between LAX and Milan-Malpensa Airport four times a week, beginning June 18, 2018. More details here.

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