Hi,
Here's a list of changes for summer 2004:
In addition to this there is talk of American operating a flight to Boston, not sure if this is 757/767 yet. There is also talk of American opening up a route to Miami later in the year, I've heard it mentioned to be 5 times weekly in the summer and daily in the winter??
US Airways are rumoured to be looking at an additional daily flight to Philly, the loads on their existing one are fantastic.
Qatar Airways are going daily to Doha with the A300.
SAA, I had heard that they would be looking at Manchester when they get the ex Lufthansa A340's.
Thai is also rumoured to be considering Manchester, apparently they are awaiting delivery of an ex United 747 and then plan to launch flights to Bangkok, it looks like this flight could be via Munich though.
Gulf Air is seriously looking at Manchester, not sure if this will be mainline or Gulf Traveller. Its either going to Bahrain or Abu Dhabi.
Syrian will serve Manchester as an extension of their LHR service.
I had heard that Cathay were looking at returning, but i'm not sure about this one. They seem to have a good set up with codeshare on the BA shuttles to LHR and then connect on. Besides they operate 3 times daily to HKG from LHR now.
BMI's 3rd airbus is operating for the mod, however when it returns there is talk of it operating to either Miami or Toronto (possibly replacing the Air Canada service.
Air Canada - Change equipment from B767.200 to B767.300.
Air South West - Continuation of proposed Winter 2003/2004 services to Plymouth & Bristol with Dash 8.
Aer Lingus - Reduce Dublin service from 6 to 5 x daily with B737.
Alitalia - New 2 x daily Milan-Malpensa service with A319 equipment.
Blue One [formerly Air Botnia] - New daily evening Helsinki service with Avro RJ8
BMI baby - will base 4 B737.300s for the season with new service to Bordeaux; Paris-CDG; Jersey; Ibiza and Knock.
Braathens - 4 x weekly to Oslo with B737.700.
British Midland - Increase Glasgow services from 5 to 7 x daily.
BWIA - Increase Bridgetown/Port of Spain service to 2 x weekly with A340.300.
Continental - Change equipment on Newark service to B777 for period 16/05/04-08/09/04. Continue with B767.400 on other dates.
CSA - Increase Prague service from 10 to 13 x weekly.
Cyprus - Increase Paphos/Larnaca services from 4 to 5 x weekly with A320.
EU Airways - New 2 x daily Aldergrove service with Fokker 100.
Federal Express - 4 x weekly Paris-CDG-MAN-Memphis freight service with MD11 from 30th August.
Fly Be - New 4 x daily to Jersey & Southampton; 3 x daily to Belfast-Harbour and daily to Guernsey with Dash 8 400s.
Hapag Lloyd Express - Reinstate morning Colgne service and new 2 x daily Bilbao service with B737.700 + new 4 times weekly service to Stuttgart
Hellas Jet - New 2 x daily Athens service with A320.
Iberia - New 2 x daily Madrid service with MD87.
Kibris - Increase from 2 to 3 x weekly Dalaman service with B737.800.
LOT - Increase existing 6 x weekly Warsaw service to daily.
Malev - Reinstate Budapest service, daily with B-737.600, which will overnight at MAN.
My Travel Lite - New daily Gerona & Palma service with A320.
Olympic - Increase Athens service from 2 to 4 x weekly with B737.400.
PIA - New 2 x weekly Chicago & Toronto service with B777.
Any more rumours?
EK