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While American Airlines’ losses worsened in Q1, with revenues also decreasing slightly, its chief executive expressed confidence that the airline is positioned well for the future in light of the uncertainty faced by the economy and, by extension, the airline industry.

Virgin Atlantic’s routes are from three UK airports: London Heathrow,Manchester, and Edinburgh. In 2025, new destinations include Riyadh and Toronto, which gained their inaugural Virgin flight in March. While Cancun was previously served from Gatwick, it’ll get its first Heathrow service in October. Tel Aviv flights are due to resume the same month.

As hot drinks go, few better sum up a country's personality than the UK's relationship with tea. Often seen as a cornerstone of British culture, the beverage is always a popular choice among passengers on the country's airlines, perhaps none more so than flag carrier and oneworld founding member British Airways. Earlier today, the airline announced that it had chosen Birchall as its new tea provider.

Breeze Airways, which secured its first-ever Essential Air Service (EAS) contract in September 2024, has bid on three further contracts to provide subsidized services from three airports in the United States.

While it’s good to be light-hearted in stressful situations, some jokes just don’t fly in airplanes (pun intended). If anything a passenger says is even remotely considered as a potential threat to the safety of the airplane and passengers, the airline crew can take action and even remove the traveler.

EVA Air is set to launch non-stop flights from its main hub at Taipei Taoyuan International Airport (TPE) to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) on October 3rd of this year. The Taiwanese carrier already has a significant presence in the North American market, particularly on the West Coast, and the Texan hub will be its ninth city in the region. Once these flights are added, they will operate three times a week.

Southwest Airlines has issued its Q1 2025 financial results, with the airline, which has undergone substantial changes during the past year, including a proxy war with an activist shareholder, posting a net loss of $149 million during the period.

Amid lower-than-expected bookings and an overall global economic uncertainty, US airlines are revisiting their previous earnings forecasts. While Alaska Airlines has not updated its 2025 guidance, it said that its second-quarter revenue could be hit by as much as six percentage points.

Delta Air Lines has more flights to Amsterdam than any airport outside North America. Of course, this is entirely due to its transatlantic joint venture (the highest level of cooperation) with Air France-KLM and Virgin Atlantic. Delta owns equity in the operators, all of whom are part of SkyTeam.

Virgin Atlantic has announced that in March 2026, it will begin daily flights to Seoul, South Korea, saying that the new route, which it will start following the British government’s investigation into the Asiana Airlines and Korean Air merger, will primarily target leisure customers.

The Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA), which serves as an agency of the United States government tasked with regulating civil aviation in the country, is looking to reduce the risk of collisions between helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft. This initiative has arisen following a crash at the start of the year, with the FAA focusing on several hotspots. One of these is Las Vegas Harry Reid Airport (LAS).

Boeing has published its Q1 results, ending the three-month period with a net loss of only $31 million, with revenues increasing by 18% year-on-year (YoY) following a significant bump in deliveries compared to Q1 2024.

On April 25, Korean Air will again fly the Boeing 747-8i on the SkyTeam route from Seoul Incheon to Atlanta, the US's eighth-busiest international airport. It last did so on March 29, when the lower-capacity and more premium-configured 777-300ER exclusively operated. Things can change substantially. In December 2024, Korean Air's schedule update showed that the 747-8i would not operate during the summer, which has now changed. Flights are bookable.

Just a few weeks before its Q1 financial results release, Embraer has disclosed the state of its backlog, with the Brazilian manufacturer ending the quarter with a backlog valued at $26.4 billion.

Last month, Virgin Atlantic officially opened its newest Clubhouse location to eligible passengers at Los Angeles International Airport. Designed to create a personalized experience tailored to pre-flight wellness, the lounge features several amenities, including a large bar and an open social area.

Boeing has chosen the person to lead Spirit AeroSystems’ site in Wichita, Kansas, the United States, and its overseas plants once the companies finalize their merger, which the plane maker’s executives hoped would happen in mid-2025.

Following its recent merger into the Alaska Air Group, Hawaiian Airlines has been relocating terminals at some of the major hub airports on the US mainland. This will allow it to better align with the operations of Alaska Airlines, as well as offering improved integration in terms of onward connections with the latter carrier's oneworldalliance partners. The airports in question are located all across the US.

Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air is no stranger to sustainability efforts. The airline is, statistically, the most sustainable operationally of any carrier in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. In the 2024 fiscal year, the airline was able to achieve its carbon emissions intensity target of just 52 grams per revenue passenger kilometer (RPK), among the lowest in the industry and by far the lowest in Europe.

Boeing, which has been reviewing its portfolio following the change in leadership, has confirmed that it has sold portions of its Digital Aviation Solutions business for $10.55 billion to Thoma Bravo, a software investment firm.

Welcome to my 165th weekly routes article! It includes 10 mini-stories about subjectively exciting services that took off between April 15 and 21 (unless stated).Click here to see my last jam-packed article! Many dozens of routes started in the examined period, but, as always, only a selectionis covered.