Aer Lingus is continuing its positive development by announcing nine new routes for its summer schedule of 2009. The routes will fly from Aer Lingus’ bases at Belfast, Cork and Dublin. The fares have already been set on sale. From Belfast they will fly to Lanzarote, Milan and Munich. From Cork they will fly to Lanzarote, Lisbon and Rennes. From Dublin they will fly to Catania, Newcastle, Sicily and Sofia. Additionally, Aer Lingus will boost capacity on 17 of its already existing routes.

Ryanair will launch seven new routes from Liverpool’s John Lennon Airport. This week, new routes will be launched to Faro, Fuerteventura, Gdansk, Knock, Szczecin and Tenerife. On November 3 the route to Paris Beauvais will be launched.

British Airways has stopped operating its service between Manchester Airport and New York. British Airways’ plan is to direct all of its international flights through either London Heathrow or Gatwick. The last flight was operated on Sunday October 26.

US Airways will from May 13 2009 launch two new routes from its base in Philadelphia. The routes will run to the British city of Birmingham and Norwegian capital Oslo. The transatlantic services will be operated on daily basis. Tickets have already been made available for booking.