bmi will cease operating routes to Aleppo, Amsterdam, Brussels, Kiev and Tel Aviv from 2010. From January 10, 2010 routes will be cut from London Heathrow. Futhermore, the airline will not resume summer flights to Palma de Mallorca and Venice, as well as cut 600 out of 4400 jobs.

easyJet will launch ten additional routes in 2010, mainly from Paris Charles de Gaulle and Milan Malpensa. From Paris new routes will launch to Agadir, Catania and Helsinki, from Milan we will see routes to Agadir, Cagliari, Casablanca, Malta and Porto. Furthermore we will see new routes from Manchester to Helsinki, London Stansted to Cagliari and Liverpool to Malta.

British Airways has announced that they will resume flights to Zimbabwe, after a two year absence. The route is set to re-launch between March and April next year, after the political tensions forced several airlines away from servicing flights to Zimbabwe.

Ryanair has announced that they will open their second base in Scandinavia at Rygge Airport near Oslo. Besides the six already existing routes, Ryanair will launch 16 new routes from Rygge, Ryanair’s 37th European base. The flights will go to Aarhus, Berlin Schonefeld, Dublin, Dusseldorf Weeze, Eindhoven, Gdansk, Krakow, La Rochelle, Malaga, Memmingen, Palma, Paris Beauvais, Riga, Wroclaw, Valencia and Venice Treviso.

Qatar Airways will from January 29, 2010 increase the frequency of its service between the capitals in Qatar and Russia. The route from Doha to Moscow Domodedovo will go from seven to ten weekly services.

Swiss International Air Lines will in close partnership with bmi, its sister airline in the Lufthansa Group, offer six new daily flights to Geneva from London Heathrow, modify its services from London City Airport to offer four daily flights, and add a flight to Zurich on Saturdays. Changes will be implemented on January 10, 2010.

United Airlines has announced that they will launch a new daily route between Chicago and Rome. The route will operate seasonally between May 1 and August 31.

Norwegian has announced 10 new routes from Denmark. Included are three new domestic flights from Copenhagen – to Billund, Bornholm and Karup. Furthermore new international routes will fly from Billund to Oslo, Malaga and Gran Canaria. The new flights will see launches between January 18, 2010 and March 25.

Austrian Airlines will operate several extra flights between Vienna and Athens this Christmas. From December 23 to January 3, 2010, five extra routes will be operated to and from Athens. There will also be one extra flight to Salzburg on December 23.

Continental Airlines have announced a new route from New York to Munich. Starting on March 27, 2010 there will be a daily service operating to Munich from New York’s Newark Airport.

Air Canada will once again offer daily operations on the two inter-continental routes from Vancouver to Beijing and Shanghai. The routes have been operated respectively three and four times weekly since this summer.

Iceland Express has launched a short sale with fares available to Reykjavik from £ 55 (ca. € 61), one-way including taxes and charges. Travel before December 15. Book by midnight (GMT) tonight, Friday, November 20.

Several American carriers have extended their surcharges from peak travel times in 2010. United Airlines, Delta and Northwest are increasing the surcharges by up to $ 50 (ca. € 34) per flight. The $ 50 surcharge is for flights through Memorial Day Weekend 2010, while the other peak travel time surcharges will be around $ 10 (ca. € 7) to $ 30 (ca. € 20). US Airways have taken a difference approach and will add a surcharge equal to 5 % of the fare price on all domestic flights from May 8, 2010.

SAS have launched a low-cost sale with more than 100.000 tickets available for both long- and short-haul travel. The airline has launched the sale in an attempt to regain their position as the Scandinavian airline with the cheapest fares. Travel in Europe can be made between January 5, 2010 and March 5, while travel throughout Asia and the US can be made between January 11 and March 25. The offer runs till the end of November.

Finnair’s pilot yesterday agreed to end their today strike that grounded most of their planes. 60-70 flights were expected to fly today, while full service will resume on Friday. The Finish national airline expects to have lost between € 5 – 10 million on the two day-strike.

JetBlue Airways and Virgin America have both announced routes from California to Florida today. Both flights will operate between San Francisco and Fort Lauderdale with JetBlue operating once daily, while Virgin America will operate twice daily. As a special opening sale, JetBlue offers one-way fares for $ 79 (ca. € 53) for travel between December 1, 2009 and February 28, 2010. However, you have to book your travel by midnight (GMT+6) tonight, November 18.

Thai Airways has announced a new First Class service on their flight between Dubai and Bangkok. The airline will launch the service on December 1 with eight First Class seats on the 267-seat large Airbus.