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.