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Ryanair will launch two new routes from Denmark, one from Billund and one from Aarhus. The low-cost airline will launch their 11th route from Billund, and will fly to Faro in Portugal twice weekly from April 2, 2010, while the 6th route from Aarhus will fly to Malaga, also twice weekly from the end of June 2010.

From June 25, 2010 Air Canada will launch a new route from Toronto to Copenhagen. The airline is returning to Copenhagen after seven years, and will be their only route to Scandinavia.

Iceland Express will launch to weekly flights two Winnipeg. The route will fly from Icelandic capital Reykjavik to the Canadian destination, its first route to the North American country.

Emirates Airline will launch a new flight between Dubai and Prague. The daily service will begin July 1, 2010.

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SAS have announced some changes for their 2010 schedule. The Scandinavian airline will launch new routes from Copenhagen to Lyon and Vilnius, from Oslo to Bardufoss, and from Stockholm to Visby. They will close their route from Copenhagen to Nurnberg, while increasing frequency from Copenhagen to Stockholm, Bruxelles and Bologna.

Alitalia have announced an increase in the frequency on their service between Rome and Tokyo Narita, upping the weekly service from seven to nine. Furthermore, the airline will resume Rome – Los Angeles service five times weekly. Both changes will take effect from June 5, 2010.

British Airways have launched a new holiday sale. Return flights are available to destinations around the world including New York, Sydney, Dubai and many more. Fares are available from £ 299 (ca. € 332). Travel dates vary according to destinations.

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No sooner had SAS announced that it would close its route between Copenhagen and London City, than Cimber Sterling announced that it will commence flights on the same route from spring. Cimber Sterling will fly twice daily between with its ATR aircraft with room for 46 passengers. At the same time, Cimber Sterling will discontinue its Copenhagen to London Gatwick route, but will continue from Billund to Gatwick, which is flown twice a day, Monday to Friday.

Scotland’s largest airline, Flyglobespan has gone into administration leaving 4,500 holidaymakers stranded in destinations across Europe - including Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Egypt and leaves thousands having to rearrange future travel plans.

Flights from Edinburgh, Glasgow Prestwick, Aberdeen, London Gatwick and Belfast airports have all been grounded by the sudden collapse of the airline. EasyJet and RyanAir are offering attractive fares for customers holding flyglobespan tickets.

Record amounts of snow on the US east coast has caused havoc on flights to Washington, Philadelphia and New York. Most domestic flights are cancelled, whilst international flights are taking off, but heavily delayed.


Snow also affected Eurostar this weekend, with 50.000 people impacted, some stranded in trains for as long as 18 hours. Trains have been cancelled for 3 days due to the "wrong type of fluffy snow" reports the Times today. Extreme cold weather was partly to blame according to Nick Mercer, Eurostar's commercial director, who continued the type of snow was partly to blame. He said: “It seems to be a strange combination of factors. It was the amount of snow, which was higher than we experienced before, it was lighter than normal, fluffier, and the temperature inside the tunnel and the humidity was higher than normal.”

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FlyBe have announced 16 new routes for the Summer 2010 season. From Birmingham we will see four new French routes to Avignon, Bordeaux, Limoges and Rennes. We will also see new route from Guernsey to Edinburgh and Belfast, Jersey to Glasgow Prestwick and Durham Tees Valley, from London Gatwick to Limoges, from Manchester to Avignon, Bergerac and Limoges, from Southampton to Verona, from Exeter to Hannover via Newcastle, and from Bristol to Isle of Man.

Estonian Air will launch new weekly routes from Tallinn to Nice and Athens. The Nice route will operate from May 1, 2010 to July 31 while the Athens route will operate from July 5, 2010 to August 16.

Swedish airline NextJet will from February 2010 double their number of daily flights between Linköping and Copenhagen, bringing the total up to four daily services. NextJet operates 13 routes with Copenhagen as the only international route.

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easyJet recently announced the launch of a new base at Doncaster Airport, as well as the launch of 36 new routes for the Summer of 2010 including five from Doncaster. New flights will operate from;

• Amsterdam to Split.
• Basel to Ajaccio, Nantes, Split and Thessaloniki.
• Berlin Schoenefeld to Corfu and Split.
• Bristol to Paphos and Tenerife.
• Doncaster to Amsterdam, Barcelona, Faro, Palma de Mallorca and Prague.
• Dortmund to Palma de Mallorca.
• Edinburgh to Lisbon.
• Ibiza to Naples and Venice.
• London Gatwick to Bordeaux.
• Liverpool to Rhodes.
• Manchester to Mahon, Sharm El Sheik and Zurich.
• Milan Malpensa to Bordeaux, Corfu, Santorini and Thessaloniki.
• Paris Orly to Mykonos, Olbia and Palermo.
• Rome Fiumicino to Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Ibiza, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca and Split.

Norwegian has announced that they will launch six new routes from their base in Bergen, Norway. The new routes include six weekly flights to Copenhagen and Stockholm, two weekly flights to Barcelona and Rome, and one weekly flight to Antalya and Crete. The new routes will start from March 28, 2010.

Lufthansa will launch a new route from Munich to Tehran, the capital of Iran. The route is set to operate four times weekly from March 29, 2010.

Air Berlin have announced a new direct flight between Berlin and Visby on the Swedish island Gotland. The service will operate weekly between June 19 and August 28, 2010.

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