50 new routes starting in August 2021

Photo: Duncan Stewart - LAX

One of the more eye-catching routes set to start this month is JetBlue Airways’ long-awaited transatlantic service connecting New York and London.

The carrier’s inaugural route between the US and UK will launch on Aug. 11. However, as previously reported by Routes, the latest schedules show that New York John F Kennedy (JFK)-London Heathrow (LHR) frequencies will be reduced from 1X-daily to 4X-weekly from Sept. 2 through Sept. 30.

“We are planning schedule adjustments for this fall to match the current demand environment and once a path to the border reopening is clear, we expect demand to bounce back quickly just as it has in the rest of our network,” CEO Robin Hayes told investors on July 27.

Elsewhere, Indonesian LCC Super Air Jet began commercial operations on Aug. 1, launching six domestic routes from Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta (CGK).

Flights to Batam (BTH); Medan Kualanamu (KNO); Padang (PDG); Palembang (PLM); Pekanbaru (PKU); Pontianak (PNK) are all daily using Airbus A320s. CEO Ari Azhar previously said the startup would primarily target millennial travelers.

Other new routes starting in August include two services connecting destinations in Mexico and Colombia. Mexican ULCC Viva Aerobus will enter the Mexico City (MEX)-Bogota (BOG) market on Aug. 21, while Colombia’s Viva starts a Medellin (MDE)-MEX route on Aug. 3. Each carrier secured approvals to operate the routes in June.

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Airline	Code	Dept. airport	Code	Arr. airport	Code	Weekly freq.	Equipment	Start date
American Airlines	AA	Charlotte	CLT	El Paso	ELP	7	737-800	Aug. 17
American Airlines	AA	Dallas/Fort Worth	DFW	Columbus	CSG	7	CRJ900	Aug. 17
Belavia	B2	Minsk	MSQ	Kutaisi	KUT	2	E195	Aug. 4
Blue Air	0B	Milan Linate	LIN	Barcelona	BCN	6	737-500	Aug. 16
Blue Air	0B	Milan Linate	LIN	Paris Charles de Gaulle	CDG	7	737-500	Aug. 23
British Airways	BA	London Heathrow	LHR	Riga	RIX	3	A320	Aug. 18
British Airways	BA	London Heathrow	LHR	Gdansk Lech Walesa	GDN	3	A320	Aug. 25
Bulgaria Air	FB	Sofia	SOF	Kyiv Borispol	KBP	3	E190	Aug. 9
Cathay Pacific	CX	Hong Kong	HKG	Qingdao	TAO	1	A321neo	Aug. 13
Cathay Pacific	CX	Hong Kong	HKG	Phuket	HKT	1	A330-300	Aug. 10
Condor	DE	Munich	MUC	Split	SPU	1	A320	Aug. 1
Delta Air Lines	DL	Boston	BOS	Rome Fiumicino	FCO	3	A330-300	Aug. 5
Easyjet	U2	Chania	CHQ	Paris Charles de Gaulle	CDG	2	A320	Aug. 1
Ethiopian Airlines	ET	Addis Ababa	ADD	Amman Queen Alia	AMM	3	737-800	Aug. 2
Eurowings	EW	Cologne/Bonn	CGN	Yerevan	EVN	1	A320	Aug. 6
Flair Airlines	F8	Ottawa	YOW	Halifax Stanfield	YHZ	7	737-800	Aug. 1
Frontier Airlines	F9	Las Vegas McCarran	LAS	Bloomington/Normal	BMI	2	A320	Aug. 12
Frontier Airlines	F9	Las Vegas McCarran	LAS	Tucson	TUS	2	A320	Aug. 13
Georgian Airways	A9	Yerevan	EVN	Barcelona	BCN	1	737	Aug. 6
Iberia	IB	Madrid	MAD	Ljubljana	LJU	2	A320	Aug. 2
IndiGo	6E	Mumbai	BOM	Leh	IXL	1	A320	Aug. 1
IndiGo	6E	Tiruchchirappalli	TRZ	Doha	DOH	1	A320	Aug. 7
ITA	8I	Brasilia	BSB	Belo Horizonte	CNF	13	A320	Aug. 1
ITA	8I	Brasilia	BSB	Rio de Janeiro Galeao	GIG	6	A320	Aug. 1
Jet2.com	LS	Newcastle	NCL	Kefallinia	EFL	1	737-800	Aug. 13
JetBlue Airways	B6	Newark Liberty	EWR	Cartagena	CTG	3	A320	Aug. 2
JetBlue Airways	B6	New York J F Kennedy	JFK	London Heathrow	LHR	7	A321neo	Aug. 11
Jetsmart	JA	Santiago	SCL	Buenos Aires Aeroparque	AEP	5	A320	Aug. 7
Jetsmart	JA	Santiago	SCL	Medellin	MDE	2	A320	Aug. 11
Kuwait Airways	KU	Kuwait	KWI	Amsterdam	AMS	2	777-300ER	Aug. 4
Lufthansa	LH	Frankfurt	FRA	Port Harcourt	PHC	5	A330-300	Aug. 2
Norwegian Air Shuttle	DY	Copenhagen	CPH	Tel Aviv	TLV	2	737-800	Aug. 19
Okay Airways	BK	Changsha	CSX	Lanzhou Zhongchuan	LHW	7	737-500	Aug. 1
Pegas Fly	EO	St Petersburg Pulkovo	LED	Frankfurt	FRA	1	E190	Aug. 5
Pegas Fly	EO	St Petersburg Pulkovo	LED	Hannover	HAJ	1	E190	Aug. 4
Qantas Airways	QF	Adelaide	ADL	Cairns	CNS	4	E190	Aug. 7
Ryanair	FR	Milan Bergam	BGY	Preveza/Lefkada	PVK	2	737-800	Aug. 3
Ryanair	FR	Bologna	BLQ	Zadar	ZAD	3	737-800	Aug. 1
Ryanair	FR	Shannon	SNN	Gran Canaria	LPA	1	737-800	Aug. 7
S7 Airlines	S7	Moscow Domodedovo	DME	Bodrum Milas	BJV	1	A320	Aug. 2
Sichuan Airlines	3U	Shihezi	SHF	Dalian	DLC	3	A319	Aug. 1
Sky Express	GQ	Athens	ATH	London Heathrow	LHR	6	A320neo	Aug. 1
SkyUp	PQ	Kyiv Borispol	KBP	Riyadh King Khalid	RUH	2	737-800	Aug. 4
STARLUX Airlines	JX	Taipei Taiwan Taoyuan	TPE	Singapore Changi	SIN	3	A321neo	Aug. 24
Super Air Jet	IU	Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta	CGK	Padang	PDG	7	A320	Aug. 1
TAG Airlines	5U	Guatemala City	GUA	Cancun	CUN	4	Saab 340	Aug. 9
Turkish Airlines	TK	Antalya	AYT	Dublin	DUB	3	737-800	Aug. 29
Viva	VH	Medellin	MDE	Mexico City	MEX	4	A320	Aug. 3
Viva Aerobus	VB	Mexico City	MEX	Bogota	BOG	2	A320	Aug. 21
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi	5W	Abu Dhabi	AUH	Baku Heydar Aliyev	GYD	1	A321neo	Aug. 14

Schedules correct as of July 30, 2021 Data supplied by OAG Schedules Analyse Routes online