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City Airline, the Swedish Gothenburg based air carrier, has decided to cancel routes from Gothenburg to Athens and Milan. The routes which have not even debuted yet were supposed to launch during the spring. Customers affected by the cancelation have been contacted by the airline and offered a full refund as well as a gift cardwith a value of SEK 500.

Monarch Airlines has announced a new set of flights to Greek island of Santorini. The low-cost carrier will operate weekly flights between May 5 and October 5 from London Gatwick and Manchester airports. Return fares are available from £ 160 (ca. € 178) all inclusive.

TAP Portugal has announced that their two Portuguese routes to Paris will move. The national Portuguese air carrier will move its flights from Lisbon and Porto from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Paris Orly. The changes will take effect on April 1.

Spanair will launch two more routes in the summer. The new services will connect Malaga and Venice twice weekly from May 26 and Madrid and Belgrade twice weekly from May 28.

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British Airways has announced that their cabin crew will strike twice this month. The British carrier has been in a bad position with the union since late 2009, when new working conditions were imposed reducing staffing by one or two crew on all BA flights. The two strikes will run three days from March 20 and four days from March 27.

Delta Air Lines has announced a new inter-state flight from June 10. The new route will operate from Los Angeles to San Francisco with five daily services.

Anadolujet has announced new services to Copenhagen and Stockholm. The Turkish low-cost airline owned by Turkish Airlines will launch flights to both Scandinavian capitals from Ankara and Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Airport. Ankara to Copenhagen and Istanbul to Stockholm will be operated four times weekly from June 1, while Istanbul to Copenhagen and Ankara to Stockholm will operate thrice weekly from June 3.

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Ryanair has announced their 41st European base from May. The Irish low-cost airline will open its newest base at Malta, basing a Boeing 737 and launching six new routes. The new routes will fly to Billund, Bologna, Krakow, Marseilles, Seville and Valencia.

SAS has announced an increase in frequency on flights to Vilnius. The Scandinavian airline will increase frequency between Copenhagen and Vilnius from two to three daily flights. The changes will take effect from May 3. In unrelated news, SAS will also increase frequency on flights from Stockholm. Flights to London Heathrow will now increase to seven times daily, to Paris Charles de Gaulle to 18 weekly flights, Bergen to five weekly, Malmo to 52 weekly and Skelleftea to 21 weekly.

Transavia will launch three new routes from Copenhagen and to from Billund this summer. KLM’s low-cost airline will launch new flights to Venice, Sardinia and Palermo. From Billund the new routes will fly to Antalya in Turkey and Pula in Croatia. The three routes will operate from the end of June to the middle of August.

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KLM has announced an increase in schedule on a number of European flights. Flights from Amsterdam to the following cities will see increases from four to five daily services from March 28: Munich, Stuttgart, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Edinburgh. And flights from Amsterdam to Liverpool will increase from three to four daily operations effective from May 10.

US Airways has announced a new international route from Charlotte. From May 31 the American airline will start operating a daily service to Canadian city Ottawa.

Lufthansa has announced that its Munich to Tehran service has been cancelled. The former thrice weekly international service stopped operating on March 5.

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SAS has officially announced that when travelling across the Atlantic, passengers checking a second piece of luggage will have to pay a fee. In order to match their partners in Star Alliance, SAS will charge 50 dollars from April 1 for the second piece of luggage.

Continental Airlines will later this year launch a new flight to Maui, Hawaii, from Orange County, California. The carrier will be operated four times weekly. Furthermore, Continental will operate an extra daily flight from Maui to Los Angeles.

Jet2.com will launch a new service to Majorca. The low-cost carrier will begin operating the new service from Edinburgh on June 26.

American Airlines will launch three new services during the summer. From June 10, the carrier will begin operate a twice daily Dallas to Augusta and another twice daily Dallas to Fayetteville, NC. From July 2 a daily New York JFK to Austin service will launch.

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