Route Launch: December 2011 Archives

 Continuing its astonishing growth phase, Turkish Airlines has announced plans to launch flights on 6 new routes. The routes are

 Garuda Indonesia from 27th April 2012 begins service to Tokyo Haneda from Denpasar. Service operates five times weekly on board Airbus A330-300 aircraft. The flight is subject to government approval.

 Vietnam's first privately founded airline - low cost carrier VietJetAir - launches operations from 25th December. The airline will initially fly twice daily on the Ho-Chi-Minh City - Hanoi route, increasing to thrice daily from 10th January 2012. It also plans to launch flights on the Ho-Chi-Minh-City - Da Nang route. The airline founded in 2007, went through many regulatory hurdles, and at one point planned to launch services as VietJet AirAsia - in cooperation with AirAsia - which was later cancelled when AirAsia pulled out.