Routes

Royal Jordanian Airlines will start twice-weekly services on 2 June from Amman to Khartoum in Sudan. The new route follows the launch in early May of an Aeroflot codeshare to Moscow. BWIA West Indies Airways will start flying twice a week from its hub in Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Manchester via Barbados on 26 July. The service will initially be flown by a Lockheed L1011-500 and later by Airbus A340-300s due to be delivered this year. LanChile has agreed to codeshare with Qantas on the thrice-weekly service between Santiago and Sydney via Auckland. Starting 1 July, the service will be operated by LanChile A340s. Pan American Airways will begin daily Boeing 727-200 flights from Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, on 30 May. After a three-year hiatus, Varig will reinstate three-weekly flights between Rio de Janeiro and New York Kennedy on4 July, using a Boeing 767-300. Dublin-based Aer Arann Express is launching a twice-daily service from Cork to Birmingham on 3 June, and a daily service from Cork to Southampton on 1 July, using two newly acquired ATR 72s. Delta Air Lines has started codesharing with SkyTeam partner Korean Air three times weekly from its Atlanta hub to Seoul. This adds to codeshares begun earlier this month from Anchorage, Chicago, Honolulu, New York Kennedy, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington Dulles to Seoul, and from Los Angeles to Narita. JAT Yugoslav Airlines is scheduled to reintroduce flights from Belgrade to Pristina in June. JAT is planning to serve Pristina three-times weekly from Belgrade and three-times weekly from Tivat. Helios Airways is due to start a five-times weekly service on1 November to Larnaca and once a week to Paphos from London Luton. The Boeing737-800 services are scheduled to become daily from summer 2003.

Source: Flight International