Flight 52
December 11, 2025
Fort Worth, Texas 

What’s Inside:   Flightline returns with our 52nd issue, featuring nearly 3,500 words covering our usual topics and more, including:

  • New global routes from Oman Air, Alaska, Jetstar, Wizz Air and more
  • American expands at Chicago O’Hare while CBP plans stricter screening
  • Ryanair cuts Belgian service as regional aviation taxes climb
  • Boeing delivery results, Spirit AeroSystems purchase and Pan Am revival progress
  • Latest aircraft deliveries, retirements and airline employment trends

New and Proposed Routes 🆕

Oman Air (WY) will add 2x weekly flights from Muscat (MCT) to Copenhagen (CPH), via Baghdad (BGW) on December 16. This route will be operated by Boeing 737-800 equipment.

Alaska Airlines (AS) has now scheduled its new route from Seattle (SEA) to London Heathrow (LHR). Daily Boeing 787-9 flights will commence on May 21.

Jetstar (JQ) will begin 3x weekly service on the Melbourne (MEL) to Colombo, Sri Lanka (CMB) route on August 26. A Boeing 787-8 will handle the workload.

Wizz Air (W6) is adding nine new routes from Târgu Mureş, Romania (TGM) at the end of March:

  • Brussels Charleroi (CRL), 2x weekly

  • Larnaca, Cyprus (LCA), 2x weekly

  • Dortmund, Germany (DTM), 2x weekly

  • Memmingen, Germany (FMM), 3x weekly

  • Paris Beauvais (BVA), 2x weekly

  • Basel, Switzerland (BSL), 2x weekly

  • Rome Fiumicino (FCO), 2x weekly

  • Milan Bergamo (BGY), 3x weekly

  • London Luton (LTN), 3x weekly

After a nine-year pause, Cebu Pacific (5J) will resume flights from Manila (MNL) to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (RUH). 4x weekly Airbus A330-900 flights will begin on March 1.

Volotea (V7) plans three new routes from Toulouse (TLS) in early November 2026 including weekly flights to Gran Canaria (LPA) and Fuerteventura (FUE) in Spain plus twice weekly service to Pisa (PSA) in Italy.

LOT Polish Airlines (LO) will add new service from Gdańsk (GDN) at the end of April with three weekly flights to Bergen (BGO) four weekly to Brussels (BRU) and five weekly to Oslo (OSL).

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