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Increasing Flight Routes across
Europe and APAC

(November 2022)

International travel is expanding as major airports improve their management of entry processes and countries more broadly open their doors to business travel. The major airline carriers are responding by reinstating both transatlantic and transpacific routes while offering new and improved classes of service in hopes to lure the business class traveler.

Transatlantic Routes

In October, over 50 new routes and air services started around the world. Most notably for business travelers are the following:

Transpacific Routes

Airlines servicing APAC are carefully balancing the increase of flights to meet the demand, ensuring they avoid repeating operational issues as was seen in North America and Europe.

Delta continues on a more conservative approach by adding nine new routes and two new destinations including Geneva, and London Gatwick which feature modified Delta One Suites and Premium Select recliners. Additional routes throughout Europe will include Berlin, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh and Stuttgart to enhance its current 32 European destinations.

Delta is increasing their current daily nonstop service between Seattle Tacoma and Seoul-Incheon International Airport with additional flights three-times per week. This along with Delta’s joint venture with Korean Air brings a total frequency to 15 flights per week.

United recently became the largest transatlantic airline in the world, as it now serves 25% more destinations across the Atlantic Ocean than American and Delta combined. Most recent additions for business travelers include increased service between Chicago to Zurich and Milan, as well as Denver to Munich and Boston to London.

Through its new partnership with Virgin Australia, United has introduced Brisbane via San Francisco and expanded its service to Queensland City to three times per week.

American has put its sights on 2023 for transatlantic flights largely due to eliminating the Airbus a330 and Boeing 767 aircrafts that serviced the region. Going forward, AA will supplement their New York JFK routes to offer daily service to 11 destinations from its primary connecting hub of Philadelphia.

American Airlines has opened a new transpacific route commencing October 29 with daily departures between Dallas-Fort Worth and Auckland. The airline last serviced New Zealand via Los Angeles in March of 2020.

Singapore Airlines announced the addition of flights across Asia, specifically between Singapore and Japan, and South Korea and Taiwan due to the relaxing of border restrictions. Given its namesake, Singapore Airlines remains the premier carrier for nonstop flights for what is the longest flight in the world; New York to Singapore. Singapore offers two choices of departure city for New York: JFK and Newark. Although the length of the flight is only 2 miles less, the biggest difference is the departure time and the ability to adjust to the 19 hour flight. The Newark option departs at 10:30 a.m. and lands at around 5 pm, allowing for an easier transition to the time change; the JFK flight departs at 10:30 pm, arriving Singapore at 5:30 am.

While all carriers are planning for the opening of China to further increase their routes, flights remain consistent from the US to Beijing and Shanghai from major cities including New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

by Ken Brown