New routes: Aer Lingus, SWISS, Air France-KLM, Air China, Turkish

Aer Lingus’ new A330 business class. (Image: Chris McGinnis)

Aer Lingus has added new service from Dublin to Washington Dulles, while KLM and  Air France, joint venture partners with Delta, have laid on seasonal summer service from Dallas/Ft. Worth and Minneapolis/St. Paul respectively. Meanwhile, Air China added more frequencies between Los Angeles and Beijing.

• Aer Lingus last week kicked off a new route linking Dublin with Washington Dulles, operating four times a week with an A330-200. The carrier’s summer schedule also includes an increase in Dublin-San Francisco service to daily from five times a week; the addition of  a third daily Dublin-New York flight from June through August; and a boost in Dublin-Orlando frequencies from three to four a week starting this month. (See Chris’s recent report on Aer Lingus’ new business class service.)

• Air France-KLM this week added a pair of summer routes. From now through September 27, Air France will offer up to seven flights a week between Minneapolis-St. Paul and Paris CDG with an A340-300 (partner Delta also has daily service on the route). And from May 8 to October 24, KLM will operate up to five flights a week between DFW and Amsterdam with an A330-200.

• SWISS is doubling its daily frequencies between San Francisco and Zurich this summer– and there’s a chance you could win a vacation for two to Switzerland.

• Air China has boosted LAX-Beijing service from twice-daily to 18 flights a week with the addition of a third flight on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, using a 777-300ER.

• Turkish Airlines will re-launch flights between Istanbul and Miami on October 25, 2015 with one of its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

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