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Delta Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic Airways have announced that their transatlantic joint-venture partnership will add six new transatlantic services between the U.S. and the UK for the summer 2015 season.

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The airline is the first European carrier to take delivery of a Boeing 787-9 and plans to operate the aircraft initially on its London Heathrow-Boston route.

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Guernsey-based regional carrier Aurigny Air Services will use the Embraer 195, its first jet airliner, to add capacity on its flagship route linking the island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands with London Gatwick Airport.

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Berlin-based Germania is expanding its flight network from London Gatwick for its 2013-2014 winter schedule from November by operating twice-weekly services to Erfurt-Weimar Airport in central Germany.

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The aircraft, the first of eight Boeing 787-8 widebodies Thomson Airways has on order, is the first Dreamliner to be delivered to a UK airline.

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The airline is operating its three-times-weekly service between London Gatwick Airport and Las Vegas with three-class Boeing 777-200ER widebodies featuring Club World (business class), World Traveller Plus (premium economy) and World Traveller (economy class) cabins.

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British Airways is launching three-times-weekly service from London Gatwick Airport to Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo, via the Maldives, on March 31. BA is also doubling its service between London Heathrow Airport and Dublin Airport from four round-trips a day to eight, from October 28.

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Aer Lingus is to move its Belfast operations to the near-downtown George Best Belfast City Airport in late October after a five-year presence at Belfast International Airport, which is more than 30 miles outside Northern Ireland’s capital and largest city.

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British Airways has unveiled a raft of new domestic and international flights for its winter 2012 schedule, which begins on October 28. UK regions will see more BA services as a result of parent company International Airlines Group’s purchase of BMI earlier this year.

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This summer US Airways is offering daily, seasonal service to Barcelona, Athens, Glasgow, Venice and Lisbon from its hub at Philadelphia. The carrier will also add daily, seasonal service from US Airways’ hub at Charlotte Douglas International Airport to Dublin, Madrid and Rome.

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Monarch Airlines will expand its existing network of scheduled destinations, with 10 of the new routes providing easy access to some of Europe’s best winter ski resorts via Grenoble airport in France and Friedrichshafen and Munich airports in Germany.

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Flights to Dubrovnik, known as ‘The Pearl of the Adriatic’, operate three times a week from London Gatwick Airport and twice a week from Birmingham Airport. Flights to Heraklion operate twice a week from both London Gatwick and Birmingham airports.

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Boeing will bring its 787-8 demonstrator to seven cities in the U.K., Norway, Italy and the U.S. on the sixth leg of the Boeing 787 Dream Tour of the world later this month and in May.

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New for the winter schedule, as a continuation of Monarch Airlines’ 2012 summer program, are the Italian destinations of Venice, Verona, Milan and Rome. The airline will now operate year-round services to the four Italian cities.

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As part of its new winter schedule, Aer Lingus will now provide six flights every day between Dublin and London Gatwick, an increase from the four flights per day that the airline had offered on the route last winter.

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British Airways is continuing to grow its schedule from London Gatwick Airport by increasing the frequency of its flights to Tampa in Florida from five times weekly to a daily service.

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Sun Country Airlines will operate twice-weekly summer seasonal service between Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport and London Gatwick Airport from May 27, with Boeing 737-800s routing via a fuel stop in Gander.

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British Airways is to launch service to the Moroccan city of Marrakech from London Gatwick Airport on March 27, in direct competition with low-cost carriers.

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British Airways is increasing the number of flights it operates to the Caribbean from the start of its summer 2011 schedule on March 27, in response to the success of its long-haul leisure routes from London Gatwick Airport.

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