February
25
Low-cost carrier SkyBus inaugurated
2x daily flights between Greenboro, NC (GSO)
and SWF which will be operated
by Airbus A319 aircraft. Greensboro will be the second destination
for SkyBus from SWF.
February
15
 Delta
Air Lines inaugurated nonstop flights from JFK
to San Jose, Costa Rica (SJO) with
Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
February 14
AirTran Airways inaugurated flights
from LGA to Tampa (TPA)
and Daytona Beach (DAB) with Boeing
717-200. Both flights are seasonal and will end on May 5th.
February 8
EL AL switched terminals at
JFK from Terminal 4 to Terminal 8 to
strengthen new code-share agreements with American
Airlines.
February
5
 Air
India inaugurated
nonstop flights between Delhi (DEL)
and JFK. Flights run daily with an
ETA at JFK of 5:45am and a ETD of 4:00pm.
Flights operat onBoeing 777-200LR aircraft.
February
4
Air India downgraded AI111/112 which operates BOM/DEL-LHR-JFK to
a Boeing 777-200/300ER from the Boeing 747-400.
January 17
 JetBlue
Airways inaugurated nonstop daily flights from JFK
to St.Marteen(SXM) in the Netherlands
Antilles. Flights are operated by Airbus A320 aircraft and will
use Terminal 4 at JFK for its US Customs
facilities.
January 10
JetBlue Airways inaugurated nonstop
daily flights from JFK to Puerto Plata
(POP) in the Dominican Republic. Flights
will be operated by Airbus A320 aircraft and use Terminal 4 at JFK.
January 7
 American
Trans Air (ATA) discontinued all flights
to LGA. ATA
operated Boeing 737-300 and 737-800 aircraft to Chicago-Midway (MDW)
and select charter destinations.
January
6
 Low-cost
carrier SkyBus inaugurated 2x daily
flights between CMH and SWF
which will be operated by Airbus A319 aircraft. SkyBus
is the third low-cost carrier to announce flights to SWF in the
past year.
JetBlue ended flights to Nashville
and Columbus, OH.
December
24
 MAXjet
Airways announced Chapter 11 Bankruptcy and immediate ceasing
of all operations immediately and returning their aircraft to the
lessors.
December 20
Delta Airlines began
flights to Port of Spain, Trinidad from JFK.
December
14
Delta Airlines began flights from JFK
to Guatemala City, Guatemala.
December
13
Delta Airlines will begin flights to
Panama City, Panama.
American Eagle inaugurated daily flights from LGA
to Montreal (YUL) and Memphis (MEM)
operated by Embraer-135 aircraft.
December 4
 EVA
Air of Taiwan launched direct flights
from Taipei (TPE) to Newark (EWR).
On the return leg flights have a stop in Anchorage(ANC).
Flights are operated by a Boeing 777-300ER and run on Monday, Thursday,
and Friday. The ETA to Newark is 8:10pm and the ETD from Newark
is 9:35pm. Eva Air formerly ran a 3x weekly 747-400 service via
Seattle(SEA).
November 17
Malev suspended daily flights between
Budapest (BUD) and JFK
for the Winter season due to contracted leases for their Boeing
767 fleet. Malev will return to
JFK on March 31, 2008.
November 15
Cathay
Pacific added a third JFK-HKG
flight using a 777-300ER, and switch one of their existing two flights
to the same aircraft type.
November 10
The annual La Guardia Airline Collectible
Show & Sale took place at the Marriot Courtyard from
9am-4pm.
November 7
AirTran
Airways
added an additional flight from SWF
(Newburgh) to PBI (West Palm Beach,
FL) for seasonal purposes using a 717-200.
November 5
American
Eagle
ended 5xweekly flights to Bangor (BGR)
from LGA. Flights did not run on Friday
and Saturday and were operated by Embraer-135 aircraft.
November 4
 American
Eagle inaugurated 6xweekly flights to Flint (FNT)
from LGA. Flights will not run on Saturday
and areoperated by Embraer-135 aircraft.
Northwest
Airlink inaugurated
a daily flight to Des Moines (DSM),
6xweekly flights to Flint (FNT) which
will not run on Saturday, and 6xweekly flights to Madison (MSN)
which will also not run on Saturday. All flights are operated by
Canadair CRJ-200 aircraft and originate from LGA.
October 28
American
Airlines
began flying to London's Stansted Airport from JFK,
and plans to add a second daily flight in the Spring of 2008. The
flight will use a 767-300 with 221 seats, including
30 "Next Generation Business Class" seats.
 Jet
Airways began flights to JFK
from New Dehli (DEL), with a stop in
Brussels (BRU) using a 777-300 aircraft.
Lufthansa began flights from Frankfurt,
Germany to JFK on a 737 with 44 seats
in business class configuration.
Pakistan International Airlines reduced
frequency on their flights from Islamabad to New York JFK
via Manchester (MAN) to 2xweekly. Currently,
Pakistan is running a 4xweekly frequency.
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March
10
 Delta
Air Lines
will inaugurate nonstop flights from JFK
to Tel Aviv, Israel (TLV) with Boeing
767-300ER aircraft.
March
28
Emirates will be dropping their daily
DXB-HAM-JFK
sector operated by Airbus A340-500 aircraft. However, they
will still keep DXB-HAM,
which will be downgraded to Boeing 777-200 aircraft. The flight
is being dropped in order to add the A380 to one of their current
2x daily nonstop flights to DXB.
March 29
Delta will be inaugurating 2x daily
flights between JFK and London-Heathrow
(LHR) with Boeing 767-300 aircraft.
Delta will also retain 1x daily flights to London-Gatwick (GTW)
from JFK operated by Boeing 767-300
aircraft.
 KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines will upgrade their daytime flight from
Amsterdam (AMS) to JFK
to Boeing 747-400 aircraft. Currently KL641/642 is operated by a
MD-11.
Continental Airlines is the next US
airline that will be venturing into the busy Heathrow atmosphere
with daily flights to LHR from EWR
operated with Boeing 777-200 aircraft. Continental will keep their
frequencies between EWR and London-Gatwick
(GTW) but will downgrade the aircraft
on the route.
March 30
Delta will bring their first 777-200LR
into JFK from ATL
to begin operating their JFK-BOM
flights.
March 31
 Delta
will switch to the 757-200 on the JFK-ATL
flight that used the 777-200.
Porter Airlines, based in Toronto, will
be inaugurating their first scheduled flights to the US from their
hub at Toronto City Airport (YTZ) to
Newark (EWR) with Dash 8-Q400 aircraft.
April
 Alitalia
will be discontinuing flights between Milan (MXP)
and EWR due to a scaling down of the
airlines Milan hub. Flights will continue to operate to EWR
from Rome (FCO). JFK
will however retain both Milan (MXP)
and Rome (FCO) flights using 767-300s.
KLM will utilize their 777-300ERs on
KL641/642 from JFK-AMS
on Tuesday, arriving at 1520 and departing at 1830.
April
1
 American
Airlines
will inaugurate nonstop flights from JFK to Milan, Italy (MXP)
using Boeing 767-300 aircraft.
Israir
will reinstate nonstop flights between Tel Aviv (TLV)
and JFK with their new Airbus A330-200.
Flights were suspended in January due to a lack of available aircraft.
April 5
Delta
plans to
begin daily round-trip flights to Bermuda (BDA)
from LGA on a 737-800.
April
6
Qatar
Airways
will upgrade their Doha (DOH) - Geneva
(GVA) - Newark (EWR)
flight to 6xweekly and will send an Airbus A330-300 on Sundays.
Currently the flight operates 4xweekly with Airbus A330-200 aircraft.
April
7
American
Airlines
continues to add domestic frequencies from JFK
and will be inaugurating flights to Tampa (TPA)
with MD-83 and Boeing 757-200 aircraft.
April
8
 American
Airlines will discontinue their 2x daily LGA-TPA
route, adding
the flights to the LGA-MIA,
making that route 11 times a day. They will also suspend LGA-FLL
flights for the summer, shifting it to a third LGA-MCO
flight. In addition, JFK-TPA
will be added to link with European departures using a Super 80.
April
22
KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines
will upgrade KL641/642 to a Boeing 777-300ER on Tuesdays to fill
a schedule gap.
April
24
American
Airlines
will inaugurate nonstop flights from JFK
to Barcelona (BCN) with Boeing 767-300
aircraft.
May
1
 Lufthansa
will be replacing current A319 service, operated in an all business
class layout, between Düsseldorf (DUS)
and EWR with daily A340-300 flights.
Delta Air Lines will inaugurate nonstop
flights from JFK to Edinburgh, United
Kingdom (EDI) with Boeing 757-200ER
aircraft.
May
3
 Continental
Airlines
will be adding a second daily flight between EWR and Barcelona (BCN)
for the upcoming summer season. Flights will run from May to October
and will be operated with a Boeing 757-200 aircraft. Continental
currently has 1 daily flight between the two cities operated by
Boeing 757-200 aircraft. Continental upgraded flights between EWR
and Madrid (MAD) last summer to 2 daily
flights and will do so again this summer season.
May 5
 The
all business class airline Eos Airlines
will be inaugurating flights between EWR
and London-Stansted with 48 seat configured Boeing 757-200 aircraft.
Eos currently flies between JFK and
London-Stansted (STN).
May
6
AirTran Airways
will begin flying LGA-MKE
using both their 737-700s and 717-200s. This new route goes head-to-head
with Midwest, who also operates the
717 to MKE.
May
19
 North
American Airlines will ended all scheduled service in order
to concentrate on charter operations. Their schedule route strucutred
included flying between JFK and Georgetown,
Guyana (GEO), and connecting BWI through
JFK to Accra, Ghana (ACC)
and Lagos, Nigeria (LOS).
June 2
 Delta
will be inaugurating 4x weekly flights between JFK
and Paris-Orly operated by Boeing 757-200 aircraft.
Delta Air Lines will
inaugurate nonstop flights from JFK
to Dakar, Senegal (DKR) with Boeing
767-300ER aircraft.
June
3
Delta
Air Lines
will inaugurate one stop flights from JFK
to Cape Town, South Africa (CPT)
with Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. The flight stops briefly in Dakar,
Senegal.
June
4
Delta
Air Lines
will inaugurate nonstop flights from JFK
to Cairo, Egypt (CAI) with Boeing 767-300ER
aircraft.
June
5
Delta
Air Lines
will inaugurate nonstop flights from JFK
to Houston (IAH) and Minneapolis (MSP)
with CRJ aircraft.
KLM will be deploying their new Boeing
777-300ER to JFK from Amsterdam (AMS)
on KL641/642 on Thursdays and Saturdays in addition to Tuesdays.
July
 China
Eastern will is to begin PEK-EWR
service 7 times a week with 777-200 aircraft. (Source)
July 15
Delta will be inaugurating 1x daily flights
between JFK and Lyon(LYS)
which will be operated by Boeing 757-200 aircraft.
October 1
 Middle
Eastern carrier Emirates Airlines will
be the first airline to bring the new "Queen of the Skies"
to JFK. Starting on October 1st from
Dubai (DXB). Emirates will be launching
the A380 on EK201/202 with an ETA of 2:15pm and a ETD of 11:30pm.
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