Astra Airlines will operate seasonal Thessaloniki service to Moscow Vnukovo, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, Voronezh, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Samara and Saratov for the summer 2012 season, an expansion of service over the year-ago period, following the addition of two Airbus A320 aircraft.

Singapore Airlines will operate its 3X-daily Singapore-London Heathrow Boeing 777-300ER service with the Airbus A380 from June 1, increasing seat capacity by 17% a day.

SilkAir will launch 3X-weekly Singapore-Hanoi service June 5.

Yakutia Airlines will launch 2X-weekly Moscow-Komsomolsk-na-Amure Boeing 757-200 service June 4.

Japan Airlines (JL) and JetBlue Airways (B6) reached a codeshare agreement under which JL will  place its code on select B6 New York and Boston flights to 21 US destinations, from April 22.