Welcome to my 193rd weekly routes article! It includes six mini-stories about subjectively exciting services that took off between November 25 and December 1 . As always, only a selection of additions has been chosen .

Air France Begins 2nd Route To Thailand

Phuket is an enormously popular market for Europeans. According to booking data, more than 2.5 million people flew to/from the Thai beach resort destination in the 12 months to September.

A whopping 94% of the Western European traffic flew via a hub en route, especially Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, Bangkok, Singapore, Istanbul, and Delhi. It was, of course, a hugely underserved market by nonstop flights, but that's because it is a long way and low-yielding.

With around 197,000 round-trip passengers, Paris was the second-larges

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