Welcome to my 190th weekly routes article! It includes six mini-stories about subjectively exciting services that took off between October 28 and November 3 . As always, only a selection has been chosen.

United Airlines Begins Koror-Tokyo Flights; 2 Routes Return To Israel

On October 29, United inaugurated service from Koror (Palau) to Tokyo Narita . Palau is well-known for inbound tourism, particularly, of course, related to water . It is not a huge market—around 13,000 passengers in the past year without nonstop flights—but it is pretty high-yielding.

The new route covers 1,728 nautical miles (3,200 km) each way. The Star Alliance member serves it twice-weekly on the 737-800. Japan Airlines operated until early 2020, while Delta did so until 2018.

Elsewhere, on November

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