Spanair (Barcelona El Prat) has started codesharing on the daily Aer Lingus (EI/Dublin) service between Madrid and Washington Dulles. It has also entered into a closer cooperation with Singapore Airlines (SQ/Singapore Changi) with the latter now operating a three times weekly Singapore Changi-Barcelona-Sao Paulo Guarulhos route via Spanair’s hub in addition to four weekly Singapore Changi-Milan Malpensa-Barcelona services. Spanair has received another 10 million EUR investment from the local government of Catalonia and has launched more routes from Barcelona: Barcelona-Bamako: 2x weekly A320-200 service has started on December 18 Barcelona-Bari: weekly seasonal A320-200 service between June 7 and September 20 Barcelona-Berlin Tegel: 4x weekly A320-200/A321-200 service has started on April 5 Barcelona-Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel: 3x weekly A320-200 service has started on April 4 Spanair has given up its routes from Barcelona to Edinburgh and from Madrid to Belgrade and Edinburgh. It now also codeshares with Aegean Airlines (A3/Athens), Blue 1 (KF/Helsinki) and TAM Linhas Aéreas (JJ/Sao Paulo Congonhas) on Spain-Brazil/Finland/Greece services and several other connections. In other news, it is planning to lease some additional A320-200s to replace its remaining MD-82, MD-83s and MD-87s by early 2012 after having recently retired its B717-200 fleet.