Breeze began operating out of Cincinnati on 8 February by inaugurating flights to Charleston in South Carolina and San Francisco in California. Both routes are being maintained 2-weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, with the A220-300 aircraft. Breeze competes directly against Allegiant on the 800-kilometre service to Charleston, while it is the sole operator on the […]
February 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Avelo has opened a base in Wilmington (IATA code ILG) in the state of Delaware with the introduction of several routes to Florida during the first week of February. Five new destinations have been added by the ULCC. 1 February: Orlando MCO, 3-weekly on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays 2 February: Tampa, 2-weekly on Thursdays and Sundays 2 February: Fort […]
February 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Frontier has expanded its presence at Phoenix PHX with the introduction of several new routes during the first week of January. Five new destinations have been added by the ULCC. All of them are already well-served by other carriers (weekly frequency in January shown in brackets): 5 January: Kansas City (2) versus Southwest (28) and […]
January 11, 2023 | Latest Route News +
ZIPAIR (IATA code ZG), a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Airlines, has added a third US destination from its home base at Tokyo NRT. On Monday 12 December the carrier began 3-weekly service (increasing to 5-weekly in January) on the 8,300-kilometre route to San José SJC in California. It will operate 290-seat 787-8s on the […]
December 20, 2022 | Latest Route News +
JetBlue has launched its fourth transatlantic route on Tuesday 20 September with the introduction of daily flights between Boston and London LHR. Flight B6 1620 will depart Boston at 18:17 each evening, arriving in London at 06:30 local time the following morning. The return flight (B6 1621) departs Heathrow at 08:25 and arrives back at […]
September 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Ahead of next month’s ACI-NA JumpStart® Conference taking place in Reno (Nevada), Air Service One spoke with Kevin Burke, President and CEO ACI-NA, about the event and how it is positioned as a key air service development opportunity for airports and airlines in the North American region. In your opinion what are the main challenges […]
May 9, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Analysis of US TSA data for the last seven days shows another small uptick in the rate of air travel recovery. Having started last week in the high 70s, the recovery percentage (comparing average weekly demand in 2022 with the same period in 2019) finished the week in the low 80s, a figure not seen […]
February 15, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The recent announcement that America’s two biggest ULCCs, Frontier and Spirit, plan to merge came as something of a surprise to many in the industry. However, with similar business models and significant fleet commonality it makes a lot of sense. The combined entity would become the fifth biggest carrier in the US behind the big […]
February 11, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Allegiant surprised many industry observers last week by announcing an order with Boeing for brand new aircraft. It will purchase 50 737 MAX aircraft (a mix of 737-7s and 737-8-200s) and has an option to purchase 50 more. This marks an evolution of the airline’s fleet policy which has previously been based around using older, […]
January 11, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story