American has added a new route to Mexico. On Tuesday 10 January the oneworld carrier launched daily service on the 1,430-kilometre route between Phoenix and Monterrey. American is using Embraer E175s on the route, operated by its partner airline Envoy Air. Flight AA3832 departs the Arizona airport at 20:00 local time and arrives in Mexico […]
January 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
San Antonio in Texas is the latest US airport to welcome the bright yellow aircraft of Spirit (IATA code NK). Technically, Spirit has served San Antonio before, way back between April 2008 and March 2009 when it offered a single route to Fort Lauderdale. On Thursday 17 November the ULCC launched its first new routes […]
November 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The Michigan city of Kalamazoo has never had scheduled flights to Florida, until now. Situated around 80 kilometres due south of Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo has always revolved around hub-feeding services. There’s American to Chicago (up to 2-daily) and Delta to Detroit (2-daily), both very short hops away. Avelo to Orlando On 26th October, Avelo lifted […]
November 3, 2022 | Latest Route News +
New Dominican Republic carrier Arajet (IATA code DM) has launched two further routes to destinations in Mexico after launching its first flights to the country on 22 September. The new, Santo Domingo based airline began 3-weekly service to Cancun and 2-weekly service to Monterrey on Friday 30 September. Neither route is served by any other […]
October 4, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Gallup Municipal Airport in New Mexico has welcomed its first scheduled service in over a decade. On 1 August, Advanced Air (IATA code AN) began daily service from Phoenix in Arizona. The 375-kilometre route will be operated by the airline’s 9-seat Beechcraft King Air 350s. One-way fares start from $75. Advanced Air also operates daily […]
August 4, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) now serves Edmonton in Alberta. On 14 July, the new Canadian low-cost carrier began daily service on the 2,700-kilometre route from Toronto YYZ. The route is already well served by Air Canada (52-weekly), WestJet (44-weekly), Swoop (10-weekly) and Flair Airlines (9-weekly). Edmonton becomes the airline’s tenth airport, and this is […]
July 20, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Norse Atlantic Airways (IATA code N0) has launched its third route from Oslo, this time to Orlando MCO in Florida. The new long-haul carrier has already started service to New York JFK (14 June) and Fort Lauderdale (18 June). The 7,440-kilometre route will operate 3-weekly, departing Oslo on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays until 29 October. […]
July 13, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Avelo (IATA code XP) has added Wilmington in North Carolina to its route network. On 30 June it launched 3-weekly service on the 890-kilometre route from its base at Tweed New Haven in Connecticut. The following day it added 3-weekly service on the 555-kilometre route to Baltimore/Washington and the 720-kilometre route to Orlando. None of […]
July 7, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Spirit (IATA code NK) has started serving Salt Lake City in Utah for the first time. On 26 May, the ULCC began daily service from Los Angeles and Orlando MCO, and 2-daily service from Las Vegas. All three routes are already well served by other carriers: Las Vegas: Delta (35-weekly), Southwest (33-weekly), Frontier (4-weekly) Los […]
June 2, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Avelo (IATA code XP), which began flying from Tweed New Haven Regional Airport in Connecticut last November, added three more routes from the airport on 26 May. Between November and January 2022 Avelo had launched six routes from Tweed New Haven to Florida; Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando MCO, Sarasota/Bradenton, Tampa and West Palm Beach. […]
Air Canada launched its first new European route since the start of the pandemic when it began service on Saturday 21 May between Montreal and Milan MXP. The 6,130-kilometre route will be served 5-weekly for the rest of the summer, with Cirium schedule data showing frequency dropping to 4-weekly in November. The Star Alliance carrier […]
June 1, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Air travel demand in the US during the last four weeks was stable at around 90% of the level seen during the same period in 2019. Given that capacity levels appear to also be at around 90%, this suggests that airline load factors are comparable with what they were back in 2019. Air Service One […]
May 31, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America