This December, Delta’s weekly seat capacity across its global network is set to be down 10% compared with the same month in 2019. Interestingly, the number of flights is down 17%, while ASKs (Available Seat Kilometres) are down by just 6%. What this means is that according to analysis of Cirium schedules data, the average […]
November 29, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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 +
In 2019, Boston ranked as the fourth biggest US travel destination from London based on scheduled, non-stop seat capacity, as collated by Cirium. It was only beaten by New York JFK, Los Angeles and Chicago ORD. However, if measured by ASKs (Available Seat Kilometres), Boston falls to sixth behind San Francisco and Miami. At around […]
August 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Last Thursday it was announced that JetBlue and Spirit had agreed a merger under which JetBlue will acquire Spirit to create an airline with over 450 aircraft. Cirium schedule data for August 2022 shows that JetBlue is the sixth biggest airline operating from US airports, with Spirit just behind in seventh. As it stands, combining […]
August 2, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
For Delta, Boston Logan Airport is its ninth busiest, with just under 1,000 departures per week in July. This generates over 120,000 weekly departing seats. Atlanta remains the airline’s busiest airport with three times as many departing seats as its next biggest airport, Minneapolis/St. Paul. However, New York would rank second if the capacity of […]
July 20, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Delta Air Lines now connects Boston and Athens, the first airline to do so in over 20 years. The SkyTeam carrier began service on 27 May with a 3-weekly service on the 7,650-kilometre route. Olympic Airways last flew between these two airports in 1994. Delta’s flights depart the US east coast airport on Wednesdays, Fridays and […]
June 7, 2022 | Latest Route News +
PLAY (IATA code OG) has followed the launch of its first US service from Reykjavik KEF (to Baltimore/Washington, launched on 20 April) with its second US service, this time to Boston in the state of Massachusetts. The first flight (OG 111) was on Wednesday 11 May. The 3,880-kilometre route will operate daily until the end […]
May 18, 2022 | Latest Route News +
In a double celebration, JetBlue launched its first ever flights to both Kansas City and Milwaukee on Sunday 27 March. Both airports will now be served daily from Boston and New York JFK, the airline’s two busiest airports. JetBlue will use A220-300s on all four routes and faces no direct competition on either of the […]
March 30, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
JetBlue Airways launched its first ever flights to San Antonio in Texas on Sunday 31 October when it began daily service from New York JFK and 4-weekly service from Boston. The 2,550-kilometre link from JFK will be flown using the airline’s A320 fleet while the 2,840-kilometre service from Boston will be operated by the airline’s […]
November 2, 2021 | Latest Route News +