Earlier this month, on 3 December, Australian flag-carrier Qantas began 3-weekly service on the 14,440-kilometre route between Melbourne and Dallas/Fort Worth. This brought to 17 the number of non-stop airline services between the US and Australia. Back at the end of October, United had introduced 3-weekly service between San Francisco and Brisbane. Between 2004 and […]
December 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
American Airlines returned to New Zealand at the end of October with a new, daily service between its main base at Dallas/Fort Worth and Auckland. The 11,970-kilomete route will be served using the oneworld carrier’s 787-9s. Prior to the pandemic American served Auckland non-stop from Los Angeles. This is the second new route to have […]
November 9, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Finnair has added the first of two new US destinations that it plans to start serving this year. On Sunday 27 March the oneworld carrier began 4-weekly service between Helsinki and Dallas/Fort Worth in Texas, a major hub for fellow oneworld member American Airlines. The 8,410-kilometre route will be flown on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and […]
March 30, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Analysis of Cirium data for scheduled air services from US airports in February 2022 (and pre-pandemic February 2020) shows that while the number of weekly departures from US airports is still down 13% compared with two years ago, seat capacity is down only 6%. Most impressively, the number of non-stop routes on offer from over […]
February 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
On 24 September, Turkish Airlines commenced service between its Istanbul IST hub and Dallas/Fort Worth in Texas, the airline’s 11th non-stop route to the US. The inaugural service (flight number TK 191 operated by a Boeing 787-9, registration TC-LLA) departed Istanbul at 14:59 and touched down at DFW 12 hours and 37 minutes later at […]
September 29, 2021 | Latest Route News +