Departing seat capacity across all airports in North America (Canada, Mexico and the US) is expected to grow by just over 10% in the second quarter of this year. Some 900 airports in the region will see departing seat capacity rise from 315.2 million in April to June 2022 to 348.3 million during the same […]
March 23, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America
Air Service One recently estimated that airlines started around 1,850 new routes across Europe (excluding Russia) in 2022. Analysis of Cirium schedules data suggests that airlines have already revealed plans for at least 500 more new routes starting in 2023. However, with airlines announcing additional new routes almost every day at the moment, that number […]
December 23, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, Top Story
Cincinnati has the biggest metro population of any Ohio city. While the city is in Ohio, the airport serving it is in Kentucky. Hence the official name of the facility is Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. According to the airport’s own statistics, Cincinnati ended September (the most recent month with available data) with 664,000 total passengers. […]
December 7, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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
With demand currently at around 90% of what it was during the same period three years ago, it is not surprising that there are many US domestic routes that were operating in August 2019 that are not operating this August. What is maybe more surprising is how many US domestic routes that were operating last […]
July 29, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, 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 has begun daily service on the 1,200-kilometre route between New York JFK and Milwaukee. The inaugural flight from New York was on the evening of Wednesday 15 June, while the first flight from Milwaukee was early the following morning on Thursday 16 June. The service is flown using CRJ700s operated on Delta’s behalf by […]
June 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Since the start of the pandemic, domestic air travel in many countries has recovered more quickly than international air travel, as many countries put in place severe travel restrictions aimed at reducing the number of imported cases of Covid. Countries with large domestic markets (such as the US, Turkey and Mexico), or where domestic air […]
June 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
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 +
Among the three global US carriers, Delta had been the leading airline for most US-Europe routes before the pandemic struck. In 2019, the Atlanta-based carrier had offered 69 routes in the market, ahead of United (62) and American (58). Although non-essential travel between Europe and the US was basically banned for much of 2020 and […]
April 29, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, North America, Top Story
Appleton International Airport (IATA code ATW – which must make it a favourite with our colleagues at Air Transport World) is Wisconsin’s third busiest airport after Milwaukee and Madison. Located around 160 kilometres north of Milwaukee, Appleton lies on the Fox River which is connected to nearby Lake Winnebago. The airport is just 40 kilometres […]
March 18, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Portland International Jetport (IATA code PWM) in Maine on the US east coast is not to be confused with Portland International Airport (IATA code PDX) in Oregon on the US west coast. The airport lies just three kilometres west of downtown Portland. Maine is the easternmost state in the US and PWM is the state’s […]
July 21, 2021 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America