This April-June, Southwest is the USA’s second-biggest airline – and number one if only domestic is considered. According to Cirium schedules information data, it has 57.8 million total seats available, relegating Delta, with 54.9 million, to third place. Southwest’s Q2 2023 total capacity has increased by 8.7% versus Q2 2019. It is because domestic seats […]
March 16, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Southwest introduced flights between Denver and San Jose SJO, the capital of Costa Rica, on 11 March. The 3,880-kilometre route is maintained weekly, each Saturday, on a seasonal basis until 2 September. The LCC utilises its 175-seat 737 MAX 8 aircraft on the route. It competes against United’s 2-weekly rotation between the two airports. Flight […]
March 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
United became just the second airline to serve Butte in Montana when it began daily service from Denver on 5 January. As can be seen from the pictures, it was a cold and snowy day at Bert Mooney Airport, named after an aviator from the 1930s who was the first to fly mail into Yellowstone […]
January 18, 2022 | Latest Route News +
United Airlines added a new airport to its US route network on 19 December when it began daily flights from three airports to Bishop in central eastern California. The airport, although just two kilometres from Bishop, is promoted as Eastern Sierra Regional Airport. The three routes are from United’s bases at Denver, Los Angeles and […]
January 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Northern Colorado Regional Airport (IATA code FNL) located mid-way between Fort Collins and Loveland, lies around 70 kilometres north of Denver right next to Interstate 25. On Wednesday 6 October it welcomed the return of scheduled flights with the arrival of 2-weekly service by Avelo from Hollywood/Burbank Airport in California. The inaugural service on the […]
October 18, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport (IATA code LWS) in western Idaho, welcomed a new, daily service with United on Tuesday 5 October. The inaugural service on the 1,240-kilometre route (flight number UA 5343 operated by a SkyWest CRJ 200, registration N933EV) departed Denver at 20:03 and touched down in Lewiston one hour and 49 minutes later […]
October 15, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Denver Air Connection (IATA code KG) is a subsidiary of Colorado-based Key Lime Air. It operates a fleet of seven aircraft according to planespotters.net; three 50-seat Embraer ERJ-145s, three 30-seat Dornier Do-328JETs and an Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia. It recently replaced Boutique Air in offering 6-weekly service from Ironwood in North Michigan to both Chicago ORD […]
Latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports are now at around 75%-80% of the level they were back in 2019, with that figure rising to around 85% on national holidays such as Independence Day (4 July) and Labor Day (6 September). However, the biggest […]
September 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Air France added Denver in Colorado to its US network with the launch on Friday 2 July of 3-weekly service from Paris CDG. The inaugural service (flight AF 632 operated by Air France’s Boeing 787-9 registration F-HRBB) departed the French capital at 13:54 and touched down 30 minutes ahead of schedule in Denver, just under […]
July 6, 2021 | Latest Route News +