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
Canada’s third-largest carrier by seats, Flair Airlines’ first scheduled flight took off in September 2017. In 1H 2023, Flair has just about three million seats, according to Cirium schedules information data. It uses 27 Boeing 737s, 24 of which are MAX 8s. Some 2.3 million (77%) of its capacity is deployed domestically. Despite the entry […]
January 26, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Located just 100 kilometres from the border with Mexico, Tucson is the second biggest city in Arizona (after Phoenix) with a population of over 500,000. The airport serving the city is located around 13 kilometres south of the city centre and is a joint civil-military facility. Between 2009 and 2019 annual passenger numbers had been […]
December 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The number of airline seats available on US-Canada routes is still down 20% in August (compared with 2019) according to analysis of Cirium schedule data. The number of weekly flights is down 28%. Air Canada remains the dominant carrier in the market accounting for almost 47% of seats. WestJet, American and United each have between […]
July 29, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Flair (IATA code F8) had added Windsor International Airport (IATA code YQG – which the airport brands as meaning ‘Your Quick Gateway’) in southwestern Ontario to its network. On Thursday 7 July it began 2-weekly service (Thursdays and Sundays) on the 820-kilometre route from Montreal. Two days later, on Saturday 9 July, it added 2-weekly […]
July 14, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The recovery in air travel demand in the US appears to have stabilised during the last month at around 90%, with some brief fluctuations around the 4 July annual celebrations. Air Service One has identified and confirmed 64 new routes that launched in North America during the last four weeks. This included several new long-haul […]
July 12, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Vancouver Island lies, not surprisingly, to the west of Vancouver on Canada’s Pacific coast. It is home to around 865,000 people, with just under half of those living in the capital, Victoria. The island has a number of water-based airports enabling seaplanes to operate between the island and Vancouver, but there are also a number […]
April 22, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Flair has recently launched a number of new international routes between Canada and the US. This includes a 2-weekly (Thursdays and Sundays) service on the 590-kilometre connection between Toronto YYZ and New York JFK, which began on Thursday 7 April. Maybe surprisingly, Flair is the only airline linking these two airports in April. Prior to […]
April 19, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Abbotsford International Airport (IATA code YXX) is located in the Fraser Valley, around 65 kilometres east of Vancouver and very close to the Canada/US border. With a population of just under 150,000, Abbotsford is the largest city in the province of dBritish Columbia outside of the Vancouver metropolitan area. The airport lies just outside of […]
February 2, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for January 2022 and pre-pandemic January 2020 reveals that several airlines are now offering more seats from US airports than they did two years. The top six airlines for additional seats are two established ULCCs (Allegiant and Spirit), two new airlines (Avelo and Breeze) and two Mexican carriers (vivaaerobus and […]
January 17, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America
The latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports have stabilised at just under 85% of the level they were back in 2019. Compared with this time last year, passenger numbers are virtually doubled at around two million per day. Airlines launch 196 new routes […]
December 20, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, Top Story
Passenger demand in Canada, which saw a significant recovery in August, appears to have stalled in September. During last month passenger numbers through the country’s eight busiest airports were consistently between 40% and 45% of the figures from 2019, when adjusted on a rolling week basis. Capacity at 58% of 2019 levels in October Analysis […]
October 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America