Nearly two years after Avelo’s first revenue-generating flight (on 28 April 2021 from Burbank to Santa Rosa), the carrier (IATA code XP) is the USA’s 13th largest domestic airline. With a fleet of 15 737-700s and -800s, all between 10 and 20 years old (according to planespotters.net), it has 620,000 one-way summer domestic seats planned […]
March 8, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Breeze (IATA code MX) has added another airport in Florida to its network. On 2 February the airline began serving Vero Beach (IATA code VRB) from Hartford in Connecticut using its A220-300s. The 1,730-kilometre route will be flown between 3- and 5-weekly between now and the middle of May, before settling down into a 2-weekly […]
February 8, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Avelo has opened a base in Wilmington (IATA code ILG) in the state of Delaware with the introduction of several routes to Florida during the first week of February. Five new destinations have been added by the ULCC. 1 February: Orlando MCO, 3-weekly on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays 2 February: Tampa, 2-weekly on Thursdays and Sundays 2 February: Fort […]
February 6, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) has launched its first international service. The Canadian ULCC began 4-weekly service between Toronto YYZ and Orlando MCO on Friday 27 January. Its other days of operation on the 1,700-kilometre route are Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays. The inaugural flight was operated by one of the airline’s 189-seat 737 MAX 8s […]
January 31, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Avelo now connects Dayton in Ohio with Orlando MCO in Florida. The new service launched on Friday 13 January (so not superstitious then!). The 1,300-kilometre route will operate 2-weekly, on Mondays and Fridays and faces no direct competition. Avelo’s 737-800s will fly the route which is the airline’s first from Dayton. However, it already serves […]
January 19, 2023 | Latest Route News +
According to our painstaking research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 650 new routes involving at least one North American airport. This compares with over 1,250 that we identified in 2021. As travel restrictions were eased in 2021 airlines tried all sorts of interesting new routes […]
January 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Fort Lauderdale ended 2021 with 28.1 million passengers, according to the airport’s own statistics. This was 24% lower than 2019, when the Florida airport welcomed a record 36.8 million customers. Some 12 million additional passengers were added between 2014 and 2019 (+49%), the result of huge growth by Allegiant, American, JetBlue, Southwest and Spirit. While […]
December 21, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Allegiant has flights to 125 airports in W22. It added Akron/Canton in March, building on eight that materialised in 2021: Orange County and Spokane in February, Portland (Oregon) in April, Key West in June, Minneapolis and Phoenix Sky Harbor in October and Orlando MLB and Washington IAD in November. Inevitably, not everything has gone smoothly. […]
November 16, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Some 25 US states have non-stop service to Europe this winter, according to Cirium schedule data. New York has more seat capacity than any other, followed by California, Florida, New Jersey and Illinois. Florida has 2.9 million two-way non-stop European seats, down by 16% versus W19. That is despite the launch of Virgin Atlantic’s new […]
November 10, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The Michigan city of Kalamazoo has never had scheduled flights to Florida, until now. Situated around 80 kilometres due south of Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo has always revolved around hub-feeding services. There’s American to Chicago (up to 2-daily) and Delta to Detroit (2-daily), both very short hops away. Avelo to Orlando On 26th October, Avelo lifted […]
November 3, 2022 | Latest Route News +
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
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