Frontier on 23 February introduced a new service between St. Louis and Montego Bay in Jamaica. The 3-weekly flights operate each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday with the A320neo aircraft. Frontier competes directly against Southwest’s 2-weekly service on the 2,550-kilometre route. What they said Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge, Director of St. Louis Airport, said: “It is exciting that […]
February 27, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Puerto Rico is a US territory and is therefore considered as part of that country. Between April and June, an average of almost 100 flights a day exist between the lower 48 and Puerto Rico, according to Cirium schedules information data. They are to three airports: Aguadilla, Ponce and San Juan. In Q2, 18 states […]
February 8, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The USA’s third-largest metropolitan area of almost 10 million people, Midway is one of two main airports serving Chicagoland. Located about 18 kilometres from the Chicago Loop, Chicago MDW ranked as the USA’s 30th busiest airport by seat capacity last year, according to Cirium schedules information data. It had 12.6 million one-way seats. In Q1 […]
January 17, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Cancun welcomed 30.3 million passengers in 2022, according to airport operator ASUR. It surpassed the 30 million level for the first time. Total traffic rose by 19% versus 2019, the previous best. While domestic and international passengers both grew by about 19%, the absolute change tells a different story. Although already by far the biggest […]
January 12, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Frontier has expanded its presence at Phoenix PHX with the introduction of several new routes during the first week of January. Five new destinations have been added by the ULCC. All of them are already well-served by other carriers (weekly frequency in January shown in brackets): 5 January: Kansas City (2) versus Southwest (28) and […]
January 11, 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
Frontier launched four new routes from Las Vegas on Tuesday 9 August. The ULCC began daily service to Baltimore/Washington, Buffalo, Hartford and Kansas City using its A320s. Only the Hartford route is not already served, while Southwest competes on the other three routes. In addition, Spirit also offers daily service to Baltimore/Washington and Kansas City. […]
August 18, 2022 | Latest Route News +
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
On Thursday 28 April Frontier returned to Chicago MDW after an absence of seven years. The ULCC launched seven routes that day, with another route added the following day. Frontier had last flown out of Chicago’s second airport in April 2015, when it offered service to Trenton in New Jersey. In the summer of 2014, […]
May 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Frontier returned to Fort Lauderdale in a big way when it launched 10 new routes and resumed two others starting on 17 February. The ULCC had suspended flights to the Florida airport in April 2020, not long after the pandemic struck. Now, after nearly two years, the carrier has returned. Routes to Islip and Trenton, […]
February 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The recent announcement that America’s two biggest ULCCs, Frontier and Spirit, plan to merge came as something of a surprise to many in the industry. However, with similar business models and significant fleet commonality it makes a lot of sense. The combined entity would become the fifth biggest carrier in the US behind the big […]
February 11, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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