Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) on 24 February introduced flights between its hub in Calgary and Las Vegas. The 4-weekly service operates each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The airline deploys a B737 MAX aircraft on the 3,130-kilometre route. Flight Y9601 departs Calgary at 08:00 local time, arriving in Las Vegas at 10:10 local time. […]
March 1, 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
San Antonio in Texas is the latest US airport to welcome the bright yellow aircraft of Spirit (IATA code NK). Technically, Spirit has served San Antonio before, way back between April 2008 and March 2009 when it offered a single route to Fort Lauderdale. On Thursday 17 November the ULCC launched its first new routes […]
November 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
With over 2200 registered attendees, last week’s Routes World took place in fabulous Las Vegas! Kicking off with a welcome reception at the famous Sahara Las Vegas which brought attendees together with a packed out, outdoor pool party which set the scene for a great week of networking! The hard work followed with over 8000 […]
October 28, 2022 | Air Service Event News
In 2019, Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas (then still known as McCarran International Airport) handled over 51 million passengers, making it the world’s 30th busiest airport. Last year saw the airport welcome just under 40 million passengers. As a result of the pandemic significantly reducing traffic at many Asian and European airports, Las […]
October 16, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
David Neeleman’s latest airline creation Breeze recently added several new routes to Las Vegas including from Huntsville in Alabama on 9 September. The 2-weekly service, flown on Mondays and Fridays will use the airline’s A220-300s. The 2,575-kilometre route is not flown by any other airline. On the same day Breeze also began service between Norfolk […]
September 12, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Spirit has begun 2-daily service on the 555-kilometre, intra-Nevada route between Las Vegas and Reno. The inaugural flight took place on 10 August. The route is already served by four other carriers: Southwest: 54-weekly JSX: 5-weekly Allegiant: 4-weekly Frontier: 3-weekly Reno becomes the newest airport to be served by Spirit for the first time. In […]
August 18, 2022 | Latest Route News +
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. […]
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
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
Allegiant surprised many industry observers last week by announcing an order with Boeing for brand new aircraft. It will purchase 50 737 MAX aircraft (a mix of 737-7s and 737-8-200s) and has an option to purchase 50 more. This marks an evolution of the airline’s fleet policy which has previously been based around using older, […]
January 11, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Avelo has launched a second route from Fort Collins/Loveland (IATA code FNL, also known as Northern Colorado Regional Airport) this time to Las Vegas. The 2-weekly service (operating Wednesdays and Saturdays) on the 1,010-kilometre route, began on 15 December and faces no competition. Avelo launched its first route to the airport from its Hollywood/Burbank base […]
December 22, 2021 | Latest Route News +