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 +
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 +
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
Spirit (IATA code NK) has started serving Salt Lake City in Utah for the first time. On 26 May, the ULCC began daily service from Los Angeles and Orlando MCO, and 2-daily service from Las Vegas. All three routes are already well served by other carriers: Las Vegas: Delta (35-weekly), Southwest (33-weekly), Frontier (4-weekly) Los […]
June 2, 2022 | Latest Route News +
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 +
On Thursday 16 September Avelo launched its first West Coast route that does not involve its base at Hollywood Burbank Airport when it began 4-weekly service (Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays) between Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport near Santa Rosa in California and Las Vegas in Nevada. The inaugural service on the 730-kilometre route […]
September 20, 2021 | Latest Route News +
On Thursday 9 September Frontier began 2-weekly service between Las Vegas and Valley International Airport (IATA code HRL), serving Harlingen and the Rio Grande Valley in Texas. The inaugural service on the 1,990-kilometre route (flight number F9 1954 operated by an Airbus A320neo, registration N349FR) departed Las Vegas at 14:47 and touched down in Harlingen […]
September 10, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Southwest made Eugene Airport in Oregon its newest destination with the launch on Sunday 29 April of not one but two new routes to the airport. There are now 2-daily flights on the 720-kilometre sector to Oakland in California and daily flights on the 1,125-kilometre route to Las Vegas in Nevada. Both routes will be […]
September 2, 2021 | Latest Route News +