This April-June, Southwest is the USA’s second-biggest airline – and number one if only domestic is considered. According to Cirium schedules information data, it has 57.8 million total seats available, relegating Delta, with 54.9 million, to third place. Southwest’s Q2 2023 total capacity has increased by 8.7% versus Q2 2019. It is because domestic seats […]
March 16, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Mexico ended 2022 with 107 million passengers, making it Latin America’s biggest aviation market – even beating Brazil. It was helped by the fast growth of ULCC Volaris, which had 31 million passengers last year (at a load factor of over 85%), according to the carrier’s own figures. Traffic grew by six million year-on-year, smashing […]
February 22, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
American has added a new route to Mexico. On Tuesday 10 January the oneworld carrier launched daily service on the 1,430-kilometre route between Phoenix and Monterrey. American is using Embraer E175s on the route, operated by its partner airline Envoy Air. Flight AA3832 departs the Arizona airport at 20:00 local time and arrives in Mexico […]
January 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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
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
Demand for air travel in Mexico has recovered strongly according to government passenger statistics. During the period April to July 2022, the country’s airports have seen both domestic and international demand at record levels, beating the previous high in 2019. Although demand was down over 90% in April and May 2020, thereafter demand picked up […]
October 12, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
New Dominican Republic carrier Arajet (IATA code DM) has launched two further routes to destinations in Mexico after launching its first flights to the country on 22 September. The new, Santo Domingo based airline began 3-weekly service to Cancun and 2-weekly service to Monterrey on Friday 30 September. Neither route is served by any other […]
October 4, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The two countries bordering the US to the north and south have experienced significantly different responses to the pandemic with regard to the rate at which air travel demand has recovered. The Canadian authorities took a hard line on air travel, with international travel virtually non-existent during 2020 once the pandemic had struck. Even domestic […]
June 13, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Mexico’s domestic air travel market is just about back at pre-pandemic levels, based on analysis of passenger data (to October) and capacity data for more recent months. Since June 2020, the country has seen an almost continuous improvement in its recovery rate when compared with the same months in 2019. Passenger data for October showed […]
February 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
The Europe-Mexico market has seen considerable activity in the last few months with several airlines launching new routes, especially to Cancun, which is the gateway to Mexico’s main tourism area. While seat capacity between Europe and Mexico City increased by 75% between 2006 and 2019, capacity to Cancun increased more than fivefold. As a result, […]
February 3, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, North America
Analysis of the latest available passenger numbers on airlines operating to, from and within Mexico during October 2021 shows that demand on domestic flights was just 10% below the level of 2019. This is the best performance yet during 2021. Since May, domestic traffic has been between 80% and 90% of the figure from two […]
December 20, 2021 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
After a gap of over 15 years, Austrian Airlines finally resumed non-stop service to Cancun in Mexico on Sunday 24 October. The Star Alliance carrier will operate 2-weekly service (Thursdays and Sundays) on the 9,240-kilometre route from Vienna throughout the winter season, with extra flights between 19 December and 9 January. The inaugural flight (OS95) […]
October 26, 2021 | Latest Route News +