Miami ended 2022 with 50.6 million passengers. It surpassed its previous best, held in 2019, by more than 10%. Some 4.7 million passengers were added, which meant that it overtook its long-time rival, Orlando MCO, to again become Florida’s busiest airport. By changing to the preference gate model, which effectively financially incentivises airlines to expand, […]
February 9, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Brazil is the United States’ second biggest South American market by seat capacity after Colombia, according to Cirium schedules information data. In the first quarter of 2023 there are 23 non-stop routes encompassing 11 US airports and eight in Brazil. Washington IAD is expected to return in March and Los Angeles in July, but Detroit […]
January 5, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Similar to last month, it was a relatively quiet period for new route launches in North America. Without the growing number of new services to the new Mexico City NLU airport it would have been even quieter. Air Service One has identified and confirmed 30 new routes that launched in North America during the last […]
October 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Alaska Airlines resumed service to Miami on Thursday 16 June after a gap of almost 10 years. The return of services from Seattle also marked the airline’s 100th non-stop destination from Seattle. The oneworld carrier will utilise its 737-800s and -900s to serve passengers. Competition on the 4,384-kilometre route comes from fellow oneworld alliance member, […]
June 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Spirit this week announced its first ever flights to Salt Lake City (and also the state of Utah) starting on 26 May. It will operate daily service to Los Angeles and Orlando and 2-daily service to Las Vegas. It will face significant competition on each route. The US ULCC has been growing its footprint in […]
January 28, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, North America
Spirit Airlines on Saturday 11 December appears to have become the first US carrier to begin serving Comayagua International Airport, also known as Palmerola International Airport (IATA code XPL), which also doubles up as Enrique Soto Cano Air Base. The facility also serves the capital of Honduras, Tegucigalpa, which lies around 55 kilometres south-east of […]
December 14, 2021 | Latest Route News +
American Airlines launched its first ever service to the Caribbean island of Dominica, which is part of the Windward Islands chain located in the Lesser Antilles archipelago, with Guadeloupe to the north and Martinique to the south. The island covers 75 square kilometres, has a population of just over 70,000 and the capital is Roseau. […]
December 10, 2021 | Latest Route News +
The latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports have stabilised at around 75%-80% of the level they were back in 2019, with that figure rising to around 85% on national holidays such as Independence Day (4 July) and Labor Day (6 September). Airlines launch […]
November 18, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
American Airlines has resumed non-stop service between Tulsa and Miami after a break of over three years. The 1,880-kilometre route will operate every Saturday, with the first flight having taken place on 6 November. Embraer E175s operated by Envoy Air Inc. will be used on the route. American last connected the two airports in August […]
November 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Frontier launched four new routes from Miami on Monday 1 November. The ULCC began 2-weekly service to Memphis, Portland PWM, St. Louis and Syracuse using its fleet of A320neos. Only the Portland route is not already served by American, with Southwest also competing on the St. Louis route. Additional new routes were launched by Frontier […]
November 8, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Finnair has commenced its long-haul operations from Stockholm ARN using A350-900s. The first route to start on 22 October was to Bangkok in Thailand. This was followed on 23 October by Miami with Phuket in Thailand launching on 24 October. Weekly frequencies are quite low to start with but are set to grow during the […]
October 26, 2021 | Latest Route News +
For almost two decades, Fort Lauderdale has been Spirit Airlines’s biggest base of operations, sometimes welcoming more than twice as many flights as its nearest rival. That may be set to change in 2022 now that Spirit has launched its first flights (to nine destinations) from nearby Miami on Wednesday 6 October. As a result, […]
October 19, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America