AILEVON PACIFIC Aviation Consulting-Weekly Airline Schedule Update – April 27th 2026

Posted on April 27, 2026 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America

Themes of the Week

Airlines continued to make reductions due to fuel costs.
American continued to reduce capacity at ORD in June and July due to new flight limits enacted by the federal government.
Southwest extended their schedule.
Air Transat and WestJet pushed the restart of Cuba flights until mid-October.
Cabo Verde is heading back to PVD.
Three airline earnings calls are this week: Air Canada, Allegiant and JetBlue.

Capacity Update

Aer Lingus (EI)

Reduced capacity from Dublin (DUB) to BOS and downgauged DUB to IAD from July to mid-October.

Air Canada (AC)

Removed YUL to Algiers (ALG) from future schedules. It was scheduled to operate June through September.
Reduced capacity in summer and fall from YVR to YHZ, YQB and MIA and from YYZ to St Maarten (SXM).
Reduced capacity between YYZ and YZF in May through August and removed flights from September onward.

Air Transat (TS)

Filed three new routes from December through March: YUL to Aruba (AUA), Barbados (BGI) and Cabo San Lucas, MX (SJD).
Suspended all Cuba flights until October 25.

Allegiant (G4)

Reduced capacity between -1% and -3% week over week in July through September.
Suspended nine seasonal routes earlier than scheduled: AUS to IAD and LAS; BUR to DSM and IND; SNA to COS and CVG; PDX to DSM, FNT and IND.

American (AA)

Reduced capacity in July -2% week over week.
Capacity in ORD was reduced by -3% in June and -4% in July week over week. They reduced flights in June and July in 21 ORD domestic markets.
Increased service from MIA to Caracas, Venezuela (CCS) to twice daily from May through October.
Increased service from MIA to Guayaquil, Ecuador (GYE) from November onward.
Increased service from LAX to MCO to three flights per day from October onward.

Arkia (IZ)

Reduced capacity from May through August from Tel Aviv (TLV) to JFK.

Breeze (MX)

Pushed the start date of LAX to PVD until June 19.
Suspended service from MCO to PSM June 1 through 19.

Cabo Verde Airlines (VR)

Resuming service from Cape Verde (RAI/SID) to PVD starting May 4. They last served the market in 2018. Did you know that Massachusetts and Rhode Island have the largest populations of Cape Verdean Americans?

Delta (DL)

Suspended SEA to Cancun (CUN) and LAX to Mexico City (MEX) from June 2 through November 9.
Suspended LIT to SLC from June 7 through September 7.
Suspended SEA to Cabo San Lucas (SJD) from June 28 through November 8.

Frontier (F9)

Suspended CLT to LAS from June 9 through August 17.
Suspended MCO to Punta Cana (PUJ) from July 1 through August 20.

Southwest (WN)

Extended their schedule through January 5, 2027.
Added six seasonal routes for the winter holiday season (November 21 through January 3): CLE to DAL; DEN to PBI; FLL to SAN; JAX to LAS; MCI to SFO; and MCO to SJC.

Spirit (NK)

Reduced capacity -8% to -9% week over week in June through August. Year over year capacity is down to 49% in May, 44% in June and 47% in July versus 2025 capacity.
Suspended 18 routes in summer months: ACY to MYR; BNA to DTW; BOS to SJU; CLT to DTW and PHL; Cancun (CUN) to BWI, DTW, ORD and PHL; DTW to RDU; FLL to AUS, BZE and LAX; LAS to BNA, EWR, MCO and ORD; and PHL to Punta Cana (PUJ).

Viva (VB)

Suspended GDL and MTY to OAK for June. Suspended BJX to SAT from June 1 through 19.

WestJet (WS)

Reduced capacity in June -10% week over week.
Cuba flights have been suspended until October 11.

Guam and Saipan flights

Air Busan (BX) suspended service between Guam (GUM) and Pusan (PUS) in June.
Hong Kong Airlines (HX) reduced capacity between Hong Kong (HKG) and Saipan (SPN) in May.
Jeju Air pushed resumption of Seoul (ICN) to SPN to May 17.
Korean (KE) reduced capacity between ICN and GUM in May.
Philippine Airlines (PR) suspended Manila (MNL) to SPN from May through June 20.
T’Way (TW) removed ICN to SPN from future schedules.

Cirium schedules via Diio Mi and may not reflect the actual flights being sold by airlines. The Weekly Airline Schedule Summary and linked Capacity Summary are not intended to be an all-inclusive source for every schedule change made.