Spirit RNO

The “Biggest Little City In The World”, Reno welcomed 2.18 million passengers in the first half of 2023 – its highest number in 15 years. It was particularly driven by the arrival of Spirit and Sun Country and good growth by incumbent Southwest. The Nevada city is located near popular attractions including Lake Tahoe and […]

Lufthansa Munich

Located close to the Mexican border, San Diego welcomed 13.1 million passengers in the first seven months of this year. Based on the airport’s own data, about 96% flew domestically. Total passenger volume was 5% lower than in 2019, almost the same in July (4.9%). The recovery will be helped by multiple new and returning […]

AIlevon Pacific

Themes of the Week Delta makes big changes to their Summer 2024 Transatlantic schedule Alaska announces new service SAN to ATL OGG capacity cuts continue with WestJet reducing capacity in the fall Southwest extends their schedule and adds a new route Breeze added a new destination that would make Abe Lincoln proud Still no SCASD […]

Spirit in Charleston

Spirit is the seventh largest airline serving the USA by flights in September. With a fleet of 199 A319s, A320s and A321s, it has 5,554 weekly services making it the country’s largest ULCC ahead of Frontier (4,040). Yet Spirit has just 3.2% of the domestic market, rising to 6.4% of the short-haul international market. While […]

AIlevon Pacific

Themes of the Week Delta gets down to business adding new routes and resuming long-haul domestic routes from ATL OGG capacity cuts continue again this week with reductions and cancellations by Alaska and American Southwest extends their schedule and adds a new route Breeze added two new routes and a new destination that is also […]

AIlevon Pacific

Themes of the Week OGG capacity cuts continue again this week with reductions and cancellations by Alaska, Delta and WestJet Frontier extends their schedule WestJet adds a new route to LAS Norse cancelled a route that was set to start in March Two airlines rebrand themselves with new names YVR Airport Roundtable kicks off this […]

Goodbye Swoop

Created by WestJet as a tailormade and brand-new platform to tackle the rise of ‘budget carriers’ in Canada – which remains a hugely fast-growing segment – Swoop entered service in June 2018. Now with 16 Boeing 737-800s and MAX 8s, it will – unusually – be subsumed into parent WestJet’s operations. Swoop’s own operations will […]

AIlevon Pacific

Themes of the Week OGG capacity cuts continue into November and December American is growing in MIA with a new route JetBlue is saying goodbye for now to Cuba Spirit is tweaking service SCASD announcement expected in the next 2-3 weeks   Capacity Update To see a detailed list of U.S. domestic and international capacity […]

American-DFW-DUB

Despite being the world’s largest airline, American is only the third largest operator between the US and Europe. Cirium schedules information shows that it has 3.41 million available seats in S23, behind United (4.59 million) and Delta (4.53 million). Curiously, while United and Delta have both exceeded their S19 capacity by healthy amounts, American remains down […]

AIlevon Pacific

Themes of the Week United reduced China capacity significantly through December OGG capacity cuts continued this week with Southwest reducing capacity Delta upgauged regional markets in MSP and SLC Frontier extended their schedule Red Way is going away Porter is saying bonjour to Florida   Multiple Property Study and Why Airlines Love Them! Ailevon Pacific […]

Tokyo NRT-San Francisco

Asia is large and important market from the United States, including its Pacific Ocean territories. According to Cirium schedules data, there are 4,881 departing non-stop flights across August, excluding the Middle East. This makes Asia the US’s third largest continent/region after Europe (17,218) and the Caribbean (10,338). However, flights remain a third lower than in […]