Norse Atlantic’s first commercial flight was on 14 June 2022 from Oslo to New York JFK. Between then and May 2023, the long-haul operator transported approximately 512,000 scheduled passengers. Consisting of two units – the original Norwegian entity (IATA code N0) and the UK subsidiary (Z0) – they have 10 Boeing 787s. Five others are […]
July 5, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Themes of the Week Alaska is adding four new routes and one new international destination Breeze added three new routes and is resuming service to two others Lynx is linking more Canada and U.S. sunny destinations; C’est le fun! Southwest extended their schedule and added one new route; congrats OMA! Our next Airport Roundtable is […]
July 4, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
The US is a crucially important part of Copa Airlines’ network. According to Cirium schedules information, it has 195-weekly one-way flights to the country in August, more than to any other country. This is helped by serving more destinations than anywhere else. Without the US, Copa’s extensive Central American and South American network would be […]
July 3, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The Mexican city of Monterrey has a considerable 5.4 million people in its metro area. Its airport welcomed 10.94 million passengers in 2022, 2.1% below that of 2019. That recovery is impressive given the exit of what was the airport’s third-largest carrier, Interjet, which was backfilled by enormous growth by Vivaaerobus and Aeromexico in particular. […]
June 28, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
American Airlines is the world’s largest airline by multiple measures, including fleet. According to Planespotters.net, the carrier and its regional partner have nearly 1,400 aircraft (not all active). Using these, they have more than 24,000 weekly one-way flights in July, based on Cirium information data (one-way avoids double counting). Its July offering is at 85% of what it had in […]
June 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Themes of the Week American is adding and resuming routes to PHX but also suspending routes in October during the off-peak period Avelo is adding their sixth base in LAS Delta is adding back it’s first pandemic/pilot shortage suspended regional route from DTW. This is potentially the beginning of a rebuild that Delta indicated would […]
June 26, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The Danish airport of Aalborg has added three scheduled carriers in the past 13 months. These developments – and various additional routes, most notably Newark – mean that Aalborg has exceeded pre-pandemic capacity in the crucial July-September quarter. According to Cirium schedules information, it has 158 weekly one-way August flights, up by 5% versus 2019. […]
June 22, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP) is one of six airports in South Carolina to have commercial passenger flights. According to GSP’s own statistics, it welcomed 2.19 million two-way passengers in 2022, 16.1% lower than in 2019. Yet it was still its third best year to date. And in summer 2023, it benefits from the arrival of Avelo, a […]
June 20, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Nearly 400 air service industry professionals gathered in Milwaukee this past week to attend Airport Council International-North America’s 2023 JumpStart Air Service Development Conference and Small Airports Committee meetings. The June 12-14 event afforded attendees the opportunity to sit together for informative sessions filled with lively discussions, in addition to more than 1,000 one-on-one, face-to-face […]
June 19, 2023 | Air Service Community News, North America
Themes of the Week Alaska is adding three new sun markets American is adding six new markets and one that is competing with a new Alaska route WestJet is sunsetting Sunwing Delta and LATAM are growing their bond in Central and South America The SCASD submissions have been uploaded to the Regulations.gov website; see below […]
Analysis by Air Service One of Cirium schedules data for 2023 Q2 reveals that global seat capacity is just 1.7% below the levels reported in 2019 Q2. However, the number of planned flights is still over 7% down versus four years ago. While this suggests that normality in terms of capacity has in some sense […]
June 13, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America
Spirit inaugurated San Jose service on 7 June, becoming the ULCC’s seventh airport across California. It has 28-weekly departures across three routes: Las Vegas (2-daily), Dallas DFW (daily) and San Diego (daily). Spirit became San Jose’s second new airline in six months, following the 12 December 2022 launch of ZIPAIR, a wholly owned subsidiary of […]