Norse SFo - LGW

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 […]

Copa launches Baltimore

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 […]

Monterrey Launch

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. […]

American DFW-DUB

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 […]

AIlevon Pacific

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 […]

PLAY begins Aalborg

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. […]

Greenville-Spartanburg, airports, Avelo, South Carolina, USA

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 […]

AIr Service One at MKE

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 […]

Spirit begins at SJC

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 […]