Avelo Airlines introduced services from Salem to Las Vegas and Burbank on Thursday October 5 and Friday October 6 respectively. Both routes are being maintained 2-weekly. It marks the resumption of commercial flights from Salem for the first time in 15 years. The new route from Las Vegas runs on Thursdays and Sundays, while the […]
October 10, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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 […]
September 24, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Avelo Airlines opened its sixth operational base in Las Vegas on Thursday 7 September, launching flights to Redmond/Bend, followed by Brownsville on 8 September. The LCC has stationed a 147-seat 737-700 aircraft at the Nevada airport to run both the 2-weekly 1,040-kilometre service to Redmond/Bend, to be operated on Thursdays and Sundays, as well as […]
September 11, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Lynx Air launched flights between Montreal and Las Vegas on Thursday 31 August, in the lead-up to the busy US Labor Day holiday travel period. The 3,600-kilometre route will be maintained 4-weekly on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays with the 189-seat 737 MAX 8 aircraft. It will compete directly against daily Air Canada flights. Flight […]
September 1, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Sun Country (IATA code SY) launched 2-weekly seasonal flights between Eau Claire in Wisconsin and Las Vegason Friday 11 August with its 186-seat 737-800 aircraft. Services on the 2,220-kilometre route will be maintained on Mondays and Fridays. The airline faces no competition with the new flights operated as part of the federal government’s Essential Air Service (EAS) […]
August 15, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Avianca on Saturday 15 July launched a new seasonal service between the capital of El Salvador, San Salvador and Las Vegas. The 3,620-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, until 19 September, with the 180-seat A320neo aircraft. It faces no competition on the route. Avianca becomes the first airline to offer […]
July 21, 2023 | Latest Route News +
ULCCs are renowned for fast growth, but that is not presently the case for the USA’s Allegiant. Data supplied by the airline to Cirium for April-September (Q2/Q3) shows that it has 10.48 million available seats, -2.6% versus the same six months in 2022. In contrast, US domestic seats are +9.1%. While Allegiant has far exceeded […]
May 22, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) on 24 February introduced flights between its hub in Calgary and Las Vegas. The 4-weekly service operates each Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. The airline deploys a B737 MAX aircraft on the 3,130-kilometre route. Flight Y9601 departs Calgary at 08:00 local time, arriving in Las Vegas at 10:10 local time. […]
March 1, 2023 | Latest Route News +
According to our painstaking research over the course of 2022, Air Service One estimates that airlines last year launched over 650 new routes involving at least one North American airport. This compares with over 1,250 that we identified in 2021. As travel restrictions were eased in 2021 airlines tried all sorts of interesting new routes […]
January 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
San Antonio in Texas is the latest US airport to welcome the bright yellow aircraft of Spirit (IATA code NK). Technically, Spirit has served San Antonio before, way back between April 2008 and March 2009 when it offered a single route to Fort Lauderdale. On Thursday 17 November the ULCC launched its first new routes […]
November 22, 2022 | Latest Route News +
With over 2200 registered attendees, last week’s Routes World took place in fabulous Las Vegas! Kicking off with a welcome reception at the famous Sahara Las Vegas which brought attendees together with a packed out, outdoor pool party which set the scene for a great week of networking! The hard work followed with over 8000 […]
October 28, 2022 | Air Service Community News
In 2019, Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas (then still known as McCarran International Airport) handled over 51 million passengers, making it the world’s 30th busiest airport. Last year saw the airport welcome just under 40 million passengers. As a result of the pandemic significantly reducing traffic at many Asian and European airports, Las […]
October 16, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story