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 +
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 +
Spirit added another airport to its network by commencing operations from Charleston in South Carolina on Wednesday 5 April. The airline is introducing four routes. 5 April: Fort Lauderdale (daily) 5 April: Philadelphia (daily) 6 April: New York EWR (daily) 7 September: Las Vegas (6-weekly) The ULCC faces no competition on its flights to Las Vegas and is one […]
April 10, 2023 | Latest Route News +
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 +
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 +
David Neeleman’s latest airline creation Breeze recently added several new routes to Las Vegas including from Huntsville in Alabama on 9 September. The 2-weekly service, flown on Mondays and Fridays will use the airline’s A220-300s. The 2,575-kilometre route is not flown by any other airline. On the same day Breeze also began service between Norfolk […]
September 12, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Spirit has begun 2-daily service on the 555-kilometre, intra-Nevada route between Las Vegas and Reno. The inaugural flight took place on 10 August. The route is already served by four other carriers: Southwest: 54-weekly JSX: 5-weekly Allegiant: 4-weekly Frontier: 3-weekly Reno becomes the newest airport to be served by Spirit for the first time. In […]
August 18, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Frontier launched four new routes from Las Vegas on Tuesday 9 August. The ULCC began daily service to Baltimore/Washington, Buffalo, Hartford and Kansas City using its A320s. Only the Hartford route is not already served, while Southwest competes on the other three routes. In addition, Spirit also offers daily service to Baltimore/Washington and Kansas City. […]
Last Thursday it was announced that JetBlue and Spirit had agreed a merger under which JetBlue will acquire Spirit to create an airline with over 450 aircraft. Cirium schedule data for August 2022 shows that JetBlue is the sixth biggest airline operating from US airports, with Spirit just behind in seventh. As it stands, combining […]
August 2, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story