Canada’s Lynx Air introduced a new service between Calgary and Orlando MCO on Tuesday November 7. The 3,710-kilometre route will be maintained 2-weekly, on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with the 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The ULCC will compete directly against WestJet between the two cities. What they said Jim Sullivan, CEO of Lynx Air, said: “”As […]
November 15, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Lynx Air inaugurated operations between Toronto YYZ and Phoenix on Thursday 12 October. The 3,020-kilometre service will be maintained 3-weekly on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with the 189-seat 737 MAX 8 aircraft. The airline will compete directly against Air Canada’s daily rotation on the route. Flight Y9642 departs Toronto YYZ at 16:40 local time, arriving […]
October 16, 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 +
Canadian ULCC Lynx Air introduced flights between Toronto YYZ and Los Angeles on Thursday 24 August. The 5-weekly, 3,500-kilometre route will be maintained on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays with the 189-seat 737 MAX 8 aircraft. It will compete directly against 32-weekly Air Canada flights and 4-weekly rotations maintained by WestJet. What they said […]
August 25, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) on Monday 5 June introduced operations from Montreal for the first time with flights to Calgary and St. John’s. Both the 3-weekly 3,015-kilometre service to Calgary and the 4-weekly 1,625-kilometre route to St. John’s will be maintained with the 737 MAX aircraft. The ULCC faces significant competition on its Calgary operations […]
June 13, 2023 | Latest Route News +
The capital and largest city in Nova Scotia, Halifax welcomed 3.10 passengers in 2022. As shown below, the airport’s traffic in 2022 versus 2019 was, of course, dragged down by the domestic market, mainly because of reductions by Air Canada and WestJet. The transborder US market was the least recovered percentagewise (-78.1%), not helped by […]
April 24, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) has launched its first international service. The Canadian ULCC began 4-weekly service between Toronto YYZ and Orlando MCO on Friday 27 January. Its other days of operation on the 1,700-kilometre route are Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays. The inaugural flight was operated by one of the airline’s 189-seat 737 MAX 8s […]
January 31, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) now serves Edmonton in Alberta. On 14 July, the new Canadian low-cost carrier began daily service on the 2,700-kilometre route from Toronto YYZ. The route is already well served by Air Canada (52-weekly), WestJet (44-weekly), Swoop (10-weekly) and Flair Airlines (9-weekly). Edmonton becomes the airline’s tenth airport, and this is […]
July 20, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The recovery in air travel demand in the US appears to have stabilised during the last month at around 90%, with some brief fluctuations around the 4 July annual celebrations. Air Service One has identified and confirmed 64 new routes that launched in North America during the last four weeks. This included several new long-haul […]
July 12, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
The skies of Canada welcomed a new airline last week when Calgary-based Lynx Air (IATA code Y9) launched its first route between Calgary and Vancouver on Thursday 7 April. However, the airline is not quite as new as it seems as it has evolved out of Enerjet, which received its Canadian AOC as long ago […]
April 14, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America