Probably best known as ‘the home of country music’, Nashville in the state of Tennessee, is also home to one of America’s fastest-growing airports. According to Cirium data, between May 2022 and May 2023 Nashville International Airport’s seat capacity grew by almost 20%. Among the top 30 US airports only Chicago MDW registered a higher […]
August 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
US regional carrier Silver Airways launched flights from Greensboro to Nashville and Orlando MCO on Tuesday 25 July. Both the 605-kilometre service to Nashville and the 860-kiloemtre route to Orlando MCO will be operated daily with the carrier’s 72-seat ATR72-600 turboprop aircraft. The carrier faces no competition on either route, marking its first flights out […]
July 31, 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
Allegiant has started two new routes from Nashville. On 15 February the carrier began connecting the airport in Tennessee with a 3-weekly service to Akron-Canton in Ohio and a 2-weekly service to Provo in Utah. The ULCC flies the 700-kilometre route to Akron-Canton each Monday, Wednesday and Friday with the A320 aircraft where it competes […]
February 17, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Analysis of Cirium schedule data for August 2019 and August 2022 reveals that while scheduled seat capacity across over 650 US airports in 2022 is currently expected to be at least 4% lower than in 2019, the number of non-stop routes being offered has actually risen during that period by 3.2%, up from 7,993 to […]
June 13, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Air Choice One (IATA code 3E) has launched scheduled service between Jonesboro (IATA code JBR) in Arkansas and Nashville in Tennessee. The 360-kilometre route will be operated by the airline’s 8-seat Cessna 208B Grand Caravans. Flights will operate every day of the week except Wednesdays. The only other route currently flown by the carrier is […]
March 3, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Analysis of Cirium data for scheduled air services from US airports in February 2022 (and pre-pandemic February 2020) shows that while the number of weekly departures from US airports is still down 13% compared with two years ago, seat capacity is down only 6%. Most impressively, the number of non-stop routes on offer from over […]
February 4, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Contour Airlines (IATA code LF) is the regional airline brand of Contour Aviation, based in Smyrna, Tennessee. It began scheduled services in 2016 between Nashville and Tupelo in Mississippi. It currently operates a fleet of 10 Embraer ERJ-135s, which have been configured with just 30 leather seats. Flights bookable from 17 airports The airline’s website […]
October 21, 2021 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America