Detroit welcomed its fourth new airline of the year on 15 November. It was Turkish Airlines, which began a 3-weekly service from Istanbul, rising to 4-weekly shortly and 5-weekly next summer. It followed the 18 May launch of Icelandair from Keflavik, with a summer seasonal 4-weekly service. While not long-haul, they joined the 5 May […]
November 29, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Located in Newfoundland and Labrador in Atlantic Canada, St. John’s welcomed about 1.1 million passengers in 2022. Using Cirium schedules data shows that St John’s is the country’s 15th busiest airport based on departing seats in 2023. Capacity has risen by approximately 8% year-on-year. While the recovery versus 2019 continues, it will be helped by […]
November 23, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Themes of the Week American cutting back in AUS Icelandair is connecting the land of the Puffins with the city that has Penguins Spirit is leaving the Centennial State in January Capacity Update To see a detailed list of U.S. domestic and international capacity changes by airline, please click here. Alaska reduced capacity in April […]
November 6, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Created by WestJet as a tailormade and brand-new platform to tackle the rise of ‘budget carriers’ in Canada – which remains a hugely fast-growing segment – Swoop entered service in June 2018. Now with 16 Boeing 737-800s and MAX 8s, it will – unusually – be subsumed into parent WestJet’s operations. Swoop’s own operations will […]
September 7, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Ireland is the seventh-largest European market to North America by non-stop capacity this July-September. According to Cirium schedules data, there are 789,000 one-way seats available, 6.7% more than last year but 4.3% lower than in 2019. Despite the continued recovery, it is the third highest Q3 capacity to date. As Cork lost North America service […]
August 15, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The Dominican Republic is a hugely important Caribbean market from North America. According to Cirium schedules information data, there are 1.77 million non-stop one-way seats this July-September (Q3). It is the most-served Caribbean destination from North America after the US territory of Puerto Rico. This quarter, the Dominican Republic, which revolves around diaspora and tourists, […]
July 19, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Themes of the Week American is adding new routes to MIA this winter as well as ICT to DCA Alaska is adding another new international destination, Guatemala City American, Delta and United love NCAA football, especially Notre Dame; did you know, it’s Robert Isom ‘s alma mater? American and United are reporting their Q2 earnings […]
July 17, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Viva Aerobus carried 11.34 million passengers in the first half of 2023 (January-June). Helped by the cessation of Interjet in 2020, Viva Aerobus has grown enormously. Traffic rose by 20%+ versus 1H 2022 – its previous record – and by 110% over the pre-pandemic 2019. The huge domestic market remained Viva Aerobus’ foundation, with around […]
July 13, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Themes of the Week Delta is growing their AUS focus city, as well as adding new point-to-point markets Lynx is linking Canada to more U.S. “sun” destinations United changed it’s mind on Bengaluru for now Delta is reporting it’s Q2 earnings this week Capacity Update To see a detailed list of U.S. domestic and international […]
July 10, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Themes of the Week Alaska is adding four new routes and one new international destination Breeze added three new routes and is resuming service to two others Lynx is linking more Canada and U.S. sunny destinations; C’est le fun! Southwest extended their schedule and added one new route; congrats OMA! Our next Airport Roundtable is […]
July 4, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
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. […]
June 28, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
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 […]
June 27, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, Europe, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story