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
Silver Airways is unusual in the USA as it only operates turboprops. According to Planespotters.net, it has 18, comprising 10 ATR 72s (some in freight configuration for Amazon) and eight ATR 42s. They replace the Saab 340, of which it had a total of 28, providing more capacity, more usable range and lower seat-km costs […]
July 26, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Nearly two years after Avelo’s first revenue-generating flight (on 28 April 2021 from Burbank to Santa Rosa), the carrier (IATA code XP) is the USA’s 13th largest domestic airline. With a fleet of 15 737-700s and -800s, all between 10 and 20 years old (according to planespotters.net), it has 620,000 one-way summer domestic seats planned […]
March 8, 2023 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story