This April-June, Southwest is the USA’s second-biggest airline – and number one if only domestic is considered. According to Cirium schedules information data, it has 57.8 million total seats available, relegating Delta, with 54.9 million, to third place. Southwest’s Q2 2023 total capacity has increased by 8.7% versus Q2 2019. It is because domestic seats […]
March 16, 2023 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Situated about 100 kilometres south of Denver, Colorado Springs welcomed over 2.1 million passengers in 2022, according to the airport’s statistics. Its best year since 2001, traffic exceeded 2019 figures by 27%. It is primarily due to one key development: the arrival of Southwest. The airline, which launched Colorado Springs almost two years ago in […]
January 31, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
The USA’s third-largest metropolitan area of almost 10 million people, Midway is one of two main airports serving Chicagoland. Located about 18 kilometres from the Chicago Loop, Chicago MDW ranked as the USA’s 30th busiest airport by seat capacity last year, according to Cirium schedules information data. It had 12.6 million one-way seats. In Q1 […]
January 17, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
New Mexico is the fifth largest state in the US, behind only Alaska, Texas, California and Montana. It is roughly the same size as Poland. However, with a total population of only just over two million people, it has one of the lowest population density values of any US state, beaten only by Alaska, Montana, […]
August 8, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Southwest now connects Austin in Texas with Tulsa in Oklahoma. The new daily service on the 690-kilometre route between the two airports was introduced on Sunday 3 April and will be flown by the carrier’s 737-800s. Prior to the pandemic the route had been served between May 2018 and May 2019 by Via Airlines with […]
April 12, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Southwest has started daily service between Albuquerque in New Mexico and Hollywood/Burbank in California. The inaugural service on the 1,080-kilometre route was on Monday 17 January using the airline’s 737-700s. Southwest already serves Los Angeles and San Diego with daily flights from Albuquerque as well as a weekly service to Oakland, making a total of […]
January 28, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Despite the pandemic, it was a busy year for airline route planners working for airlines in the US. As traffic recovered more quickly (compared with Europe) to reach around 80% of 2019 demand by the end of the year, US carriers in particular used the opportunity to try out many new routes. The ANKER Report […]
January 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Sunday 14 November was a milestone day for Syracuse Hancock International Airport (IATA code SYR) as it welcomed its first ever service with Southwest. The legendary low-cost carrier chose that day to launch 3-daily service on the 440-kilometre route from its hub at Baltimore/Washington. No other airline connects these two airports, although American offers 3-daily […]
November 17, 2021 | Airports, News & Analysis
Bellingham International Airport (IATA code BLI) lies in the northern part of the state of Washington, just 40 kilometres from the Canadian border and 90 kilometres from downtown Vancouver. Between 2005 and 2013 the airport grew rapidly thanks mainly to Alaska Airlines and Allegiant. Alaska mostly focussed on increasing service to its major hub in Seattle-Tacoma, […]
November 12, 2021 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports are now at around 75%-80% of the level they were back in 2019, with that figure rising to around 85% on national holidays such as Independence Day (4 July) and Labor Day (6 September). However, the biggest […]
September 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Montana became the latest state to welcome Southwest service, when Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport (IATA code BZN) welcomed the airline’s first flight from Denver on 27 May, just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. On the same day, the airline also began service from its base in Las Vegas. The 845-kilometre Denver route is […]
June 9, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, North America, Top Story