20240110-003 Air Service Update — original pdf

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January 2024 Air Service Snapshot AUS monthly seat comparisons, July ‘23 – April ‘24, compared to previous year (chart one) and compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) (chart two): Highlights of recent air service announcements/developments include:  Aeromexico upgauged MEX service from 99-seat E190 to 160-seat B737-800 eff. June 21 ’24  Air Canada will resume service to YVR on May 1 ’24 with 3/Wk; added 4th weekly YVR for June 6-Oct 25; upgauged YYZ from 137-seat A220-300 to 169-seat B737-MAX8 from June 15 – Sept 2; will start new nonstop service to YUL eff. May 3 ’24 with 4 weekly flights on A220-300 (137 seats)  Alaska dropped plans for seasonal BOI service from May 16 – Aug 19; market is now discontinued; suspended SJC from Mar 14 – April 1 and from April 12 – May 15  Allegiant extended schedules for May 15 ’24 – Aug. 13 ’24 and will serve 18 markets; new 2/Wk service  American added 3 roundtrips to AGS in April for the Masters and 2 roundtrips to SDF in May for the to EUG starts May 31 ‘24 Kentucky Derby. o AA summary of 2024 service pulldown:  ABQ, ELP, IAD & TPA – last flight Feb. 14  BZN – service dropped for Feb. 17 – Mar. 30, no other service filed except 3 departures in Dec/Jan ‘23  CVG, JAX & MEM– service will not resume on Feb. 15 as planned (already cut Jan. 8-Feb. 14), last flight Jan. 7  CZM – last flight Jan. 6  EGE – last flight Feb. 10 instead of Mar. 17  LIR – last flight April 2  MBJ – all service dropped for March and June-August  MCI, OKC & SMF– last flight Feb. 12  NAS – will operate in Mar. but April-Aug. flights dropped  PUJ – last flight Mar. 30  PVR – last flight April 3  RNO – will resume May 6 instead of Feb. 15 (already cut Jan. 8-Feb. 14)  RSW – last flight Feb. 14 instead of May 5  TUL – service will not resume on Feb. 15 as planned (already cut Nov. 4 ’23 -Feb. 14 ‘24), last op. Nov. 3 ‘23  VPS - will not operate June-Sept.  Reductions eff. February: BNA 3x→1x; BOS 2x→1x; IND 2x→1x; LAS 2x→1x; MCO 2x→1x; MSY 3x→1x; RDU 3x→1x  Delta DL will add BNA 3x MAF 3x & MFE 3x eff. April ’24, also DL increases CVG 1x→2x & RDU 2x→3 same day—DL’s April ’24 expansion adds 11 flights (20% increase in capacity)  Frontier extended schedules for April 10-Aug 12 and will serve DEN 1x LAS 5/Wk   KLM will use the 318-seat B787-10 for April 1 – June 1 instead of 275-seat B787-9 (16% increase)  Lufthansa will bring back the B787-9 (294 seats) on Jan. 15 ’24 and will increase service to 5/Wk on JetBlue increased FLL frequencies in March from 31→37 June 5 ’24  Southwest Saturday only service to SJU starts Mar 9 ’24; reductions for Jan 8 ’24 – Mar 6 ‘24: M/Th/F reduced 12x from 114x→102x, Tu/W reduced 10x from 100x→90x, Sa flat at 64x, Sun reduced 9x from 102x→93x; extended schedules for June 4 ’24 – Aug. 4 ’24 with YOY increase to BUR, CUN, DEN, MCO, PHX, SMF, TPA; BOS service returns; DAL, FLL & STL slightly reduced ; no VPS service in ’24; extended schedules for Aug 5-Oct 2; will reduce from 118 peak day (Mon/Thur/Fri) trips in June to 111 trips in August schedule with seasonal reductions in primarily leisure destinations  Spirit revised schedules for Jan 10 ’24 – Feb 13 ’24 and will serve FLL 1x LAS 4/Wk MCO 4/Wk (no EWR or LAX service); extended schedules for May 8 – Aug 6 and will serve EWR 1x FLL 1x LAS 1x LAX 1x MCO 1x  Virgin Atlantic last day of LHR operation is Jan. 7 ‘24  VivaAerobus will start new MTY service eff. Mar. 22 ‘24 with 4/Wk; upgauged MTY in May from 186- seat A320 to 240-seat A321  WestJet will resume YYC service on Apr 28 ‘24  January ‘24 v January ‘23 (down 5 destinations): o + destinations: OMA, PIT, PTY & RSW o – destinations: BZN, CZM, JAX, MBJ, MEM, MTJ, MTY, NAS & RNO  New AUS Nonstop Service for 2024: January 2024 v. 2023 air service comparison: Current AUS air service:  January 2024 v. 2023 carrier seat share comparison: Based on U.S. DOT O&D Passenger Survey, Cirium, FM Traffic and ABIA statistics: 17.4% of ABIA passengers in Q2 2023 were connecting. Top Q2 2023 domestic and international AUS connecting markets were:  One-Way Domestic Fares for U.S. Medium & Large Hub Airports (Source: U.S. DOT, O&D Survey, YE Q2 2023): List of AUS Airline Codes: AA AC AM AN AS B6 BA CM DL F9 American Airlines Air Canada Aeromexico Advanced Air Alaska Airlines JetBlue Airways British Airways Copa Airlines Delta Air Lines Frontier Airlines Inc. List of AUS Airport Codes: ABQ AMA AMS ANC ATL AVL BDL BHM BNA BOI BOS BUR BWI Albuquerque, NM Amarillo, TX Amsterdam, Netherlands Anchorage Atlanta, GA Asheville, NC Hartford, CT Birmingham, AL Nashville, TN Boise, ID Boston, MA Burbank, CA Baltimore, MD G4 HA KL LH NK SY UA VS WN WS KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines Lufthansa German Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines Allegiant Air Hawaiian Airlines United Airlines Virgin Atlantic Airways Southwest Airlines WestJet MEM MEX MFE MIA MKE MSP MSY MTY NAS OAK OGG OKC OMA Memphis, TN Mexico City, Mexico McAllen, TX Miami, FL Milwaukee, WI Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN New Orleans, LA Monterrey, Mexico Nassau, Bahamas Oakland, CA Kahului – Maui, HI Oklahoma City, OK Omaha, NE CHS CLE CLT CMH CUN CVG CZM DAL DCA DEN DFW DSM DTW ECP ELP EUG EWR FLL FRA FSD GRR HNL HOU HRL IAD IAH IND JAX JFK LAS LAX LBB LGA LGB LHR LIR MAF MBJ MCI MCO MDW Charleston, SC Cleveland, OH Charlotte, NC Columbus, OH Cancun, Mexico Cincinnati, OH Cozumel, Mexico Dallas, TX Washington Reagan, DC Denver, CO Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX Des Moines, IA Detroit, MI Panama City, FL El Paso, TX Eugene, OR Newark, NJ Ft. Lauderdale, FL Frankfurt, Germany Sioux Falls, SD Grand Rapids, MI Honolulu, HI Houston Hobby, TX Harlingen, TX Washington Dulles, DC Houston Intercontinental, TX Indianapolis, IN Jacksonville, FL New York JFK, NY Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CA Lubbock, TX New York – LaGuardia, NY Long Beach, CA London, UK Liberia, Costa Rica Midland/Odessa, TX Montego Bay, Jamaica Kansas City, MO Orlando, FL Chicago Midway, IL Kazanoff, submitted Jan. 2, 2024 ONT ORD ORF PBI PDX PHL PHX PIT PSP PUJ PTY PVR PVU RDU RNO RSW SAF SAN SAT SDF SEA SFB SFO SGF SJC SJD SJU SLC SMF SNA SRQ STL TPA TSM TUL TYS VPS XNA YUL YVR YYC YYZ Palm Beach, FL Portland, OR Philadelphia, PA Phoenix, AZ Pittsburgh, PA Palm Springs, CA Punta Cana, Dominican Rep. Panama City, Panama Puerto Vallarta, Mexico Provo, UT Ontario, CA Chicago O’Hare, IL Norfolk, VA Raleigh-Durham, NC Reno, NV Ft. Myers, FL Santa Fe, NM San Diego, CA San Antonio, TX Louisville, KY Seattle, WA Sanford, FL San Francisco, CA Springfield, MO San Jose, CA San Jose del Cabo, Mexico San Juan, Puerto Rico Salt Lake City, UT Sacramento, CA Orange County, CA Sarasota, FL St. Louis, MO Tampa, FL Taos Tulsa, OK Knoxville, TN Valparaiso, FL Fayetteville, AR Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada