20240214-003 Air Service Update — original pdf

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February 2024 Air Service Snapshot AUS monthly seat comparisons, September ‘23 – June ‘24, compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) (chart one), and compared to previous year (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; 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; discontinued SJC after April 11  Allegiant extended schedules for May 15 – Aug. 13 ’24 and will serve 18 markets; new 2/Wk service to EUG starts May 31 ‘24  American summary: o Will end ABQ, ELP, IAD, MCI, RSW, SMF at the end of January instead of middle of February o BZN – service dropped for Feb. 17 – Mar. 30, no other service was filed except 3 departures in Dec ‘23/Jan ‘24 o CVG, JAX, MEM–will not resume on Feb. 15 as planned, last op was on Jan. 7 o CZM – last flight was Jan. 6 o EGE – last flight was Feb. 10 instead of Mar. 17 o LIR – last flight is April 2 o MBJ – all service dropped for March and June-August o OKC– last flight is Feb. 12 o NAS – will operate in March but April-Aug. flights dropped o PUJ – last flight is Mar. 30 o PVR – last flight is April 3 o RNO – will resume May 6 instead of Feb. 15 (already cut Jan. 8-Feb. 14) o RSW – last flight is Feb. 14 instead of May 5 o TPA – last flight is Feb. 14 o TUL – service will not resume on Feb. 15 as planned (already cut Nov. 4 ’23 -Feb. 14 ‘24), last op. was Nov. 3 ‘23 o VPS - will not operate June-Sept. o Suspended RDU from Feb 1 through Mar 4 o Added 3 roundtrips to AGS in April for the Masters o Added 2 roundtrips to SDF in May for the Kentucky Derby  Delta new 1x daily nonstop service to LAS & MCO started on Oct 9 ’23; will add BNA 3x, MAF 3x, & MFE 3x eff. April ‘24; also increasing CVG 1x→2x & RDU 2x→3 same day; added AGS roundtrips on April 10 & 15 for the Masters golf tournament  Frontier extended schedules for April 10-Aug 12 and will serve DEN 1x daily, LAS 5/Wk  Hawaiian added HNL from 3 → 4 weekly flights for May 25 – Sept 2  KLM will use the 318-seat B787-10 for April 1 – June 1 instead of the 275-seat B787-9 (16% increase in  Lufthansa will bring back the B787-9 (294 seat) starting Jan. 15 ’24 and will increase service to 5/Wk on seats) June 5 ’24  Southwest summary: o Saturday only service to SJU starts Mar 9 ’24 o Reductions for Jan 8 – 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 o Extended schedules for June 4 – Aug. 4 ’24  YOY increase to BUR, CUN, DEN, MCO, PHX, SMF, TPA  BOS service returns  DAL, FLL & STL slightly reduced  no VPS service in ’24 o 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 extended schedules for May 8 – Aug 6 and will serve EWR 1x, FLL 1x, LAS 1x, LAX 1x, MCO 1x; suspended EWR & LAX from Mar 20 – April 10  Virgin Atlantic last day of LHR operation was 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 (same as March & April); dropped MTY flights on Wednesdays in April  WestJet will resume YYC service on Apr 28 ‘24  February ‘24 v February ‘23 (down 12 destinations): o + destinations: OMA (G4), PIT (WN) & PTY (CM) o – destinations: BZN (AA), CZM (AA), ECP (AA), EGE (AA), JAX (AA), MBJ (AA), MEM (AA), MTJ (WN), MTY (NK), NAS (AA), RNO (AA), RSW (AA), SDF (G4), SRQ (G4), VPS (AA) New AUS Nonstop Service for 2024 February 2024 v. 2023 air service comparison: Current AUS air service: February 2024 v. 2023 carrier seat share comparison: Based on U.S. DOT O&D Passenger Survey, Cirium, FM Traffic and ABIA statistics: 15.8% of ABIA passengers in Q3 2023 were connecting between flights at the Airport. The following is a list of the top ten domestic and international AUS connecting markets for Q3 2023: One-Way Domestic Fares for U.S. Medium & Large Hub Airports (Source: U.S. DOT, O&D Survey, YE Q3 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 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