20240313-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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March 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 Air Canada will resume service to YVR on May 1 with 3/Wk; added 4th weekly YVR for June 6‐Oct 25; dropped YVR flights on Thursdays in October; will start new nonstop service to YUL eff. May 3 with 4 weekly flights on A220‐300 (137 seats); AC downgauged YYZ from 169‐seat 737 MAX8 to 137‐seat A220‐300 from June 15 – July 31, and will switch back on Aug 1 with the 169 seat 737 MAX8 Alaska dropped plans for seasonal BOI service from May 16 – Aug 19; BOI is now discontinued; suspended SJC from Mar 14 – April 1; discontinued SJC after April 11 Allegiant extended schedules for May 15 ’24 – Aug. 13 ’24 and will serve 18 markets; new 2/Wk service to EUG starts May 31 ’24; G4 extended schedules for Aug. 14 ‘24 – Nov. 12 ’24 and will serve 10 markets American summary of 2024 service pulldown: o Discontinued ABQ, BZN, CVG, CZM, EGE, ELP, IAD, JAX, MBJ, MCI, MEM, OKC, RSW, SMF, TPA &TUL o PUJ – last flight Mar. 30; LIR – last flight April 2 o NAS – will operate in Mar. but April‐Aug. flights dropped o PVR – last flight April 3; RNO – will resume May 6 o Suspended RDU from Feb 1 through April 4; suspended IND, MSY & PSP for March o Added Saturday only service to ECP and VPS for June 8 – August 3 o Will end ASE service this Summer on August 5 instead of September 3 o Added 3 roundtrips to AGS in April for the Masters and 2 roundtrips to SDF in May for the Kentucky Derby Delta will add BNA 3x MAF 3x & MFE 3x eff. April ‘24; also increase 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 LAS 5/Wk; loaded new CLE service for May 16 ‐ Aug 11 Hawaiian added HNL 4th weekly flight 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 seats) and the B777‐200ER (288 seats) from June 3 – October 26 Lufthansa brought back the B787‐9 (294 seat) starting Jan. 15 and will increase service to 5/Wk on June 5 Southwest Saturday only service to SJU starts Mar 9; extended schedules for June 4 – Aug. 4 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; loaded SDF flights on May 2 & 5 for Kentucky Derby; extended schedules for Oct 3 – Nov 2 and will be up from 118 departures in Oct’23 to 125 departures Oct’24 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 VivaAerobus will start new MTY service eff. Mar 22 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 March ‘24 v March ‘23 (down 8 destinations): o + destinations: OMA, PIT, PTY & SJU o – destinations: BZN, EGE, JAX, MBJ, MEM, MTY, PSP, RNO, RSW, SDF, SRQ, VPS New AUS Nonstop Service for 2024 March 2024 v. 2023 air service comparison: Current AUS air service: March 2024 v. 2023 carrier seat share comparison: AUS Connections data: 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 AS B6 BA CM DL F9 G4 American Airlines Air Canada Aeromexico Alaska Airlines JetBlue Airways British Airways Copa Airlines Delta Air Lines Frontier Airlines Inc. Allegiant Air List of AUS Airport Codes: ABQ AMA AMS ANC ATL AVL BDL BHM BNA BOI BOS BUR BWI CHS CLE CLT 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 Charleston, SC Cleveland, OH Charlotte, NC HA KL LH NK SY UA VB VS WN WS KLM‐Royal Dutch Airlines Lufthansa German Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines Hawaiian Airlines United Airlines VivaAerobus Virgin Atlantic Airways Southwest Airlines WestJet MEM MEX MFE MIA MKE MSP MSY MTY NAS OAK OGG OKC OMA ONT ORD ORF 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 Ontario, CA Chicago O’Hare, IL Norfolk, VA 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 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 Feb 27, 2024 PBI PDX PHL PHX PIT PSP PUJ PTY PVR PVU RDU RNO RSW 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 Raleigh‐Durham, NC Reno, NV Ft. Myers, FL 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