20240410-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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April 2024 Air Service Snapshot AUS monthly seat comparisons, October ‘23 – July ‘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 & will start new service to YUL eff. May 3 ’24 • Alaska dropped seasonal BOI service; suspended SJC from Mar 14 – April 1 & disc. after April 11 • Allegiant new 2/Wk service to EUG starts May 31 ’24 • American summary of 2024 service pulldown: o Discontinued ABQ, BZN, CVG, CZM, EGE, ELP, IAD, JAX, MBJ, MCI, MEM, NAS, OKC, PUJ, RSW, SMF, TPA &TUL o LIR – last flight April 2; PVR – last flight April 3; RNO – will resume May 6 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 started BNA 3x MAF 3x & MFE 3x; also increased CVG 1x→2x & RDU 2x→3 same day; added AGS roundtrips on April 10 & 15 for the Masters golf tournament • 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 JetBlue will discontinue FLL after April 30 seats) and the B777-200ER (288 seats) from June 3 – October 26 • Lufthansa brought back the B787-9 (294 seat) starting Jan. 15 ’24 and will increase service to 5/Wk on June 5 ’24 for the Summer season • Southwest Sat. only SJU service started Mar 9 ’24; loaded SDF flights on May 2 & 5 for Kentucky Derby • VivaAerobus started new MTY service eff. Mar. 22 ‘24 • WestJet will resume YYC service on Apr 28 ‘24 • April ‘24 v April ‘23 (down 8 destinations based on sample week schedule): o + destinations: AGS, OMA, PIT, PTY & SJU o – destinations: CZM, JAX, LIR, MBJ, MEM, NAS, PUJ, PVR, RNO, RSW, SDF, SRQ, VPS New AUS Nonstop Service for 2024 April 2024 v. April 2023 air service comparison: Current AUS air service: April 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 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 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 List of AUS Airport Codes: ABQ AMA AMS ANC ATL AVL BDL BHM BNA BOI BOS BUR BWI 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 JFK LAS LAX LBB LGA LGB LHR 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 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 New York JFK, NY Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CA Lubbock, TX New York – LaGuardia, NY Long Beach, CA London, UK MEX MFE MIA MKE MSP MSY MTY NAS OAK OGG OKC OMA ONT ORD ORF 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 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 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 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 LIR MAF MCI MCO MDW Liberia, Costa Rica Midland/Odessa, TX Kansas City, MO Orlando, FL Chicago Midway, IL Kazanoff, March 25, 2024 VPS XNA YUL YVR YYC YYZ Valparaiso, FL Fayetteville, AR Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada