20240508-003 Air Service Report — original pdf

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May 2024 Air Service Snapshot v 2 with sourced charts labeled AUS monthly seat comparisons, October ‘23 – August ‘24, compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) (chart one) and compared to previous year (chart two): Source: Cirium schedule data. Highlights of recent air service announcements/developments include:  Aeromexico upgauged MEX service from 99-seat E190 to 160-seat B737-800 for June 21– Aug. 19 ‘24  Air Canada will resume service to YVR on May 1 ’24 & will start new service to YUL eff. May 3 ’24; reduced YVR from 4/Wk to 3/Wk for June-August; upgauged YYZ aircraft for June & July from A319 (136 seats) to Rouge A320 (168 seats)  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, LIR, MBJ, MCI, MEM, NAS, OKC, PUJ, PVR, RSW, SMF, TPA &TUL o RNO – will resume May 6 o Added Saturday only service to ECP and VPS for June 8 – August 3 o Added 3 roundtrips to AGS in April for the Masters and 2 roundtrips to SDF in May for the Kentucky Derby September  Copa upgauged PTY from 737-800 (154-166 seats) to MAX9 with lie flat seats (174 seats) for May-  Delta started BNA 3x MAF 3x & MFE 3x; 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 discontinued 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; SDF flights on May 2 & 5 for Kentucky Derby  Spirit suspended LAX for December ’23 forward  VivaAerobus started new MTY service eff. Mar. 22 ‘24  WestJet resumed YYC service on Apr 28 ‘24  May ‘24 v May ‘23 (down 2 destinations based on monthly schedules): o + destinations: BZN, CLE, EUG, MFE, OMA, PTY, SJU, YUL o – destinations: CZM, JAX, LIR, MBJ, MEM, NAS, PUJ, PVR, RSW, VPS New AUS Nonstop Service for 2024: Source: Cirium schedule data. May air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data.  Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data. May 2024 v. 2023 carrier seat share comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data. AUS Connecting Traffic Trends: Based on U.S. DOT O&D Passenger Survey, Cirium FM Traffic and ABIA statistics: 5.9% of AUS passengers in Q4 2023 were connecting between flights at the Airport. 91% of all connections were between domestic markets with the remainder between domestic and international markets. One-Way Domestic Fares for U.S. Medium & Large Hub Airports (Source: U.S. DOT, O&D Survey, CY 2023): Top 10 AUS Domestic Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: CY2023 DOT O&D Survey) Milwaukee (MKE) 1 Richmond (RIC) 2 Boise (BOI) 3 Hartford (BDL) 4 Birmingham (BHM) 5 Ft. Myers (RSW) 6 Norfolk (ORF) 7 Buffalo (BUF) 8 Savannah (SAV) 9 Colorado Springs (COS) 10 Top 10 AUS International Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: CY2023 FM Traffic) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Paris (CDG) Seoul (ICN) Rome (FCO) San Jose (SJO) Dublin (DUB) Madrid (MAD) Barcelona (BCN) Tokyo (HND) Sao Paulo (GRU) Montego Bay (MBJ) AUS Airline Codes: AA AC AM AS B6 BA CM DL American Airlines Air Canada Aeromexico Alaska Airlines JetBlue Airways British Airways Copa Airlines Delta Air Lines HA KL LH NK SY UA VB VS KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines Lufthansa German Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines Hawaiian Airlines United Airlines VivaAerobus Virgin Atlantic Airways F9 G4 Frontier Airlines Inc. Allegiant Air 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 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 IAH IND JFK LAS LAX Houston Intercontinental, TX Indianapolis, IN New York JFK, NY Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CA WN WS Southwest Airlines WestJet 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 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 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 LBB LGA LGB LHR LIR MAF MCI MCO MDW Lubbock, TX New York – LaGuardia, NY Long Beach, CA London, UK Liberia, Costa Rica Midland/Odessa, TX Kansas City, MO Orlando, FL Chicago Midway, IL TPA TUL TYS VPS XNA YUL YVR YYC YYZ Tampa, FL Tulsa, OK Knoxville, TN Valparaiso, FL Fayetteville, AR Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada