20250108-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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January 2025 Air Service Snapshot AUS quarterly seat comparisons, Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) in left chart, and Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 compared to year over year (YOY), 2024, in right chart: 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 on Oct. 28 ’24 • Air Canada will serve YUL May 2 – Oct. 24 ’25, and YVR May 1 – Oct. 25 ’25; YVR will return at 4/wk and increase to 5/wk for June – September ‘25; AC upgauges YYZ from A319 (136 seats) to A320 (168 seats) eff. May 1 ‘25 • Allegiant will close its AUS crew base on January 7 ‘25 - service is permanently cancelled to BZN, FSD, SDF & SNA; extended schedules for Feb 12 – May 13 ’25 and will serve 6 markets: AVL CVG DSM GRR PVU & TYS; extended schedules for May 14 – Sept. 2 ’25 and will serve 12 markets: AVL CVG DSM GRR IAD IND LAS PIT PVU SFB SRQ & TYS (G4 served 18 markets in 2024 during this same time period). • American summary of 2024/2025 service changes: o Discontinued ABQ, BNA, BOS, BZN, CVG, CZM, EGE, ELP, IAD, IND, JAX, LAS, LIR, MBJ, MCI, MCO, MEM, MSY, NAS, OKC, PUJ, PSP, PVR, RDU, RNO, RNO, RSW, SMF, SNA, TPA & TUL o Suspended SJD from Jan 7’ 25 – Feb 12’ 25 o AA will serve 13 markets from AUS in Q1 2025 with 27% reduction in seat capacity YOY o Added MSY service for Super Bowl on Feb 6, 7 & 10 2025 o Following flights added for college football games: ▪ XNA roundtrip on Nov 15 & 17 ’24 ▪ LEX-AUS on Nov 22 ’24 and AUS-LEX on Nov 24 ‘24 ▪ AUS-ATL on Dec. 31 and return on Jan. 1 for Peach Bowl • British Airways downgauged LHR #1 from A350-1000 (331 seats) to B777-200ER (272 seats) starting March 29 ‘25; added LHR #2 daily, eff. Mar. 31 ‘25 which will operate 6/Wk (all days but Sunday); second frequency in Summer 2025 (March 20-October 25 2025) will be mix of B787-8 and -9 • Delta summary of service changes: o New markets: MSY (eff. Feb. 27 ’25), ECP (eff. Mar. 9 ’25), IND, JAX & MEM (eff. May 7 ’25), SFO & TPA (eff. June 8 ’25) o Added AGS roundtrips in April ‘25 for the Masters golf tournament o Added service for college football games for the following weekends in 2024: FLL on Nov. 7; Gainesville (GNV) & TPA on Nov. 9; XNA on Nov. 16; Lexington (LEX) on Nov. 23; and, Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP) on Dec. 20; CMH added for weekend of Aug. 29, 2025 • Frontier started new ATL service on Oct. 11 ’24 3/Wk; announced new service to CVG (2/Wk eff Mar. 7 ‘25) ORD (3/Wk eff. Mar. 6 ‘25) MCO (3-6/Wk eff. Mar. 6 ‘25) & PHX (2/Wk eff. Mar. 7 ‘25) • Hawaiian last day of nonstop HNL service will be March 26, ‘25 • • KLM 275-seat B787-9 returned on October 28 ’24, AMS-AUS will be served 3/wk in ’25 except for June JetBlue last JFK flight was October 26 ’24 and service is now discontinued which will have 5/wk • Lufthansa extended the B787-9 service for Oct. 28 ‘24– Mar. 29 ’25 (IATA winter season) with 3/Wk; downgauged FRA from 294-seat B787-9 to 255-seat A330 for Mar. 31-Aug. 30 ‘25 • Southwest summary of service changes: o OMA will operate on Saturdays for Nov. 23 ‘24– Mar. 1 ’25 o New year-round weekday MKE service starts on March 6 ’25, and new seasonal 3/Wk RNO service starts on March 6 ‘25 o Extended schedules for April 8 ’25 – June 4 ‘25: 120 flights on Mon/Thur/Fri (down 3 YOY), 106 on Tues/Wed (down 10 YOY), 76 on Sat (down 7 YOY) & 118 on Sun (up 10 YOY) o Extended schedules for June 5 ’25 – August 4 ’25: 125 flights on Mon/Thur/Fri (flat YOY), 117 on Tues/Wed (up 1 YOY), 93 on Sat (up 4 YOY) & 112 on Sun (up 12 YOY); BOS will be served daily o Extended schedules for Aug. 5 ’25 – Oct. 1 ’25: 112 flights on Mon/Thur/Fri (up 4 YOY), 90 on Tues/Wed (up 2 YOY), 62 on Sat (no chg.) & 105 on Sun (up 2 YOY) o Added new daily service to SFO effective August 5 ‘25 • Spirit extended schedules for April 9 ‘25 through May 21 ‘25 and will serve EWR (1x), FLL (5/Wk), LAS (5/Wk), LAX (1x) & MCO (5/Wk) • United added college football service to Greenville-Spartanburg (GSP) on Dec. 20 weekend • VivaAerobus increased MTY from 3/Wk-4/WK for Jan 8 ’25 – Mar 26 ’25; upgauged MTY from 180-seat A320 to 240-seat A321 from Oct. 18 ‘24; downgauged MTY starting Dec ‘25 from A321s to A320s (240 seats to 180 seats), 25% reduction in capacity • WestJet YYC will return to AUS on May 12 ’25 and increases from twice weekly to three times weekly frequency for the 2025 season o Announced new 3/Wk service to YVR eff. May 11 ’25 • January ‘25 v January ‘24 (down 8 destinations based on monthly schedules): o + destinations: CLE, MFE, MTY & SJU o – destinations: BZN, CZM, EGE, FSD, JAX, LIR, MEM, PSP, PUJ, RNO, RSW & SDF New AUS Nonstop Service for 2024/2025: Source: Cirium schedule data. January air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data. January 2025 v. 2024 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: 15.7% of AUS passengers in Q2 2024 were connecting between flights at the Airport. One-Way Domestic Fares for U.S. Medium & Large Hub Airports Source: U.S. DOT, O&D Survey, YE Q2 2024 Top 10 AUS Domestic Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Q2 2024 DOT O&D Survey) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Richmond (RIC) Boise (BOI) Ft. Myers (RSW) Hartford (BDL) Birmingham (BHM) Louisville (SDF) Colorado Springs (COS) Norfolk (ORF) Bozeman (BZN) Savannah (SAV) Top 10 AUS International Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Sept 2024 FM Traffic) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Paris (CDG) Liberia (LIR) Rome (FCO) Seoul (ICN) San Jose (SJO) Dublin (DUB) Sao Paulo (GRU) Barcelona (BCN) Madrid (MAD) Tokyo (HND) 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 Allegiant Air Frontier Airlines 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 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 GNV GRR GSP HNL HOU HRL IAD IAH IND JAX JFK LAS LAX 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 Gainesville, FL Grand Rapids, MI Greenville-Spartanburg, SC 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 MEM MEX MFE MIA MKE MSN MSP MSY MTY 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 SJO SJU SLC SMF SNA SRQ STL TPA 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 Memphis, TN Mexico City, Mexico McAllen, TX Miami, FL Milwaukee, WI Madison, WI Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN New Orleans, LA Monterrey, Mexico 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 Jose, Costa Rica San Juan, Puerto Rico Salt Lake City, UT Sacramento, CA Orange County, CA Sarasota, FL St. Louis, MO Tampa, FL LBB LEX LGA LGB LHR LIR MAF MCI MCO MDW Lubbock, TX Lexington, KY New York – LaGuardia, NY Long Beach, CA London, UK Liberia, Costa Rica Midland/Odessa, TX Kansas City, MO Orlando, FL Chicago Midway, IL TUL TYS VPS XNA YUL YVR YYC YYZ Tulsa, OK Knoxville, TN Valparaiso, FL Fayetteville, AR Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada