20250212-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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February 2025 Air Service Snapshot AUS quarterly seat comparisons, Q1 2025 and Q2 2025 compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) in left chart, and 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; added MEX #2 effective June 26 ‘25; both flights will be operated with 99-seat E190 for a 24% capacity increase instead of the 1x daily 160-seat B737 • 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 upgauged YYZ from A319 (136 seats) to A320 (168 seats) eff. May 1 ‘25 • Allegiant closed 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 14 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 ‘25 o Added AGS roundtrips on April 6, 11 & 14 ’25 for the Masters • British Airways downgauged LHR #1 from A350-1000 (331 seats) to B777-200ER (272 seats) starting Mar. 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 • Copa added extra flights on March 9, 16 & 23 (Sundays) • 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 o Added AGS roundtrips in April ‘25 for the Masters golf tournament and CMH for weekend of & TPA (eff. June 8 ’25) Aug. 29 ’25 for college football • Frontier 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 will be served 3/wk in ’25 except for June with has 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 Added new daily service to SFO effective August 5 ‘25 o Added SDF flights on May 1 & 4, ’25 for Kentucky Derby 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) • VivaAerobus increased MTY from 3/Wk-4/WK for Jan 8 ’25 – Mar 26 ’25; upgauged 4/Wk MTY eff. Feb. 2 from 180-seat A320 to 240-seat A321neo, 33% more 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 • February ‘25 v February ‘24 (down 1 destination based on monthly schedules): o + destinations: CLE, MFE, MTY & SJU o – destinations: EGE, LIR, PSP, PUJ & PVR New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025: Source: Cirium schedule data. February air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data. February 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: 14.9% 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 Q3 2024 Top 10 AUS Domestic Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Q3 2024 DOT O&D Survey) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Richmond (RIC) Boise (BOI) Ft. Myers (RSW) Hartford (BDL) Louisville (SDF) Colorado Springs (COS) Norfolk (ORF) Birmingham (BHM) Buffalo (BUF) Savannah (SAV) Top 10 AUS International Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Oct. 2024 FM Traffic) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Paris (CDG) Liberia (LIR) Rome (FCO) Seoul (ICN) Dublin (DUB) Sao Paulo (GRU) Barcelona (BCN) Madrid (MAD) Tokyo (HND) Punta Cana (PUJ) 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 Airport Codes: ABQ AMA AMS ANC ATL AVL BDL BHM BNA BOI BOS BUR BWI CHS CLE CLT CMH CUN CVG CZM 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 HA KL LH NK SY UA VB WN WS KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines Lufthansa German Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines Hawaiian Airlines United Airlines VivaAerobus WestJet Southwest Airlines MEM MEX MFE MIA MKE MSN MSP MSY MTY OAK OGG OKC OMA ONT ORD ORF PBI PDX PHL PHX 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 Palm Beach, FL Portland, OR Philadelphia, PA Phoenix, AZ Dallas, TX DAL Washington Reagan, DC DCA Denver, CO DEN Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX DFW Des Moines, IA DSM Detroit, MI DTW Panama City, FL ECP El Paso, TX ELP Eugene, OR EUG Newark, NJ EWR Ft. Lauderdale, FL FLL Frankfurt, Germany FRA Sioux Falls, SD FSD Grand Rapids, MI GRR Honolulu, HI HNL Houston Hobby, TX HOU Harlingen, TX HRL Washington Dulles, DC IAD Houston Intercontinental, TX IAH Indianapolis, IN IND Jacksonville, FL JAX New York JFK, NY JFK Las Vegas, NV LAS Los Angeles, CA LAX Lubbock, TX LBB New York – LaGuardia, NY LGA Long Beach, CA LGB London, UK LHR Liberia, Costa Rica LIR Midland/Odessa, TX MAF Kansas City, MO MCI Orlando, FL MCO Chicago Midway, IL MDW Chicago Midway, IL MDW Kazanoff Jan. 28, 2025 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 TUL TYS VPS YUL YVR YYC YYZ 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 Jose, Costa Rica San Juan, Puerto Rico Salt Lake City, UT Sacramento, CA Orange County, CA Sarasota, FL St. Louis, MO Tampa, FL Tulsa, OK Knoxville, TN Valparaiso, FL Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada