20250312-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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March 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 Added MEX #2 daily effective June 26 ‘25; 2x daily 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 and 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; extended schedules for Sept. 3 – Nov. 18 ’25 and will serve 6 markets: AVL, CVG, DSM, GR,R PVU & TYS • 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 & VPS o AA will serve 14 markets from AUS in Q1 2025 (a 27% reduction in seat capacity YoY) o Added AGS roundtrips on April 6, 11 & 14 ’25 for the Masters Golf o Added SDF flights on May 1 and 4 ’25 for Kentucky Derby • 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 except Sunday); second frequency in Summer 2025 (March 20-Oct. 25 ‘25) will be mix of B787-8 and -9 • Copa added flights on March 9, 16 & 23 ’25 (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 & TPA (eff. June 8 ’25) o Added AGS roundtrips in April ‘25 for the Masters golf tournament and CMH for weekend of Aug. 29 ’25 for college football • Frontier 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); announced new service to MIA 3/Wk and PHL 3/Wk eff. May 22 ‘25 • Hawaiian last day of nonstop HNL service will be March 26, ‘25 • KLM AMS will be served 3/wk in ’25 except for June which 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-Oct. 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; added SDF flights on May 1 & 4, ’25 for Kentucky Derby o BOS will be served daily eff. June 5 ‘25 o Added new daily service to SFO effective August 5 ‘25 o Added new 6/Wk service to JAX effective Oct. 2 ’25 o Southwest daily departures for 2025 shown below (128 daily departures for Oct. 2-Nov. 1 is a new record for Southwest at AUS): Daily Departures Time Period Mon/Thur/Fri YoY Chg Tues/Wed YoY Chg Sat YoY Chg Sun YoY Chg 1 April 8 - June 4 12 June 5 - Aug. 4 2 Aug. 5 - Oct. 1 4 Oct. 2 - Nov. 1 (7) 118 4 112 105 1 112 (10) 76 1 93 2 62 15 72 106 117 90 112 120 125 112 128 4 5 (3) • VivaAerobus increased MTY from 3/Wk-4/WK for Jan 8 ’25 – Mar 26 ’25; upgauged 4/Wk MTY eff. Feb. 17 ‘25 from to 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; announced new 3/Wk service to YVR eff. May 11 ’25 • March ‘25 v March ‘24 (down 2 destinations based on monthly schedules): o + destinations: CLE, MFE, MKE & RNO o – destinations: CZM, FSD, LIR, NAS, PUJ & SFB New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025: Source: Cirium schedule data. March air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data. March 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 Q3 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) 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 Top 10 AUS International Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Nov. 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) 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 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 JAX JFK LAS LAX LBB LGA 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 Jacksonville, FL New York JFK, NY Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CA Lubbock, TX New York – LaGuardia, NY 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 LGB LHR LIR MAF MCI MCO MDW Kazanoff Feb. 26, 2025 submittal Long Beach, CA London, UK Liberia, Costa Rica Midland/Odessa, TX Kansas City, MO Orlando, FL Chicago Midway, IL TUL TYS VPS YUL YVR YYC YYZ Tulsa, OK Knoxville, TN Valparaiso, FL Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada