20250409-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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April 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 for June 26-August 17 ‘25; both flights will be operated with 99-seat E190 for a 24% capacity increase instead of the 1x daily 160-seat B737, which will return on August 18 ‘25 • 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; upgauged YYZ from 168-seat Rouge A320 to 196-seat Rouge A321 for July 31 – Aug 31 ‘25 • Allegiant closed its AUS crew base on January 7 ‘25 so 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 GRR 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, RSW, SMF, SNA, TPA, TUL & VPS o AA will serve 13 markets from AUS in Q2 2025 with 20% reduction in seat capacity YOY o Added AGS roundtrips on April 6, 11 & 14 ’25 for the Masters 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) & CUN (eff. Dec. 20 ’25) o Added AGS roundtrips in April ‘25 for the Masters golf tournament and GNV for weekend of Oct. 3 ’25 for college football o HRL will last op. on June 7 ’25 but MAF will increase 2x->3x eff. June 8 ’25 • 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; new service to SAN (4/wk eff. June 13 ’25) • Hawaiian last day of nonstop HNL service was March 26, ‘25 • KLM AMS will be served 3/wk in ’25 except for June with 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 operated on Saturdays for Nov. 23 ‘24– Mar. 1 ’25 o New year-round weekday MKE service started on March 6 ’25, and new seasonal 3/wk RNO service started 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 and SFO daily service eff. Aug. 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 72 120 125 112 128 106 117 90 112 4 5 (3) • Spirit will add DTW on June 12 ’25 with 4/wk • Viva 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 • April ‘25 v April ‘24 (down 4 destinations based on monthly schedules): o + destinations: CLE, MFE, MTJ & RNO o – destinations: CZM, FSD, HNL, LIR, OMA, PSP, SFB & YYC April air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data. New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025: Destination Chicago-O'Hare, IL (ORD) Milwaukee, WI (MKE) Orlando, FL (MCO) Reno, NV (RNO) Cincinnati, OH (CVG) Phoenix, AZ (PHX) Panama City, FL (ECP) Indianapolis, IN (IND) Jacksonville, FL (JAX) Memphis, TN (MEM) Vancouver, Canada (YVR) Miami (MIA) Philadelphia (PHL) San Francisco, CA (SFO) Tampa, FL (TPA) Detroit, MI (DTW) San Diego, CA (SAN) San Francisco, CA (SFO) Jacksonville, FL (JAX) Cancun, Mexico (CUN) Source: Cirium schedule data. Current AUS air service: Airline Frontier Southwest Frontier Southwest Frontier Frontier Delta Delta Delta Delta WestJet Frontier Frontier Delta Delta Spirit Frontier Southwest Southwest Delta Start Date 3/6/2025 3/6/2025 3/6/2025 3/6/2025 3/7/2025 3/7/2025 3/9/2025 5/7/2025 5/7/2025 5/7/2025 5/11/2025 5/22/2025 5/22/2025 6/8/2025 6/8/2025 6/12/2025 6/13/2025 8/5/2025 10/2/2025 12/20/2025 Type TBD Year-round TBD Seasonal TBD TBD Year-round Year-round Year-round Year-round Seasonal TBD TBD Year-round Year-round TBD TBD Year-round Year-round Seasonal Other Airlines Serving the Route American, Southwest & United New Route Delta, Southwest & Spirit New Route Allegiant & Delta American & Southwest American & Southwest Allegiant & Southwest New Route New Route Air Canada American & Southwest American Alaska & United Southwest Delta Alaska & Southwest Delta & United Delta American & Southwest Source: Cirium schedule data. April 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) Top 10 AUS International Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Dec. 2024 FM Traffic) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Paris (CDG) Rome (FCO) Liberia (LIR) Seoul (ICN) San Jose (SJO) Sao Paulo (GRU) Dublin (DUB) 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 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 DAL DCA DEN DFW DSM DTW ECP ELP EUG EWR FLL FRA FSD GNV GRR HNL HOU HRL IAD IAH IND JAX JFK LAS LAX LBB LGA LGB LHR LIR MAF MCI MCO MDW Submitted March 25, 2025 Kazanoff 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 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 Long Beach, CA London, UK Liberia, Costa Rica Midland/Odessa, TX Kansas City, MO Orlando, FL Chicago Midway, IL 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