20250611-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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June 2025 Air Service Snapshot AUS quarterly seat comparisons, Q2 2025 and Q3 2025 (calendar year) compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) in left chart, and compared to year-over-year (YOY) 2024 in right chart: Source: Cirium schedule data as of May 26, 2025. Highlights of recent air service announcements/developments include: • Aeromexico reverted back to 1x B737 for Aug 18 ‘25 – Dec 17 ’25 as opposed to 2x E190; this is a 16% capacity reduction and due to downturn in U.S. demand • 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 – Sept ‘25; AC extended YUL 3/Wk for Oct 25 ’25 – Mar 27 ‘26 (now year- round v seasonal only) • Allegiant 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; extended schedules for Nov 19 ’25 – Feb 10 ’26 and will serve 7 markets: AVL, CVG, DSM, GRR, PVU, SRQ & TYS • American summary of service changes: o AA will serve 13 markets from AUS in Q2 2025 with 20% reduction in seat capacity YOY; will serve 13 markets from AUS in Q3 2025 with 22% reduction in seat capacity YOY o Service for college football games: CMH (Aug 29/31) GNV (Oct 3/5) LEX (Nov 17/19) ATL (Nov 14/16) & XNA (Nov 21/23) o Service for EPIC IGM Conf: MSN (outbound Aug 17/return Aug 21) • 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 • Delta summary of service changes: o New markets: IND, JAX & MEM (eff. May 7 ’25), SFO & TPA (eff. June 8 ’25), CUN (eff. Dec. 20 ’25), SJD (Dec. 20 ’25 – Jan. 5 ’26) and PSP (Nov 8 ‘25 – April 12 ’26) o College football service: GNV for weekend of Oct. 3 ’25, LEX for Oct. 17 ’25 weekend, and XNA for Nov. 21 ’25 weekend o HRL last op. on June 7 ’25 but MAF will increase 2x->3x eff. June 8 ’25 • Frontier new service to MIA 3/Wk and PHL 3/Wk eff. May 22 ’25; new service to SAN (4/Wk eff June 13 ’25); new SAN 4/Wk service eff. June 13 ’25; extended schedules for Aug 19 ’– Nov 19 ‘25 and will serve 11 markets: ATL, CLE, CVG, DEN, LAS, MCO, MIA, ORD, PHL, PHX & SAN • KLM AMS will be served 3/wk in 2025 except for June which has 5/wk • Lufthansa downgauged FRA from 294-seat B787-9 to 255-seat A330 for Mar. 31-Oct. 25 ’25; will serve FRA on Tues/Thur/Sun instead of Mon/Thur/Sat for the winter season eff. Oct. 26 • Southwest summary of service changes: 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 ORD service will be discontinued after Nov. 1 ’25 o Southwest daily departures for 2025-2026 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 1 106 April 8 - June 4 12 117 June 5 - Aug. 4 2 90 Aug. 5 - Oct. 1 4 112 Oct. 2 - Nov. 1 15 101 Nov. 2 - Jan. 5 (10) 76 93 62 72 73 (7) 118 4 112 105 1 112 7 121 120 125 112 128 121 1 2 15 6 4 5 3 (3) o Extended schedules for Jan 6-26 ’26, ranging from 53 departures on Saturdays (+6 YOY) to 109 departures on Sundays and MLK weekend (+3 YOY) • Spirit will add DTW on June 12 ’25 with 4/Wk • WestJet YYC returned to AUS on May 12 ’25 and increased from twice weekly to three times weekly frequency for the 2025 season; YVR service is cancelled for 2025 and will not start on May 11 ’25 due to downturn in U.S. demand June ‘25 v June ‘24 (down 5 destinations based on monthly schedules): • o + destinations: JAX, MEM & MKE o – destinations: BZN, CZM, EUG, FSD, HNL, OMA, SDF & VPS New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025: Source: Cirium schedule data as of May 26, 2025. June air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data. June 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: 12.6% of AUS passengers in Q4 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, CY 2024 Top 10 AUS Domestic Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: CY 2024 DOT O&D Survey) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Honolulu (HNL) Richmond (RIC) Hartford (BDL) Boise (BOI) Ft. Myers (RSW) Norfolk (ORF) Bozeman (BZN) Buffalo (BUF) Birmingham (BHM) 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 Frontier Airlines Allegiant Air 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 Top 10 AUS International Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Mar. 2025 FM Traffic) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Paris (CDG) Rome (FCO) San Jose (SJO) Seoul (ICN) Sao Paulo (GRU) Dublin (DUB) Madrid (MAD) Barcelona (BCN) Tokyo (HND) Liberia (LIR) HA KL LH NK SY UA VB WN WS Hawaiian Airlines KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines Lufthansa German Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines United Airlines VivaAerobus Southwest Airlines WestJet 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 PIT PSP PUJ PTY PVR PVU RDU RNO RSW SAN SAT SDF SEA SFB SFO SGF SJC SJD 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 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 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 MSN 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 Madison, WI Submitted June 2, 2025