Airport Advisory CommissionJuly 9, 2025

20250709-003 July 2025 Air Service Snapshot — original pdf

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July 2025 Air Service Snapshot AUS quarterly seat comparisons, Q3 2025 and Q4 2025 compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) in leE chart, and compared to year-over-year (YOY) 2024 in right chart: Source: Cirium schedule data as of June 20, 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 only a 16% capacity reducIon 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 returned at 4/wk and increased to 5/wk for June – Sept ‘25; extended YUL 3/Wk for Oct 25 ’25 – Mar 27 ‘26 (now year-round) • 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 Q3 2025 with 23% reducIon 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) • BriOsh Airways downgauged LHR #1 from A350-1000 (331 seats) to B777-200ER (272 seats) starIng 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) o SJD originally planned as daily from Dec 20 ’25 - Jan 5 ’26, will be extended through April 12 ‘26 o PSP will be served seasonally from Nov 8 ‘25 – April 12 ’26, increasing from Saturday only to daily from Dec 20 ’25 - March 7 ’26, and on March 8 will go back to Saturday only through April 25 ’26 o ECP decreased from daily to Saturday only from Jan 5 - March 8 ‘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 • FronOer 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 with 5/wk • LuEhansa 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 effecIve Oct. 2 ’25 o Added SDF for UT football (outbound Oct 17 ‘25/inbound Oct 19 ‘25) o ORD service will be disconInued amer 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 added DTW on June 12 ’25 with 4/Wk • • WestJet YYC returned to AUS on May 12 ’25 and increased from twice weekly to three Imes 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 July ‘25 v July ‘24 (down 5 desOnaOons based on monthly schedules): • o + desInaIons: JAX, MEM & MKE o – desInaIons: BZN, CZM, EUG, FSD, HNL, OMA, SDF & VPS New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025: Source: Cirium schedule data as of May 26, 2025. July air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data. July 2025 v. 2024 carrier seat share comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data. AUS ConnecOng Traffic Trends: Based on U.S. DOT O&D Passenger Survey, Cirium FM Traffic and ABIA staIsIcs: 12.6% of AUS passengers in Q4 2024 were connecIng between flights at the Airport. One-Way DomesOc Fares for U.S. Medium & Large Hub Airports Source: U.S. DOT, O&D Survey, CY 2024 Top 10 AUS DomesOc Markets Top 10 AUS InternaOonal Markets Without Nonstop Service Without Nonstop Service (Source: CY 2024 DOT O&D Survey) (Source: YE Mar. 2025 FM Traffic) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Honolulu (HNL) Richmond (RIC) Harrord (BDL) Boise (BOI) Ft. Myers (RSW) Norfolk (ORF) Bozeman (BZN) Buffalo (BUF) Birmingham (BHM) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Paris (CDG) Rome (FCO) San Jose (SJO) Seoul (ICN) Sao Paulo (GRU) Dublin (DUB) Madrid (MAD) Barcelona (BCN) Tokyo (HND) 10 Savannah (SAV) 10 Liberia (LIR) AUS Airline Codes: AA AC AM AS B6 BA CM DL F9 G4 American Airlines Air Canada Aeromexico Alaska Airlines JetBlue Airways BriIsh Airways Copa Airlines Delta Air Lines FronIer Airlines Allegiant Air Airport Codes: HA KL LH NK SY UA VB WN WG WS Hawaiian Airlines KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines Lumhansa German Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines United Airlines VivaAerobus Southwest Airlines Sunwing Airlines WestJet 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 HNL Albuquerque, NM Amarillo, TX Amsterdam, Netherlands Anchorage Atlanta, GA Asheville, NC Harrord, CT Birmingham, AL Nashville, TN Boise, ID Boston, MA Burbank, CA BalImore, MD Charleston, SC Cleveland, OH Charlote, NC Columbus, OH Cancun, Mexico CincinnaI, 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 Honolulu, HI MEM Memphis, TN 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 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 Pitsburgh, 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 Seatle, WA Sanford, FL San Francisco, CA Springfield, MO SJC SJD SJU SLC SMF SNA SRQ STL TPA TUL TYS VPS YUL YVR YYC YYZ 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 HOU HRL IAD IAH IND JAX JFK LAS LAX LBB LGA LGB LHR LIR MAF MCI MCO MDW Houston Hobby, TX Harlingen, TX Washington Dulles, DC Houston InterconInental, 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 Submi‘ed June 26, 2025 Kazanoff