20250812-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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August 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 July 21, 2025. Highlights of recent air service announcements/developments include: • Aeromexico reverted back to 1x B737 from Aug 18 ‘25 onwards as opposed to 2x E190 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 22% reducfon 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) o Service for Masters: AGS on April 6, 11 and 14 • BriNsh Airways 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 • • FronNer new service to MIA 3/Wk and PHL 3/Wk started May 22 ’25; new service to SAN 4/Wk started 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; extended schedules for Nov 20 ’25 – Jan 6 ’26 and will serve same 11 markets JetBlue added 2x FLL service starfng Nov 20 ’25 with 162-seat A320 (last served April 30, 2024) • • 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 effecfve Oct. 2 ’25 o Added SDF for UT football (outbound Oct 17 ‘25/inbound Oct 19 ‘25) o ORD service will be disconfnued 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): 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) o Extended schedules for Jan 27-March 4 ’26, ranging from 53 departures on off-peak Saturdays (+6 YOY) to 118 departures on peak days (+4 YOY) • Spirit added DTW on June 12 ’25 with 4/Wk; extended schedules for Nov 19 ’25 – March 3 ’26 and will serve 6 markets: DTW, EWR, FLL, LAS, LAX & MCO • United service for college football games: CMH (Aug 29 weekend) and XNA (Nov 21 weekend) • WestJet YYC returned to AUS on May 12 ’25 and increased from twice weekly to three fmes 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 • August ‘25 v August ‘24 (down 5 desNnaNons based on monthly schedules): o + desfnafons: JAX, MEM & MKE o – desfnafons: BZN, CZM, EUG, FSD, HNL, OMA, SDF & VPS New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025: Destination San Francisco, CA (SFO) Tampa, FL (TPA) Detroit, MI (DTW) San Diego, CA (SAN) San Francisco, CA (SFO) Jacksonville, FL (JAX) Cancun, Mexico (CUN) Cabo San Lucas (SJD) Palm Springs, CA (PSP) Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL) Airline Delta Delta Spirit Frontier Southwest Southwest Delta Delta Delta JetBlue Start Date 6/8/2025 6/8/2025 6/12/2025 6/13/2025 8/5/2025 10/2/2025 12/20/2025 12/20/2025 11/8/2025 11/20/2025 Type Year-round Year-round TBD TBD Year-round Year-round Seasonal Seasonal Seasonal TBD Other Airlines Serving the Route Alaska & United Southwest Delta Alaska & Southwest Delta & United Delta American & Southwest American & Southwest New Route Southwest & Spirit Source: Cirium schedule data. August air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of July 21, 2025. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data. August 2025 v. 2024 carrier seat share comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of July 21, 2025. AUS ConnecNng Traffic Trends: Based on U.S. DOT O&D Passenger Survey, Cirium FM Traffic and ABIA stafsfcs: 14.1% of AUS passengers in Q1 2025 were connecfng between flights at the Airport. One-Way DomesNc Fares for U.S. Medium & Large Hub Airports Source: U.S. DOT, O&D Passenger Survey, YE Q1 2025. Top 10 AUS DomesNc Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Q1 2025, DOT O&D Survey) Top 10 AUS InternaNonal Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Apr. 2025, FM Traffic) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Honolulu (HNL) Harrord (BDL) Richmond (RIC) Boise (BOI) Ft. Myers (RSW) Norfolk (ORF) Bozeman (BZN) Birmingham (BHM) Buffalo (BUF) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Paris (CDG) San Jose (SJO) Rome (FCO) Seoul (ICN) Sao Paulo (GRU) Dublin (DUB) Madrid (MAD) Tokyo (HND) Liberia (LIR) 10 Savannah (SAV) 10 Barcelona (BCN) AUS Airline Codes: AA AC AM AS B6 BA American Airlines Air Canada Aeromexico Alaska Airlines JetBlue Airways Brifsh Airways CM Copa Airlines DL F9 G4 Delta Air Lines Fronfer 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 Albuquerque, NM MEM Memphis, TN ABQ AMA AMS ANC ATL AVL BDL Amarillo, TX Amsterdam, Netherlands Anchorage Atlanta, GA Asheville, NC Harrord, CT BHM Birmingham, AL BNA BOI BOS BUR BWI CHS CLE CLT Nashville, TN Boise, ID Boston, MA Burbank, CA Balfmore, MD Charleston, SC Cleveland, OH Charlote, NC CMH Columbus, OH CUN CVG CZM DAL DCA DEN DFW DSM DTW ECP ELP EUG EWR Cancun, Mexico Cincinnaf, 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 MEX MFE MIA MKE MSN MSP MSY MTY OAK OGG OKC 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 OMA Omaha, NE ONT ORD ORF PBI PDX PHL PHX PIT PSP PUJ PTY PVR PVU RDU RNO RSW SAN 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 SAT SDF SEA SFB SFO SGF SJC SJD SJU SLC SMF SNA SRQ STL TPA TUL TYS VPS YUL YVR YYC YYZ San Antonio, TX Louisville, KY Seatle, 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 FLL FRA FSD GNV GRR HNL HOU HRL IAD IAH IND JAX JFK LAS LAX LBB LGA LGB LHR LIR MAF MCI MCO Ft. Lauderdale, FL Frankfurt, Germany Sioux Falls, SD Gainesville, FL Grand Rapids, MI Honolulu, HI Houston Hobby, TX Harlingen, TX Washington Dulles, DC Houston Interconfnental, 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 MDW Chicago Midway, IL Submi‘ed Aug 3, 2025 Kazanoff