20251008-003 Air Service Report — original pdf
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October 2025 Air Service Snapshot AUS quarterly seat comparisons, Q3 2025, Q4 2025 and Q1 2026 compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) in left chart, and compared to year-over-year (YOY) in right chart: Source: Cirium schedule data as of September 18, 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 summary of service changes: o Extended schedules for May 14 – Sept. 2 ’25 and served 12 markets: AVL CVG DSM GRR IAD IND LAS PIT PVU SFB SRQ & TYS; o Schedules for Sept. 3 – Nov. 18 ’25, will serve 6 markets: AVL CVG DSM GRR PVU TYS; o Schedules for Nov 19 ’25 – Feb 10 ’26, will serve 7 markets: AVL, CVG, DSM, GRR, PVU, SRQ & TYS; o Schedules for Feb 11-May 13 ‘26, will serve 4 markets: CVG, DSM, GRR & PVU • American summary of service changes: o AA will serve 15 markets in Q4 2025 with 5% less seats YOY o Service for college football games: GNV (Oct 3/5) LEX (Nov 17/19) ATL (Nov 14/16) & XNA (Nov 21/23) o Service for Masters: AGS on April 6, 11 and 14 • British 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; 2x service for Summer 2026 starting Mar. 29 with 1x B777-200ER and 1x B787-8 • Copa added 5th weekly PTY flight for Dec ’25 & Jan ’26; extended 5th weekly PTY frequency for April – August • Delta summary of service changes: o New markets: DEN (eff. Nov. 9 ’25); MIA (eff. Nov. 22 ’25), CUN (eff. Dec. 20 ’25); CMH & MCI (eff. June 7 ’26) 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 MAF discontinued after November 8 ’25 o Added flights for Kentucky Derby: one SDF roundtrip on April 30 and another on May 3 • Frontier 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; extended schedules for Jan 6 ’26 – March 5 ’26 but will seasonally suspending CLE & PHL JetBlue added 2x FLL service starting 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 • 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 SFO daily service eff. Aug. 5 ‘25 o Added new 6/Wk service to JAX effective Oct. 2 ’25 o Added SDF for UT football (outbound Oct 17 ‘25/inbound Oct 19 ‘25) o Southwest daily departures for 2025-early 2026 shown below: 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) o Extended schedules for March 5-April 6 ‘26; ranging from 87 departures on Saturdays (+5 YOY) to 129 departures on Mon/Thur/Fri (+5 YOY); includes new Sat only service to HDN and RSW, Sat/Sun service to PSP and daily (xTues/Wed) service to PNS; HDN and RSW are new nonstop markets for AUS; PSP is a new nonstop market for WN o Extended schedules for April 7-June 3 ’26; ranging from 70 departures on Saturdays (-6 YOY) to 126 departures on Mon/Thur/Fri (+6 YOY); new PSP service is maintained on Saturdays • Spirit 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: XNA (Nov 21 weekend) • VivaAerobus announced new nonstop service to Mexico City - Felipe Ángeles International Airport (NLU) with 3/Wk starting Nov. 20 ’25 • 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 • October ‘25 v October ‘24 (up 5 destinations based on monthly schedules): o + destinations: ECP, GNV, JAX, LEX, MEM, MKE & SDF o – destinations: AVL & HNL New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025 & 2026: Destination San Francisco, CA (SFO) Jacksonville, FL (JAX) Cancun, Mexico (CUN) Cabo San Lucas, Mexico (SJD) Palm Springs, CA (PSP) Denver, CO (DEN) Ft. Lauderdale, FL (FLL) Mexico City, Mexico - Felipe Ángeles (NLU) Miami, FL (MIA) Ft. Myers, FL (RSW) Hayden (Steamboat Springs), CO (HDN) Palm Springs, CA (PSP) Columbus, OH (CMH) Kansas City, MO (MCI) Source: Cirium schedule data. October air service comparison: Airline Southwest Southwest Delta Delta Delta Delta JetBlue VivaAerobus Delta Southwest Southwest Southwest Delta Delta Start Date 8/5/2025 10/2/2025 12/20/2025 12/20/2025 11/8/2025 11/9/2025 11/20/2025 11/20/2025 11/22/2025 3/7/2026 3/7/2026 3/7/2026 6/7/2026 6/7/2026 Type Year-round Year-round Seasonal Seasonal Seasonal TBD TBD TBD Year-round Seasonal Seasonal Seasonal TBD TBD Other Airlines Serving the Route Delta & United Delta American & Southwest American & Southwest New Route Frontier, Southwest & United Southwest & Spirit New Route American, Frontier & Southwest New Route New Route Delta Southwest Southwest Source: Cirium schedule data as of September 18, 2025. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data as of September 8, 2025. October 2025 v. 2024 carrier seat share comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of September 18, 2025. AUS Connecting Traffic Trends: Based on U.S. DOT O&D Passenger Survey, Cirium FM Traffic and ABIA statistics: 14.1% of AUS passengers in Q1 2025 were connecting between flights at the Airport. One-Way Domestic Fares for U.S. Medium & Large Hub Airports Source: U.S. DOT, O&D Passenger Survey, YE Q1 2025. Top 10 AUS Domestic Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Q1 2025, DOT O&D Survey) Top 10 AUS International Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE May 2025, FM Traffic) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Honolulu (HNL) Hartford (BDL) Richmond (RIC) Boise (BOI) Norfolk (ORF) Bozeman (BZN) Birmingham (BHM) Buffalo (BUF) Savannah (SAV) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Paris (CDG) San Jose (SJO) Rome (FCO) Seoul (ICN) Dublin (DUB) Sao Paulo (GRU) Tokyo (HND) Madrid (MAD) Liberia (LIR) 10 Colorado Springs (COS) 10 Barcelona (BCN) AUS Airline Codes: AA AC American Airlines KL KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines Air Canada KX Cayman Airways AM Aeromexico LH Lufthansa German Airlines AS B6 BA Alaska Airlines NK Spirit Airlines JetBlue Airways SY Sun Country Airlines British Airways UA United Airlines CM Copa Airlines VB VivaAerobus DL F9 G4 Delta Air Lines Frontier Airlines WN WG Southwest Airlines Sunwing Airlines Allegiant Air WS WestJet Airport Codes: ABQ AMA AMS ANC ATL AVL BDL Albuquerque, NM MDW Chicago Midway, IL Amarillo, TX MEM Memphis, TN Amsterdam, Netherlands Anchorage Atlanta, GA Asheville, NC Hartford, CT MEX MFE MIA MKE Mexico City, Mexico McAllen, TX Miami, FL Milwaukee, WI MSN Madison, WI BHM Birmingham, AL BNA BOI BOS BUR BWI CHS CLE CLT Nashville, TN Boise, ID Boston, MA Burbank, CA Baltimore, MD Charleston, SC Cleveland, OH Charlotte, NC CMH Columbus, OH CUN CVG DAL Cancun, Mexico Cincinnati, OH Dallas, TX MSP MSY MTY NLU OAK OKC Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN New Orleans, LA Monterrey, Mexico Mexico City (Felipe Ángeles), Mexico Oakland, CA Oklahoma City, OK OMA Omaha, NE ONT ORD ORF PBI PDX PHL Ontario, CA Chicago O’Hare, IL Norfolk, VA Palm Beach, FL Portland, OR Philadelphia, PA DCA DEN DFW DSM DTW ECP ELP EUG EWR FLL FRA FSD GNV GRR HDN HNL HOU HRL IAD IAH IND JAX JFK LAS LAX LBB LGB LHR MAF MCI Washington Reagan-National, 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 Hayden (Steamboat Springs), CO 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 Long Beach, CA London (Heathrow), UK Midland/Odessa, TX Kansas City, MO MCO Orlando, FL PHX PIT PSP 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 Phoenix, AZ Pittsburgh, PA Palm Springs, CA 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 Submitted September 19, 2025