20260114-003 January 2026 Air Service Snapshot — original pdf
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January 2026 Air Service Snapshot AUS quarterly seat comparisons, Q4 2025, Q1 2026, and Q2 2026 compared to 2019 (pre-Covid) in left chart, and compared year-over-year (YoY) in right chart: *Frontier has not finalized schedules yet for Q2 2026 Source: Cirium schedules (as of December 29, 2025). Highlights of recent air service announcements/developments include: • Air Canada extended YUL 3/Wk for Oct 25 ’25 – Mar 27 ‘26 (now year-round); reduced YVR from 5/Wk- >4/Wk May 2- September 7 ‘26 • Alaska will discontinue 2X SFO, last op Jan. 6 ’26; will increase SAN from 3x->4x on Jan. 7 ’26 • Allegiant summary of service changes: 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 o Schedules for May 20-August 18 ’26, will serve 11 markets: AVL CVG DSM GRR IAD LAS PIT PVU SFB SRQ TYS • American summary of service changes: o AA will serve 11 markets in Q1 2026 (including special events) with 2% fewer seats YoY o Service for Masters: AGS on April 6, 11 and 14 o Service to SDF for Kentucky Derby (outbound April 30/return May 3) • British Airways Winter season started Oct. 26 ’25 with 1x daily A350-1000 (331 seats); double daily service returns on March 29 ’26 with 1x A350-1000 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); Saturday only BZN, FCA and VPS (eff. June 13 – Sept. 5 ’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 then back to Saturday only through April 25 ’26 o ECP decreased from daily to Saturday only from Jan 5 - March 8 ‘26 o MAF discontinued after November 8 ’25 o Kentucky Derby service: one SDF roundtrip on April 30 and another on May 3 • Frontier 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 suspend CLE, CVG & PHL; added 4 roundtrips to MSY for Mardi Gras JetBlue added 2x FLL service starting Nov 20 ’25 with 162-seat A320 (last served April 30, 2024); FLL will only operate 1x for Jan 7 ’26 – Feb 11 ’26 • • KLM AMS will be served 3/wk in 2025 except for June with 5/wk; 3/wk loaded for 2026 as well, except 4/wk in June • Lufthansa will serve FRA 3/Wk on Tues/Thur/Sun for the Winter season eff. Oct. 26 ’25 with B787-9; service is loaded with 5/Wk B787-9 for Summer eff. Mar. 29 ‘26 • Southwest summary of service changes: o Southwest daily departures for 2025-2026 shown below: o Schedules for March 5-April 6 ’26: 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 Schedules for April 7 - June 3 ’26; new WN PSP service is maintained on Saturdays o Schedules for June 4 – August 3 ’26; 132 departures on Mon/Thur/Fri is a new record; new service added to CVG and seasonal SEA returns (last served by WN in 2018) o Kentucky Derby flights to SDF loaded on April 30 ’26 and May 3 ‘26 o Added CLE service for UT college football – inbound on September 11 and outbound on September 13 • Spirit extended schedules for April 15 - June 17 ’26 and will serve EWR & FLL; extended schedules for June 18 – September 8 ’26 and will serve EWR & FLL • Viva announced new nonstop service to Mexico City - Felipe Ángeles International Airport (NLU) with 3/Wk starting as early as May 2026 on Tues/Thur/Sat; added additional MTY departures on Jan 1, 3, 8 & 10; added MTY departures on Wednesdays in Feb ‘26 January ‘26 v January ‘25 (up 5 destinations based on monthly schedules): • o + destinations: ECP, JAX, MEM, MKE, PSP, RNO & YUL o – destinations: AVL & HNL New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025 & 2026: Source: Cirium schedule data. December air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of December 18, 2025. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data as of December 18, 2025. January 2026 v. January 2025 carrier seat share comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of December 18, 2025. AUS Connecting Traffic Trends: Based on U.S. DOT O&D Passenger Survey, Cirium FM Traffic and ABIA statistics: 14.5% of AUS passengers in Q2 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 Q2 2025. Top 10 AUS Domestic Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Q2 2025, DOT O&D Survey) 1 Honolulu (HNL) Top 10 AUS International Markets Without Nonstop Service (Source: YE Oct. 2025, FM Traffic) 1 Paris (CDG) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Hartford (BDL) Richmond (RIC) Boise (BOI) Louisville (SDF) Norfolk (ORF) Savannah (SAV) Buffalo (BUF) Birmingham (BHM) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Rome (FCO) Seoul (ICN) Tokyo (HND) Dublin (DUB) Barcelona (BCN) Madrid (MAD) Sao Paulo (GRU) San Jose (SJO) 10 Albany (ALB) 10 Bogota (BOG) 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 KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines Lufthansa German Airlines Spirit Airlines Sun Country Airlines United Airlines Viva Southwest Airlines Sunwing Airlines KL LH NK SY UA VB WN WG WS WestJet Airport Codes: ABQ AMA AMS ANC ATL AVL BDL BHM BNA BOI BOS BUR BWI BZN CHS CLE CLT CMH CUN CVG DAL DCA DEN DFW DSM DTW ECP ELP EWR FCA FLL FRA GNV GRR HDN HOU HRL IAD IAH IND JAX JFK MDW Albuquerque, NM MEM Amarillo, TX MEX Amsterdam, Netherlands MFE Anchorage, AK MIA Atlanta, GA MKE Asheville, NC MSN Hartford, CT MSP Birmingham, AL MSY Nashville, TN MTY Boise, ID NLU Boston, MA OAK Burbank, CA OKC Baltimore, MD OMA Bozeman, MT ONT Charleston, SC ORD Cleveland, OH ORF Charlotte, NC PDX Columbus, OH PHL Cancun, Mexico PHX Cincinnati, OH Dallas, TX PIT Washington Reagan-National, DC PSP PTY Denver, CO PVR Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX PVU Des Moines, IA RDU Detroit, MI RNO Panama City, FL RSW El Paso, TX SAN Newark, NJ SAT Kalispell, MT SDF Ft. Lauderdale, FL SEA Frankfurt, Germany SFB Gainesville, FL Grand Rapids, MI SFO Hayden (Steamboat Springs), CO SJC SJD Houston Hobby, TX SJU Harlingen, TX SLC Washington Dulles, DC SMF Houston Intercontinental, TX SNA Indianapolis, IN SRQ Jacksonville, FL STL New York JFK, NY Chicago Midway, IL Memphis, TN Mexico City, Mexico McAllen, TX Miami, FL Milwaukee, WI Madison, WI Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN New Orleans, LA Monterrey, Mexico Mexico City (Felipe Ángeles), Mexico Oakland, CA Oklahoma City, OK Omaha, NE Ontario, CA Chicago O’Hare, IL Norfolk, VA Portland, OR Philadelphia, PA 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 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 LAS LAX LBB LGB LHR MAF MCI MCO Las Vegas, NV Los Angeles, CA Lubbock, TX Long Beach, CA London (Heathrow), UK Midland/Odessa, TX Kansas City, MO Orlando, FL TPA TUL TYS VPS YUL YVR YYC YYZ Tampa, FL Tulsa, OK Knoxville, TN Valparaiso, FL Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada Kazanoff submitted Dec 30, 2025