20260211-004 Air Service Report — original pdf

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February 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 January 27, 2026). 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 discontinues 2x SFO, last op Jan. 6 ’26; increased 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 seats down 0.3% 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 • Cayman Airways will serve GCM 1x weekly on Sundays from May 24 ’26 to August 16 ‘26 • Copa extended 5th weekly PTY frequency for April – August • Delta summary of service changes: o New markets: CUN (eff. Dec. 20 ’25); CMH & MCI (eff. June 7 ’26); Saturday only BZN, FCA and AVL (eff. June 13 – Sept. 5 ’26) o SJD originally planned as daily from Dec 20 ’25 - Jan 5 ’26, 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 Kentucky Derby service: one SDF roundtrip on April 30 and another on May 3 • Frontier extended schedules for Jan 6 ’26 – March 5 ’26 but will seasonally suspend CLE, CVG & PHL; added 4 roundtrips to MSY for Mardi Gras; extended schedules for March 6 ’26 – April 13 ’26 and will serve ATL, DEN, LAS, MCO, ORD, PHX & SAN; extended schedules for April 14 ’26 – May 20 ’26 and will serve ATL, DEN, LAS, MCO, ORD & PHX JetBlue 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 flights on Jan 1, 3, 8 & 10 • WestJet dropped YYC flights on Mondays for May 11 – June 15, will still operate on Thur & Sun; first flight for 2026 is now on Thursday May 14 • February ‘26 v February ‘25 (up 3 destinations based on monthly schedules): o + destinations: ECP, JAX, MEM, MKE, PSP, RNO & YUL o – destinations: AVL, CLE, HNL & OMA New AUS Nonstop Service for 2025 & 2026: Source: Cirium schedule data. February air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of January 27, 2026. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data as of January 27, 2026. February 2026 v. February 2025 carrier seat share comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of January 27, 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 Nov. 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 Seoul (ICN) San Jose (SJO) Rome (FCO) Tokyo (HND) Dublin (DUB) Sao Paulo (GRU) Madrid (MAD) Liberia (LIR) 10 Albany (ALB) 10 Barcelona (BCN) 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: 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 ABQ AMA AMS ANC ATL AVL BDL BHM BNA BOI BOS BUR BWI BZN CHS Albuquerque, NM Amarillo, TX Amsterdam, Netherlands Anchorage, AK Atlanta, GA Asheville, NC Hartford, CT Birmingham, AL Nashville, TN Boise, ID Boston, MA Burbank, CA Baltimore, MD Bozeman, MT Charleston, SC MDW MEM MEX MFE MIA MKE MSN MSP MSY MTY NLU OAK OKC OMA ONT 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 CLE CLT CMH CUN CVG DAL DCA DEN DFW DSM DTW ECP ELP EWR FCA FLL FRA GCM GNV GRR HDN HOU HRL IAD IAH IND JAX JFK LAS LAX LBB LGB LHR MAF MCI MCO ORD Cleveland, OH ORF Charlotte, NC PDX Columbus, OH PHL Cancun, Mexico PHX Cincinnati, OH PIT Dallas, TX 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 Grand Cayman, C.I. SFO Gainesville, FL Grand Rapids, MI SJC Hayden (Steamboat Springs), CO SJD SJU Houston Hobby, TX SLC Harlingen, TX SMF Washington Dulles, DC SNA Houston Intercontinental, TX SRQ Indianapolis, IN STL Jacksonville, FL TPA New York JFK, NY TUL Las Vegas, NV TYS Los Angeles, CA YUL Lubbock, TX YVR Long Beach, CA YYC London (Heathrow), UK YYZ Midland/Odessa, TX Kansas City, MO Orlando, FL Submitted February 2, 2026 Kazanoff 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 Tampa, FL Tulsa, OK Knoxville, TN Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada