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March 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: Source: Cirium schedules (as of February 23, 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; downgauged YUL from 168-seat B737-MAX8 to 136-seat A319 for July 1 ’26 – September 8 ‘26 • Allegiant summary of service changes: 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 o Schedules for August 19-November 17 ‘26 and will serve 6 markets: AVL, CVG, DSM, GRR, PVU & TYS; special event service to GFK & LAS • American summary of service changes: o AA will serve 11 markets in Q1 2026 (including special events) with seats down 0.3% YoY; 13 markets in Q2 2026 (including special events) with seats up 0.4% 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) o Service to CLE, CMH and TYS in September for UT college football • 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: CMH & MCI (eff. June 7 ’26); Sat. only BZN, FCA & 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; extended schedules for May 21 ’26 – Sept 8 ’26 and will serve ATL, DEN, LAS, & MCO • KLM AMS will be served 3/wk loaded in 2026, 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 • Porter loaded new YYZ service 5/Wk eff. May 21 ‘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 Schedules for Oct. 1-31 ’26 including new service to MEM (daily xSat), STS (Sat), TYS (Sat) & VPS (Sat); 135 departures on Mon/Thur/Fri is a new record o Kentucky Derby flights to SDF loaded on April 30 ’26 and May 3 ‘26 o Added CLE service for UT college football on September 11-13 ’26; also TYS on Sept. 25-27 ’26 • 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; reduced FLL from 2x->1x for April 16 ’26 – September 8 ‘26 • Viva new nonstop service to Mexico City - Felipe Ángeles International Airport (NLU) is temporarily on hold, no firm start date • WestJet first flight for 2026 is now on Thursday May 14; will end YYC on Sept 10 instead of Oct 22 and will only serve the market 2/wk instead of 3/wk • March ‘26 v March ‘25 (up 2 destinations based on monthly schedules): o + destinations: HDN, JAX, MEM, PNS, PSP, RSW & YUL o – destinations: AVL, CLE, HNL, OMA & TYS New AUS Nonstop Service for 2026: Source: Cirium schedule data. March air service comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of February 23, 2026. Current AUS air service: Source: Cirium schedule data as of February 23, 2026. March 2026 v. March 2025 carrier seat share comparison: Source: Cirium schedule data as of February 23, 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 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 GCM GNV GRR HDN HOU HRL IAD IAH IND 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 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 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 JAX JFK LAS LAX LBB LGB LHR MAF MCI MCO 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 Orlando, FL Submitted Feb 25, 2026 STL STS TPA TUL TYS YUL YVR YYC YYZ St. Louis, MO Santa Rosa, CA Tampa, FL Tulsa, OK Knoxville, TN Montreal, Canada Vancouver, Canada Calgary, Canada Toronto, Canada