July 22, 2024

Themes of the Week

• AeroMexico added two new U.S. routes.
• Las Vegas wins again with new flights from AA and Delta (and it wasn’t just CES additions!).
• United added college football flights and Notre Dame fans are the biggest winners.

Upcoming

• American, Skywest and Southwest have earnings calls this week.
• Reminder that SCASD applications are due July 25 at 4 PM Eastern. Also remember to submit:
• SF-LLL and SF-424 forms, as well as the Summary Form. Reach out with any questions.
• Our next Airport Roundtable has six airlines confirmed and will be hosted by AVL in September; mark your calendars and RSVP here.

Capacity Update

For a detailed view of capacity changes by airline and route click here.

AeroMexico

• Filed two new routes: ATL to Manzanillo (ZLO) with once weekly service on an E-190 starting in November and EWR to Mexico City (MEX) with once daily service on a 737 MAX 8 starting in October.

Aerus (ZV)

• Announced and filed new routes from Monterey, MX (MTY) to BRO and CRP starting in September.

Alaska (AS)

• Reduced December capacity 5% week over week.
• CLE to SEA was directionally (westbound) suspended from January 6 through February 12. A tag route has been added from CLE to PIT for the same period.

American (AA)

• Increased capacity in December 3% week over week.
• Resumed JFK to LAS with once daily service from November onward. Service was last regularly scheduled in November 2022.

Contour (LF)

• Filed new service from ORD to Cape Girardeau, MO (CGI), replacing BNA service.
• Filed new service from DFW to Tupelo, MS (TUP) starting in November.
• Filed new service from ORD to Ft. Leonard Wood, MO (TBN) starting in October.

Delta (DL)

• Filed new once weekly service from DTW to Tulum, MX (TQO) in January through March.
• Added Consumer Electronic Show (CES) January flights to LAS from: Amsterdam (AMS), Paris (CDG), FLL, Seoul (ICN), London (LHR), MCO, MIA and SJC.
• Resumed LAS to SNA with twice daily service starting in January. Delta last served the market in April 2020. Frontier, Southwest and Spirit currently serve the route.
• Resumed LAX to Mazatlán (MZT) with twice weekly service from December through March. Delta last served the route in January 2017.
• Added additional Green Bay Packer NFL football flights for the fall.

JetBlue (B6)

• Last week, JetBlue filed BOS and FLL to HDN as restricted flights in Cirium schedules via Diio Mi. This week they were re-filed as regular scheduled flights.

Frontier (F9)

• Reduced September capacity by 6% week over week.
• Seasonally suspended 13 routes in September through early October.

Southwest

• Added DAL to DTW for the Texas at Michigan football game on September 7.

United

• Filed 10 additional routes for college football this fall.
• Suspended Guam (GUM) to Fukuoka, Japan (FUK) from October 27 onward.
• Suspended IAD to PDX from January 7 through March 5.

VivaAerobus

• Filed flights to Mexico City's newer airport (NLU) in December from DEN, DFW, LAX, MCO, MIA and ORD. There were only select flights added.

WestJet

• Removed MCO and TPA to YHM from future schedules.
• Suspended SNA to YVR from October 26 through April.
• Suspended BNA to YYC from November 15 through December.

Note 1: Schedule information presented in the Weekly Airline Schedule Summary comes from what is loaded in Cirium schedules via Diio Mi and may not reflect what airlines are selling.?

Note 2: The Weekly Airline Schedule Summary and linked Capacity Summary are not intended to be an all-inclusive source for every schedule change made every week.

United States Capacity by Carrier

North America Airline 2Q Earnings Calls

Air Canada - TBA Guidance

Alaska - Transcript

Allegiant - Wednesday, July 31, 2024 4:30 PM Eastern Link

American - Thursday, July 25, 2024 8:30 AM Eastern Link This week

Delta - Transcript

Frontier – TBA

Hawaiian - Tuesday, July 30, 2024 4:30 PM Eastern Link

JetBlue – Tuesday, July 30, 2024 10:00 AM Eastern Link

Skywest - Thursday, July 25, 2024 12:30 PM Eastern Link This week

Southwest – Thursday, July 25, 2024 12:30 PM Eastern Link This week

Spirit – TBA

Sun Country - TBA

United – Transcript

Please reach out if you are interested in purchasing our detailed recap of the earnings calls.

Airport Camp of the Week - Lehigh Valley International Airport (ABE)

ABE hosted a Junior Fire Camp recently for 12 area kids. They learned fire safety skills and got to participate in some amazing live drills!

TSA Update

July 1-21 is at 105.6% of 2023 levels.

Aviation News

The Americas

• Alaska Airlines cuts 2 routes, suspends another as it pushes into leisure markets July 17, 2024
• Alaska avoids US airline industry’s second-quarter stumbles July 17, 2024
• Higher costs and low base fares send Delta's profit down 29%. The airline still earned $1.31 billion July 11, 2024????????????
• United Airlines says it saw capacity glut coming, and prepared for it July 17, 2024

Other

• Lessons to Learn from Airline Mergers July 17, 2024