November 4, 2024

Themes of the Week

• American added two new Italy flights, that's amore!
• Southwest added new markets and red-eye flights.
• The DOT announced the winners of the Small Community Air Service Development (SCASD) grants. See below for more details.

Capacity Update

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

American (AA)

• Filed new Italy service: DFW to Venice (VCE) from June 5 through September 1 and ORD to Naples (NAP) from May 7 through October 24
• Removed ORD to VCE from future schedules.
• Filed Super Bowl flights to MSY from BOS in February.
• Filed BOS winter break flights to MCO, PBI and RSW in February.
• Suspended flights from CAE to ORD from January 8 onward.
• Resumed CMH to LAX service from March onward. They last served the market in April 2020.
• Removed JFK to Tel Aviv, Israel (TLV) from future schedules.

Discover (4Y)/Lufthansa (LH)

• Frankfurt, Germany (FRA) to MSP will swap from Lufthansa to Discover service from May 2025 onward. Lufthansa is expected to return to MSP as fleet constraints ease at the carrier.

Southwest (WN)

• Extended their schedule through August 4, 2025.
• Announced and filed new and resumed service in 13 markets starting in June: BNA to PDX and SFO; BOI to MDW (last served November 2023); BWI to LGB, ONT, PDX (last served August 2019), SFO and SJC (last served August 2020); CHS to MCI (last served September 2022); COS to CUN; GEG to MDW (last served October 2021); HOU to SEA (last served August 2019); and JAX to MCI.

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

SCASD Recap

• The 2024 SCASD grant awarded ~$12m in funding to 14 airports. To see a recap of 2024 and prior year winners, click here.
• APAC is very excited for our friends at HSV, MFR and MSO that won their SCASDs!
• 11 out of the 12 winners requested funds to support airline service and all 11 had airline letters of support.
• One winner requested funding for marketing support.
• The grants ranged from $220,000 to $1m.
• Of the 14 winners, there were four Small-Hub airports and ten Non-Hub airports.
• The cash-to-grant ratio ranged from 14% to 300%.
• Letters of support for winners: American four; SkyWest three; Breeze three; United two; Delta one; and Advanced Air/Grand Canyon Airways one.
• Delta wrote a letter of support for the first time in recent years to HSV.
• No states had more than one winner. By region: Northeast 0, Southeast 4, Midwest 4, Southwest 0, Mountain 3, and West 3.

3Q 2024 Airline Earnings Calls

Air Canada - Transcript

Alaska - Q3 Earnings

Allegiant - Transcript

American - Transcript

Delta - Transcript

Frontier - Transcript

JetBlue - Transcript

Skywest - Transcript

Southwest -Transcript

Spirit - TBA

Sun Country - Transcript

United - Transcript

TSA Update

October finished at 101.6% of 2023 levels.