October 21, 2024

Themes of the Week

• The DOT awarded five DCA slots: American to SAT, Alaska to SAN, Delta to SEA, Southwest to LAS and United to SFO.
• Frontier cut capacity in January.
• United’s back in Butte-ness, connecting Denver to Big Sky Country.

Upcoming Events

• American and Southwest have their earnings calls on Thursday.

Capacity Update

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

Aeroméxico (AM)

• Resumed Mexico City, MX (MEX) to PHX in March. They last served the market in January 2009.

American (AA)

• Removed CLT to GEG and ORD to RNO from future schedules. They were previously scheduled to return for summer seasonal service in 2025.
• Suspended ORD to Puerto Vallarta, MX (PVR) from May 5 onward.

Avelo (XP)

• Suspended BUR to LAS from November 11 onward.

Delta (DL)

• Added additional college football flights for the 2025 season for the Alabama/Wisconsin game.
• Further suspended the resumption of the JFK to Tel Aviv, Israel (TLV) flight until April.

Frontier (F9)

• Reduced January capacity 11% week over week with the seasonal suspension of 41 routes in January.

Hainan (HU)

• Last week Hainan added BOS to Brussels, Belgium (BRU) flights and this week it was confirmed they are adding the BRU flight as a tech stop to Beijing. Thank you to Seth Miller for sending the DOT filing !

United (UA)

• Resumed BTM to DEN from January onward. United last served the market in July 2022.

Xiamen (MF)

• Suspended JFK to Fuzhou, China (FOC) directionally from November through February and added JFK to Hangzhou, China (HGH) as a restricted flight directionally, for the same time period. On their website they have a statement that this will be a tech stop. They still offer service in both directions to FOC. Here is their winter schedule filing that also shows the tech stop.

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

3Q 2024 Airline Earnings Calls

Air Canada - Friday, November 1 8:00 AM Eastern Link

Alaska - TBA

Allegiant - Wednesday, October 30 4:30 PM Eastern Link

American - Thursday, October 24 8:30 AM Eastern Link

Delta - Transcript

Frontier - Tuesday, October 29 11:30 AM Eastern Link

Hawaiian - TBA

JetBlue - Tuesday, October 29 10:00 AM Eastern Link

Skywest - Thursday, October 31 4:30 PM Eastern Link

Southwest -Thursday, October 24: 12:30 PM Eastern Link

Spirit - TBA

Sun Country - TBA

United - Transcript

TSA Update

October 1-20 is at 100.0% of 2023 levels.

Dogs and Chicks of the Week

This week RSW introduced their WOOF program, Watching Over Our Friends K-9 therapy program. The mini pilot hats are amazing.

ABE had their annual Customer Appreciation Day. The day featured music, free snacks and giveaways. Did you know that Just Born Factory, the maker of Peeps, is in Bethlehem?