September 26, 2022
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This week, Air Canada and Spirit added new routes while Alaska, Spirit, and United made system-wide reductions to their schedules, citing pilot shortages as an issue for many of the routes.??
Balloons of the Week - Huntsville International Airport!
Congrats to HSV on winning our Balloons of the Week award for their Breeze inaugural flight to LAS on September 9!
If your airport has used balloons to celebrate an inaugural, new route announcement or anything fun, send a picture to [email protected] so you can be featured!
Capacity Update
To see all market cancels for each airline, please click?here.??
Alaska?cancelled 25 routes in April and/or May.?They removed three routes from all future schedules: MSY to PDX and SFO; and Paine Field (PAE) to TUS.???
Air Canada?cancelled IAH to YYC from October through April.?They filed two new routes: Halifax, Nova Scotia (YHZ) to EWR and YVR to IAH starting December 16.??
Air Transat?is resuming Moncton (YHM) to MCO in February after being suspended since March 2020.??
American?cancelled ORD to YUL from January through April 3; LAX to MEX from January 10 through February 15; and DAB to DFW From April through May.??
Contour?won Essential Air Service (EAS) contracts in four markets that United Express had been serving and filed their routes this week in??Clarksburg (CKB),?Greenbriar/Lewisburg (LWB),?Paducah (PAH), and?Staunton (SHD).?These contracts begin in November and December and are worth over $22 million for the first year of service.?
Delta?cancelled six routes between December and May.
Flair?cancelled 14 Canada to U.S. routes from March or May onward.
Frontier?cancelled LAS to ORD from November 4 through December 5.??
Southern Airways?was?approved?to switch their EAS service in El Centro (IPL)?from LAS to PHX starting October 1.??
Spirit?cancelled 45 routes between November and January.?Spirit?added?two new flights from LGA starting November 1: CLT and IAH.??
United?removed 11 routes from all future schedules. They cancelled 18 other routes between January and August.?They filed their summer seasonal service.?No new service but MSO to ORD was up-gauged from E-175s to A-319s.??
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United also filed the exits of EAS markets CKB, LWB, PAH, and SHD.?These exits have already been previously reported in the chart below. One market that we had omitted previously was Newport News (PHF) with Delta leaving the market in May 2020. This brings the total number of U.S. market exits by American, Delta, and United to 63.?
Domestic United States Capacity By Carrier
August On-Time Performance
Jet Fuel Prices
TSA Update
September is currently at 94.8% of 2019 levels.??
Aviation News From the Past Week
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