United States and Canada route updates – April 2024
New Pacific Airlines
New Pacific Airlines announced it will cease regular flights as of April 5th. At the moment, the company only operates between Ontario and Nashville with its Boeing 757-200, after suspending the route from Ontario to Reno on March 22nd. The airline will focus exclusively on charter flights in order to continue operations and improve profitability. The airline has been offering charters for the last couple of months, but in a mix with regular flights. New Pacific’s scheduled operations have been running for less than a year, since their start-up was in July 2023.
Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian Airlines began with the certification flights of its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner before its entry into service (N781HA).
As we reported in our March report, the company added its first Dreamliner on February 14th, after arriving in Honolulu from Charleston.
Hawaiian will launch regular operations with the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner starting April 15th on the Honolulu – San Francisco – Honolulu route, where it will have seven weekly services.
Air Canada
At 20:35 local time on March 28th, Air Canada’s inaugural flight from Toronto landed in Charleston. The company will offer daily service with 76-seat Embraer 175 aircraft.
Charleston becomes Air Canada’s 41st destination in the United States to/from Toronto Pearson.
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Air Canada routes between Toronto and USA
Air France
The airline launched services between Paris and Denver on Sunday, March?31st, which will be available year-round. Previously, Air France operated this route on a seasonal basis.
As a result, Denver reaches its fourth connection to Europe, after Frankfurt, London Heathrow and Munich.
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Air France routes between Paris CDG and United States
Alaska Airlines
Beginning October 1st, Alaska will commence flights to Las Vegas from Santa Rosa Airport (STS). Based on its website, the company will have seven operations per week on 76-seat Embraer 175s.
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On this route, Alaska Airlines will be competing with Avelo, where it offers four weekly on Boeing 737-700 aircraft.
American Airlines
The company inaugurated on March 28th its regular services to Tulum. American will operate four routes to the Mexican city, all with Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets, in accordance with its website.
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American Airlines was the first carrier to launch international flights to the airport. Later that day, Delta began operations between Atlanta and Tulum, but we will focus more on the Mexican airport’s international expansion in the next report, Latin America.
Avelo Airlines
Houston, St. Louis and Traverse City, the airline’s new destinations in New Haven.
Avelo will start flights to these three cities in mid-June, which will be offered with Boeing 737-700 and Boeing 737-800 planes under the following schedule:
St. Louis · effective June 13th
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Houston · effective June 14th
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Traverse City · effective June 15th
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Current Avelo Airlines routes from/to New Haven
Puerto Rico (charter)
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Canada Jetlines
The Canadian carrier will inaugurate scheduled services between Toronto Pearson and Miami as of June 29th. Operations will be carried out with Airbus A320-200 with 180 seats, once a week.
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Las Vegas (LAS) and Orlando (MCO) are the low cost’s current connections to the United States from Toronto, with 2 and 4 weekly respectively.
Delta Air Lines
Between November and December, Delta will expand its operations in Hawaii, with the opening of a new route as well as an increase in frequencies on two current ones.
Boston will be the airline’s new connection from/to Honolulu, and will boost services to Salt Lake City and Seattle.
Salt Lake City · effective November 6th (1 to 2 daily)
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Boston · November 21st
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Seattle · effective December 21st (2 to 3 daily)
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Flair
Guadalajara and Quebec City, the Canadian company’s new destinations to/from Vancouver and Toronto.
These flights, according to its website, will start in May, and will be operated on Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with capacity for 189 passengers in single class.
Quebec City · May 6th
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Guadalajara - from May 31st
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Frontier
The carrier continues its development in Puerto Rico after it confirmed the launch of two new routes from/to San Juan.
New York JFK and Newark will be the next additions, beginning in June.
JFK · June 6th
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Newark · June 28th
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Level
The Spanish low cost airline, part of the IAG Group, commenced its flights between Barcelona and Miami on Sunday, March 31st. Services will be operated using Airbus A330-200s with 311 and 314 seats, depending on the aircraft configuration.
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*Sundays: it will depart from Barcelona at 15:50 and 22:30 from Miami.
Level’s routes between Barcelona and the U.S.
Seasonal operations between Barcelona and San Francisco were resumed last March 31st.
Southwest
Effective October, Southwest Airlines confirmed the addition of three new routes in the United States. The operations will be conducted on Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.
Sun Country Airlines
On March 22nd, Sun Country inaugurated flights between Minneapolis and Atlanta. The carrier will not have a regular schedule on this route, so check the Sun Country Airlines website for more information (flight SY 1627/1628).
These are the airline’s planned U.S. connections to/from Minneapolis over the next 7 days.
Aruba
Belize
Cayman Islands
Costa Rica
Dominican Republic
Honduras
Jamaica
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In June, Sun Country will start operations from Minneapolis to Montreal and Toronto.
United Airlines
As of March 30th, the company changed its services on the Washington – Cape Town route. According to our database, United ceased flights with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, being replaced by the Boeing 777-300(ER).
The carrier’s 787-9s have 252/257 seats, and the 777s used on this route can accommodate 350 passengers.
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United Airlines began marketing its new flights between Newark and Marrakech (Morocco), as we reported in our Africa and Middle East report. To see the schedule, please click here.
New aircraft deliveries
Since March 14th until the end of the month, 15 new planes were delivered from the factory, among the following airlines:
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Author: Sebastián Polito