United States and Canada route updates – March 2024
Highlights
?
Canadian ultra-low-cost airline Lynx Air confirmed the cessation of operations on February 26th due to financial difficulties. Lynx Air had inaugurated services in April 2022, operating 9 Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft by August of the following year.
The carrier was part of Indigo Partners, a company that currently has investments in Frontier (United States), JetSMART Airlines (Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Perú), Volaris (México) and Wizz Air (Hungary).
Aeromexico
The Mexican airline will inaugurate a new route to the United States starting July 1st.
Aeromexico will operate to Tampa (TPA) from Mexico City with 99-seat Embraer 190s. According to its website, the carrier will offer one service a day between the two cities.
Daily
With respect to other Mexican cities, jetBlue currently has a daily flight between Tampa and Cancún with Airbus A320 aircraft.
Air Canada
As of May?1st, Air Canada Express will expand its service between Toronto and Charlotte. The airline will reach three flights per day, as can be seen through its website.
New flight · Daily
?Daily
Daily
In addition, Air Canada added a new Boeing 787-9 to its fleet in February.
Air Transat
The Canadian company will maintain its operations between Montreal and Liberia, Costa Rica, year-round.
Flights were initially scheduled during the high season, but will continue on a weekly basis effective May (on Sundays):
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday (currently)
Alaska Airlines
From October 1st, Alaska will offer services between Portland and Atlanta. Operations will be performed on 174-seat Boeing 737-900(ER) aircraft.
Daily
?Delta is the only company with flights between the two cities (20 times a week with the same jets).
Allegiant
The ultra-low-cost airline announced the first destinations for its new 737 MAXs.
Allegiant plans to have 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8-200s by the end of this year, with the first ones expected to be added in the short term.
Orlando Sanford
Punta Gorda
?
St. Petersburg
American Airlines
The company confirmed the launch of flights between New York and Tokyo Haneda beginning June 28th. According to the press release, American will offer daily service on Boeing 777-200(ER) aircraft with capacity for 273 passengers.
American Airlines will be the only U.S. carrier to fly non-stop between JFK and Tokyo.
The new JFK–HND service will be American’s fourth daily non-stop operation to HND, joining existing daily service from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and two daily flights from Los Angeles (LAX).
Daily
?
“American looks forward to launching flights between JFK and HND this summer,” said Brian Znotins, American’s Senior Vice President of Network and Schedule Planning. “This new service will complement flights offered by our joint business partner, Japan Airlines, giving more ways for our customers travel between the U.S. and Japan.”
In addition, American Airlines announced orders for 260 new aircraft, including Airbus A321neo, Boeing 737 MAX 10 and Embraer E175 jets.
The orders also include options and purchase rights for an additional 193 airplanes. As part of the Boeing order, American has expanded 30 existing 737 MAX 8 orders to 737 MAX 10 aircraft.
Avelo
The carrier, which just opened a new base at Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport, has announced the commencement of four routes to/from Santa Rosa (STS) beginning in May:
Flights are now on sale on Avelo’s website, and this will be the schedule:
Kalispell · May 1st
Wednesday and Saturday
Pasco · May 1st
Wednesday and Saturday
Boise · May 2nd
Thursday and Sunday
Salem · May 3rd
Monday and Friday
Current Avelo routes from/to STS (and the new destinations)
Breeze
The airline has confirmed it will launch three new routes from Manchester, New Hampshire. Two of these will begin in June, and the other in October.
Canada Jetlines
On June 2nd, the airline will inaugurate two new routes to/from Halifax, a domestic and an international one. Jetlines will operate with 180-seat Airbus A320-200s twice per week.
Toronto – Halifax – Orlando
Wednesday and Sunday
Orlando – Halifax – Toronto
Monday and Thursday
Delta Air Lines
Effective May 6th, Delta will resume its third daily flight between Atlanta and London Heathrow. The airline currently operates two services a day on this route, using Airbus A330-300 and Boeing 767-400(ER) aircraft.
The third service will be during the summer season.
Daily
?
Daily
?
领英推荐
New flight · Daily · Boeing 767-400(ER)
?
Delta Air Lines routes from/to London LHR
FedEx
The company added a new Boeing 767-300(F) during February, bringing the total number of aircraft in its fleet to 495.
This Boeing 767, as you can see in the chart below, is registered N259FE and came new from the factory.
Federal Express currently has 137 Boeing 767-300(F) airplanes in its fleet, of which 133 are in service.
Fleet
?
The average age of the fleet is 19 years old.
Frontier
Effective May, Frontier will have a major expansion in Cincinnati and Cleveland, with the start of new routes. Operations will be carried out on the 186-seat Airbus A320neo:
Cincinnati
?
Cleveland
Hawaiian
Last February 14th, Hawaiian Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The aircraft, registered as N781HA, departed Charleston on the 14th at 17:23 local time, arriving in Honolulu 10 hours and 10 minutes later (still on February 14th).
Hawaiian’s 787s will have a 300-passenger configuration, featuring the newest premium product, the Leihōkū.
As announced, Hawaiian Airlines will inaugurate scheduled flights with the 787-9 Dreamliner on April 15th, when it will begin operating the daily non-stop Honolulu-San Francisco service, and will later be joined by the N780HA, scheduled for delivery and naming next month.
Both aircraft will operate Hawaiian’s Honolulu-Los Angeles (HA3) service beginning May 15th, and Honolulu-Phoenix flights starting May 16th.
Lynx Air
Canadian ultra low cost carrier Lynx Air ceased operations on February 26th at 00:01 local time. Lynx Air had nine Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in its fleet and routes within Canada and some international connections to the United States.
According to the published statement, the airline stopped flying due to financial difficulties:
“Tremendous work was put into the growth and expansion of Lynx Air over the past two years, offering Canadians a low-cost, seamless travel experience for Canadians. However, the compounding financial pressures associated with inflation, fuel costs, exchange rates, cost of capital, regulatory costs and competitive tension in the Canadian market have ultimately proven too steep a mountain for our organization to overcome. It is with a heavy heart we leave the skies. We hope in our absence that our vision to Inspire More Canadians to Fly leaves its mark on our passengers”.
Lynx Air’s last inauguration was on February 15th, with the Toronto – Cancún route. It scheduled a daily flight between both cities.
Historic fleet
Porter Airlines
Beginning in June, Porter Airlines will inaugurate service to Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s easternmost province, in the Atlantic region of the country.
Deer Lake · Dash 8-Q400 · June 4th
Daily
St. John’s NFLD · Embraer E-2 · June 6th
Daily
Furthermore, the company began operations between Toronto and Las Vegas last March 5th. Porter will have a daily flight under the following schedule:
Daily
Spirit
The airline confirmed the addition of new routes within the United States starting in May. These will be:
On the flipside, Spirit will cancel the following connections:
Sun Country
Beginning August 8th, Sun Country Airlines will launch two new routes to/from Minneapolis. The operations will be carried out with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Sun Country surpasses the 100 connections offered from Minneapolis (although not all are made at the same time).
United Airlines
The airline will operate two daily frequencies between Newark and Porto starting next May 23rd. Initially, United had planned one flight a day on this route, which is operated during the summer season, as it is seasonal.
Schedule · eff May 23rd
Daily
Daily · new
United Airlines will fly with Boeing 757-200s.
Following the focus on Portugal, United offers service to Lisbon from Newark and Washington.
Newark
Daily
?
As of March 10th, departures will be at 21:35 from EWR and will arrive in Newark 14:25.
Washington
Daily
WestJet
Last March 1st, WestJet resumed its seasonal flights between Toronto and Dublin. As can be seen in our database, the Canadian carrier will perform a daily service with 174-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.
Daily
?
Effective March 10th, operations will depart Toronto Pearson Airport 23:45 local time and arrive at 16:00 local time at YYZ.
WestJet routes to/from Europe (currently)
Calgary
Toronto
Summary of new aircraft to airlines in March 2024 so far
The following airlines have added new jets to their respective fleets:
?
*On February 2nd, the aircraft flew out of Charleston bound for Birmingham, and on the 15th from BHX to Toronto YYZ.
Take a look at our updates for February 2024
?