Spirit Airlines plans to be at 80% capacity in July
Spirit Airlines is planning to operate around 550 daily flights in July, an aggressive restoration of more than 80% of last year’s scheduled capacity. South Florida-based Spirit’s July schedule will see it resume the bulk of cancelled routes at a host of key airports across the country, including Baltimore-Washington International (BWI); Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW); Las […]
Which Airline Routes are Still in Operation Amid COVID-19?
As recently as March 1, 2020, over 2.2 million people were still flying per day, according to TSA checkpoint data. A little over a month later, the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated to the point where airlines have slashed up to 90 percent of their capacity and the TSA’s nationwide count for passengers screened per day […]
LATAM Cargo Starts Two Freighter Services From US To Colombia
LATAM Airlines (SGO: LTM) is launching two new cargo routes dedicated to exports from the U.S. to Central and South America. LATAM’s cargo division began flying the new routes with Boeing 767-300 freighters on Tuesday. One service departs Miami for Panama and then goes to Bogota, Colombia, while the second service is Miami to Cali, […]
Newcastle welcomes new Lufthansa connection to Munich
Lufthansa’s newest route to Germany has taken off with a non-stop service from Newcastle to Munich. The six-weekly service operates Sunday to Friday and offers leisure and business travellers from the north-east of England an affordable and convenient way to explore Bavaria’s capital city. Passengers travelling to Munich on the new service were welcomed at […]
Lufthansa to open services to Canadian capital
Star Alliance carrier Lufthansa is to open a new transatlantic connection to Canada, with services to the capital Ottawa. It is to operate to the city from its Frankfurt base from 16 May next year. Lufthansa says it will operate Airbus A340-300s on the route, configured with 279 seats in three classes including a premium-economy […]
Volaris Announces Increased Capacity On its Chicago Routes and a New Seasonal Route: Monterrey – Mazatlán
Volaris, the United States and Central America, announces that it will increase capacity on its routes from and to Chicago, as well as opening a new Monterrey-Mazatlán route which will be a seasonal operation. With this additional capacity, Volaris reaffirms its commitment to provide more routes and flights so that its Clients can travel more […]
American Airlines ends flights to Bolivia
The only US airline flying to Bolivia is ending its service to the South American nation. One Mile At a Time reports that American Airlines will discontinue its service between Miami and Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, on November 28, 2019. The nonstop flights operate three times weekly. “American has proudly served Bolivia for […]
Brazil and Australia negotiate direct flights from 2020
Countries that have never had a direct flight, Australia and Brazil will be able to debut a route in the first quarter of 2020 between the cities of Melbourne and Sao Paulo. The information was revealed by Brazilian officials and the Australian ambassador to Brazil, Timothy Kane, after the end of the visa requirement for […]
Qantas to launch new Chicago and San Francisco routes
Qantas plans to launch flights from Brisbane to Chicago and San Francisco as a direct result of receiving tentative approval for its transpacific joint venture with American Airlines. The Australian carrier states that it plans to announce details of the two new routes once final approval is received from the US Department of Transportation for […]
Delta Launching Two New Daily Caribbean Routes
Delta Air Lines is launching a pair of new nonstop routes to the Caribbean. Beginning Dec. 21, the carrier will launch expand its weekly Saturday service to daily service from Detroit to both Montego Bay, Jamaica and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. That will mean two new daily nonstop flights to two of the […]
