Does anyone know how Aruba became so popular with New England. I can see why but I always wondered if the island had a strategy to target the Boston and NYC for marketing first before other areas. I'm surprised Delta does not run it year round and American has not returned to running it.
For many Caribbean Routes and some Deep South American routes you may save travel time going through EWR or JFK. Going through MIA or ATL can add more travel time in the air. I usually want to avoid NYC airports but may consider it for Caribbean 1-stop itineraries.
Example 1: St. Kitts...
So i checked the schedule since I was curious of how much Delta was going to charge. It appears American is also running a flight except theirs will not operate on the 8th and 9th. Both airlines are using E-175. They are also getting about $750-900 a roundtrip.
JetBlue and Boutique Air have both applied for an Essential Air Services Grant to serve Presque Isle, Maine.
Jetblue would use E-190 until its retirement in 2025 if granted the route.
A lot of the online chatter believes Delta launching Honolulu is retaliation against Hawaiian adding flights to Salt Lake City from Honolulu. I am leaning towards it being retaliation myself but there may be opportunity.
Some great traffic information was released with news.
2023 BOS-HNL...
American Airlines running a Saturday Boston-Panama City, Florida (ECP) flight from June 6 through August 31 on E-175.
Also, WestJet will run Boston-Calgary daily in July and August. Mid-May, June, and September will be 4 weekly.
I am not. EK cut ties with JetBlue. QR has increased ties with them and has a better overall network in terms of total destination served. I think EK still wins on Indian Subcontinent destinations but its close.
Avianca is increasing Boston-San Salvador to 4 weekly in April.
Avianca is supposed to increase BOS-BOG to daily and then 5 weekly from June. It looks like only 4 weekly when I ran a non-stop search on Google ITA. However it is actually 7 weekly frequencies with Sun Wed Fri having 2 flights and...
This link says year round per Lufthansa Group but unclear of reduced frequency - https://www.flightglobal.com/airlines/austrian-airlines-to-open-new-transatlantic-service/156704.article
Frontier relaunching 3 weekly San Juan in June and launching 4 weekly Raleigh-Durham in April.
https://news.flyfrontier.com/frontier-airlines-announces-new-routes-expanding-operations-across-38-airports/
They must be trying to stimulate leisure travel. Porter is not really a Low Cost Carrier.
I just checked a sample weekend in Toronto for mid-Summer. 7/18-7/21/24
Porter - $503
United coded Air Canada - $476
Air Canada $ 497
Lynx - $265 - includes 35 each way add-on for carry-on.
I did...
GRU is served with Delta JV partner LATAM but they are not in SkyTeam.
Also AUA, NAS, PLS, MBJ, and PUJ for international seasonal Caribbean destinations.
That arrival time in China is terrible but it is what it is for now. Wouldn't a triangle route with Chicago be more palatable? I think Hainan had rights to Chicago at one point.
There has to be leakage to Amsterdam from Brussels There is convenient train service to multiple points Belgium from Schiphol Airport.
However, taking a train from Brussels Airport to Amsterdam would be a tough sell to American travellers.
I see Boston-Austin operating one flight with A319 in March.
Also, while looking at March schedules Spirit has 4-5 daily flights to Orlando. When did that happen?
It's Boston/JFK-Dublin, Boston-Paris (finally), and JFK-Edinburgh.
https://ishrionaviation.com/news/jetblue-dublin-edinburgh
Flights to Dublin and Edinburgh are being called seasonal and are scheduled to end 9/30/24. Paris will be year round...