Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

Boston loses service to Hawaii and gains service to Alaska.

I am seeing it reported on Twitter (Ishrion Aviation who is very reliable) that Alaska Airlines is going to add non-stop service to Boston from Anchorage. Service will be flown once weekly.

Be interesting to see if this is a seasonal (my assumption) or year-round service.
 
I can’t imagine the demand to AK is higher than HI.

Personally, I never managed to get my vacation plans to line up with the nonstop to Hawaii. The prospect of a one seat there was tempting.
 
RandomWalk said:
I can’t imagine the demand to AK is higher than HI.

Personally, I never managed to get my vacation plans to line up with the nonstop to Hawaii. The prospect of a one seat there was tempting.
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The flight is shorter and can be done with a narrow body.

Here's the schedule of the weekly Saturday flight with an obvious redeye eastbound. It's bookable.

BOS-ANC 18:40-22:45
ANC-BOS 23:00-11:15(+1)
 
RandomWalk said:
I can’t imagine the demand to AK is higher than HI.

Personally, I never managed to get my vacation plans to line up with the nonstop to Hawaii. The prospect of a one seat there was tempting.
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From April to September there are several dozen cruise vessels a month that start or end in ports near Anchorage, AK (Seward and Whittier principally). That's in addition to the ones that homeport in Seattle or Vancouver. They alone represent several thousand visitors daily that start or end their journeys near Anchorage, and (anecdotally) New England residents make up a big slice of the cruise passenger population. Sprinkle in Anchorage's emergence as a global logistics hub and an aerotropolis, and I think there's a pretty defensible argument for weekly service between our regions.
 
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adamh8297 said:
American adding a daily E-175 Madison, Wisconsin flight on June 18th next year.
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I've been waiting for a nonstop flight to Madison since I was a Bostonian attending UW-Madison in the early 1990's. Sun Country announced the route right before COVID but cancelled it before they ever flew.
 
Spirit Airlines is making a couple of adds to its Boston network.

Seasonal service to Cancun begins on February 14, 2026 and will run until April 25, 2026. Once weekly using A320 equipment.
Seasonal service to Santo Domingo begins on February 12, 2026 and will run until April 28, 2026. Daily using A320 equipment.

Cacun makes sense, surprised it's not 3-4 weekly. But running Santo Domingo daily for 2 and a half months is a bit surprising.
 
RandomWalk said:
I can’t imagine the demand to AK is higher than HI.

Personally, I never managed to get my vacation plans to line up with the nonstop to Hawaii. The prospect of a one seat there was tempting.
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We did the direct flight for our honeymoon in December 2019... and then the world closed down.
 
mass88 said:
Spirit Airlines is making a couple of adds to its Boston network.

Seasonal service to Cancun begins on February 14, 2026 and will run until April 25, 2026. Once weekly using A320 equipment.
Seasonal service to Santo Domingo begins on February 12, 2026 and will run until April 28, 2026. Daily using A320 equipment.

Cacun makes sense, surprised it's not 3-4 weekly. But running Santo Domingo daily for 2 and a half months is a bit surprising.
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The plane’s probably committed elsewhere during the week and I’d imagine a large percentage of the Cancun demo consists of folks going on seven night package deals.
 
Boston has gained a second non-stop flight to Madison.

Delta will re-start daily non-stop service beginning June 7, 2026 using E175 equipment. I believe they served Madison on a seasonal basis and that service stopped in 2024.

Dep Boston 2:00 pm Arr Madison 3:53 pm
Dep Madison 4:45 pm Arr Boston 8:19 pm
 
mass88 said:
I believe they served Madison on a seasonal basis and that service stopped in 2024.
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First I have heard of this unless there were a few flights for a special event or conference. I don't believe there has ever been regular nonstop service between BOS and MSN. At least not since the early 90's when I started watching the route closely.
 
BosDevelop said:
First I have heard of this unless there were a few flights for a special event or conference. I don't believe there has ever been regular nonstop service between BOS and MSN. At least not since the early 90's when I started watching the route closely.
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Can someone who knows more about airline route selection explain why BOS has never had regular service to MSN but then both American and Delta add it in the span of like a week? What's going on here?

Did both airlines independently analyze the market and decide BOS-MSN makes sense, and then they both just so happened to announce the addition of the route very close to each other? If so, and that route now has competition that neither airline expected, I'd think it very unlikely that both will decide to keep serving the market beyond a very short period.
 
JumboBuc said:
Can someone who knows more about airline route selection explain why BOS has never had regular service to MSN but then both American and Delta add it in the span of like a week? What's going on here?

Did both airlines independently analyze the market and decide BOS-MSN makes sense, and then they both just so happened to announce the addition of the route very close to each other? If so, and that route now has competition that neither airline expected, I'd think it very unlikely that both will decide to keep serving the market beyond a very short period.
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My understanding is whenever you see this kind of back-to-back announcement of routes it's often a 'defensive' measure on the part of the second airline.

The fact that Delta moved second would support that, they're trying to protect their emerging hub in Boston by ensuring that customers (almost) always have the option of flying Delta. I vaguely recall hearing about a similar thing in the 2010s where one or more US airlines started flights to Reykjavik to 'fight' against WOW/Icelandair at their hubs even though there was in no way enough demand for 3 airlines to serve that route.
 
TheRatmeister said:
My understanding is whenever you see this kind of back-to-back announcement of routes it's often a 'defensive' measure on the part of the second airline.

The fact that Delta moved second would support that, they're trying to protect their emerging hub in Boston by ensuring that customers (almost) always have the option of flying Delta. I vaguely recall hearing about a similar thing in the 2010s where one or more US airlines started flights to Reykjavik to 'fight' against WOW/Icelandair at their hubs even though there was in no way enough demand for 3 airlines to serve that route.
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Interesting, and makes sense! Delta may not think its worth their resources to serve BOS-MSN in a vacuum, but they don't want American to be the only option on that route and potentially win passengers over and away from the broader Delta network.
 
JumboBuc said:
Interesting, and makes sense! Delta may not think its worth their resources to serve BOS-MSN in a vacuum, but they don't want American to be the only option on that route and potentially win passengers over and away from the broader Delta network.
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Big win for MSN on this one. Lots of university students + football games gives plenty of demand for the route I would imagine. MSN having direct flights to DC, Philly, Charlotte, Denver but not Boston never really made sense.
 
Avianca is going to increase service on its non-stop flight from San Salvador. From June 12 through September 15, service will increase from 4 times per week to daily. This operates with A320 equipment.
 
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