After finishing with November’s world aviation market summary, we continue with the news from the United States and Canada for December. Below are the links to the posts published in November: United States and Canada – November 2023. Latin...

After finishing with November’s world aviation market summary, we continue with the news from the United States and Canada for December. Below are the links to the posts published in November:

United States and Canada – November 2023. Latin America – November 2023. Europe – November 2023. Asia and Oceania – November 2023. Africa and Middle East – November 2023.

 

The main highlight of the month was Alaska Airlines’ proposed $1.9 billion acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines, which was announced last weekend.

The total fleet between the two companies will be nearly 400 aircraft, including Hawaiian’s Airbus A321neo planes. Alaska had retired the last ones it owned back in October, and now these jets will be part of the group again.

With respect to routes, in this edition we have several news items from the domestic sector, both in the United States and Canada. Air Canada, Allegiant, American, Breeze, Hawaiian, jetBlue, Porter and Spirit are some of the airlines that had and will have changes to their networks.

Air Canada

The airline will begin widebody operations between Vancouver and Ottawa effective January 8th, 2024. Air Canada’s Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners will operate a daily service on this route.

Daily · Boeing 787-9

AC 342  Vancouver YVR 08:10 · 15:41 YOW Ottawa AC 345  Ottawa YOW 17:10 · 19:21 YVR Vancouver

Daily · Boeing 737 MAX

AC 346  Vancouver YVR 18:10 · 01:48+1 YOW Ottawa AC 341  Ottawa YOW 06:00 · 08:39 YVR Vancouver

Currently, the carrier offers two flights a day between the two cities with Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft, which in January the AC 342/345 will be replaced by the Dreamliners.

As for other companies, Porter provides a daily flight on Embraer E-2 jets.

 

Air Transat

In just over a year, Air Transat plans to launch services between Montreal and Acapulco, Mexico. Operations are for sale on the airline’s website, with an expected start date of December 24th, 2024.

Tuesday

TS 868  Montreal YUL 06:45 · 11:55 ACA Acapulco TS 869  Acapulco ACA 13:05 · 19:15 YUL Montreal

Regarding other Latin American markets, Air Transat will commence flights to Peru from Toronto and Montreal in the coming weeks. To see the schedule, you can read the October post about the U.S. and Canada market update.

Alaska Airlines (and Hawaiian)

Alaska Airlines announced on Sunday, 3 December that it will acquire Hawaiian, an operation valued at USD 1.9 billion. This acquisition expands the fleet of the fifth-largest U.S. airline to nearly 400 aircraft.

The transaction includes Hawaiian’s current debt of USD 0.9 billion.

Alaska Airlines fleet

Boeing 737-700: 14 Boeing 737-800: 61 Boeing 737-900: 12 Boeing 737-900(ER): 79 Boeing 737 MAX 9: 63 (7 in order)

Boeing 737 MAX 8 (3) · in order.

Hawaiian Airlines fleet

Airbus A321neo: 18 Airbus A330-200: 24 Airbus A330-300: 1 (9 in order) Boeing 717-200: 19

To know more about the acquisition, you can read the press release published by Alaska Airlines.

 

Allegiant Air

Between May 3rd and May 31st, 2024, Allegiant will inaugurate 12 new routes within the United States. Here is the schedule:

 

Map by gcmap.com

May 3rd

Orlando (MCO) – Asheville (AVL): 2 weekly · Airbus A320

May 15th

Orlando (SFB) – Rapid City (RAP): 2 weekly · Airbus A319 St. Petersburg (PIE) – Bismarck (BIS): 2 weekly · Airbus A319

May 16th

Las Vegas (LAS) – Chattanooga (CHA): 2 weekly · Airbus A319 Los Angeles (LAX) – Billings (BIL): 2 weekly · Airbus A320 Nashville (BNA) – Chicago Rockford (RFD): 2 weekly · Airbus A320 Orlando (MCO) – Allentown (ABE): 2 weekly · Airbus A320 Punta Gorda (PGD) – Washington (IAD): 2 weekly · Airbus A320

May 17th

Fort Lauderdale (FLL) – Traverse City (TVC): 2 weekly · Airbus A320 Newark (EWR) – Appleton (ATW): 2 weekly · Airbus A320 Orlando (MCO) – Knoxville (TYS): 2 weekly · Airbus A320

May 31st

Austin (AUS) – Eugene (EUG): 2 weekly · Airbus A319

 

American Airlines

Starting June 5th, 2024, American plans to begin seasonal services between Chicago and Reno. In accordance with its website, the company will operate on 168-seat Boeing 737-800s through early October.

Daily

AA 2531  Chicago ORD 20:35 · 22:53 RNO Reno AA 2532  Reno RNO 23:59 · 05:55+1 ORD Chicago

American Airlines in Reno

Austin (AUS): 4 weekly · Embraer 175 Dallas (DFW): 15 weekly · Boeing 737-800 Phoenix (PHX): 24 weekly · Airbus A320, CRJ-700 and Embraer 175

Atlas Air

The airline confirmed the addition of two new Boeing 777-200(LRF) aircraft to its fleet, which are expected to be delivered in the second half of 2024.

This announcement joins another order placed by Atlas Air for four 777 freighters in 2021, subject to a long-term ACMI (aircraft, crew, maintenance, insurance) agreement with MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA. Three of these freighters have already been delivered, with the fourth 777 scheduled for delivery in December 2023.

Breeze Airways

In February 2024, the carrier will launch two routes in the US. Ogden, Orange County, Phoenix and San Bernardino will have new Breeze connections.

Both routes will be served by Airbus A220-300 jets.

Thursday and Sunday · February 15th

MX 516  Phoenix PHX 10:43 · 11:11 SBD San Bernardino MX 517  San Bernardino SBD 11:51 · 14:16 PHX Phoenix

Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday · February 21st

MX 614  Orange County SNA 08:50 · 11:40 OGD Ogden MX 615  Ogden OGD 12:35 · 13:35 SNA Orange County

Delta Air Lines

Effective 2024, Delta will expand its operation in the Atlanta – Seoul market, where it currently serves 7 times a week. In March of next year, the airline will increase to 10 weekly flights, reaching 14 as of May 7th, 2024.

Delta Air Lines will offer these services with Airbus A350-900 aircraft.

Daily – currently

DL 27  Atlanta ATL 23:35 · 05:45+2 ICN Seoul DL 26  Seoul ICN 18:45 · 18:10 ATL Atlanta

New flight

DL 189  Atlanta ATL 09:45 · 14:20+1 ICN Seoul DL 188  Seoul ICN 16:30 · 17:25 ATL Atlanta

Eastern Air Lines

The carrier will temporarily suspend its flights between Miami and Santo Domingo, its only regular route. Eastern will be left with charter services, which are carried out with Boeing 767-200(ER)s and Boeing 767-300(ER)s.

Flights to Santo Domingo were performed on a monthly basis, by the middle of each month. In the last post of the US and Canada market update we had published that these operations were on sale until at least March 2024, but were removed from their reservation system.

Eastern has more than 10 planes in its fleet, but not all of them are operational:

Boeing 767-200

N603KW · 38 years N604KW · 35 years N605KW · 39 years N606KW · 34 years

Boeing 767-300

N700KW · 31 years N703KW · 32 years N705KW · 32 years N706KW · 33 years N708KW · 27 years N968AS · 27 years

Boeing 777-200

N771KW · 21 years N827KW · 22 years

Frontier

On November 16th, Frontier inaugurated three routes to Cancún from the United States. Chicago, Detroit and Minneapolis will have services by the company to the Mexican airport, all three with Airbus A320neo aircraft.

Chicago Midway · Daily

F9 235  Chicago MDW 12:33 · 17:21 CUN Cancún F9 234  Cancún CUN 18:26 · 21:11 MDW Chicago

Detroit · Daily

F9 147/146 (check timetables as there is a different one for each day).

Minneapolis · Daily except Saturday

F9 237  Minneapolis MSP 06:00 · 11:47 CUN Cancún F9 236  Cancún CUN 12:39 · 16:01 MSP Minneapolis

Saturday

F9 237  Minneapolis MSP 06:15 · 11:52 CUN Cancún F9 236  Cancún CUN 12:47 · 16:00 MSP Minneapolis

Frontier in Cancún

Map by gcmap.com Atlanta (ATL): 14 weekly Baltimore (BWI): 7 weekly Chicago (MDW): 7 weekly Chicago (ORD): 7 weekly Cincinnati (CVG): 3 weekly Cleveland (CLE): 7 weekly Dallas (DFW): 6 weekly Denver (DEN): 7 weekly Detroit (DTW): 7 weekly Kansas City (MCI): 4 weekly Minneapolis (MSP): 7 weekly Orlando (MCO): 7 weekly Philadelphia (PHL): 7 weekly St. Louis (STL): 7 weekly

Hawaiian Airlines

The carrier will launch flights to Salt Lake City starting May 15th, 2024, where it will offer one daily frequency from Honolulu. Operations will be performed with Airbus A321neo jets.

HA 84  Honolulu HNL 18:50 · 05:15+1 SLC Salt Lake City HA 83  Salt Lake City SLC 07:00 · 09:55 HNL Honolulu

On the other hand, the airline will inaugurate two new routes to Sacramento starting in May 2024:

L?hu?e · May 24th · Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday

HA 65  Sacramento SMF 08:10 · 10:50 LIH L?hu?e HA 66  L?hu?e LIH 12:05 · 20:25 SMF Sacramento

Kona · May 25th · Monday, Wednesday and Saturday

HA 73  Sacramento SMF 08:10 · 10:40 KOA Kona HA 74  Kona KOA 12:15 · 20:25 SMF Sacramento

jetBlue

Last November 2nd, the airline began flights between Orlando and Raleigh-Durham. jetBlue will operate with Airbus A320-200s configured for 162 passengers.

Daily

B6 1592  Orlando MCO 14:24 · 16:08 RDU Raleigh-Durham B6 1591  Raleigh-Durham RDU 16:53 · 18:51 MCO Orlando

In addition to jetBlue, these companies also serve between both cities

Delta Air Lines (DL): 14 weekly (increases to 21 on December 8th) Frontier (F9): 13 weekly Southwest (WN): 16 weekly

Lynx Air

The low cost carrier launched five routes to Florida from different Canadian cities during November. Lynx Air will perform these operations on Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with 189 seats.

Calgary

Orlando (MCO): 2 weekly

Montreal

Orlando (MCO): 4 weekly Tampa (TPA): 4 weekly

Toronto

Fort Myers (RSW): 4 weekly Tampa (TPA): 4 weekly

Vancouver

Orlando (MCO): 1 weekly

Porter Airlines

Porter will inaugurate three new connections from Montreal in the second quarter of 2024. The flights will be carried out with Embraer E-2 jets for 132 passengers in two seating classes.

Calgary · Daily

PD 389  Montreal YUL 18:20 · 21:05 YYC Calgary PD 386  Calgary YYC 09:30 · 15:32 YUL Montreal

Other companies on this route

Air Canada (AC): 13 weekly Lynx Air (Y9): 2 weekly WestJet (WS): 6 weekly

 

Edmonton · Daily

PD 383  Montreal YUL 19:15 · 21:50 YEG Edmonton PD 378  Edmonton YEG 08:50 · 14:51 YUL Montreal

Other companies on this route

Air Canada (AC): 14 weekly

 

Vancouver · Daily

PD 375  Montreal YUL 17:00 · 19:39 YVR Vancouver PD 372  Vancouver YVR 08:15 · 16:00 YUL Montreal

Other companies on this route

Air Canada (AC): 29 weekly Lynx Air (Y9): 4 weekly

Spirit Airlines

In early November, the airline launched three routes from New York City’s LaGuardia Airport. Each one will be offered once daily with a mix of Airbus A319, Airbus A320-200 and Airbus A320neo.

Atlanta

NK 3389  Atlanta ATL 05:35 · 08:00 LGA LaGuardia NK 3390  LaGuardia LGA 08:52 · 11:32 ATL Atlanta

Chicago

NK 3385  Chicago ORD 16:33 · 19:44 LGA LaGuardia NK 3386  LaGuardia LGA 20:34 · 22:05 ORD Chicago

West Palm Beach

NK 3384  West Palm Beach PBI 18:05 · 21:00 LGA LaGuardia NK 3383  LaGuardia LGA 07:00 · 10:00 PBI West Palm Beach

Stratolaunch

This airplane, incorporated by Stratolaunch Systems Corporation a few months ago, made its first test flight on December 5th. At 11:52 a.m. local time, the aircraft departed from San Bernardino, where it received the Stratolaunch livery, arriving in Mojave a couple of hours later.

The Boeing 747-400 for Stratolaunch, which will be used as a launch platform for the Talon-A reusable hypersonic testbeds, is expected to be operational in the first half of 2024. The expansion of Stratolaunch’s fleet will increase its flight test capability and its ability to serve government and commercial customers worldwide.

Image of the 747 with Stratolaunch livery. Photo by FL360aero on X (Twitter)

Sun Country

Montreal and Toronto will be two new additions to Sun Country Airlines network. Operations will begin in June 2024, and flights will be during the summer season.

Both routes will have twice-weekly services with Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Montreal · June 21st

Monday and Friday

SY 1767  Minneapolis MSP 07:20 · 10:45 YUL Montreal SY 1768  Montreal YUL 11:45 · 13:35 MSP Minneapolis

Toronto · June 13th

Thursday and Sunday

SY 1917  Minneapolis MSP 14:27 · 17:36 YYZ Toronto SY 1918  Toronto YYZ 18:36 · 19:50 MSP Minneapolis

 

United Airlines

The carrier announced that it will launch operations to a new market in South America beginning in April 2024. Georgetown, Guyana, will have United flights to and from Houston, four times a week.

At the moment, services are not for sale.

Guyana will be United’s eighth market in South America.

 

Map by gcmap.com

Argentina

Houston (IAH) – Buenos Aires (EZE)

Brazil

Houston (IAH) – Rio de Janeiro (GIG) Chicago (ORD) – Sao Paulo (GRU) Houston (IAH) – Sao Paulo (GRU) Newark (EWR) – Sao Paulo (GRU) Washington (IAD) – Sao Paulo (GRU)

Chile

Houston (IAH) – Santiago (SCL)

Colombia

Houston (IAH) – Bogotá (BOG) Newark (EWR) – Bogotá (BOG)

Ecuador

Houston (IAH) – Quito (UIO)

Guyana · new

Houston (IAH) – Georgetown (GEO)

Perú

Houston (IAH) – Lima (LIM) Newark (EWR) – Lima (LIM)

Trinidad and Tobago

Houston (IAH) – Port of Spain (POS)

 

WestJet

The Canadian airline will increase its flights to Atlanta starting in summer 2024. Currently, Calgary, Vancouver and Winnipeg are WestJet’s destinations from this city, offering 17 weekly services.

Schedule starting in the summer 2024:

Calgary (YYC): 14 weekly flights Edmonton (YEG): 7 weekly flights · April 29th (new connection) Vancouver (YVR): 14 weekly flights Winnipeg (YWG): 5 weekly flights

Atlanta, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orlando, Palm Springs, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Ana, Seattle and Tampa are the U.S. cities served by
WestJet.

 

Cover photo: Daniel Nicholson – JetPhotos (Honolulu).

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