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We’re excited to ‘pilot’ a new weekly post highlighting route updates from major airlines around the world. Let us know what you think! ✈︎
➸ LEVEL will move its Barcelona to Oakland service to San Francisco (SFO) effective October 28.
➸ Etihad is making significant cuts from its Abu Dhabi hub, including canceling and reducing frequencies on the following routes:
- Abu Dhabi – Edinburgh
- Abu Dhabi – Perth
- Abu Dhabi – Dhaka
- Abu Dhabi – Los Angeles reduce to three weekly (previously four weekly)
- Abu Dhabi – New York JFK reduce to once daily (previously twice daily)
➸ LATAM Brasil will begin five weekly service from Sao Paulo Guarulhos to Lisbon on its Boeing 767 aircraft effective September 2. LATAM also announced intentions to serve Munich.
➸ American made multiple domestic route additions, including:
Effective November 4:
- Dallas/Ft. Worth – Del Rio twice daily ERJ140
- New York LaGuardia – Charleston twice weekly E175
- New York LaGuardia – Savannah twice weekly E175
Effective December 19
- Dallas/Ft. Worth – Buffalo daily A319
- Dallas/Ft. Worth – Sarasota daily CRJ700
- Dallas/Ft. Worth – Wilmington daily CRJ900
- Miami – Greenville/ Spartanburg twice daily ERJ145
- Miami – Knoxville twice daily ERJ145
➸ Southwest extended its schedule last week. Route highlights below with more info here:
Effective November 4:
- Burbank – Chicago Midway six weekly
- Burbank – Houston Hobby six weekly
- Denver – Lubbock six weekly
- New York LaGuardia – New Orleans daily
- New York LaGuardia – Orlando once weekly (effective Nov 10)
- New York LaGuardia – West Palm Beach once weekly
- Sacramento – Houston Hobby once weekly
- San Jose CA – Tucson six weekly
- Washington Reagan – Oklahoma City daily
- Chicago Midway – Los Cabos twice weekly
➸ Frontier announced 15 new routes and released a summary of service additions:
- Austin: new service to Louisville, KY, and Orange County
- Las Vegas: new service to Calgary, Norfolk, and Spokane
- Orlando: resuming Pittsburgh and new daily service to Ontario, CA
- San Diego: new service to Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Raleigh/Durham
- San Antonio: new service to Orange County and Salt Lake City
- Calgary: new service to Denver and Las Vegas
➸ Aeromexico announced two new regional routes on its Embraer E190s to:
- Mexico City – Punta Cana twice weekly
- Mexico City – Liberia, Costa Rica twice weekly
➸ Spirit filed schedule changes over the weekend that shows the carrier dropping nine routes:
- Boston – Dallas/Ft. Worth
- Baltimore – Oakland
- Denver – Los Angeles
- Dallas/Ft. Worth – Oakland
- Dallas/Ft. Worth – San Diego
- Dallas/Ft. Worth – Seattle
- Dallas/Ft. Worth – Pittsburgh
- Houston – Seattle
- Los Angeles – Tampa
Did You Know?
United operates seasonal, weekend-only service from Austin, Cleveland, New Orleans, and San Antonio to Cancun. Pretty interesting for an airline with almost zero point-to-point routes.
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