Articles Tagged ‘LGA’
Spirit Airlines launches new/Dallas Fort Worth routes and adds Phoenix-Mesa
Spirit Airlines now flies low-cost flights to Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport from Las Vegas McCarran and from DFW to Atlanta, LaGuardia and Orlando International.
Delta/US Airways slot-swap pushes Delta close to Continental/United in terms of New York market share
Two major US carriers have managed to do a slot-swap between New York LaGuardia and Washington Reagan. We look at what this means for the LaGuardia market, and how this impacts the overall New York market. Which destinations have been added, and which have been lost?
Spirit Airlines launches new route from Las Vegas to Oakland
Spirit Airlines now flies from Las Vegas, Nevada to Oakland, California.
New routes launched during the last week
(Tuesday 26 October – Tuesday 2 November)
Download the spreadsheet with this week’s 250 new routes and see our fantastic photo coverage of launch celebrations all across the world. Ribbons have been cut in masses, lakes have been emptied for fire brigades to salute the arriving aircraft and the world’s master bakers have worked day and night to bake an amazing selection […]
New routes launched during the last week
(Tuesday 28 September – Monday 4 October):
The last week has seen the launch of 35 new routes, of which eight were filling the void in the Mexican market after Mexicana’s demise. Plenty of cakes were baked to celebrate, but which airline opened a new base at a capital city airport? Which airline has changed its name just after launching two new […]
New routes launched during the last week
(Tuesday 7 – Monday 13 September):
The world has seen the launch of 19 new routes in the last week, eight of which are US domestic services. The remaining countries that have seen new routes are Australia, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and the UK. But which is the airline that launched the most new services? And which […]
New routes launched during the last week
(Tuesday 24 August – Tuesday 31 August):
This has been yet another slow week for route launches, but we still have reports of new routes starting in three continents. Which two countries were this week for the first time linked with non-stop services? And which two US domestic monopoly routes have suddenly seen a second entrant?
New routes launched during the last week (Tuesday 29 June – Monday 5 July):
This week, the world’s 64 new routes have had a global spread, with every continent represented with multiple new routes. US airports have seen the most launches, but the week has also seen landmark events elsewhere, such as the opening of a brand-new airport in Tibet and the first international route in 18 years at […]
New routes launched during the last week
(Tuesday 8 June – Monday 14 June):
The United States dominated the world’s route launches this week, which is detailed in our top story, but a major political breakthrough for flights between Taiwan and mainland China resulted in three airlines launching the same route. The total of 65 new routes involved 60 airports in the US, followed by Germany, China, Spain, the […]
New routes launched during the last week
(Tuesday 6 April – Monday 12 April):
This week’s super batch of new routes were dominated by US carriers starting new domestic services. But Air Canada, Kingfisher, Lufthansa, Ryanair, Transavia.com and Virgin Blue were among others with reason to celebrate this week. We have lots more amazing cake photos to celebrate.
Delta targets US Airways at LaGuardia; Oman offers more Pakistan; CPH has ‘six’ appeal for Cimber; Alitalia swings axe at Malpensa; Ryanair/Wizz Air grow in CEE
More analysis of the latest route development announcements; this week from Europe, the Middle East and North America. Also featuring some analysis of Ryanair’s new base at Kaunas, Wizz Air’s new Serbian and Romanian routes and a swopping of LCCs at Friedrichshafen.
Southwest continues its march into bigger markets with launch of New York LaGuardia services this week
Southwest may not be growing in terms of passenger numbers right now but it is venturing into new markets. This week it arrived in the Big Apple and will soon be making an appearance in Boston and Milwaukee.