Thrilling new airline routes from March 2024 and past

The airline community planners closed out the primary quarter of 2024 with a bang.

Most main U.S. carriers made at the very least one community announcement in March, and a few, like JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airways, made far more sweeping modifications to their route maps.

You’ll catch the entire thrilling route information — together with all the brand new flights and those that gained’t survive one other season — under.

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Alaska Airways

Alaska added only one new route, however that didn’t cease the provider from making headlines. The airline is including service from Las Vegas to California’s Sonoma County.

Although you won’t suppose a lot of this 454-mile route, Alaska goes up towards upstart Avelo Airways on this market. Alaska is not any stranger to a turf conflict, so it’s doable that the airline’s growth is aimed toward curbing Avelo’s development in Santa Rosa, California.

• Alaska responds to Avelo’s Sonoma development, provides new Las Vegas route

American Airways

American didn’t truly unveil any new routes or minimize any flights, but it surely did make two noteworthy community modifications.

The primary is that the airline’s route from New York to Rome will likely be upgauged to the Boeing 777-300ER throughout the peak summer season season. This brings extra premium capability to this already in style route, so flyers may need a greater shot of discovering award or improve availability.

Additionally in New York, American will start stationing the Boeing 787 Dreamliner at its John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK) hub. The provider will fly from JFK to India utilizing the 787 starting later this yr.

• American upgrades NYC-to-Rome route with top notch
• American debuts Boeing 787 Dreamliners in New York for the primary time

Avelo Airways

Avelo continues to develop by including new strains and dots to its route map. The provider added three new routes from its base at New Haven, Connecticut, in addition to its first-ever service to Lakeland, Florida — an airport that hasn’t seen business service in 12 years.

Lakeland sits between Tampa and Orlando and is seen as a strategic transfer by Avelo to diversify its Florida portfolio.

• Avelo provides Florida’s Lakeland airport its first business airline service in 12 years
• Avelo to launch 3 extra New Haven routes, first service to house metropolis

Breeze Airways

Breeze had an enormous month that didn’t simply give attention to new routes. The airline launched a cobranded bank card, started a revamp of its frequent flyer program and likewise added 5 new cities to its community, together with Bangor, Maine, and Dallas-Fort Value.

• Breeze Airways launches cobranded bank card, provides 5 new cities, plans loyalty program revamp

Delta Air Traces

March wasn’t an excellent month for Delta’s community. The airline shaved a handful of flights from its Los Angeles schedule, together with service to London; Bozeman, Montana; and Vail, Colorado. Delta additionally ended its point-to-point experiment in New York’s Westchester County, the place it flew to Orlando and West Palm Seashore, Florida.

Delta did add one new flight, although — a regional connection between Detroit and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

• Delta cuts 3 routes from Los Angeles, provides new regional flight from Detroit
• Delta slashes 4 routes, together with LA-London, Westchester experiment

Frontier Airways

Frontier made headlines once more for an enormous growth within the New York space. The Denver-based provider is returning to Newark in June, and it’ll additionally open a brand new outstation at JFK.

Frontier is launching flights from these airports to San Juan, Puerto Rico. It wasn’t instantly clear how Frontier was capable of get slots on the congested JFK airport.

• Frontier to launch JFK service, return to Newark in June

JetBlue Airways

With out the Spirit merger, JetBlue started plotting its path to profitability with a serious route announcement. The replace sees JetBlue pulling out of 4 cities and chopping a big chunk of short-haul routes from Los Angeles, successfully ending the provider’s quest to show LAX right into a West Coast focus metropolis, or hub, of types.

This doubtless isn’t the one community announcement coming from JetBlue, as trade insiders anticipate the provider to make additional tweaks to its route map within the coming weeks.

• JetBlue cuts cities, adjusts Los Angeles service amid main community realignment

Silver Airways

Silver Airways is scrapping a route earlier than it even begins.

The provider filed plans to chop service between Key West and Fort Myers in Florida earlier than service was even purported to start in April, Cirium schedules present. This route was simply introduced in February.

Spirit Airways

Spirit Airways can be making an attempt to show itself round, particularly now that the JetBlue merger is formally useless. The airline has been busy tweaking its community, and March noticed some extra noteworthy modifications.

This consists of including 9 new routes — Boston; Portland, Oregon; and Salt Lake Metropolis are the large winners. Moreover, the airline minimize 13 routes just some days after an enormous growth.

• Spirit provides 9 new routes in newest community adjustment
• Spirit Airways cuts 13 routes simply days after huge growth

Southwest Airways

Southwest prolonged its schedule via the height winter vacation season, and as a part of that, made some community changes.

This consists of chopping service between Los Angeles and Hawaii (which is anticipated to renew within the coming years, in keeping with a provider spokesperson), in addition to including three new seasonal flights.

Southwest can be engaged on know-how to assist it supply red-eye flights for the primary time in its historical past.

• Southwest cuts in style Hawaii route, provides 3 new seasonal flights
• Southwest Airways to supply first red-eye flights in coming years

United Airways

United’s community planners are among the many busiest groups on the airline. The provider debuted three splashy new routes, together with its first-ever service to Marrakech, Morocco; Medellin, Colombia; and Cebu, Philippines.

That final route will likely be operated by a Boeing 737 from Tokyo, and it’ll be timed completely with connections from the U.S. mainland.

Nearer to house, United additionally filed plans to attach its Washington, D.C., hub at Dulles Worldwide Airport (IAD) with Cell, Alabama — an enormous win for locals based mostly in Cell.

• United provides 3 new worldwide locations, together with Marrakech, Medellin

Gol Airways

Gol Airways, which relies in Brazil, will join Orlando with Fortaleza starting in June with once-weekly flights.

This 3,604-mile service will likely be operated by a Boeing 737 MAX, and at almost 8 1/2 hours, this represents one of many longest (and most uncomfortable) routes operated by a MAX worldwide.

Hainan Airways

If Hainan will get its manner, the provider will launch the primary new route from the U.S. to China because the pandemic started.

The Haikou, China-based airline proposed to the U.S. Division of Transportation that it launch flights between Seattle and Chongqing Jiangbei Worldwide Airport (CKG).

We’re nonetheless ready on the ultimate ruling, and we’ll report again when it’s issued.

Porter Airways

Porter continues to develop its community with new routes from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Montreal.

Porter will function every of those routes with its brand-new Embraer E195-E2 jets, which seat 132 passengers in a 2-2 configuration.

• Canadian boutique airline Porter doubles down on California with new routes to Montreal

Norse Atlantic Airways

Transatlantic low-cost provider Norse Atlantic introduced that it will join London Gatwick Airport (LGW) with Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas. This three-times-weekly flight kicks off in September and will likely be operated by a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

As an Easter egg, Norse is looking this Flight 777, in a nod to Vegas’ well-known fortunate numbers.

Starlux Airways

Taiwanese luxurious provider Starlux introduced that it will start flights to Seattle in August. Starlux will function an Airbus A350-900 out there.

Seattle represents the provider’s third U.S. vacation spot since launching flights to Los Angeles and San Francisco final yr.

Rumors have it that Starlux will now flip its eyes to the East Coast because it considers future growth from Taipei.

• Starlux debuts Seattle flights, its third US vacation spot

Volaris

Volaris, the finances Mexican provider, filed plans to scrap service between Mexico Metropolis and Sacramento.

No different airline flies between these cities, so vacationers will now want to seek out connecting choices on this route.