MIAMI – Sun Country Airlines (SY) adds 16 nonstop flights with nine routes from their main hub at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP). The announced expansion includes nine nonstop airports to its growing network.
Specifically, this expansion includes nine nonstop routes from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP), two new nonstop routes from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and one additional nonstop route from San Antonio International Airport (SAT), Indianapolis International Airport (IND), and Bradley International Airport (BDL).
The carrier will welcome nine new airports destinations to it route network which include Bradley International Airport (BDL) in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, John Wayne Airport (SNA) Orange County, California, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) Huston Texas, Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) North Carolina.
MIAMI – American Airlines (AA) has scheduled new Boeing 777 flights such as its upcoming New York (JFK) to Athens (ATH), Tel Aviv (TLV), and Rio de Janeiro (GIG) routes along with Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) to Seattle (SEA) and Cancun (CUN).
American Airlines will launch new routes from New York JFK to both Athens and Tel Aviv thanks to its advancing partnership with JetBlue (B6). The partnership and the two new routes were announced in July 2020, but AA has finally opened reservations for JFK to ATH and TLV following the Department of Transportation’s approval of this new partnership.
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MIAMI – The LATAM Airlines Group reports that January 2021 operations can be compared to 40% of those from the same period last year. The group resumed 11 domestic routes, crossing Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru. These new routes would add 770 daily domestic and international flights connecting 112 destinations in 16 countries.
As mentioned in airlinegeeks.com, during December 2020, traffic (measured in rented-seat-kilometer–RPK) was 34.5% in relation to the same period of the previous year. This considers a 38.3% passenger operation (which is measured in available-seat-kilometer – ASK) compared to the same month last year, so the load factor decreased 8.4% points to 75.2%.
In cargo operations, the group’s load factor was 62.6%, 5.4 percentage points over that registered in the same period of the previous year, highlighting the positive performance that LATAM Cargo has had in recent months.
MIAMI – As the lowest season for commercial aviation passenger traffic approaches, airlines are cutting passengers seats for the coming weeks, according to multiple MCOs measures and restrictions applied across the world, in order to curb the COVID-19 RT index.
Roughly 7% of seats are going to be lost on the second week of January, which translated into numbers amounts to seven million seats lost and the figure will get worse in the following weeks.
The actual capacity of the airlines around the world stand at 47% seats offered compared to the same period of 2020 when there were still no major travel disruptions caused by the pandemic.