Southwest pulled 0.7% of ASMs this week for Aug, but that was only 0.3% of seats.
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The Weekly Basics – May 24, 2026
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Allegiant Continues to Decline in Vegas
Allegiant rolled out its schedule extension from Nov 17 to Feb 9 this week, though note that this did not include any flying from its new Sun Country subsidiary
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The Unlikely Rise of Sapporo
Not long after Air Canada announced it would fly 3x weekly from Vancouver to Sapporo this winter, United has done the same but from San Francisco
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Delta Squeezes More Capacity Into Austin
Delta is finding a way to add more flying into its burgeoning Austin hub with additions on four leisure routes this week… but not at preferred leisure times
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JetBlue Guts Newark
We had assumed that the easiest place to cut to fund FLL growth would be Newark, and it turns out we were right
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JetBlue Starts to Fund FLL Growth
JetBlue has begun to pull down flying elsewhere in the network in order to fund the big growth it has poured into FLL in the wake of Spirit’s demise
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Atlantic City Gets Knocked Down, but Breeze Helps It Back Up
One of the markets most vulnerable to Spirit’s failure is Atlantic City where Spirit was usually the only airline regularly using airplanes at the airport
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Frontier Floods the Market with Spirit Backfill
Frontier said it would focus on five markets where Spirit was big once that airline failed, and it has done just that with a 3 to 4% capacity bump starting in Jul
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