American this week further tweaked its LaGuardia schedule and leaned even more into its big city strategy
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The Weekly Basics – August 2, 2026
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Aer Lingus Pulls Back in the US
Aer Lingus this week exited Dublin to Minneapolis/St Paul and Las Vegas while suspending Seattle for winter, and the only surprise is that it didn’t cut more
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Volaris Takes a Turn Toward the US
Volaris made significant cuts in Sep this week, but more interesting was the exiting of several domestic routes and addition of more US frequency
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Frontier Finds Less Spill
Frontier made notable changes to its fall schedule this week, cutting overall capacity 2.7% in Oct, the peak month for the adjustments
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Alaska Enters the Interisland Market While Hawaiian Cuts
As expected, Hawaiian made cuts to interisland flying this week to help improve B717 reliability, and Alaska lent a B737-800 to do some of the flying as a temporary solution
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United Gives Up on Chicago Small City Expansion
As part of that rapidly escalating fight between American and United in Chicago, United had filed plans to serve 10 small cities that were American’s domain… but now they are gone before they were to start
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Air Transat is All But Gone From the US
Air Transat spends most of its summers flying east and west with winters heading south to warm weather spots, but the US is now just about off that destination list with only one winter route remaining
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WestJet Starts to Replace Lost Cuba Capacity
Cuba flying was more than 5% of WestJet’s capacity, but with the struggling nation now effectively off-limits to tourists, WestJet has started to find new places to fly
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