Since the end of 2025, JetBlue has been pouring capacity into Fort Lauderdale to prepare for an eventual Spirit failure, and now it has put that strategy into overdrive
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Porter Helps Edmonton Get Warm
Porter added 15 new routes for winter this week, and while these flights touch several cities in Canada, it was Edmonton that grabbed our attention
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Frontier Has Already Been Backfilling Spirit
Frontier extended its schedule from ending Sep 8 to Nov 19 this week, filling out the pre-holiday fall period which tends to cover some of the airline’s most off-peak flying of the year
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Spirit Leaves a Gaping Hole in Fort Lauderdale
With Spirit failing and canceling all flights from May 2, there will be a mad scramble to fill the void… with Fort Lauderdale being the most important market
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United O’Hare Cuts are Broad But Small Cities Suffer Most
It’s not easy to take 130 peak-day departures out of your hub, so United had to go broad, but it also means several small cities will not have service to O’Hare as planned
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United Takes 130 Daily Deps Out of O’Hare
Last week we saw American make its summer O’Hare reductions to comply with the FAA caps, but this week we saw much steeper and more impactful cuts come from United
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Log InThe Weekly Basics – May 3, 2026
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The Continued Shrinking of Spirit (Part 4)
How many times can an airline continue to shrink? Spirit is trying to prove that it’s endless as it made cuts to summer once again this week
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Allegiant Pulls Back in Summer and Beyond
Allegiant also pulled back on its filed schedule this week, starting in Jul but primarily focusing on the post-peak summer period
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