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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Chicago Sees a Boost in Southwest’s Winter
Southwest extended its schedule from ending Oct 31 this week to now go through all of the holidays until Jan 5
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Delta Gives Summer a Haircut
With the Iran War continuing and fuel prices staying high, Delta has kept its word to actually reduce capacity this summer, if only by a bit
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American’s O’Hare Summer Looks Set
After pulling down Chicago in May last week, this week American finished off its reductions through summer to comply with the FAA-mandated flight caps
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Norse Makes Its Summer Look Like Winter, Leaves LAX
Since 2022, Norse Atlantic has been trying to find a strategy where it could put its B787s to use in commercial service, and it continues to realize that it just doesn’t have great options
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Air Transat’s Winter Hopes Europe is Viable
Air Transat’s strategy – fly to warm places in winter and then flood Europe in the summer – has always been clear, but it is now looking at options that could help replace warm-weather US flying in winter as it files its first crack at the coming winter schedule
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Avelo Cuts Hard to Counter High Fuel Prices
Avelo pulled 10% of capacity this week for May, putting it down nearly 20% YoY as it tries to keep itself afloat in light of high fuel prices
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American Officially Dips Its Toes Back in Venezuela
American had announced it would return to Venezuela, and now it’s official that it will fly 1x daily Embraer 175 from Miami to Caracas
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The Cuts Begin at O’Hare
Trend: The Cuts Begin at O’Hare
- This week the FAA announced it would implement a cap of 2,708 operations per day at Chicago/O’Hare for the rest of IATA summer, and both American and United started cutting
- Both airlines filed cuts only for May when peak-day operations had risen close to 2,900 in the schedules
- Combined, May has seen up to 150 flights pulled on peak days getting it close to the cap… but still slightly over, near 2,750
- The airlines took different approaches to cuts
- American reduced flying in 27 markets with the biggest cuts in regional markets that were closer, including the delay on starting both Erie and Allentown from May to Jun
- At United, there were 79 markets that saw reductions, including not flying to some thinner outdoor markets (Billings and Great Falls)
- The United cuts are spread much further out around the country
- Jun will be a much more interesting look, but we imagine both airlines just wanted to get initial cuts out there for May because it is right around the corner