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Air Canada will restart scheduled passenger flights with Boeing 767-300(ER), aircraft that had been withdrawn in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The airline plans to bring back 767s with registrations C-FOCA and C-GLCA, which will resume service after almost four years of storage at Marana Pinal Air Park (MZJ/KMZJ). Air Canada commented the Boeing 767s will return passenger operations following the delay of new aircraft deliveries.

Both 767s will be configured for 211 passengers in two seating classes (24 Business and 187 Economy). Canada, Jamaica and the United States will be its markets.

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The two Boeing 767s are currently at John C. Munro Hamilton International Airport (YHM/CYHM), after making a ferry flight from Marana a few months ago.

The Boeing 767 C-GLCA at Marana Pinal Air Park – November 2022

United launches hourly shuttle service between Newark and Washington Reagan (DCA)

The airline will significantly increase its operations between Newark and Washington DCA beginning May 22nd, 2025. In line with its website, United Airlines will reach 17 daily frequencies on this route, which it will provide by CRJ-550 aircraft configured for 48 passengers.

Schedule eff May 22nd, 2025

EWR – DCA

 

DCA – EWR

 

All flights will have a daily frequency.

Spirit files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

Spirit Airlines filed for Chapter 11 in November, becoming the first major U.S. airline since American Airlines 13 years ago.

The reasons for the filing are due to mounting debts, lower revenues and increasing competitors in regional markets. Other possible reasons may include the rejection of the merger with JetBlue and the failure of previous partnership attempts with Frontier Airlines.

Spirit has a significant route network in the United States, in addition to connections to Aruba, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, Sint Maarten and U.S. Virgin Islands.

The fleet consists of 203 aircraft.

  • Airbus A319-100: 2
  • Airbus A320-200: 58
  • Airbus A320neo: 91
  • Airbus A321-200: 26
  • Airbus A321neo: 26

 

Spirit Airlines plans to complete the process in the first quarter of 2025.

Sichuan adds flights to Canada

The Chinese company doubled its flight frequency between Chengdu Tianfu and Vancouver in late November, increasing from one to two weekly services.

Sichuan Airlines will operate this route using Airbus A350-900s, with a capacity of 331 or 337 passengers, depending on the aircraft configuration. With this schedule, the airline will offer more than 660 seats per week on each leg.

TFU – YVR

 

YVR – TFU

 

Routes from Sichuan Airlines to America
Map by gcmap.com

Chengdu

  • Vancouver (YVR): 2 weekly · Airbus A350-900

 

LAX

 

Sichuan performs the Chengdu – Los Angeles – Hangzhou route.

We review other highlights of the US and Canada market

Air Canada

Starting February 1st, 2025, the Canadian carrier will add wide-body flights between Toronto and Tampa. According to its website, Airbus A330-300s will operate twice-daily until the end of February 2025.

Daily

 

Daily

 

On the other hand, Air Canada will open more routes to the United States from three Canadian cities.

Map by gcmap.com

 

Air China

On November 8th at 18:52 local time, Air China’s first non-stop service from Beijing arrived in Vancouver. The airline will provide three weekly flights on 311-seat Boeing 777-300(ER) jets.

Monday, Friday and Saturday

 

Air China operated until early November the Beijing – Shenyang – Vancouver and vice versa route, which it offered once a week with the same aircraft.

Air North

Seasonal flights between Whitehorse and Toronto.

Air North will inaugurate summer services on this route, effective June 12th, 2025. The weekly frequency will be performed by Boeing 737-500s with a capacity of 122 passengers.

Thursday/Friday

 

Air North has 4 ATR 42-300s, 1 Boeing 737-400, 4 Boeing 737-500s and 2 Boeing 737-800s.

Air Premia

The South Korean company will boost frequencies between Seoul Incheon and Newark starting December 17th. In accordance with its website, the sixth frequency will run until late October 2025.

Daily except Saturday/Sunday

 

New flight on Tuesdays (ICN-EWR) and Wednesdays (EWR-ICN).

Alaska

Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines begin coordinating operations, following their partnership agreement confirmed in September.

Hawaiian will stop flying between Kahului and San Diego as of June 12th, 2025, which it operates with Airbus A321neo, and on the same day Alaska will double its flights on this route.

Based on its website, Alaska Airlines will serve two daily frequencies on the 178-seat Boeing 737-900ERs.

SAN – OGG

 

OGG – SAN

 

American

The airline will continue to expand its route network between the United States and Europe, with two new services to Italy during summer 2025.

American will add routes to Naples and Venice, both operated by Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner for 234 passengers.

Chicago – Naples · May 6th, 2025

Daily

 

Dallas – Venice · June 5th, 2025

Daily

 

In addition, according to the press release, the company will increase frequencies on these routes to Europe:

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  • Dallas (DFW) – London (LHR): from 28 to 35 weekly · March 29th, 2025
  • Miami (MIA) – London (LHR): from 7 to 14 weekly · March 30th, 2025
  • Philadelphia (PHL) – Rome (FCO): from 7 to 14 weekly · June 5th, 2025

 

Avelo

Effective March 6th, 2025, Avelo Airlines will launch flights between Lakeland and Nashville with Boeing 737-800 planes. The airline will offer two services per week as follows:

Thursday and Sunday

 

Avelo will be the only operator on this route.

BermudAir

The Bermuda-based carrier keeps expanding its network, by adding three new routes to the United States.

Charleston, Hartford (Windsor Locks) and Raleigh-Durham will commence in April 2025, in all three cases to/from BDA.

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With green color, its current routes.

Breeze

Breeze Airways opened a new base in Sarasota, which became its fifth in Florida and its 12th in the US.

Sarasota joins Fort Myers, New Haven, Orlando and Vero Beach, its other bases launched this year.

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New Breeze routes from/to SRQ, which started in November

 

New Haven (HVN) will start in December.

Delta

The carrier will maintain year-round flights between Tampa and Amsterdam.

Bookings were until May 31st, 2025, as it was planned as a seasonal service during winter 2024/25, and are now available from June 1st, 2025 onwards. Delta Air Lines will operate with Airbus A330-300 aircraft, four times a week.

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday

 

Furthermore, the company will introduce four new domestic routes by 2025:

Map by gcmap.com

 

Flair

For summer 2025, the Canadian airline will resume operations between Calgary and Kelowna effective June 20th, 2025. Flair will fly four times weekly until mid-October 2025 on Boeing 737-800s.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

 

*The company will operate the YLW-YYC route from December 17th to January 5th, 2025. 

Frontier

Many new Frontier Airlines routes in the United States, to be served by Airbus A320s and Airbus A321s.

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Harbour Air

At 07:42 local time on November 4th, the first-ever wheeled flight service of Harbour Air departed Vancouver for Victoria. This flight was performed with the De Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, registration C-GHHA.

North America’s largest seaplane airline provided two flights on Saturdays and Sundays during November, increasing to three in December.

YVR – YYJ

 

YYJ – YVR

 

Flights are around 20 minutes.

Hawaiian

Starting April 22nd, 2025, Hawaiian will double its operations between Honolulu and Seattle, one of Alaska Airlines’ main hubs. The company will serve on Airbus A330-200 aircraft.

Daily

 

Daily · new flight

 

Flight HA 022/021 is flown by the same planes.

HiSky

The Romanian airline intends to boost frequencies to New York JFK as of March 30th, 2025.

In accordance with its website, HiSky will increase from three to five flights per week from Bucharest, a route it operates with Airbus A330-200s.

Daily except Tuesday and Thursday

 

New flights on Saturdays and Sundays.

Icelandair

As announced in our last Europe report, Icelandair confirmed its first destinations using Airbus A321LRs, which will enter service during December.

Regarding North America, Icelandair will operate A321 flights to Seattle and Toronto beginning in 2025.

Map by gcmap.com

 

The remaining routes will be within Europe.

jetBlue

More flights by Airbus A321-200 aircraft.

JetBlue will add these jets configured for 200 passengers in single class on three routes, replacing A320s with almost 40 fewer seats.

Map by gcmap.com

 

Southwest

In June 2025, Southwest Airlines will start 12 new routes in the US, as well as an international route, which it will operate on Boeing 737-700s, Boeing 737-800s and Boeing 737 MAX 8s.

Map by gcmap.com

 

United

The airline plans to resume operations from Newark using 350-passenger Boeing 777-300(ER) aircraft configured with 60 seats in Business, 24 seats in Premium Economy and 266 seats in Economy.

United Airlines will offer three routes effective 2025, in accordance with its website:

Map by gcmap.com
  • Dubai (DXB): 7 weekly · March 29th, 2025
  • Frankfurt (FRA): 7 weekly · March 29th, 2025
  • Rome (FCO): 7 weekly · May 22nd, 2025

 

Moreover, the company will restart two routes to Edmonton starting May 2025, both with Airbus A319-100 jets.

Chicago · May 24th, 2025

Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday

 

Houston · May 22nd, 2025

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

 

Viva

VivaAerobus, now under its new name Viva, confirmed the launch of two new routes between Cancún and the United States in 2025. Services will be operated on 180-seat Airbus A320-200 planes.

Columbus · February 15th, 2025

Saturday/Sunday

 

Memphis · May 31st, 2025

Saturday/Sunday

 

Viva’s new livery

Volaris

Following with Mexican airlines, Volaris will also add two routes to the U.S., in this case both to Oakland. As per its website, the carrier will perform this schedule:

San José del Cabo (Los Cabos) · March 20th, 2025

Daily

 

Zacatecas · July 2nd, 2025

Wednesday, Friday and Sunday

 

WestJet

New WestJet routes between Canada and the United States, beginning in 2025.

Map by gcmap.com

 

Anchorage, Raleigh-Durham and Salt Lake City will be WestJet’s new US cities.

New aircraft added by U.S. and Canadian airlines

 

  • Allegiant Air

 

  • American Airlines (x3)

 

  • Breeze Airways (x2)

 

  • Delta Air Lines (x2)

 

  • Frontier

 

  • JetBlue

 

  • Spirit Airlines

 

  • United Airlines (x6)

 

AircraftAirlineRegistrationFerry flightDate
Airbus A321-271NXUnitedN14521BFM-TPANovember 4th
Airbus A321-271NXSpiritN740NKBFM-DTWNovember 6th
Airbus A321-271NXUnitedN14520BFM-TPANovember 7th
Boeing 737 MAX 9UnitedN77588BFI-SEANovember 7th
Airbus A321-253NXAmericanN470ANBFM-DFWNovember 13th
Airbus A220-300DeltaN327DUBFM-MSPNovember 13th
Airbus A321-253NXAmericanN471ANBFM-DFWNovember 14th
Airbus A220-300BreezeN240BZBFM-TPANovember 14th
Airbus A321-271NXFrontierN656FRBFM-TPANovember 14th
Airbus A321-271NXUnitedN24526XFW-EDI-BGR-TPANovember 16th
Airbus A321-271NXUnitedN24519XFW-EDI-BGR-TPANovember 16th
Boeing 737 MAX 8-200AllegiantN814NVBFI-SFBNovember 21st
Boeing 737 MAX 8AmericanN356TXBFI-DFWNovember 21st
Airbus A220-300BreezeN243BZBFM-BDLNovember 21st
Airbus A321-271NXUnitedN24510XFW-EDI-BGR-TPANovember 21st
Airbus A321-271NXDeltaN552DTXFW-KEF-MSP-VCVNovember 22nd
Airbus A350-941DeltaN525DNTLS-ATLNovember 23rd
Airbus A220-300jetBlueN3240JBFM-YMX-BOSNovember 29th

Considering the month of November, only U.S. airlines added new aircraft.

Other reports we have published

 


 

Cover photo: Guillaume Fevrier – JetPhotos

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