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United States and Canada route updates – March 2024

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In mid-February, Lynx Air, a Canadian ultra-low-cost airline, confirmed the cessation of operations for the 26th of that month, due to financial difficulties.

Lynx Air had inaugurated services in April 2022, achieving nine Boeing 737 MAX 8s by August of the following year.

The carrier was part of Indigo Partners, a company that currently has investments in Frontier (United States), JetSMART (Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Perú), Volaris (México) and Wizz Air (Hungary).

Apart from Lynx Air’s termination, these are the main developments in the U.S.-Canada market during February and March.

 

  • Allegiant confirms the first destinations for its Boeing 737 MAX 8-200.

 

  • American, with the start of New York – Tokyo Haneda flights and its big order of Airbus, Boeing and Embraer aircraft.

 

  • Avelo continues its expansion at Santa Rosa (STS).

 

  • Breeze arrives in Manchester (MHT) with three new routes.

 

  • Canada Jetlines to launch services to Halifax.

 

  • Delta increases operations between Atlanta and London.

 

  • Frontier to have new connections from Cincinnati and Cleveland.

 

  • Hawaiian Airlines adds its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.

 

  • Porter and its new routes.

 

  • Spirit, with many additions and also several cancellations.

 

  • Sun Country reaches 100 destinations from/to Minneapolis.

 

  • United Airlines will double its flights between Newark and Porto.

 

  • WestJet began seasonal operations to Dublin from Toronto Pearson.

 

Aeromexico

The Mexican airline will inaugurate a new route to the United States starting July 1st.

Aeromexico will operate to Tampa (TPA) from Mexico City with 99-seat Embraer 190s. According to its website, the carrier will offer one service a day between the two cities.

Daily

 

With respect to other Mexican cities, jetBlue currently has a daily flight between Tampa and Cancún with Airbus A320 aircraft.

Air Canada

As of May 1st, Air Canada Express will expand its service between Toronto and Charlotte. The airline will reach three flights per day, as can be seen through its website.

New flight · Daily

 

Daily

 

Daily

 

In addition, Air Canada added a new Boeing 787-9 to its fleet in February.

Air Transat

The Canadian company will maintain its operations between Montreal and Liberia, Costa Rica, year-round.

Flights were initially scheduled during the high season, but will continue on a weekly basis effective May (on Sundays):

Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday (currently)

 

Alaska Airlines

From October 1st, Alaska will offer services between Portland and Atlanta. Operations will be performed on 174-seat Boeing 737-900(ER) aircraft.

Daily

 

Delta is the only company with flights between the two cities (20 times a week with the same jets).

Allegiant

The ultra-low-cost airline announced the first destinations for its new 737 MAXs.

Allegiant plans to have 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8-200s by the end of this year, with the first ones expected to be added in the short term.

Schedule confirmed:

Orlando Sanford

Map by gcmap.com

 

Punta Gorda

Map by gcmap.com

 

St. Petersburg

Map by gcmap.com

 

A Boeing 737-7 and 737-8-200 (Boeing Photo)

American Airlines

The company confirmed the launch of flights between New York and Tokyo Haneda beginning June 28th. According to the press release, American will offer daily service on Boeing 777-200(ER) aircraft with capacity for 273 passengers.

American Airlines will be the only U.S. carrier to fly non-stop between JFK and Tokyo.

The new JFK–HND service will be American’s fourth daily non-stop operation to HND, joining existing daily service from Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) and two daily flights from Los Angeles (LAX).

Daily

 

“American looks forward to launching flights between JFK and HND this summer,” said Brian Znotins, American’s Senior Vice President of Network and Schedule Planning. “This new service will complement flights offered by our joint business partner, Japan Airlines, giving more ways for our customers travel between the U.S. and Japan.”

In addition, American Airlines announced orders for 260 new aircraft, including Airbus A321neo, Boeing 737 MAX 10 and Embraer E175 jets.

The orders also include options and purchase rights for an additional 193 airplanes. As part of the Boeing order, American has expanded 30 existing 737 MAX 8 orders to 737 MAX 10 aircraft.

  • Airbus A321neo: 85 
  • Boeing 737 MAX 10: 85
  • Embraer 175: 90

 

Avelo

The carrier, which just opened a new base at Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport, has announced the commencement of four routes to/from Santa Rosa (STS) beginning in May:

Flights are now on sale on Avelo’s website, and this will be the schedule:

Kalispell · May 1st

Wednesday and Saturday

 

Pasco · May 1st

Wednesday and Saturday

 

Alaska and Avelo at Santa Rosa airport.

Boise · May 2nd

Thursday and Sunday

 

Salem · May 3rd

Monday and Friday

 

Current Avelo routes from/to STS (and the new destinations)

Map by gcmap.com

 

Breeze

The airline has confirmed it will launch three new routes from Manchester, New Hampshire. Two of these will begin in June, and the other in October.

Map by gcmap.com

 

Canada Jetlines

On June 2nd, the airline will inaugurate two new routes to/from Halifax, a domestic and an international one. Jetlines will operate with 180-seat Airbus A320-200s twice per week.

Toronto – Halifax – Orlando

Wednesday and Sunday

 

Orlando – Halifax – Toronto

Monday and Thursday

 

Canada Jetlines has three Airbus A320-200s in its fleet, and currently offers these routes:

Routes

Delta Air Lines

Effective May 6th, Delta will resume its third daily flight between Atlanta and London Heathrow. The airline currently operates two services a day on this route, using Airbus A330-300 and Boeing 767-400(ER) aircraft.

The third service will be during the summer season.

Daily

 

Daily

 

New flight · Daily · Boeing 767-400(ER)

 

Delta Air Lines routes from/to London LHR

  • Atlanta (ATL): 14 weekly · currently
  • Boston (BOS): 7 weekly · Airbus A330-200
  • Detroit (DTW): 7 weekly · Airbus A330-200
  • Los Angeles (LAX): 7 weekly · Airbus A330-900neo
  • Minneapolis (MSP): 7 weekly · Airbus A330-200
  • New York (JFK): 14 weekly · A339/767-400(ER)
  • Salt Lake City (SLC): 7 weekly · Airbus A330-200
  • Seattle (SEA): 4 weekly · Airbus A330-900neo

 

FedEx

The company added a new Boeing 767-300(F) during February, bringing the total number of aircraft in its fleet to 495.

This Boeing 767, as you can see in the chart below, is registered N259FE and came new from the factory.

Federal Express currently has 137 Boeing 767-300(F) airplanes in its fleet, of which 133 are in service.

Fleet

  • ATR 42: 17
  • ATR 72: 38
  • Airbus A300-600: 64
  • Boeing 737-400: 5
  • Boeing 737-800: 8
  • Boeing 757-200: 116
  • Boeing 767-300: 137
  • Boeing 777-200: 57
  • Cessna 408 SkyCourier: 18
  • McDonnell Douglas MD-11: 35

 

The average age of the fleet is 19 years old.

Frontier

Effective May, Frontier will have a major expansion in Cincinnati and Cleveland, with the start of new routes. Operations will be carried out on the 186-seat Airbus A320neo:

Map by gcmap.com

Cincinnati

 

Cleveland

 

Hawaiian

Last February 14th, Hawaiian Airlines took delivery of its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. The aircraft, registered as N781HA, departed Charleston on the 14th at 17:23 local time, arriving in Honolulu 10 hours and 10 minutes later (still on February 14th).

Hawaiian’s 787s will have a 300-passenger configuration, featuring the newest premium product, the Leihōkū.

Photo: Hawaiian

As announced, Hawaiian Airlines will inaugurate scheduled flights with the 787-9 Dreamliner on April 15th, when it will begin operating the daily non-stop Honolulu-San Francisco service, and will later be joined by the N780HA, scheduled for delivery and naming next month.

Both aircraft will operate Hawaiian’s Honolulu-Los Angeles (HA3) service beginning May 15th, and Honolulu-Phoenix flights starting May 16th.

Photo: Hawaiian

Lynx Air

Canadian ultra low cost carrier Lynx Air ceased operations on February 26th at 00:01 local time. Lynx Air had nine Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft in its fleet and routes within Canada and some international connections to the United States.

According to the published statement, the airline stopped flying due to financial difficulties:

“Tremendous work was put into the growth and expansion of Lynx Air over the past two years, offering Canadians a low-cost, seamless travel experience for Canadians. However, the compounding financial pressures associated with inflation, fuel costs, exchange rates, cost of capital, regulatory costs and competitive tension in the Canadian market have ultimately proven too steep a mountain for our organization to overcome. It is with a heavy heart we leave the skies. We hope in our absence that our vision to Inspire More Canadians to Fly leaves its mark on our passengers”.

Lynx Air’s last inauguration was on February 15th, with the Toronto – Cancún route. It scheduled a daily flight between both cities.

Historic fleet

AircraftRegistrationConfigRemarks
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-FTHFY189Stored in TUS
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-FULHY189Stored in TUS
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-FULIY189Stored in TUS
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-FULJY189Stored in TUS
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-GJHKY189Stored in TUS
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-GJSLY189Stored in TUS
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-GLYXY189Stored in TUS
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-GULNY189Stored in TUS
Boeing 737 MAX 8C-GUULY189Stored in TUS

Porter Airlines

Beginning in June, Porter Airlines will inaugurate service to Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s easternmost province, in the Atlantic region of the country.

Deer Lake · Dash 8-Q400 · June 4th

Daily

 

St. John’s NFLD · Embraer E-2 · June 6th

Daily

 


Furthermore, the company began operations between Toronto and Las Vegas last March 5th. Porter will have a daily flight under the following schedule:

Daily

 

Spirit

The airline confirmed the addition of new routes within the United States starting in May. These will be:

Map by gcmap.com

 

On the other hand, Spirit will cancel the following connections:

Map by gcmap.com

 

Sun Country

Beginning August 8th, Sun Country Airlines will launch two new routes to/from Minneapolis. The operations will be carried out with Boeing 737-800 airplanes.

Map by gcmap.com

 

Sun Country surpasses the 100 connections offered from Minneapolis (although not all are made at the same time).

United Airlines

The airline will operate two daily frequencies between Newark and Porto starting next May 23rd. Initially, United had planned one flight a day on this route, which is operated during the summer season, as it is seasonal.

Schedule · eff May 23rd

Daily

 

Daily · new

 

United Airlines will fly with Boeing 757-200s.

Following the focus on Portugal, United offers service to Lisbon from Newark and Washington.

Newark

Daily

 

As of March 10th, departures will be at 21:35 from EWR and will arrive in Newark 14:25.

Washington

Daily

 

WestJet

Last March 1st, WestJet resumed its seasonal flights between Toronto and Dublin. As can be seen in our database, the Canadian carrier will perform a daily service with 174-seat Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft.

Daily

 

Effective March 10th, operations will depart Toronto Pearson Airport 23:45 local time and arrive at 16:00 local time at YYZ.

WestJet routes to/from Europe (currently)

Calgary

  • London (LHR): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9
  • Paris (CDG): 4 weekly · Boeing 787-9

 

Toronto

  • Dublin (DUB): 7 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX 8

 

Regarding new aircraft, these were the airlines that added new jets to their respective fleets:

 

  • Air Canada (AC)

 

  • Breeze Airways (MX)

 

  • Delta Air Lines (DL) x3

 

  • Federal Express (FX)

 

  • Frontier (F9) x2

 

  • Hawaiian Airlines (HA)

 

  • JetBlue (B6) x2

 

  • Spirit Airlines (NK) x2

 

  • Southwest Airlines (WN)

 

  • United Airlines (UA) x3

 

AircraftAirlineRegistrationFerry flightDate
Airbus A321-271NXUnited AirlinesN14504XFW-KEF-CLE-TPAFeb 1st
Airbus A321-271NXSpirit AirlinesN716NKXFW-KEF-DTWFeb 2nd
Boeing 787-9Air CanadaC-GYJWCHS-BHX-YYZ**
Boeing 767-300(F)FedExN259FEPAE-INDFeb 6th
Boeing 737 MAX 8United AirlinesN47332BFI-PDXFeb 7th
Airbus A320-271NSpirit AirlinesN989NKBFM-DTWFeb 9th
Airbus A220-300JetBlueN3158JYMX-JFKFeb 12th
Airbus A220-300Breeze AirwaysN230BZBFM-TPAFeb 13th
Boeing 787-9Hawaiian AirlinesN781HACHS-HNLFeb 14th
Airbus A321-271NXFrontierN636FRBFM-TPAFeb 22nd
Boeing 737 MAX 8Southwest AirlinesN8907LBFI-PHXFeb 22nd
Airbus A321-271NXDelta Air LinesN574DTXFW-KEF-MSPFeb 28th
Airbus A321-271NXJetBlueN2165JXFW-JFK-MLBFeb 29th
Airbus A321-271NXUnited AirlinesN14507XFW-EDI-BGR-TPAMarch 1st
Airbus A321-271NXDelta Air LinesN575DNXFW-KEF-MSPMarch 1st
Airbus A321-271NXFrontierN637FRBFM-TPAMarch 1st
Airbus A220-300Delta Air LinesN322DUBFM-MSPMarch 1st

*On February 2nd, the aircraft flew out of Charleston bound for Birmingham, and on the 15th from BHX to Toronto YYZ.

February report:

 


 

Cover photo: Luft Spotter – JetPhotos (Vancouver Airport).

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