After concluding with the global market update for October, we start with the November update for the U.S. and Canadian markets. To review all the content covered in October, please click on the following links:
- Latin America – October 2023.
- United States and Canada – October 2023.
- Europe – October 2023.
- Asia and Oceania – October 2023.
- Africa and Middle East – October 2023.
A major highlight of the month is Air Transat’s introduction to the African market. For the first time, the Canadian airline will operate services to Africa, in this case from Montreal with Airbus A321LRs.
As mentioned in the first edition of the USA/Canada market update, in addition to the inauguration of services to Africa, the company will expand into South America with flights to Peru from Toronto and Montreal.
Services will begin in December.
Air Canada
The carrier will launch flights to Stockholm on June 12th, 2024. Operations will be carried out from Montreal and Toronto, using Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft.
Montreal will have three weekly services, and Toronto two.
Canada – Sweden
Tuesday, Friday and Sunday
- AC 802 Montreal YUL 18:00 · 07:05+1 ARN Stockholm
Wednesday and Saturday
- AC 902 Toronto YYZ 20:30 · 10:05+1 ARN Stockholm
Sweden – Canada
Monday, Wednesday and Saturday
- AC 803 Stockholm ARN 12:15 · 14:05 YUL Montreal
Thursday and Sunday
- AC 903 Stockholm ARN 12:15 · 14:35 YYZ Toronto
Air Transat
The airline will inaugurate its regular flights to Africa effective June 12th, 2024. Air Transat will operate services to Marrakech, Morocco, twice weekly from Montreal with Airbus A321LR jets.
Wednesday and Saturday
- TS 396 Montreal YUL 20:05 · 08:00+1 RAK Marrakech
Thursday and Sunday
- TS 397 Marrakech RAK 09:45 · 12:25 YUL Montreal
Air Transat will be the third operator in the Canada-Morocco market, after Air Canada and Royal Air Maroc.
The carriers have services between Montreal and Casablanca, with the following schedule:
Air Canada
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
- AC 72 Montreal YUL 18:45 · 07:50+1 CMN Casablanca
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
- AC 73 Casablanca CMN 09:35 · 11:40 YUL Montreal
Royal Air Maroc
Daily
- AT 208 Casablanca CMN 16:55 · 18:35 YUL Montreal
- AT 209 Montreal YUL 20:35 · 09:10+1 CMN Casablanca
Friday and Sunday
- AT 206 Casablanca CMN 05:40 · 07:20 YUL Montreal
- AT 207 Montreal YUL 09:05 · 21:40 CMN Casablanca
Alaska Airlines
Alaska will operate between Anchorage and New York JFK, becoming the longest route in its regular schedule. The 3,386-mile service will begin on June 13th, 2024, with a daily frequency.
- AS 170 Anchorage ANC 20:00 · 07:05+1 JFK New York
- AS 542 New York JFK 09:45 · 13:30 ANC Anchorage
Portland, San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle are the airline’s current destinations at New York’s JFK airport.

- Portland (PDX): 7 weekly flights
- San Diego (SAN): 14 weekly flights
- San Francisco (SFO): 35 weekly flights
- Seattle (SEA): 28 weekly flights
In addition, Alaska will begin seasonal service between Anchorage and San Diego beginning May 18th, 2024. The company will operate once a week until August 17th.
Saturday
- AS 933 San Diego SAN 09:00 · 13:45 ANC Anchorage
- AS 932 Anchorage ANC 14:50 · 21:10 SAN San Diego
American Airlines
The carrier plans a major reduction at Austin (AUS) starting in 2024.
According to different reports, American is expected to cancel 21 routes between January and March, which include the following:
Bahamas
- Nassau (NAS)
Costa Rica
- Liberia (LIR)
Dominican Republic
- Punta Cana (PUJ)
Jamaica
- Montego Bay (MBJ)
Mexico
- Cozumel (CZM)
- Puerto Vallarta (PVR)
United States
- Albuquerque (ABQ)
- Bozeman (BZN)
- Cincinnati (CVG)
- Destin Fort Walton (VPS)
- Eagle (EGE)
- El Paso (ELP)
- Fort Myers (RSW)
- Jacksonville (JAX)
- Kansas City (MCI)
- Oklahoma City (OKC)
- Sacramento (SMF)
- Tampa (TPA)
- Tulsa (TUL)
- Washington (IAD)

American will start services between Washington Reagan and Bermuda beginning April 4th, 2024. The airline plans a daily flight with 128-seat Airbus A319 aircraft.
Daily
- AA 2528 Washington DCA 10:20 · 13:44 BDA Bermuda
- AA 2529 Bermuda BDA 14:42 · 16:10 DCA Washington
Charlotte, Miami and New York are American Airlines’ current routes in Bermuda:
- Charlotte (CLT): 7 weekly · Airbus A319
- Miami (MIA): 7 weekly · Airbus A319
- New York (JFK): 7 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX
Avelo
On November 2nd, Avelo Airlines inaugurated flights between Philadelphia/Wilmington and Sarasota/Bradenton. Operations will be twice weekly with Boeing 737-800 planes configured for 189 passengers.
Sarasota will have flights from Wilmington (ILG) for the first time.
Thursday and Sunday
- XP 593 Wilmington ILG 08:00 · 10:40 SRQ Sarasota
- XP 594 Sarasota SRQ 11:25 · 14:00 ILG Wilmington

Avelo will begin service to the Caribbean as of November 15th. The flights will be operated from New Haven Tweed Airport on Boeing 737-800 aircraft with the following schedule:
Wednesday and Saturday
- XP 327 New Haven HVN 07:30 · 12:15 SJU San Juan
- XP 328 San Juan SJU 12:45 · 15:50 HVN New Haven
Avelo’s destinations in New Haven, one of its main bases:

- Charleston (CHS): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-700
- Daytona Beach (DAB): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-700
- Fort Lauderdale (FLL): 7 weekly · Boeing 737-700 and Boeing 737-800
- Fort Myers (RSW): 7 weekly · Boeing 737-700
- Greenville (GSP): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-700
- Melbourne (MLB): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-700
- Myrtle Beach (MYR): 3 weekly · Boeing 737-700
- Orlando (MCO): 11 weekly · Boeing 737-700 and Boeing 737-800
- Raleigh-Durham (RDU): 6 weekly · Boeing 737-700
- San Juan (SJU): 2 weekly · Boeing 737-800
- Sarasota (SRQ): 4 weekly · Boeing 737-700
- Tampa (TPA): 5 weekly · Boeing 737-700 and Boeing 737-800
- West Palm Beach (PBI): 8 weekly · Boeing 737-700 and Boeing 737-800
- Wilmington (ILM): 3 weekly · Boeing 737-700
Breeze
Gulfport, Mississippi, will be one of the newest additions to the Breeze Airways network.
The carrier will commence operations effective January 12th, 2024 with two routes:
Monday and Friday · Airbus A220-300s
- MX 148 Tampa TPA 07:40 · 08:14 GPT Gulfport
- MX 148 Gulfport GPT 09:15 · 11:24 LAS Las Vegas
- MX 149 Las Vegas LAS 12:10 · 17:49 GPT Gulfport
- MX 149 Gulfport GPT 18:50 · 21:29 TPA Tampa
American, Delta, Sun Country Airlines and United currently operate at Gulfport Airport.
Delta Air Lines
Delta will launch flights between Atlanta and Phoenix with 339-seat Airbus A350-900 aircraft beginning December 7th. The airline will operate once daily on these jets, joining the current flights, which are carried out by Airbus A321s, Boeing 757s and Boeing 767s.
Airbus A350’s flight
- DL 733 Atlanta ATL 08:30 · 10:42 PHX Phoenix
- DL 733 Phoenix PHX 12:10 · 17:34 ATL Atlanta
Eastern
At the time of publication, Eastern Air Lines has five flights on sale between Miami and Santo Domingo for the next five months. The company operates a monthly service on this route with Boeing 767-200(ER) and Boeing 767-300(ER) aircraft.
Miami (MIA) – Santo Domingo (SDQ) – Miami (MIA)
- November 17th
- December 15th
- January 12th, 2024
- February 9th, 2024
- March 8th, 2024
Schedule
- 2D 686 Miami MIA 09:00 · 12:15 SDQ Santo Domingo
- 2D 687 Santo Domingo SDQ 14:45 · 16:00 MIA Miami
Eastern offers the monthly flight to the Dominican Republic since December 2022.
Flair
The airline inaugurated service to Punta Cana from Toronto on October 29th, its first scheduled flight to the Dominican Republic.
In addition to Toronto, as of December 23rd, Flair will start operating between Ottawa and Punta Cana.
Toronto
Daily except Tuesday
- F8 2630 Toronto YYZ 14:05 · 19:35 PUJ Punta Cana
- F8 2631 Punta Cana PUJ 20:35 · 00:20+1 YYZ Toronto
Ottawa
Tuesday and Saturday
- F8 2310 Ottawa YOW 14:05 · 19:05 PUJ Punta Cana
- F8 2311 Punta Cana PUJ 20:55 · 00:50+1 YOW Ottawa
Flair will inaugurate operations to Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 31st, 2024. Flights will be performed from Vancouver, twice a week.
Monday and Friday
- F8 2854 Vancouver YVR 13:40 · 19:50 GDL Guadalajara
- F8 2855 Guadalajara GDL 20:35 · 00:55+1 YVR Vancouver
At present, Cancun and Puerto Vallarta are the airline’s markets in Mexico.
Cancun
- Edmonton (YEG): 5 weekly · Boeing 737s
- Montreal (YUL): 5 weekly · Boeing 737s
- Ottawa (YOW): 1 weekly · Boeing 737s
- Toronto (YYZ): 6 weekly · Boeing 737s
- Vancouver (YVR): 4 weekly · Boeing 737s
- Waterloo (YKF): 1 weekly · Boeing 737s
Puerto Vallarta
- Calgary (YYC): 5 weekly · Boeing 737s
- Edmonton (YEG): 3 weekly · Boeing 737s
- Toronto (YYZ): 5 weekly · Boeing 737s
- Vancouver (YVR): 7 weekly · Boeing 737s
Frontier
The carrier will add five new domestic routes from Fort Myers Southern International Airport between November 16th and 17th. These services will be served by Airbus A320 jets:

- Fort Myers (RSW) – Buffalo (BUF): 4 weekly · November 17th
- Fort Myers (RSW) – Detroit (DTW): 4 weekly · November 16th
- Fort Myers (RSW) – New York/Islip (ISP): 7 weekly · November 16th
- Fort Myers (RSW) – Minneapolis (MSP): 7 weekly · November 16th
- Fort Myers (RSW) – Syracuse (SYR): 4 weekly · November 16th
jetBlue
Due to a restriction imposed by the Dutch government in order to reduce the amount of flights, jetBlue is set to lose its slots at Amsterdam as of summer 2024. The airline inaugurated operations to Schiphol Airport last September, serving once daily from Boston and New York with Airbus A321 aircraft.
In case the flights are finished, jetBlue’s European market will remain with five routes in two countries:
- Boston (BOS) – London (LGW): daily
- Boston (BOS) – London (LHR): daily
- New York (JFK) – London (LGW): daily
- New York (JFK) – London (LHR): daily
- New York (JFK) – Paris (CDG): daily
However, while its Amsterdam slots may be lost, jetBlue continues to add connections to Europe.
Dublin and Edinburgh will be new destinations for the company in this market starting in 2024.
The capital of Ireland will have flights from Boston and New York from March 13th, while services to Edinburgh will start on May 23rd, in this case, only from JFK.
jetBlue will also inaugurate operations between Boston and Paris in April 2024.
Furthermore, the carrier began flights to Saint Kitts and Nevis last November 2nd, reaching its 25th destination in the Caribbean.
jetBlue will operate three times a week from New York’s JFK airport with Airbus A320-200 jets.
Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday
- B6 2967 New York JFK 08:59 · 14:10 SKB Basseterre
- B6 2968 Basseterre SKB 15:26 · 18:59 JFK New York
Porter
The Canadian operator launched flights between Toronto and Tampa last November 2nd. Porter will serve with Embraer E-2 aircraft, which have 132 seats.
Tampa became the company’s first destination in Florida.
Daily
- PD 527 Toronto YYZ 16:30 · 19:32 TPA Tampa
- PD 522 Tampa TPA 09:05 · 12:00 YYZ Toronto
Boston, Chicago, New York, Tampa and Washington are Porter’s actual U.S. destinations.
Starting November 10th, the airline will inaugurate flights to Fort Myers, also from Toronto. Porter Airlines will operate under the following schedule:
Daily
- PD 535 Toronto YYZ 16:45 · 20:00 RSW Fort Myers
- PD 530 Fort Myers RSW 09:05 · 12:00 YYZ Toronto
Southwest
Southwest Airlines will add six international routes from Orlando MCO beginning in June 2024. The operations will be performed with Boeing 737-700s and Boeing 737-800s seating 143 and 175 passengers, respectively.
Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Turks and Caicos Islands will be the new markets:

- Cancun (CUN)
- Grand Cayman/Owen Roberts International (GCM)
- Nassau (NAS)
- Providenciales (PLS)
- Punta Cana (PUJ)
- San Jose (SJO)
Spirit
Beginning March 28th, 2024, Spirit Airlines will inaugurate operations to the new Tulum Airport (TQO), in Mexico. The carrier will serve from Fort Lauderdale and Orlando as follows:
Fort Lauderdale
- NK 1551 Fort Lauderdale FLL 10:20 · 11:15 TQO Tulum
- NK 1552 Tulum TQO 12:05 · 15:00 FLL Fort Lauderdale
Orlando
- NK 345 Orlando MCO 13:00 · 14:10 TQO Tulum
- NK 346 Tulum TQO 15:00 · 18:10 MCO Orlando

Both will have a daily frequency.
United Airlines
The airline confirmed the addition of a new destination to Portugal in May 2024. United will fly between Newark and Faro with Boeing 757-200 aircraft, four times a week.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
- UA 281 Newark EWR 21:50 · 10:00+1 FAO Faro
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
- UA 282 Faro FAO 11:45 · 15:05 EWR Newark
Currently, Montreal is the only destination in the Americas from the Portuguese city (Air Transat).
Cover photo: Jinyuan LIU – JetPhotos.