United Airlines will launch a new intercontinental route from Los Angeles beginning in May, which will operate with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft configured for 257 passengers (48 Business, 21 Premium Economy and 188 Economy). Services will be conducted three times weekly.

According to its website, the first flight between LAX and Beijing is scheduled for May 1st. The Chinese capital will become United Airlines’ second destination in the country and the fifth in Asia from Los Angeles, including Hong Kong and Japan. It also operates to Melbourne and Sydney, each with a daily frequency.

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

• UA 771  Los Angeles LAX 23:10 · 04:45+2 PEK Beijing

Monday, Thursday and Saturday

• UA 772  Beijing PEK 12:00 · 09:35 LAX Los Angeles

Cancún, Guatemala City, Hong Kong, Liberia, Melbourne, Puerto Vallarta, San José, San José del Cabo, San Salvador, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo (Haneda and Narita) and Vancouver are United’s international destinations to/from LAX.

Arcata, Aspen, Austin, Baltimore, Boise, Boston, Bozeman, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, Eagle County, Fort Myers, Fresno, Hailey, Hayden, Honolulu, Houston, Jackson, Kahului, Kona, Lafayette, Las Vegas, Līhu’e, Monterey, Montrose, Newark, Orlando, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Prescott, Redding, Redmond, Reno, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Seattle, St. George, St. Louis, Tampa and Washington DC are part of the domestic schedule.

United’s international routes in Los Angeles

At time of publication

• Cancún (CUN): 26 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX 9
• Guatemala City (GUA): 7 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX 8
• Hong Kong (HKG): 14 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Liberia (LIR): 1 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX 9
• London (LHR): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Melbourne (MEL): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Puerto Vallarta (PVR): 5 weekly · Boeing 737-800
• San José (SJO): 5 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX 8
• San José del Cabo (SJD): 12 weekly · Boeing 737-800
• San Salvador (SAL): 7 weekly · Boeing 737 MAX 9
• Shanghai (PVG): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Sydney (SYD): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Tokyo Haneda (HND): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner
• Tokyo Narita (NRT): 7 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
• Vancouver (YVR): 7 weekly · 738/739

Air China and Hainan Airlines currently operate the Beijing Capital – Los Angeles route, four and three times per week, respectively.

Fiji Airways begins flights to Dallas

At 15:11 local time on December 11th, Fiji Airways’ inaugural flight from Nadi landed at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. DFW is the airline’s third destination in the United States and fourth in North America, all offered from the country’s capital.

Fiji Airways will serve three weekly times with 334-seat Airbus A350-900 planes.

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

• FJ 890  Nadi NAN 21:15 · 15:20 DFW Dallas
• FJ 891  Dallas DFW 21:55 · 05:20+2 NAN Nadi

Commenting on the launch of the service, Fiji Airways CEO and Managing Director Andre Viljoen said, “This new route significantly strengthens Fiji Airways’ connectivity across North America, making it easier than ever for U.S. travellers to access Fiji and the South Pacific, with seamless onward connections to Australia and New Zealand. In line with our mission, ‘We Fly for Fiji,’ this new service will bring up to 1,000 passengers to Fiji each week, supporting our nation’s tourism industry and creating new avenues for business collaboration between our two nations.”

DFW’s Chief Executive Officer, Sean Donohue commented, “DFW is excited to add the beautiful islands of Fiji to our growing portfolio of international destinations, bringing North Texas nonstop access to a tropical paradise and connecting Nadi with DFW’s network of more than 250 destinations around the world.”

Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver are its destinations in the United States and Canada.

Breeze starts operations from New Haven

On December 10th at 11:38 local time, Breeze Airways’ first flight arrived at New Haven’s Tweed Airport, launching its new base in Connecticut. The Airbus A220-300, registration N228BZ, landed from Fort Myers after a 2 hour and 24 minute flight.

At publication time, Breeze operates four routes to/from HVN, and will reach 10 scheduled services as of February. All will be provided by A220-300s.

• Fort Myers (RSW): 5 weekly
• Orlando (MCO): 4 weekly
• Vero Beach (VRB): 2 weekly · only operator from HVN
• West Palm Beach (PBI): 4 weekly

Breeze Airways joins Avelo Airlines at New Haven, making it a two-airline airport for the first time in 18 years. The last occasion had been for a few months during 2007, when Pan Am Clipper Connection and US Airways operated at the same time.

Avelo continues to grow at HVN, by adding more routes in February, March, April and May. According to our database, it currently runs 24 routes, with an average of 15 daily departures and arrivals.

Air Transat to commence services to Berlin

The Canadian airline will inaugurate a new destination in Europe for summer 2025.

Operations to the German capital will begin on June 19th and will be offered on Airbus A321neo aircraft for 199 passengers from Toronto, twice-weekly.

Air Transat reaches 36 transcontinental destinations, being Europe the airline’s main market outside the Americas. Berlin joins Valencia, the other new route to Europe recently announced by the company, which will start on June 20th.

Thursday and Sunday

• TS 418  Toronto YYZ 21:05 · 10:55+1 BER Berlin

Monday and Friday

• TS 419  Berlin BER 12:25 · 15:15 YYZ Toronto

“This new route aligns with our revenue diversification strategy by targeting an important yet underserved market. It also leverages our A321LR aircraft, enabling us to offer a high-quality inflight experience, as well as our joint venture with Porter, which connects the German capital to several major Canadian cities,” said Sebastian Ponce, Chief Revenue Officer of Transat.

Silver Airways files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

On December 31st, 2024, the airline announced its voluntary entry into Chapter 11 protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Florida. This decision, as commented in a press release, is to secure additional capital and conduct a financial restructuring to improve its position as a competitive airline.

Silver is scheduled to complete this process in the first quarter of 2025.

In accordance with our database, Silver Airways has 14 aircraft in its fleet, being 8 ATR 42-600 and 6 ATR 72-600, configured for 46 and 70 passengers, respectively. Its main bases are Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, San Juan (Puerto Rico) and Tampa.

Basseterre, Beef Island, Dominica, Fort Lauderdale, Freeport, George Town, Key West, Marsh Harbour, Nassau, North Eleuthera, Orlando, Pensacola, San Juan, Sint Maarten, South Bimini, St. Croix, St. Thomas, Tallahassee, Tampa and The Valley are part of Silver’s network.

We review other highlights of the US/Canada market

Air Canada

Boeing 777-300(ER) with 450 seats will fly to Orlando.

The airline confirmed it will operate between Toronto Pearson and MCO with these aircraft beginning February 28th. At the time of publication, it will be on a limited schedule (until March 14th).

Daily (77W)

• AC 1090  Toronto YYZ 20:00 · 23:09 MCO Orlando
• AC 1085  Orlando MCO 07:00 · 09:47 YYZ Toronto

On the other hand, with respect to new routes, Air Canada will add three regular destinations from Vancouver, all to the United States.

• Nashville (BNA): 3 weekly · 737 MAX 8 · May 1st
• Tampa (TPA): 2 weekly · 737 MAX 8 · June 3rd
• Raleigh-Durham (RDU): 3 weekly · 737 MAX 8 · June 4th

Alaska and Hawaiian

In December, both airlines announced new domestic and international routes, highlighting the start of flights between Seattle and Asia, market to be covered for the first time in its history.

Anchorage, Hawai’i, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle will have the following additions:

• Seattle (SEA) – Tokyo (NRT): May 12th
• Kona (KOA) – Los Angeles (LAX): June 12th
• Kona (KOA) – San Francisco (SFO): June 12th
• Līhu’e (LIH) – San Francisco (SFO): June 13th
• Seattle (SEA) – Anchorage (ANC): June 12th · with A330 aircraft

Increases

• Honolulu (HNL) – Portland (PDX): from 7 to 14 weekly
• Honolulu (HNL) – San Diego (SAN): from 7 to 21 weekly
• Honolulu (HNL) – San Francisco (SFO): from 7 to 14 weekly
• Honolulu (HNL) – Seattle (SEA): from 7 to 28 weekly

For more information, you can read this article.

American

The company will launch new routes and boost frequencies in the U.S.-Canada market starting in April.

Calgary, Halifax and Quebec City will have new American flights, and it will increase its operations from Charlotte, Chicago, New York LaGuardia and Philadelphia.

New USA-CAN routes

• New York (LGA) – Calgary (YYC): 1 weekly · June 7th · 737 MAX
• Chicago (ORD) – Halifax (YHZ): 1 weekly · June 21st · Embraer 175
• Dallas (DFW) – Quebec City (YQB): 1 weekly · August 9th · Embraer 175

Increases

• New York (LGA) – Montreal (YUL): from 14 to 21 weekly · May 5th · E175
• Chicago (ORD) – Calgary (YYC): from 7 to 14 weekly · June 5th · 737-800
• Philadelphia (PHL) – Quebec City (YQB): from 7 to 14 weekly · June 5th · E145/E175
• Charlotte (CLT) – Calgary (YYC): from 1 to 4 weekly · June 6th · A321
• Charlotte (CLT) – Quebec City (YQB): from 1 to 7 weekly · August 6th · CRJ-900

Furthermore, as can be seen on the map, American Airlines will inaugurate new domestic services:

• Miami (MIA) – Harrisburg (MDT): 1 weekly · February 15th · Embraer 175
• Miami (MIA) – Springfield (SGF): 1 weekly · February 15th · Embraer 175
• Phoenix (PHX) – Appleton (ATW): 1 weekly · February 15th · Embraer 175
• Washington (DCA) – San Antonio (SAT): 7 weekly · March 2nd · Airbus A321

Arajet

Following two years, Arajet received approval from the U.S. DOT to commence flights to the United States.

The Dominican airline intends to begin operations in the second quarter of 2025 from Punta Cana and Santo Domingo to Miami and New York (EWR, JFK or SWF), as well as to San Juan in Puerto Rico.

This approval comes after the announcement of open skies between the United States and the Dominican Republic, which took place in November.

PUJ/SDQ

• Miami (MIA)
• New York (JFK)
• New York Stewart (SWF)
• Newark (EWR)
• San Juan (SJU)

Arajet has 10 Boeing 737 MAX 8 in its fleet, being Canada its only market in North America.

Avelo

Avelo Airlines will have another major expansion in the United States, in addition to introducing new services to the Caribbean. The carrier will operate with its Boeing 737-700 and Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

• Raleigh-Durham (RDU) – Montego Bay (MBJ): 2 weekly · February 12th
• New Haven (HVN) – Jacksonville (JAX): 2 weekly · February 14th
• Windsor Locks (BDL) – Punta Cana (PUJ): 2 weekly · February 21st
• Raleigh-Durham (RDU) – Punta Cana (PUJ): 2 weekly · February 22nd
• New Haven (HVN) – Dallas (DFW): 2 weekly · March 7th
• Concord (USA) – Daytona Beach (DAB): 2 weekly · April 3rd
• Nashville (BNA) – Rochester (ROC): 2 weekly · April 3rd
• Wilmington (ILM) – Manchester (MHT): 2 weekly · April 3rd
• Wilmington (ILM) – Nashville (BNA): 2 weekly · April 3rd
• Wilmington (ILM) – Rochester (ROC): 2 weekly · April 3rd
• Concord (USA) – Nashville (BNA): 2 weekly · April 4th
• Manchester (MHT) – Myrtle Beach (MYR): 2 weekly · April 4th
• New Haven (HVN) – Detroit (DTW): 2 weekly · April 4th
• Nashville (BNA) – Wilmington (ILG): 2 weekly · May 1st
• New Haven (HVN) – Portland (PWM): 2 weekly · May 22nd

avianca

One of the main Latin American airlines continues to grow in Florida, by launching five new routes. At the moment, none of them have a confirmed start date, but are expected to initiate during 2025.

• Bogotá (BOG) – Tampa (TPA)
• Guatemala City (GUA) – Miami (MIA)
• Medellín (MDE) – Fort Lauderdale (FLL)
• San José (SJO) – Miami (MIA)
• San Salvador (SAL) – Managua (MGA) – Fort Lauderdale (FLL)

Tampa is a new avianca destination in the United States.

Breeze

As of February 7th, Breeze Airways will inaugurate operations between Provo and San Bernardino. According to its website, the airline will fly two times weekly with 137-seat Airbus A220-300 jets.

Monday and Friday

• MX 612  Provo PVU 13:50 · 14:44 SBD San Bernardino
• MX 613  San Bernardino SBD 19:50 · 22:33 PVU Provo

British

British Airways will begin a second daily frequency between London Heathrow and San Francisco using Airbus A380-800 for 469 passengers starting March 29th. The company plans to serve this route, until at least May 31st, with A380s only.

Daily

• BA 285  London LHR 10:45 · 13:50 SFO San Francisco
• BA 284  San Francisco SFO 16:35 · 11:00+1 LHR London

Daily

• BA 287  London LHR 14:05 · 17:15 SFO San Francisco
• BA 286  San Francisco SFO 19:20 · 13:45+1 LHR London

Flight BA 287/286 is currently operated on Boeing 777-300(ER).

Caribbean

The airline will boost its frequencies between Kingston and Fort Lauderdale effective March 9th, from three to seven flights per week. As announced in our Latin America report, Caribbean Airlines launched this route on December 17th, 2024 operating with Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes.

Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday (currently)

• BW 35  Kingston KIN 18:10 · 20:15 FLL Fort Lauderdale
• BW 34  Fort Lauderdale FLL 22:00 · 23:55 KIN Kingston

Kingston and Port of Spain are its destinations to/from Fort Lauderdale.

Condor

More flights to Seattle and Anchorage.

By summer 2025, the German company will increase its weekly services from Frankfurt, which will operate on Airbus A330-900neo aircraft configured for 310 passengers.

• Anchorage (ANC): from 3 to 4 weekly · June 9th
• Seattle (SEA): from 7 to 11 weekly · June 12th

Delta

Delta Air Lines continues to expand its international flights with Airbus A330-900neo jets, replacing Boeing 767s. At time of publication, these changes will take place by summer 2025.

• Boston (BOS) – Barcelona (BCN)
• Boston (BOS) – Lisbon (LIS)
• Boston (BOS) – Milan (MXP)
• New York (JFK) – Lisbon (LIS)
• New York (JFK) – Sao Paulo (GRU)

JSX

Two new JSX destinations from Oakland.

Starting March 2nd, the carrier will begin operating to Carlsbad and Scottsdale on 30-seat Embraer 145 aircraft, in both cases four weekly times.

Carlsbad

Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday

• XE 600  Oakland OAK 10:00 · 11:25 CLD Carlsbad
• XE 601  Carlsbad CLD 11:55 · 13:25 OAK Oakland

Scottsdale

Monday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday

• XE 460  Oakland OAK 14:00 · 15:50 SCF Scottsdale
• XE 461  Scottsdale SCF 16:20 · 17:20 OAK Oakland

jetBlue

Edinburgh and Madrid, as announced on the blog, will be added to jetBlue’s regular European schedule from Boston as of May. The company will operate the two routes by 138-seat Airbus A321LRs.

• Edinburgh (EDI): 7 weekly · May 22nd
• Madrid (MAD): 7 weekly · May 22nd

For more information on these flights, you can read this article.

KLM

The Dutch airline announced it will boost frequencies on four routes between Amsterdam and the United States for summer.

Austin, Boston, Minneapolis and Salt Lake City will have the following increases:

• Austin (AUS): from 3 to 5 weekly · May 27th
• Minneapolis (MSP): from 3 to 5 weekly · May 27th
• Salt Lake City (SLC): from 3 to 6 weekly · May 27th
• Boston (BOS): from 4 to 5 weekly ·  June 2nd

Porter

Toronto – Kelowna, new Porter Airlines route.

The Canadian company will offer five services per week between the two cities with Embraer E-2 aircraft configured for 132 passengers in single class.

Daily except Tuesday and Thursday · eff May 14th

• PD 321  Toronto YYZ 09:15 · 10:55 YLW Kelowna
• PD 321  Kelowna YLW 11:50 · 19:00 YYZ Toronto

Effective late June, Porter intends to increase to seven weekly flights.

Southwest

The airline will add four new routes within Florida.

Orlando will have Southwest’s new services to Fort Myers, Miami, Sarasota and West Palm Beach, which will be performed on Boeing 737-800s:

• Fort Myers (RSW): 14 weekly · August 5th
• Miami (MIA): 14 weekly · August 5th
• Sarasota (SRQ): 14 weekly · August 5th
• West Palm Beach (PBI): 14 weekly · August 5th

In addition to the Florida expansion, Southwest Airlines will commence operations between Las Vegas and Washington Ronald Reagan beginning February 21st. Based on its website, the company will provide this schedule.

LAS – DCA

• WN 4993  Las Vegas LAS 08:30 · 15:50 DCA Washington (daily except Sat/Sun)
• WN 4332  Las Vegas LAS 08:35 · 15:55 DCA Washington (Sunday)

DCA – LAS

• WN 5012  Washington DCA 16:30 · 18:55 LAS Las Vegas (daily except Sat/Sun)
• WN 5023  Washington DCA 16:55 · 19:20 LAS Las Vegas (Sunday)

Southwest plans to reach the daily flight in early March.

United

As well as the announced new domestic and international routes from/to Denver, the airline will launch new services to/from Chicago, Houston and Washington DC.

• Washington (IAD) – Ithaca (ITH): 14 weekly · Embraer 145 · March 30th
• Chicago (ORD) – Pellston (PLN): 7 weekly · CRJ-200 · May 8th
• Chicago (ORD) – Sault Ste. Marie (YAM): 7 weekly · CRJ-200 · May 15th
• Denver (DEN) – Regina (YQR): 7 weekly · CRJ-200 · May 15th
• Chicago (ORD) – Rhinelander (RHI): 7 weekly · CRJ-200 · May 22nd
• San Francisco (SFO) – Panama City (PTY): 1 weekly · Boeing 737 · May 22nd
• Houston (IAH) – Portland (PWM): 1 weekly · Embraer 175 · June 28th

United Parcel Service

On December 3rd, after an eight-month suspension, UPS resumed operations from/to Santiago de Chile. The airline will serve the Miami – Campinas – Santiago de Chile – Quito – Miami route three weekly times with Boeing 767-300(F) aircraft.

Tuesday/Thursday

• 5X 414  Miami MIA 10:10 · 20:00 VCP Campinas (Tuesday)
• 5X 415  Campinas VCP 06:30 · 10:40 SCL Santiago (Thursday)
• 5X 415  Santiago SCL 12:00 · 15:15 UIO Quito (Thursday)
• 5X 415  Quito UIO 16:30 · 20:20 MIA Miami (Thursday)

Thursday/Saturday

• 5X 412  Miami MIA 10:10 · 20:00 VCP Campinas (Thursday)
• 5X 413  Campinas VCP 06:30 · 10:40 SCL Santiago (Saturday)
• 5X 413  Santiago SCL 12:00 · 15:15 UIO Quito (Saturday)
• 5X 413  Quito UIO 16:30 · 20:20 MIA Miami (Saturday)

Sunday/Tuesday

• 5X 416  Miami MIA 10:10 · 20:00 VCP Campinas (Sunday)
• 5X 417  Campinas VCP 06:30 · 10:40 SCL Santiago (Tuesday)
• 5X 417  Santiago SCL 12:00 · 15:15 UIO Quito (Tuesday)
• 5X 417  Quito UIO 16:30 · 20:20 MIA Miami (Tuesday)

WestJet

The Canadian carrier will commence services between Vancouver and Austin on May 11th. At publication time, WestJet will perform three operations a week by Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes.

Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday

• WS 1704  Vancouver YVR 18:00 · 00:17+1 AUS Austin

Monday, Thursday and Sunday

• WS 1705  Austin AUS 08:00 · 10:38 YVR Vancouver

Currently, Houston is WestJet’s only destination in Texas, with 11 weekly flights from Calgary on the same jets.

New aircraft added by US and Canadian airlines

• Allegiant Air

• American Airlines (x3)

• American Eagle (x2)

• Delta Air Lines (x3)

• Frontier (x2)

• Porter Airlines

• Spirit Airlines

• United Airlines (x2)

• United Express (x3)

*The aircraft only performed the São José dos Campos – Bridgetown leg at the time of publication.

Other reports we have published

• Latin America
• Europe
• Asia and Oceania
• Africa and Middle East

Cover photo: YinQingDD – JetPhotos (Los Angeles Int’l Airport – KLAX – United States)