United Airlines will fly nonstop from Denver to Pensacola and Destin/Fort Walton beach this summer. The route were previously only flown around Spring Break. I am also told Panama City might get similar summer treatment from Denver, but that was not announced. Demand for beach destinations in Florida are rising as pent-up demand drives a […]

Frontier Airlines is adding Orlando to Little Rock and Miami to Buffalo nonstop service. Frontier is cutting Atlanta to West Palm Beach, Chicago and Milwaukee to Tampa as well as Albany, Islip and Providence to Miami. Sunwing is cutting Fort Lauderdale to Toronto in winter. This particular route is currently flown by four other airlines. […]

American Airlines will discontinue nonstop service from Orlando and Pensacola to New York-LaGuardia effective January 5, and is suspending all Fort Lauderdale to/from Port-Au-Prince nonstops until March, and leaving just a single nonstop flight from Miami during that period. Typically FLL/MIA-PAP sees six or seven daily roundtrip nonstops on American. JetBlue will increase Fort Lauderdale […]

Last Friday night, all 16 GOP members of the US House from Florida voted against the bipartisan infrastructure plan championed by President Biden, but not completely dissimilar in its goals to the rhetoric of President Trump during his successful 2016 campaign for the GOP nomination and Presidency. Both US Senators from Florida opposed the legislation […]

One World member Alaska Airlines which left Miami in 2012 will restart Miami-Seattle/Tacoma nonstops in the 3rd quarter of 2022. Alaska currently flies Fort Lauderdale-SeaTac twice daily. Alaska’s One World partner American Airlines flies MIA-SEA currently and is the only other airline on the route. In other news, AirTransat will make its Miami-Montreal and Fort […]

This past week The South Florida Business Journal reported that the new transatlantic startup Norse Atlantic will base it US operations in Fort Lauderdale while also serving the city with nonstop flights to Oslo, London and Paris. All three routes were served recently but are now un-served. Fort Lauderdale has been without Paris or Oslo […]

Avelo will add new service to Sarasota/Bradenton. Thrice-weekly flights to New Haven begin January 13. Spirit will add Orlando to Ponce service in February. A source tells me that Norse Atlantic is likely to fly from Fort Lauderdale to London next summer. We had previously reported they would fly from Fort Lauderdale to Oslo. I […]

This week Virgin Atlantic announced it would resume Orlando-Manchester and London-Heathrow nonstop service in November. London service had been suspended due to the Delta Variant, Manchester, I believe has not been flown since March 2020. Following last week’s suspension of Southwest Airlines service from Fort Lauderdale to Grand Cayman until April, American has suspended Miami-Grand […]

A big week for Tampa International Airport, Florida’s 4th busiest highlights our commercial aviation update. Eurowings Discover will make Tampa its first US destination with nonstop service to Frankfurt beginning December 16. The airline I am reliably told will serve Fort Myers in the near future as well. Frontier will add new nonstops this winter […]