American Airlines this winter will add a number of new routes from its Miami hub, the first significant expansion since Covid. In fact, it’s been frustrating to see other AA hubs expanded and Miami’s connectivity with Europe cut back (this is still an issue – flights to destinations such as Milan have yet to be […]

Unsurprisingly Southwest Airlines took advantage of the buzz right before the holiday weekend to announce several new and resuming routes to the Sunshine State effective in January. New nonstop service from Fort Lauderdale to Omaha is included. In additional the following Florida routes that were previously flown either before Covid or last winter (in the […]

Apologies that this column hasn’t run in months. My father’s passing and other family and work responsibilities have taken me away from the commercial aviation space of late. But we have a load of updates below. Foreign carriers Norse Atlantic will shift its transatlantic services to Oslo and London (Gatwick) from Fort Lauderdale to Miami […]

Ultra-low cost carrier Avelo Airlines has had lots of success thus far with its Orlando base as well as other Florida ops from Fort Myers, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, West Palm Beach and Sarasota/Bradenton. The carrier has linked major Florida cities with under-served markets along the east coast and in the midwest (with the exception of […]

New Services Avelo Airlines is starting three new routes from Orlando – Greenville/Spartanburg, a logical one, but then two incredible odd-balls. Brownsville, Texas which through the years has had virtually no commercial air service and then the relatively new, and previously un-served Mobile-Downtown Airport which is a white elephant of sorts. To this point Avelo […]

Breeze Airways have announced several new nonstops to/from Florida beginning in May. Spirit will add a fifth daily Orlando-San Juan nonstop and a second daily Fort Lauderdale-San Juan nonstop in June. Ironically both routes compete with jetBlue whom Spirit is in a proposed merger agreement with. JetBlue flies five times daily from both Orlando and […]

JetBlue Airways as we discussed on Sunday is likely facing some serious antitrust scrutiny for its proposed merger with Spirit Airlines in the near future. Today the announced long-term plans to grow their Fort Lauderdale base into what would effectively be a the type of mega hub with a critical mass of destinations that could […]

As the Department of Justice appears increasingly likely to file a lawsuit in the next few months to block to impending jetBlue/Spirit merger (note, I love Merrick Garland because unlike his last six predecessors he actually enforces antitrust laws, so the fact so many Democratic activists don’t like him because of something something Donald Trump, […]