Less than a week after failing in its bid to acquire Florida-based Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines is taking a scalp to this winter’s Florida flying plans. The following routes will not be flown this winter and have been zeroed out in reservation systems in the last week. Fort Lauderdale- Green Bay/Portland (ME)/Rochester/Syracuse Fort Myers- Buffalo/Indianapolis/Islip/Omaha/Portland […]

The total is 50, though the vast majority touch Fort Lauderdale (many are international routes). DOJ may not have much to pick at here to be honest, as they look at potential regulatory approval of the merger. To/From Fort Myers (2) Boston, Newark To/From Fort Lauderdale (28) Aguadilla, Aruba, Atlanta, Austin, Bogota, Boston, Cancún, Cartagena, […]

Thanks to the Biden Administrations decision to allow service once against from the USA to secondary Cuban cities, American will relaunch a number of Miami-Cuba flights, to five secondary cities (Camaguey, Holguín, Santa Cruz, Santiago de Cuba and Varadero). No word yet if operationally strapped jetBlue who operated many of the same routes from Fort […]

Thanks to the excellent YouTube channel, the Roaming Railfan, we have some Brightline updates regarding bridge building on the West Palm Beach to Orlando section of tracks .

With operational problems plaguing the entire airline sector and Florida flight pull downs becoming more prevalent, it’s time for some good news. Sources tell me Virgin Atlantic will be launching Tampa service. I presume this means Tampa’s first ever flights to Heathrow Airport, as Virgin has halted service to Gatwick. A Heathrow link is critical […]

If you haven’t followed the news lately, the sweepstakes to buy Fort Lauderdale-area based Spirit Airlines has taken some wild turns the last week. Spirit’s board has agreed to merge with Frontier which as we wrote in February would create a massive ultra-low cost carrier, but an arguably superior offer from jetBlue is sitting on […]

French Bee will make Miami its fourth US destination when it launches three-times-a-week nonstops from Miami to Paris-Orly on December 15. Avelo has cancelled plans to serve Charleston from Orlando. Allegiant will add Fort Lauderdale-Akron/Canton nonstops beginning in December. Flair will discontinue nonstops between Fort Lauderdale and Ottawa effective in July. SAS will resume Miami-Stockholm […]

Governor Ron DeSantis made an issue of Twitter’s board letting down its shareholders while initially rejecting Elon Musk’s offer. Twitter is based in California. Yet DeSantis stayed silent while Spirit, a Florida-based corporation had a board which very clearly and deliberately rejected what most analysts see as a better merger offer from jetBlue in favor […]

Delta will resume Amsterdam-Orlando service in winter, a seasonal route that will operate through March 2023. The route is targeted toward European visitors to Central Florida, particularly British visitors who can conveniently avoid London’s messy Heathrow by jumping on a KLM flight from a secondary UK point and then transferring to Delta’s service. KLM and […]