

Qatar Airways introduces KazakhstanĪlmaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, is now connected non-stop to Doha, with Qatar Airways flights on Mondays and Fridays. Virgin is back in the Bahamas after an absence of 14 years. It competes head-to-head with British Airways’ six-weekly service. The carrier has reintroduced Nassau from London because of high premium leisure demand. The Bahamas was last served by Virgin between June 2005 and July 2007 from Gatwick using the B747-400. It leaves the UK at 09:35 and arrives back at 10:35 the following day. With two weekly flights using the B787-9, the service routes Heathrow-Nassau-Montego Bay-Nassau-Heathrow. The Bahamas rejoins Virgin Atlantic’s networkĪnother Caribbean destination is now part of Virgin Atlantic’s network, following the commencement of Heathrow to Nassau on November 20th. Our travelers are excited to beat the winter blues, and we’re so thrilled to see them here.” Photo: Milwaukee Mitchell “International Airport. Airport Director Brian Dranzik said: “It’s great to see so many “ It’s great to see so many passengers taking advantage of Spirit’s low fares and new destinations. Milwaukee celebrated its new routes in style, with cookies, first flight certificates, and fun Milwaukee swags. Allegiant began serving Austin in October 2013. Among these were nine from Austin (Amarillo, Louisville, Orange County, Palm Beach, Provo, Punta Gorda, Sioux Falls, Springfield (MO), and Tulsa), the result of Allegiant opening the Texas capital as a base with three A320s. Allegiant inaugurates 31 new routesĪllegiant has introduced 31 routes in the past week. Cake, champagne, and Garifuna drums welcomed the arrival of Alaska Airlines. This winter, the airport-pair has 105 outbound flights, the most ever and up from just 15 (!) in winter 2019. United will join the fray in mid-December, also once-weekly. The carrier has four weekly flights and competes head-to-head with American’s once-weekly offering.

The same day saw Alaska also begin Los Angeles-Belize City. In 2019, around 14,000 round-trip passengers transited between Seattle and Belize City. Introduced on November 19th by Alaska Airlines, flights run on Fridays and Saturdays with a block time of nearly six and a half hours to Seattle. It also has a new longest route – the 2,821 miles (4,539km) link from Seattle. Alaska adds Belize from Seattle & Los Angelesīelize doesn’t just have a new operator in the form of Alaska Airlines. Photo: Cali Aeropuerto Internacional Alfonso Bonilla Aragón. Spirit flies once-daily between Miami and Cali. Spirit will have 305,000 round-trip seats, along with 925,000 at nearby Fort Lauderdale, its largest airport. Looking to January, Spirit will be Miami’s second-largest airline, although with ‘only’ a 5.5% share of the seats for sale, such is the domination of American Airlines. Having launched Miami in October with nine routes, a further 19 have taken off this week: Barranquilla, Boston, Cali (where the brilliant cake photo below was taken), Chicago ORD, Cleveland, Comayagua, Dallas DFW, Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Houston IAH, LaGuardia, Las Vegas, Myrtle Beach, Orlando, Philadelphia, Raleigh Durham, San Juan, and San Pedro Sula. Miami calling! Spirit begins 19 new routes Photo: via Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. Why not sign up and receive our newsletter in your email inbox every week? Spirit has had a busy week, with 31 routes introduced, including 19 from Miami, four from Milwaukee, and two from Manchester. Welcome to our 17th routes newsletter! This week includes a selection of the routes introduced this week.
