Nigel Mayes is the senior vice president, consulting & product development at ASM. Nigel has more than 15 years’ experience in route development and is responsible for product development at ASM.

The sister company to Routes, ASM is the world‘s leading route development consultancy and has supported the creation of new air services since 1993.

Route 1: Amsterdam – Boston

Data

Carrier
Aircraft	Airbus A330-300
Frequency	Three weekly (four from 1 July 2019)
Start date	31 March 2019
Distance	5,571 km
O&D traffic demand (2017)	94,597
Growth % YOY	-6.0%
Average one-way fare $ (2017)	$698.37

Insight

From 31 March 2019, KLM will begin operating flights between Amsterdam Schiphol and Boston on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. Flights will be operated with an Airbus A330-300, offering capacity for 292 passengers. Boston will become the 17th North Atlantic destination served directly by KLM. The new service comes in addition to the two daily AMS-BOS flights operated by Delta Air Lines, Air France-KLM’s joint-venture partner on transatlantic routes. KLM previously operated this route with its own aircraft until June 1994. The flights being added by KLM will give customers an earlier departure from Amsterdam and a later departure from Boston, compared to Delta's current schedule.

Route 2: Sao Paulo Guarulhos – Quito

Data

Carrier
Aircraft	Boeing 737 MAX 8
Frequency	Three weekly
Start date	27 December 2018
Distance	4,326 km
O&D traffic demand (2017)	22,601
Growth % YOY	-21.5%
Average one-way fare $ (2017)	$365.43

Insight

Brazil's GOL is to start a direct route between the cities of São Paulo and Quito in Ecuador in December 2018, with three weekly flights. The talks between GOL and Quiport made a “decisive breakthrough” during Routes Americas 2018, which took place in Ecuador's capital Quito in February. GOL will operate the new route on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays using new generation aircraft Boeing 737 MAX 8. The Brazil - Ecuador market was last served non-stop by the state-owned TAME, which operated a Quito - São Paulo-Guarulhos route until the country's recession in 2016.

Route 3: Seoul Incheon – Okinawa

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Data

Carrier
Aircraft	Airbus A321
Frequency	Five weekly
Start date	21 September 2018
Distance	1,280 km
O&D traffic demand (2017)	859,460
Growth % YOY	14.7%
Average one-way fare $ (2017)	$193.75

Insight

Air Seoul is adding a new route to Japan from late September, with flights to the holiday destination Okinawa scheduled to run until 27 October 2018. The South Korean low-cost carrier, a subsidiary of Asiana Airlines, currently operates services from its main base at Seoul Incheon to 11 locations in Japan: Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kumamoto, Nagasaki, Osaka Kansai International, Sapporo New Chitose, Shizuoka, Takamatsu, Tokyo Narita, Toyama and Yonago. Japan is a major market for Air Seoul with four of its top ten destinations by seat capacity during summer 2018 to airports in the country. The carrier will compete in ICN-OKA with parent Asiana Airlines, as well as Eastar Jet, Jeju Airlines, Jin Air, Korean Air, Peach and T'way Air.

Source: Sabre Market Intelligence