Austin-Bergstrom International

Three Airbus A320s will be stationed at the ULCC’s new base from November.

The carrier hopes the point-to-point routes will stimulate business travel this summer as well as attracting leisure traffic.

The airline has grown its network by eight destinations over the last year despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new routes will be operated be wholly owned regional carrier Horizon Air.

Two aircraft will be based at the Iowa airport from July.

The launch of new routes this spring will spur the carrier to near pre-COVID capacity this summer, executives say.

The carrier also plans LAX-Austin, Texas service.

The airline will deploy A321neos on new domestic services.

JetBlue plans to build out Los Angeles as its sole West Coast focus city.

Mint service from Newark to LAX and SFO will come first.

US leisure carrier Sun Country is hoping to extend the suspension of service to a chunk of its domestic network for a further three months.

This week: Pegasus Airlines is adding more capacity into Israel; Viva Air Colombia is moving into a market vacated by Avianca; and Delta Air Lines is resuming service between Seattle and Dallas/Ft. Worth after a 14-year hiatus.

The ULCC believes it can stimulate more demand to and from Texas’ capital.

This week: AirAsia X to open Okinawa service; Norwegian to add Austin - Paris non-stop; and WestJet plans seasonal flights between Calgary and Rome.

Low-cost long-haul carrier Norwegian is to boost frequencies to some of its US destinations from London next summer, but will reduce service to Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Miami and Orlando.

US low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines is set to add nine routes from Texas’ state capital Austin, a stronghold for Southwest Airlines.

Discover which airports and destinations have been recognised for their outstanding achievements in route development marketing.

Southwest Airlines will launch a daily flight between Kansas City and Austin from March 13, 2017 using a Boeing 737. Ranked by daily passengers, Austin is the largest destination from Kansas City without non-stop air service, with 98 passengers per day each way.

The carrier has traditionally focused almost exclusively on connecting small and medium-sized cities to its focus airports located mostly in leisure destinations across the United States. However, this latest expansion continues a recent trend of introducing flights into larger markets.

This latest growth sees Virgin America adapt its business model a little from Dallas as alongside its traditional point-to-point offering it promoting the new route as offering convenient connecting service via Love Field to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, San Francisco International Airport and New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport crowned overall winner in first regional heat of Routes Awards 2015

Last night during a fantastic networking evening hosted by Denver International Airport and its partners at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport was announced as the winner of the first heat of the 2015 Routes Marketing Awards.

Frontier currently offers links from Atlanta to Chicago O'Hare, Cleveland, Denver, Las Vegas, Philadelphia, Orlando, Trenton and Washington Dulles and will supplement these with a new daily flight to Miami and six times weekly services to both Austin and Indianapolis from March this year.

The latest schedule update from the airline includes the introduction of new non-stop services from Calgary to Terrace and Nanaimo; from Vancouver to Comox; from Toronto to Austin and from Montreal to Mexico City. Air Canada is also switching its existing Toronto-Kelowna and Toronto-Sydney, NS services to Air Canada rouge due to the high volumes of leisure traffic on the routes, while Air Canada rouge will also introduce a new domestic seasonal link between Calgary and Halifax.

With the Routes Americas event in Denver only months away, we decided to look at some of the fastest growing airports in America.