Miami International Airport (MIA)

Spirit's network planning VP John Kirby told Routes Americas 2021 that Miami International’s decision to lower costs, coupled with soaring leisure demand, prompted the ULCC's big expansion in South Florida.

The carrier plans to begin accepting Dubai-bound passengers from three countries, as well as adding double-daily Airbus A380 service to Jordan during July and August.

Routes profiles Air Transat, the Montreal-based airline and Routes Americas 2021 virtual attendee.

The airline is converting 767 passenger aircraft into freighters for new all-cargo service.

Orlando becomes the carrier’s second destination in the US joining Miami.

The LCC is planning to shake-up the South Florida market by launching flights from Miami.

A process has begun to reallocate oneworld slots for routes between London and three cities in the US.

The airline will fly to 12 US destinations by late July—the same number as before the pandemic—with capacity to and from the country around 60% of 2019 levels.

Reservations have opened for two routes to the US city, which has been absent from the airline’s network for nearly 10 years.

Fresh from adding four new destinations this summer, six more are joining the Netherlands-based carrier’s network in winter.

The planned resumptions follow efforts to open borders to passengers who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

CEO Felix Antelo tells Routes Reconnected the Colombian ULCC plans to increase its international network using its recently created Medellín hub.

The carrier is reporting an uneven rebound from the COVID-19 pandemic, with domestic leisure flying performing well while long-haul routes are hurting.

Several domestic trunk routes are expected to reach 2019 capacity levels again.

Miami-Nassau is one of eight more new routes Frontier Airlines plans to start this summer.

Airline looks to match pent-up demand.

Including the latest additions, JetBlue customers now have access to more than 80 destinations in Qatar’s network from its main DOH hub.

The angry response follows accusations that the US carrier is cooperating with American Airlines on routes “outside the scope” permitted by their new Northeast alliance.

The airline’s latest network expansion is on top of eight routes announced one day earlier.

Bjørn Kjos is behind a new venture seeking to enter the low-cost transatlantic market vacated by Norwegian Air Shuttle.

The carrier will use an Airbus A320 on the route.

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

Gary Kelly noted the airline added 17 cities to its network over the past year despite COVID-19.

Two new short-haul routes will start from Zurich and three from Geneva this summer, but the airline does not expect demand to pick-up until the third quarter of the year.

The US carrier wants to expand its network in South America and the Caribbean this year.