Southwest Florida International Airport

From Nov. 15, Breeze will start service between Portland International Jetport in Maine and Southwest Florida International Airport in Fort Myers, Florida.

The North Carolina airport serving the ‘Research Triangle’ will see a host of routes to Florida added in February 2023.

The airline will station one Boeing 737 at Wilmington but has halted plans to open a base at Fort Myers citing a reduction in demand.

Manchester-Boston Regional’s Ted Kitchens discusses the impact of the airport’s first new airline partner in 17 years and how it is working to reduce leakage to nearby Boston International.

The carrier is currently operating a network focused on short-haul routes in the eastern half of the US.

The carrier looks to sun and snow destinations for winter season.

Flights have restarted to three destinations and two more will return to the airline’s network later this month.

ULCC added the Wisconsin airport to its network last month.

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.

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

The latest network reductions affect 17 services to destinations in the US and overseas.

US market seeing leisure demand for flights to warm weather destinations and ski resorts.

The New York-based carrier expects high VFR traffic over the holiday.

Fort Myers becomes the 12th airport served by Southwest from Louisville.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week: RwandAir swaps Gatwick for Heathrow, Ukraine International Airlines returns to New York via Iceland, and Alaska Airlines adds another sun route from Los Angeles.

Four routes are being launched from Hartford’s Bradley International Airport as the US carrier seeks to stimulate leisure demand.

Boosting its presence at Los Angeles International is tied to Alaska's plan to join the oneworld alliance.

Frontier is adding three US domestic services and increasing frequencies on seven other popular leisure routes.

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