New Pacific Airlines announced it will cease regular flights as of April 5th. At the moment, the company only operates between Ontario and Nashville with its Boeing 757-200, after suspending the route from Ontario to Reno on March 22nd.
Why is the low-cost carrier canceling scheduled services?
New Pacific will focus exclusively on charter flights in order to continue operations and improve profitability. The airline has been offering charters for the last couple of months, but in a mix with regular flights.
New Pacific’s scheduled operations have been running for less than a year, since their start-up was in July 2023.
These are other highlights from the U.S./Canada market:
- Air Canada inaugurated flights to Charleston.
- Air France began seasonal service between Paris and Denver, which will operate year-round.
- Alaska Airlines will add a new connection to/from Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport.
- Avelo continues the development of its New Haven base.
- Delta will commence operations between Honolulu and Boston.
- Flair adds two routes, a domestic and an international one.
- Frontier and its expansion in San Juan (Puerto Rico).
- Level launches its fifth connection to the U.S. from Barcelona.
- Tulum, American’s new destination in Mexico.
- United Airlines increases capacity on the Washington – Cape Town route.
In addition, Hawaiian Airlines began with the certification flights of its new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner before its entry into service (N781HA).
As we reported in our March report, the company added its first Dreamliner on February 14th, after arriving in Honolulu from Charleston.
Hawaiian will launch regular operations with the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner starting April 15th on the Honolulu – San Francisco – Honolulu route, where it will have seven weekly services.
At 20:35 local time on March 28th, Air Canada’s inaugural flight from Toronto landed in Charleston. The company will offer daily service with 76-seat Embraer 175 aircraft.
Charleston becomes Air Canada’s 41st destination in the United States to/from Toronto Pearson.
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The airline launched services between Paris and Denver on Sunday, March 31st, which will be available year-round. Previously, Air France operated this route on a seasonal basis.
As a result, Denver reaches its fourth connection to Europe, after Frankfurt, London Heathrow and Munich.
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Air France routes between Paris CDG and United States (currently)
- Atlanta (ATL): 17 weekly · A359/772/789
- Boston (BOS): 10 weekly · Airbus A350-900
- Chicago (ORD): 7 weekly · Airbus A350-900
- Dallas (DFW): 4 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
- Denver (DEN): 3 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
- Detroit (DTW): 7 weekly · Airbus A350-900
- Houston (IAH): 7 weekly · Airbus A350-900
- Los Angeles (LAX): 19 weekly · A359/77W
- Miami (MIA): 12 weekly · 772/77W
- New York (JFK): 35 weekly · A359/772/77W
- Newark (EWR): 7 weekly · Airbus A350-900
- Raleigh-Durham (RDU): 3 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
- San Francisco (SFO): 7 weekly · Boeing 777-300(ER)
- Seattle (SEA): 3 weekly · Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner
- Washington (IAD): 10 weekly · Boeing 777-300(ER)
Beginning October 1st, Alaska will commence flights to Las Vegas from Santa Rosa Airport (STS). Based on its website, the company will have seven operations per week on 76-seat Embraer 175s.
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On this route, Alaska Airlines will be competing with Avelo, where it offers four weekly on Boeing 737-700 aircraft.
The company inaugurated on March 28th its regular services to Tulum. American will operate four routes to the Mexican city, all with Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets, in accordance with its website.
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American Airlines was the first carrier to launch international flights to the airport. Later that day, Delta began operations between Atlanta and Tulum, but we will focus more on the Mexican airport’s international expansion in the next report, Latin America.
Houston, St. Louis and Traverse City, the airline’s new destinations in New Haven.
Avelo will start flights to these three cities in mid-June, which will be offered with Boeing 737-700 and Boeing 737-800 planes under the following schedule:
St. Louis · effective June 13th
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Houston · effective June 14th
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Traverse City · effective June 15th
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Current Avelo Airlines routes from/to New Haven
Puerto Rico (charter)
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The Canadian carrier will inaugurate scheduled services between Toronto Pearson and Miami as of June 29th. Operations will be carried out with Airbus A320-200 with 180 seats, once a week.
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Las Vegas (LAS) and Orlando (MCO) are the low cost’s current connections to the United States from Toronto, with 2 and 4 weekly respectively.
Between November and December, Delta will expand its operations in Hawaii, with the opening of a new route as well as an increase in frequencies on two current ones.
Boston will be the airline’s new connection from/to Honolulu, and will boost services to Salt Lake City and Seattle.
Salt Lake City · effective November 6th (1 to 2 daily)
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Boston · November 21st
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Seattle · effective December 21st (2 to 3 daily)
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Guadalajara and Quebec City, the Canadian company’s new destinations to/from Vancouver and Toronto.
These flights, according to its website, will start in May, and will be operated on Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft with capacity for 189 passengers in single class.
Quebec City · May 6th
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Guadalajara · May 31st
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The carrier continues its development in Puerto Rico after it confirmed the launch of two new routes from/to San Juan.
New York JFK and Newark will be the next additions, beginning in June.
JFK · June 6th
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Newark · June 28th
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The Spanish low cost airline, part of the IAG Group, commenced its flights between Barcelona and Miami on Sunday, March 31st. Services will be operated using Airbus A330-200s with 311 and 314 seats, depending on the aircraft configuration.
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*Sundays: it will depart from Barcelona at 15:50 and 22:30 from Miami.
Level’s routes between Barcelona and the U.S.
Seasonal operations between Barcelona and San Francisco were resumed last March 31st.
As seen above, the last scheduled flight will be next April 5th. This is the current operation for New Pacific’s only route:
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The Boeing 757-200s, with registrations N627NP and N628NP, will continue to operate charter services.
Effective October, Southwest Airlines confirmed the addition of three new routes in the United States. The operations will be conducted on Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737-800 and Boeing 737 MAX airplanes:
On March 22nd, Sun Country inaugurated flights between Minneapolis and Atlanta. The carrier will not have a regular schedule on this route, so check the Sun Country Airlines website for more information (flight SY 1627/1628).
These are the airline’s planned U.S. connections to/from Minneapolis over the next 7 days:
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In June, Sun Country will start operations from Minneapolis to Montreal and Toronto.
As of March 30th, the company changed its services on the Washington – Cape Town route. According to our database, United ceased flights with Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft, being replaced by the Boeing 777-300(ER).
The carrier’s 787-9s have 252/257 seats, and the 777s used on this route can accommodate 350 passengers.
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United Airlines began marketing its new flights between Newark and Marrakech (Morocco), as we reported in the Africa and Middle East report. To see the schedule, please click here.
With respect to new aircraft, there were no additions between March 2nd and the 13th.
Since March 14th until the end of the month, 15 new planes were delivered from the factory, among the following airlines:
| Aircraft | Airline | Registration | Ferry flight | Date |
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| Airbus A321-271NX | jetBlue | N2180J | BFM-MLB | March 14th |
| Airbus A321-271NX | United | N14506 | XFW-EDI-BGR-TPA | March 15th |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | United | N17339 | PAE-SEA | March 21st |
| Embraer E195-E2 | Porter | C-GZQZ | SJK-UVF-YYZ | March 22nd |
| Airbus A321-271NX | Frontier | N638FR | XFW-YYR-TPA | March 23rd |
| Embraer 175 | Alaska Horizon | N663QX | SJK-MAO-SJU-BNA-PAE | March 24th |
| Airbus A220-300 | jetBlue | N3185J | BFM-YMX/YMX-BOS | March 25th |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | Southwest | N8921Q | BFI-PHX | March 25th |
| Embraer 175 | American Eagle | N313BS | SJK-MAO-FLL-DFW-ABI | March 26th |
| Airbus A321-271NX | Delta | N576DN | BFM-MSP | March 27th |
| Airbus A321-271NX | Spirit | N717NK | XFW-KEF-DTW | March 27th |
| Boeing 737 MAX 8 | United | N37342 | BFI-PDX | March 27th |
| Airbus A321-271NX | Frontier | N641FR | XFW-YYR-TPA | March 28th |
| Embraer E195-E2 | Porter | C-GKXA | SJK-BGI-YYZ | March 29th |
| Airbus A321-271NX | Delta | N547DE | XFW-KEF-MSP | March 30th |
jetBlue’s Airbus A321-271NX, registration N2180J, while performing the London Heathrow – New York JFK route, was forced to divert to Shannon, Ireland, when the crew had to shut down Engine 2 due to a compressor stall.
The aircraft, which was making its fourth scheduled flight, remains at Shannon since the diversion occurred on March 30th.
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Cover photo: Jinyuan LIU – JetPhotos (Seattle, United States).
