—On June 18, Delta Air Lines introduced two new routes to its network—transatlantic services to Paris CDG and Amsterdam from Los Angeles. The flight from Los Angeles to Paris will operate three times weekly. The Los Angeles—Amsterdam route will be flown four times weekly.

—Interjet has launched a new service between Mexico City and Orlando. In doing so, it moves its services to the Floridian city from Orlando Sanford, an airport which it has served since 2016. The Mexican carrier will operate the service twice daily.

—Air Canada has added two new transatlantic flights from Vancouver to its network. On June 7, the airline launched a three times weekly service to Zurich, and on June 8, it began four times weekly service to operation to Paris CDG.

 —Ethiopian Airlines has started a three times weekly flight from Addis Ababa to Chicago O’Hare. The outbound route stops in Dublin, but flies direct on the return from the Chicago.

—Air Italy has launched its second U.S. service with four-times-a-week service from Milan Malpensa to Miami. A week before the announcement, the carrier began service between Milan and New York JFK.

—United Airlines has introduced a daily transatlantic connection between San Francisco and Zurich. SWISS airlines also fly the same route on a daily basis.

And this: David Neeleman, founder of U.S. low-cost airline JetBlue Airways is planning to launch another budget carrier in the United States—to be called Moxy Airways. It will focus on point to point services between under-served secondary airports in the U.S. In addition to JetBlue, Neeleman also founded the Brazilian low-cost carrier Azul (Blue).

With the peak summer travel season now upon us, the past several weeks  have experienced the launch of a number of new overseas flights to the United States and North America, primarily from Europe and with many from low-cost carriers. Meanwhile, there were also announcements of new service expected later this year and in 2019. Our tally includes the following:

—Delta Air Lines plans to resume nonstop flights between the U.S. and Mumbai in 2019, a service which the airline had ended in 2009.The flights will begin next year and either depart from New York JFK or Delta’s home base at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, however the full schedule details will come later this year.

—Philippine Airlines (PAL) has announced a new non-stop flight from New York to Manila starting in October for an initial fare of $664 round-trip. One-way, it’s a 15½-hour flight. The airline previously only had non-stop flights from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu and Vancouver while flights from New York landed in Vancouver for refueling. This long-haul flight is part of PAL’s strategy to improve its position in the North American market.

—Virgin Atlantic will switch its Las Vegas flights from Gatwick to Heathrow from beginning in the  spring of 2019. The airline is also adding a second daily Boston service with fares starting from £313 ($420). The Las Vegas flights begin from on March 31, 2019, departing at 12:40 pm and from Las Vegas at 19:05. The second daily service between London Heathrow and Boston will launch on the same day, departing London Heathrow at 20:30 and Boston at 08:30.

—On May 23, United Airlines launched two transatlantic routes, with it now serving Reykjavik from New York/Newark and Edinburgh from Washington Dulles. The route between Newark and Reykjavik/Keflavik airport is already well served by WOW air and Icelandair. Currently, Qatar Airways holds the world record for its Doha-Auckland route. The Arabian airline flies the 9,000-mile route in 16.5 hours.

—Avianca has announced a new direct flight between Bogotá and Chicago. Scheduled to start on Nov. 17, it will be the first and only airline that will connect directly the two cities. The Bogotá-Chicago flight will operate four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

—American Airlines has just launched (on June 7th) daily non-stop service to Reykjavik from Dallas-Fort Worth. The new service will operate through October.

—Aer Lingus began service from Dublin to Seattle-Tacoma last month. Along with its routes from Dublin, the airline also provides flights from Shannon to Boston and New York JFK. All totaled, the carrier is currently operating 15 transatlantic services this summer.

—Condor has started a new flight from from Frankfurt to Phoenix.

—Icelandair has began service between Cleveland and Reykjavik on May 16. Icelandair follows fellow Icelandic carrier WOW air in serving Cleveland. On May 25, the airline began service to Kansas City from Reykjavik.

—The new European carrier Primera Air has begun service between Birmingham and New York Newark. The new service operates six times weekly.

—Volaris Costa Rica has begun service between San Jose, Costa Rica and Washington Dulles. The twice weekly service—on Mondays and Wednesdays—operates via San Salvador.Volaris Costa Rica also serves Los Angeles and New York JFK in the US.

—WOW air has, launched flight service between Reykjavik and St. Louis. This is the first non-stop European service for St. Louis since 2003 when American Airlines stopped flights to London Heathrow.

 —Icelandair has introduced Dallas-Fort Worth to its route map, launching service from Reykjavik. It has also reintroduced service between Reykjavik and San Francisco. Icelandair will face direct competition on both routes, with WOW air operating Dallas/Fort Worth three times weekly and San Francisco daily.

—WestJet began flights between Halifax, Nova Scotia and Paris (CDG) on May 31st, with the French capital becoming the airline’s first destination in mainland Europe.

 

With the world’s peak summer travel season is upon us, the last month has seen airlines launch, or announced plans for, new service on more than a dozen new long-haul routes to the United States:

• Eurowings has added 27 new routes to its Austrian and German portfolio over the last week including a new route from its Düsseldorf base to Miami.

 

• American Airlines has introduced three new transatlantic routes to Budapest, Prague and Venice. Budapest and Prague are connected to Philadelphia, while Venice benefits from a six-times-weekly service from Chicago O’Hare.

 

• LOT Polish Airlines has begun transatlantic service from Budapest to New York JFK, and from its Hungarian hub to Chicago O’Hare.

 

• Norwegian began its first long-haul route from Amsterdam on May 7th, with four-times-weekly service to New York JFK. The airline has competition on the route from KLM (20 times weekly) and Delta Air Lines (twice-daily).

 

• Five days before the Amsterdam inaugural, Norwegian added its latest U.S. route—from Paris CDGto Boston three times a week.

 

• WOW air introduced its latest U.S. route link to its network on May 3, adding a four-times-weekly service between Reykjavik/Keflavik and

 

• Eurowings has added a new flight link between its Düsseldorf base and New York JFK. It operates daily, except on Tuesdays.

 

• Iberia, part of the IAG Group, hasbegun three-times-a-week operations to San Francisco from its Madrid It is the latest addition to Iberia’s US network which has services to Miami, New York JFK, Boston, Chicago O’Hare and Los Angeles.

 

• WOW air recently introduced two new U.S. airports to its network: from Reykjavik/Keflavik: Detroit and New York JFK. Service to JFK is daily, while the route to Detroit will operate four times weekly. Detroit services will also see A321 operations, with WOW air presently having 13 of the aircraft type in service.

 

• LOT Polish Airlineshas added a flight between New York/Newark and Rzeszów. Lot will operate the route weekly, with flights leaving Newark on Sundays, with the return service from Rzeszow departing on Monday. The route faces no direct competition.

 

• Norwegian has added it latest California connection with a new flight between Paris CDGand Oakland. The European carrier will operate the connection four times weekly.

 

• Primera Air has begun its first transatlantic flights from London Stanstedto New York/Newark, just over a week after launching flights to Malaga and Alicante. While there is no direct competition on the airport pair, Air India, British Airways, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways all offer services from London Heathrow.

 

• British Airways has announced an increase in flights to Washington D.C. this winter. Beginning October 28, BA will be adding three flights a week to its Washington Dulles

 

• Still more flights to New York: Norwegian is to launch an additional daily flight between London and New York in the autumn. Beginning October 29, the extra frequency will depart from London Gatwick at 09.50 and land at New York JFK at 13.00.The return flight will leave JFK at 19.40 and land at Gatwick at 07.10 the following day.
• British Airways has launched its nonstop service from Nashville to London. British Airways is not the first to attempt a direct London flight from Nashville. In 1994, American Airlines launched the same route, but canceled it just one year later when the carrier ended Nashville’s hub status.

 

• JetBlue has announced plans to introduce two new daily nonstop flights to Mexico City with service from Boston and New York JFK beginning Oct. 25, 2018. The new routes, subject to government approval, will add to JetBlue’s existing service to Mexico City from Orlando International Airport (MCO) and Fort Lauderdale. JetBlue will offer six daily flights between the U.S. and Mexico’s capital city. JetBlue’s new service to Mexico City follows a decision by the U.S. Department of Transportation to require certain airlines to divest airport slots in order to enhance competition at Mexico City International Airport.

 

 

REMINDER: INBOUND will not publish next week, as we will be a part of IPW #50 in Denver, Colorado. We resume publication with the May 30 edition of INBOUND.