New connections on americanair, Delta, and United Airlines. A new JetBlue route to Maine just in time for leaf season. And Norse Atlantic Airways touches down in Las Vegas. These are some and more of the new airline routes launching in September, more on Travel + Leisure. travelandleisure.com/these-are-the-…

Now if only DC could enforce those out-of-state camera tickets…

It's interesting watching Southwest Airlines react to investor Elliott's board room activism. Major US airlines, Southwest included, stopped providing regular ops updates years ago. Now, Southwest feels the need to press release one for this past summer. $LUV

Barring any delivery delays, Wizz Air plans to debut its first A321XLR on Milan Malpensa-Abu Dhabi route on June 2, 2025. It anticipates taking delivery of 8 A321XLRs in 2025.

Consolidation continues to take interesting turns in Europe. Aegean Airlines has made a €25 million investment in Volotea, equal to a ~13% stake and with the option to raise that to ~21%.

Everything old is new again. That’s especially true at United Airlines's Dulles Airport (IAD) hub. United will fly 8.5% more seats from Dulles y/y in 2024 with the return of flights to the likes of GSP, MOB, and PHL, and new routes to ANC and PSP, per Cirium Diio. travelandleisure.com/these-are-the-…

This is the induced demand we can believe in.

“More than 50% of ride-hailing trips taken by surveyed riders in California replaced more sustainable forms of transportation — such as walking, cycling, carpooling, and public transit — or created new vehicle miles…” ucdavis.edu/news/half-uber…

Five years ago today, americanair operated its last scheduled MD-80 flight from DFW Airport to O'Hare Intl. Airport.

Updated JetBlue guidance for Q3. Better revenue and cost expectations. Background: flightglobal.com/analysis/jetbl… $JBLU

BREAKING: The European Union Aviation Safety Agency will require one-time inspections of Airbus A350 engines after a midair fire on a Cathay Pacific flight bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg via Sid Philip w/ Danny Lee & Leen Rashdan

Eugene (opened 1990), by TRA Architects. 📷 Richard Cooke/Philip Jacobson Photos, Architecture, Aug. 1993. #airportarchitecture instagram.com/p/C_Yxh2EvNqF/

San Francisco, South Terminal (opened 1963, rebuilt), by Welton Becket and Associates. 📷 via Smithsonian Institutions. #airportarchitecture instagram.com/p/C_a6itHOpzb/

Makes sense drivers don’t want to pay a $100 fine. Why not interview a few bus riders to see if they wanted the bus to move faster? Shouldn’t be too hard - there are more than 300,000 daily boardings on Metrobuses.

American begins Miami-Rome in July, not June

EASA issues emergency AD for engine checks after Cathay A350-1000 fire theaircurrent.com/feed/dispatche… (via Jon Ostrower) #staycurrent

The first JetBlue flight to Presque Isle, Maine — the airline's first EAS route — landed a little after 4pm ET today, Thursday. The airline will connect PQI with Boston Logan International Airport daily with an E190. (📷 Presque Isle International Airport/Facebook) travelandleisure.com/these-are-the-…

Look forward to reading how Frank Lorenzo did not drive Eastern into the ground, and bankrupt Continental.