Exciting new airline routes from June 2024 and beyond

It was another busy month for airline network planners.

Though no single airline made a big, splashy expansion, there was a whole host of interesting changes filed last month — many of which haven’t been reported.

Perhaps the biggest news in June was Allegiant Air’s 18 route cuts that the carrier is blaming on delivery delays from Boeing. Allegiant’s ultra-low-cost business model means that the airline often cuts and resumes routes with short notice, but it remains to be seen how many, if any, of the affected routes will be reinstated.

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You’ll catch all the details from changes loaded last month below.

The airline added a new route from its Portland, Oregon, hub. From there, Alaska will fly to New Orleans. This new winter-seasonal service will launch Jan. 6, 2025, and run through May 14, 2025.

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Ultra-low-cost carrier Allegiant Air filed perhaps the biggest network changes of any U.S. airline last month. Allegiant dropped 18 routes from its network and said it would withdraw from its Austin base due to the airport’s terminal closure.

Allegiant blamed the far-reaching cuts on delivery delays from Boeing. The cuts primarily touch four of the airline’s operating bases. The biggest cuts are at Nashville International Airport (BNA), where Allegiant will exit a whopping six routes.

The carrier expected to receive six Boeing 737 MAX aircraft before July, but it now expects them later this year (at the earliest), leading to this capacity reduction.

You’ll find a map of all the slashed routes below.

American didn’t make too many changes to its network last month, but it did add a few noteworthy new routes, including four from New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA). American operates a hub at LGA, and as part of the wind-down of the Northeast Alliance with JetBlue, the carrier will receive slots, or takeoff and landing permissions, for LGA flights that JetBlue had originally borrowed.

These slots come into effect in the winter season, and so American will resume service on routes to four “sun-and-fun” destinations: Orlando, Sarasota and West Palm Beach in Florida, and New Orleans.

The airline also added new flights from Charlotte to Governor’s Harbour in the Bahamas.

It wasn’t all good news for American, though, as the airline filed plans to scrap two routes: Boston to Memphis and Austin to Indianapolis.

Breeze is growing in Florida, where it will add three new routes to operating bases, or hubs.

The new routes are from Burlington, Vermont, to Fort Myers; from Long Island, New York, to Fort Myers; and from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Tampa. Breeze is planning to turn Fort Myers into its newest operating base later this year, so this expansion, which is slated to begin in early October, is timed perfectly with the opening of the new operating base.

Delta had a noteworthy June with the addition of a new long-haul service from Orlando to London. Neither city is a hub for Delta, but the airline has a robust transatlantic joint venture with U.K.-based Virgin Atlantic that will help fuel the flight’s success.

The airline also added a slew of new short-haul flights, including two routes from Minneapolis to the Caribbean and its 16th nonstop destination from Austin: Harlingen, Texas, beginning Oct. 7.

Delta also added another new nonstop to Tulum, Mexico. The airline will launch flights from its Minneapolis hub once weekly beginning Dec. 21 through April 12, 2025. Minneapolis joins existing service from Atlanta.

Ultra-low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines surprised some aviation observers last month when it announced more flights to New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK).

Frontier’s two new JFK routes are from Atlanta and Las Vegas. In fact, the airline just made its JFK debut earlier this month with a new nonstop to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

It wasn’t immediately clear how Frontier received the slots (takeoff and landing permissions) required to operate at JFK, which is capacity-constrained.

In addition to the JFK routes, Frontier also added new flights in a host of other markets — two from Atlanta, two from Boston and one from San Diego.

JetBlue added four new pins to its route map last month, starting with Long Island MacArthur Airport (ISP) in Islip, New York. JetBlue is New York’s hometown carrier, and Islip is far more manageable than JFK or LaGuardia for Long Islanders.

JetBlue’s ISP destinations include three popular Florida cities: Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and West Palm Beach.

In addition, JetBlue filed routes to two new destinations from JFK: Bonaire and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. JetBlue will fly to both destinations twice weekly.

Finally, JetBlue announced that it will begin flying from Boston to Presque Isle, Maine. This flight is operated as part of an Essential Air Service contract, meaning that JetBlue receives subsidies from the government to operate it.

The airline just scrapped two transcontinental flights from Atlanta to Los Angeles and Oakland, California. The carrier will continue to serve these markets with one-stop service.

Elsewhere, the airline is gearing up for the NFL football season, adding 42 new one-off flights for the most popular games.

Finally, the airline filed plans to fly from Newark to Faro, Portugal, on May 23, 2025. This flight was originally supposed to launch this summer, but was postponed at the last minute due to ongoing audits from the Federal Aviation Administration.

Austrian didn’t launch any new routes last month, but it did upgrade its New York service by launching its first-ever Boeing 787 Dreamliner flights.

This upgrade to the 787 represents a big improvement in the passenger experience. This includes an all-new (and much upgraded) business-class product with reverse herringbone seats with direct aisle access for everyone.