South African Airways Relaunches Australia Route
South African Airways (SAA) has resumed scheduled flights between Johannesburg, South Africa and Perth, Australia. The restart of this route…
American bolsters some route offerings after Frontier recently added a batch of new flights.
Airlines are known to be rather territorial, especially the major three carriers when it comes to other airlines expanding from their hubs. Back in 2023, Icelandair announced service from Detroit – a Delta hub – to Reykjavik in Iceland, just days later Delta announced flights on the same route that began a week before Icelandair’s flights did. When Icelandair and now defunct WOW Air announced flights from Dallas/Fort Worth, American Airlines jumped on the bandwagon and offered the same route from its hub.
Most airline retaliation isn’t that obvious and tends to be more subtle. On Feb. 7, 2024, Frontier Airlines announced a slew of new routes around the country, 10 of which were from its now expanding base in Philadelphia which will now see Frontier serving 39 nonstop destinations.
Now, just over ten days later, as first noticed by Ishrion Aviation on X, American has increased frequencies on eight of the 10 cities Frontier plans on starting out of Philadelphia:
All of these American Airlines route increases and aircraft upgrades take place in the first week of June 2024, just a few weeks after Frontier begins the flights on these exact routes.
Joe has always been interested in planes, for as long as he can remember. He grew up in Central New York during the early 2000s when US Airways Express turboprops ruled the skies. Being from a non-aviation family made it harder for him to be around planes and would only spend about three hours a month at the airport. He was so excited when he could drive by himself and the first thing he did with the license was get ice cream and go plane spotting for the entire day. When he has the time (and money) he likes to take spotting trips to any location worth a visit. He’s currently enrolled at Western Michigan University earning a degree in Aviation Management and Operations.
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