Routes

The airline will operate the route from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Tel Aviv with an Airbus A330-900neo starting on Tuesday.

The carrier – which began operations in 2020 – serves four destinations in America: Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Ontario, California, along with Seattle.

Lufthansa plans to add more Airbus A380 flights to the U.S. this winter. The carrier operates the superjumbo jet in a handful of markets from its Munich hub.

American plans to bolster its intra-Florida network with the return of a route last served by the airline in January 2009.

Speaking at Africa’s Travel Indaba 2025, SAA’s Interim Chief Commercial Officer, Tebogo Tsimane, said that the airline has route expansion plans.

This market will become the airline’s sixth destination in the U.S., joining New York, Chicago, Washington Dulles, Boston, and Atlanta.

Porter is the latest Canadian airline to scale back service to the U.S., joining a growing list of high-profile route cuts in recent months.

Alaska Airlines CEO Ben Minicucci says the carrier will fly non-stop from Seattle to Europe by 2026, part of an effort to add global routes.

Delta is slated to bolster its network early next year with the addition of more routes. These flights will begin in late December and early January.

Soon after its opening in December 2023, several airlines from the U.S., Canada, and Latin America flocked to the airport with an influx in capacity.