New Regional Routes

Recently, I wrote about how PenAir will have to terminate Plattsburgh, Presque Isle and its seasonal flight to Bar Harbor because of the Essential Air Service contract ending. Unfortunately, the flights to Plattsburgh and Presque Isle have been moved to Washington-Dulles and Newark Liberty Airport on United Airlines, respectively, therefore, Boston will no longer have flights to those destinations. The good news is that the seasonal service Essential Air Service contract for flights to Bar Harbor has been awarded to Silver Airways which will operate the route twice daily starting July 1, 2018, on Saab 340. Therefore, Boston will not lose the seasonal flight to Bar Harbor under the Essential Air Service contracts. This will be Silver Airways' only destination from Boston. Additionally, Boutique Air has announced that it will operate three flights daily from Massena, New York to Boston. Massena is located just south of the Canadian border. The airline will utilize the Pilatus PC-12. This flight is also an Essential Air Service route and is also Boutique Air's first destination from Boston. Boston lost two regional destinations this year, but luckily it looks like Boston will get some new ones also, along with new airlines to operate them.

Boutique Air flights to massenna
Sources: www.routesonline.com
              www.mpcourier.com
              www.timesunion.com

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Virgin Atlantic Will Add a Second Daily Flight

Virgin Atlantic will be adding a second daily flight from Boston to London- Heathrow. Beginning March 31, 2019, the airline will operate a second flight from Boston on an Airbus A330-300. The interesting thing about the new flight is that it will be a day flight, departing Boston in the morning and arriving in London in the evening and returning late at night and staying at the airport overnight, as opposed to the majority of flights that leave Boston in the evening and arrive in Europe in the morning. There are very few routes from North America that operate on such a schedule. British Airways is the only other airline that operates morning flights from Boston. It is great to see Virgin Atlantic increasing its presence in Boston without adding service at the peak time for departures to Europe when Terminal E is cramped. Source:  www.routesonline.com
Read more

Primera Air Boeing 757 Use

Primera Air- the small airline is planning to launch low-cost flights to London-Stansted in May and Paris-Charles de Gaulle in June. The airline was planning to start the route using the A321neo and A321LR, but due to delays with the aircraft production the airline will not be able to launch the route using the A321neo, as a result, the airline will wet-lease Boeing 757s to operate the route instead, until the A321neos are delivered and launch service with the carrier. The route will be flown with the Boeing 757 from May 18, 2018, on the inaugural flight until May 28, 2018, when the airline plans to transition to the A321neo. I cannot wait to see the airline in Boston! Sources: airlinegeeks.com routesonline.com
Read more

New Record for Boston Logan

An interesting bit of news was released by the Boston Globe today. In  an article it stated that on Friday, April 13, 2018, a record number of passengers had flown out of Boston Logan on that day. 75,620 passengers and crew flew out of Boston on that day breaking the previous record from Columbus Day 2017 by over 6,000. This number was only passengers flying out of Boston, therefore people arriving in Boston didn't count. The large number of travelers was due to the travel rush for April Vacation occurring in schools in Massachusetts this week.
Read more