Boston Aviation

American's growth spurt in Boston is continuing with the announcement of service to Austin. The airline will add 11 weekly flights to Austin from Boston on a Boeing 737-800 as of April 7th, 2020. The airline will join JetBlue, Delta, and Southwest in operating the route. Good luck to the airline on its new route! Source:  www.routesonline.com

Frontier Airlines has announced its fifth destination from Boston. The airline will start service to San Juan, Puerto Rico, as of April 23, 2020. Flights will be operated daily by an Airbus A321. The flight will depart Boston at 12:23 and will arrive in San Juan at 16:25, while the return flight will depart San Juan at 01:54 and will arrive in Boston at 06:06. Frontier will join Spirit Airlines and JetBlue Airways in the operation of this flight. Prices for flights to San Juan should have decreased noticeably from Boston in the last year, as we have gone from only direct flights by JetBlue, to the entrance of two low-cost carriers in that time frame. Good luck to Frontier with its new route! Source:  www.routesonline.com

TAP Air Portugal has announced a new route from Boston Logan Airport. The airline intends to offer service to Ponta Delgada, Azores Islands, Portugal from Boston. Beginning June 4th, 2020, the route will be operated five times weekly on an Airbus A321neoLR during the summer season and three times weekly throughout the winter season. The flight will depart Ponta Delgada at 16:15 and arrive in Boston at 17:20, while the return flight will depart Boston at 22:30 and will arrive in Ponta Delgada at 07:20 the next day. Currently, this route is served by Azores Airlines, I am interested to see whether both airlines will be able to operate this route profitably, or will we see an airline back down. Source:  www.routesonline.com

Domestic service on widebody airplanes is becoming increasingly rare in the United States, however, due to American Airlines' future route to London-Heathrow, the airline will add a flight from Miami to Boston on a widebody Boeing 777-200ER. As of March 30, 2020, one of the seven daily flights to Miami on American on a Boeing 777. Flights AA029 and AA1170 will be operated by the aircraft.  Flight  AA029 will depart Boston at 15:25 and arrive in Miami at 18:55. Flight  AA1170 will depart Miami at 13:45 and will arrive in Boston at 17:05. Source:  www.routesonline.com

Scandinavian Airlines, also known as SAS, has announced some changes to its flight to Boston from Copenhagen. As of September 26, 2020, the airline will increase frequency on its flights to Boston, from 4 weekly to 6 weekly, switching from the Airbus A330-300 to the Airbus A321neo LR. Currently, the airline operates the route seasonally during the summer, however, with the switch they intend to return to operating the route year-round. Although this is a decrease in capacity from 262 seats to 157, I think that this change is great for the route. SAS's route to Boston began on a leased PrivatAir 737-700 which they operated with a premium heavy configuration. However, after terminating the lease they switched to a much larger Airbus A330-300 with lower frequency. This was very bad for the route, for some time the route had some terrible load factors, especially during the winter season, however, they struggled to fill the plane during the summer too. I think that the A321neo LR is th...

Recently, Cabo Verde Airlines have made some changes in the schedule of their Boston flight. The airline was planning to move its Boston flight from Praia to Sal, however, the newly published schedule shows that they intend to offer service to both destinations. The airline will operate a Boeing 757-200 departing Sal at 10:00 on Monday and will arrive in Boston at 14:10, while the return flight will depart Boston at 08:30 Tuesday and will arrive in Sal at 20:00 the same day. The flight to Praia will also be operated by a Boeing 757-200 that will depart Praia at 03:00 on Saturday and will arrive in Boston at 07:10 while the return flight will depart Boston at 15:40 on Tuesday and arrive in Praia at 03:10 the next day. I am glad that Boston will have routes to both Praia and Sal, however, I am simply unable to wrap my head around the timings. The 03:00 departures and arrivals into Praia are brutal, I can imagine some people will decide to avoid taking the direct route in order to skip th...