Flight 44
November 13, 2025
Fort Worth, Texas

What’s Inside:

  • New routes across the U.S. and Europe, including SkyWest at Abilene, Avelo adds and resumptions, and multiple Eurowings, AeroMexico, and Condor launches.
  • Seasonal additions from Volotea, Delta, and Air Transat, plus several suspended or dropped routes from Qantas, Air Canada, Volaris, AeroMexico, and British Airways.
  • Aviation security developments involving TAP, GOL, and Frontier, with new operational precautions and investigative updates.
  • Major industry headlines, including SKY Airline joining Abra, an Avion Express pilot certificate scandal, and major auto theft-reduction gains at Denver.
  • FAA staffing fallout, October performance metrics for multiple airlines, and legal disputes involving American and United.
  • The latest aircraft deliveries, retirements, and Flightline Financials.

New and Proposed Routes 🆕

SkyWest Airlines (OO) will add 2x daily flights from Abilene, Texas (ABI) to Denver (DEN) and daily to Houston Intercontinental (IAH) from mid-March. These flights will operate under the United Express banner. A three-year revenue guarantee from the City of Abilene and others was key in bringing a second carrier to Abilene.

Avelo Airlines (XP) looks to be adding and resuming a handful of routes in February, how long they last is anybody’s guess:

  • Atlanta (ATL) - Lakeland, Fla. (LAL) and Wilmington, Del. (ILG)

  • Chicago O’Hare (ORD) - Concord , N.C. (USA) and Wilmington, Del.

  • Detroit (DTW) - Lakeland, Fla.

  • Nashville (BNA) - Concord (USA)

Eurowings (EW) has added a handful of new routes to their schedule, with each set to start in the middle of 2026: Düsseldorf, Germany (DUS) to Karpathos, Greece (AOK) - weekly from May 19; Prague (PRG) to Ibiza, Spain (IBZ) and Brindisi, Italy (BDS) - weekly from June 1 and 3, respectively.

Yes, the engine nacelle isn’t quite right on this rendering.

AeroMexico (AM) will add two flights to Spain next spring: 6x weekly from Mexico City (MEX) to Barcelona (BCN) get underway on March 28, while a 3x weekly run from Monterrey (MTY) to Paris DeGaulle (CDG) starts on April 13. Boeing 788s are slated for Barcelona and 789s for Paris.

Condor (DE) will add a weekly flight from Düsseldorf to Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (ISU) on December 16, as well as a daily sector from Frankfurt (FRA) to Tbilisi, Georgia (TBS) on June 15.

Spanish discounter Vueling (VY) will add daily flights from Seville, Spain (SVQ) to London Heathrow (LHR) in the spring. Exact startdates have not been announced, but the timeframe is late March or early April.

Aegean Airlines (A3) is adding 5x weekly flights from Larnaca, Cyprus (LCA) to Brussels (BRU) on December 1.

Volotea (V7) is adding weekly flights from Palermo, Italy (PMO) to Paris Orly (ORY) on April 3.

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