American Adds Summer 2024 Service, Returns To Three Markets Ceded To JetBlue

American Airlines is unveiling nine route additions in the U.S. and Canada for the 2024 summer season, including returning to three domestic markets it ceded to JetBlue Airways as part of the now-terminated Northeast Alliance (NEA).

From New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA), the Oneworld alliance member plans to commence daily seasonal flights from June 2024 using Embraer E175 aircraft to Halifax (YHZ) in Canada; Bangor (BGR) in Maine; and Hyannis (HYA), Martha’s Vineyard (MVY) and Nantucket (ACK) in Massachusetts. A year-round service to Portland (PWM), Maine, will also be launched, operating twice a day.

Five of the six routes from LaGuardia mark a resumption of service for the carrier. Data provided by OAG Schedules Analyser shows that American last operated LGA-ACK and LGA-MVY during the summer 2020 season, before leaving the markets for JetBlue. American also served LGA-PWM until the end of summer 2021, with JetBlue taking over the route in the summer 2022 and 2023 seasons.

American’s planned return to the three destinations comes fewer than three months after the official wind-down of the NEA—a ruling that the Dallas-Fort Worth-based carrier is appealing. Additionally, the airline will return to Bangor and Halifax from LaGuardia next summer, having paused operations during the pandemic.

Elsewhere, a new daily summer-season route is being opened between Washington Reagan National Airport (DCA) and HYA from June 22. The two routes to Hyannis, a village on the Cape Cod peninsula, are the airline’s first to the destination. American is also restoring nonstop flights between DCA and Bermuda (BDA) from April 4 for the first time since 2019, becoming its fifth gateway to BDA.

Lastly, a new service from Charlotte to Vancouver (YVR) will launch on June 5, becoming the only nonstop service between North Carolina and British Columbia. American currently serves YVR from Dallas-Fort Worth and Los Angeles.

“American continues to build a network that gives customers the most comprehensive access to the places they want to visit,” American's Senior Vice President of Network and Schedule Planning Brian Znotins says. “New service to Hyannis, expanded service from New York and more international service grows the largest global network in the U.S., connecting more cities than any other U.S. carrier, for a summer like no other.”