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The most-exciting new airline routes for 2025: TPG's picks
30.12.2024 - 21:51 / thepointsguy.com
New year, new routes.
While most people are thinking about their New Year's resolutions, AvGeeks and airline industry enthusiasts have a list of their own to look forward to as the calendar flips from December to January.
That would be the bevy of new airline routes announced last year, many of which launch in 2025. In the U.S. alone, hundreds of new routes were announced in 2024 to varying degrees of fanfare. They included everything from ho-hum expansions — think new flights from a hub to a small city or seasonal routes to vacation hotspots — to outright blockbusters.
TPG's Aviation team looked back at those to see which ones we were most excited about in the year ahead.
Our picks include some of those blockbusters, but also some that say as much about an evolving airline strategy as the new route itself.
United Airlines was a popular pick from everyone on staff, and how could it not be. The Chicago-based carrier's network planning team has been aggresive the past few years with a bold international expansion featuring splashy, exotic additions. And 2024 was no exception, where Greenland, Mongolia and Morocco were only some of the highlights.
Still, plenty of other new additions had us talking. Our picks included a bit of everything from new service to big markets (Tokyo) and small (Belleville, Illinois). It's a likely bet you'll see some of them nominated for the "sexiest new routes of the year" — yes, that's a thing.
As for our list, the only criteria were new routes announced in 2024 (regardless of launch date) for flights within or from the U.S. or on a U.S. airline. Read on to see what we picked.
United Airlines: Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
You'll see this route more than once on this list, and for good reason: Mongolia is about as far-flung and exotic a destination as you'll find for a U.S. airline. United won't be flying it nonstop from the U.S. but rather from Tokyo's Narita International Airport (NRT), where it's one of two American carriers with rights to fly to other destinations in the region. Regardless, seeing United Boeing 737s flying into the Mongolian capital is easily one of the most interesting additions for a U.S. airline.
American Airlines: Carlsbad, California, to Phoenix
When American's American Eagle regional affiliates begin flying from Carlsbad next month, it'll be the only major airline brand operating from McClellan–Palomar Airport (CLD) about 35 miles north of San Diego. This route drew my attention not so much for this particular city pair, but rather for what's been one of American's more interesting network strategies of late. It's increasingly added smaller airports with little or no major airline service, allowing it to carve out niche markets without direct
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