These 10 US Airports Only Have 1 European Route This Summer

Summary

  • San Antonio has gained its first long-haul service.
  • Ten US airports will have only one European route this summer, and New York Stewart and Pittsburgh are no longer included.
  • Two airports that had European flights last year no longer do.

Forty-one US airports have non-stop European flights this summer, based on examining schedules using OAG data for May to September 2024. They now include San Antonio, which gained its first-ever long-haul service on May 17, 2024.

US airports with one European route

They are summarized below. They include San Juan, Puerto Rico, a US territory. Elsewhere, San Antonio – which has not previously had European flights – now has them, thanks to Condor’s three-times-weekly A330neo service. Importantly, passengers can connect to Lufthansa’s vast network in Frankfurt, meaning the Texas city has gained more destinations with one change of aircraft.

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Photo: San Antonio International Airport

The following list applies to May-September only. The results might be different at other times. All the listed airports except Nashville and San Antonio have had other European routes in the past.

  • Anchorage: Condor and Discover from Frankfurt
  • Cleveland: Aer Lingus from Dublin
  • Fort Myers: Discover from Frankfurt
  • Hartford: Aer Lingus from Dublin
  • Nashville: British Airways from London Heathrow
  • New Orleans: British Airways from London Heathrow
  • Oakland: Azores Airlines from Terceira
  • St Louis: Lufthansa from Frankfurt
  • San Antonio: Condor from Frankfurt
  • San Juan: Iberia from Madrid

Stewart would have made the list, but fortunately, it gained a second route in 2023: Atlantic Airways from the Faroe Islands on the Airbus A320neo. It joins PLAY from Keflavik. Pittsburgh would also have been there, but it now has two European routes. Coexisting with British Airways from London Heathrow is Icelandair from Keflavik, which began on May 16, 2024.

The list is down by two vs. 2023

Fairbanks lost Condor’s seasonal weekly flights from Frankfurt in September 2023 (they were operated triangularly with Anchorage). A month later, San Jose, California, stopped seeing BA from Heathrow. (San Jose also had Frankfurt flights with Lufthansa until 2018.) Both airports no longer have European flights.

Heathrow-San Jose began in May 2016 and was to see BA’s 747-400s daily through summer 2020. The Queen of the Skies would have replaced the 787-9. However, the pandemic led to the route’s suspension in March 2020 until its return in June 2022. The 747 was never used.

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Which airports do you think feature in May?

Looking back as far as 2019, other US airports with one European route have lost all transatlantic passenger service. They include Charleston (BA from Heathrow in 2019), Indianapolis (Delta to Paris CDG until 2020), and Kansas City (Icelandair from Keflavik until 2019). Until 2012, Memphis had Delta flights to Amsterdam, previously a Northwest route, thanks to the then close relationship between Northwest and KLM.

Will you be taking transatlantic flights from any of the 10 airports mentioned earlier in the article? Let us know in the comment section.

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