Here are the new nonstop flights coming to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in 2025
AUSTIN (KXAN) — As the year comes to an end, we're looking ahead to 2025 to see what new options passengers will have at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
Fourteen new routes have already been scheduled from AUS in the new year: two seasonal and 12 year-round.
Delta Air Lines will launch the first new route on Feb. 27, with nonstop service to New Orleans. Southwest Airlines is currently the only airline to fly the route, after American Airlines canceled service in October.
Four new routes will then begin on March 6, two of which are new routes for AUS. Frontier Airlines will begin flying to Chicago O'Hare and Orlando, both of which are served by several other airlines. Meanwhile, Southwest will begin flying to Milwaukee and Reno, which will be new routes for Austin. American canceled its route to Reno in August.
The next day, Frontier will launch service to Cincinnati and Phoenix, followed by Delta which will begin flying nonstop to Panama City, Florida, on March 9.
Delta will then launch three more routes on May 7: Indianapolis, Jacksonville and Memphis. The latter two will be new service for AUS, after American canceled flights in January.
The first new international service of the year will launch May 11, with Canadian airline WestJet beginning service to Vancouver. Rival Air Canada currently operates the route.
Delta will begin two more routes on June 8, operating flights to San Francisco and Tampa, before Southwest launches its own route to San Francisco on Aug. 5.
Airport officials have a list of top priority routes they'd like to see from AUS, including Asia, South America, Europe and Mexico, as well as leisure destinations in Central America and the Caribbean.
A memo from 2021 listed the international priority routes as Amsterdam, Beijing, Dublin, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai and Tokyo. Dutch airline KLM began direct flights to Amsterdam in March 2022.
Nonstop flights to Paris nearly came to fruition. Norwegian Air announced in October 2019 it would begin service in May 2020, but the route was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The airline later announced it would not start the route at a later date, saying it wanted to focus on shorter flights within Europe.
Canceled routes in 2025
Some airlines have also announced that service will end on certain routes in 2025. American Airlines will end flights to Santa Ana, California, on Jan. 5, and Hawaiian Airlines will stop service from AUS to Honolulu on March 26.
JetBlue also announced its seasonal summer route to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport will not return in 2025.
Allegiant Air will end base operations at the airport on Jan. 7, meaning staff and aircraft will no longer be based at AUS. As part of the base closure, the airline canceled several routes in 2024, including Las Vegas, Louisville, Omaha and Washington Dulles.