Featured Map for 22 February 2024:
Cranky Network Awards 2024: Best Aircraft-Enabled Opportunity

The previous two Featured Maps looked at the nominees for the two Sexiest New Route categories, both Short-Haul and Long-Haul.

Today we'll look at the Best Aircraft-Enabled Opportunity category. These aren't necessarilly long routes like the nominees for Sexiest New Route – Long-Haul but instead are routes that only make economic sense to fly with smaller-yet-capable aircraft. The nominees are:

• Alaska Airlines: Anchorage to New York (JFK)
  • daily, 13 June 2024 through 19 August 2024
  • Boeing 737-8 (MAX 8)
  • 3,386 mi / 5,448 km
• WestJet Airlines: Calgary to Reykjavík (Keflavík)
  • 4x weekly, effective 15 May 2024
  • Boeing 737-8 (MAX 8)
  • 3,199 mi / 5,148 km
• Breeze Airways: Cincinnati to San Francisco
  • 2x weekly, effective 8 February 2023
  • Airbus A220-300
  • 2,036 mi / 3,277 km
• Air Transat: Montréal to Marrakech
  • 2x weekly, effective June 2024, then weekly from October 2024
  • Airbus A321LR
  • 3,582 mi / 5,764 km
• JetBlue Airways: New York (JFK) to Amsterdam
  • 2x weekly, effective 13 October 2023
  • Airbus A321LR
  • 3,643 mi / 5,863 km

Today's Featured Map shows the five nominees for the Sexiest New Route – Long-Haul category.

(If you're at the event please look for me and say hi!)

References and additional information:

• The Cranky Flier
  • Cranky Network Awards 2024 (10 January 2024)
  
  
• Alaska Airlines
  • Alaska Airlines adds new nonstops from Anchorage to New York City and San Diego (20 October 2023)
• WestJet
  • WestJet growth plan soars with intercontinental expansion across Canada (15 November 2023)
• Breeze Airways
  • Breeze Airways to launch flights from CVG to Charleston, S.C. and San Francisco – Cincinnati Enquirer (19 October 2022)
• Air Transat
  • Transat To Offer Non-Stop Montreal-Marrakech Flights Year Round – Travel Pulse Canada (26 October 2023)
• jetBlue
  • Featured Map: JetBlue European Expansion (28 October 2023)
  
  
• Featured Map: Cranky Network Awards 2024: Sexiest New Route – Long-Haul (21 February 2024)
• Featured Map: Cranky Network Awards 2024: Sexiest New Route – Short-Haul (20 February 2024)