Air Service
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CVB Marketing
The CVB’s Marketing department works closely with airlines servicing Palm Springs International Airport to promote the destination in direct flight markets. You can view all of our current initiatives, including opportunities for Partner participation, on our Destination Marketing page.
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PSP Airlines
Air Canada is Canada's largest domestic and international airline serving more than 200 airports on six continents. Canada's flag carrier is among the 20 largest airlines in the world and serves more than 48 million customers each year. The company’s fleet of more than 390 aircraft is one of the youngest, most fuel-efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.
Alaska Airlines is the fifth-largest U.S. airline based on passenger traffic. Headquartered in Seattle, Alaska Airlines carries more passengers between the state of Alaska and the lower 48 than any other airline. The carrier traces its roots back to 1932, when Linious "Mac" McGee of McGee Airways started flying his three-seat Stinson between Anchorage and Bristol Bay, Alaska. Alaska Airlines, Virgin America and Horizon Air, are owned by Alaska Air Group. In December 2016, Virgin America was acquired by Alaska Airlines. The two airlines were granted a single operating certificate by the FAA in January 2018.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant is focused on linking travelers in small cities to world-class leisure destinations. The airline offers industry-low fares on an all-jet fleet while also offering other travel-related products such as hotel rooms and rental cars. All can be purchased only through the company website, allegiant.com. Beginning with one aircraft and one route in 1999, the company has grown to more than 85 aircraft and 350 routes across the country with base airfares less than half the cost of the average domestic roundtrip ticket.
American Airlines and American Eagle offer an average of nearly 6,700 flights per day to nearly 350 destinations in more than 50 countries. American has hubs in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, D.C. American Airlines is a founding member of the oneworld® alliance, whose members serve more than 1,000 destinations with about 14,250 daily flights to over 150 countries.
Boutique Air is a commuter airline based in San Francisco and founded in 2007. The airline offers charter services as well as scheduled passenger services subsidized under the Essential Air Service (EAS) program. Boutique Air operates the second-largest PC-12 fleet, with 26 aircraft, in the United States. In 2019, the airline transported over 180,000 passengers across many EAS destinations.
Frontier Airlines is an American ultra low-cost carrier headquartered in Denver, Colorado. The eighth-largest commercial airline in the U.S., Frontier Airlines operates flights to over 80 destinations throughout the United States and six international destinations. The carrier is a subsidiary and operating brand of Indigo Partners, LLC, and maintains a hub at Denver International Airport with numerous focus cities across the US. In August 2018, Frontier began connecting passengers with Mexican low-cost carrier Volaris under a codeshare agreement.
Delta Air Lines serves more than 180 million customers each year. With an industry-leading global network, Delta and the Delta Connection carriers offer service to 324 destinations in 57 countries on six continents. Headquartered in Atlanta, Delta employs more than 80,000 employees worldwide and operates a mainline fleet of more than 800 aircraft. The airline is a founding member of the SkyTeam global alliance and participates in the industry’s leading transatlantic joint venture with Air France-KLM and Alitalia, as well as a joint venture with Virgin Atlantic. Including its worldwide alliance partners, Delta offers customers more than 15,000 daily flights.
JetBlue is New York's Hometown Airline®, and a leading carrier in Boston, Fort Lauderdale (Hollywood), Los Angeles, Orlando and San Juan. JetBlue carries more than 40 million customers a year to 101 cities in the U.S., Caribbean and Latin America with an average of 1,000 daily flights.
In its 50th year of service, Dallas-based Southwest Airlines enjoyed a customer base topping 130 million passengers in 2019. Southwest became the nation's largest domestic air carrier in 2003 and maintains that ranking based on the U.S. Department of Transportation's most recent reporting of domestic originating passengers boarded. In peak travel seasons during 2019, Southwest operated more than 4,000 weekday departures among a network of 101 destinations in the United States and 10 additional countries. In early 2020, the carrier added service to Hilo, Hawaii, and Cozumel, Mexico.
Sun Country Airlines is a U.S.-based low-cost airline headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The airline operates 70 routes, mostly between leisure destinations in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and the Caribbean. Sun Country operates its main operations in their hometown of Minneapolis. Sun Country also operates flights from Dallas/Fort Worth, which serves as a focus city for the airline. The airline has recently made additions to its route network, expanding into markets other than Minneapolis like Portland and Nashville and has built more point-to-point routes. It operates scheduled and charter flights to destinations in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica and the Caribbean as well as ad hoc charters.
United Airlines and United Express operate approximately 4,600 flights a day to 357 airports across five continents. In 2017, United and United Express operated more than 1.6 million flights carrying over 148 million customers. United is proud to have the world's most comprehensive route network, including U.S. mainland hubs in Chicago, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, Newark/New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. United operates 757 mainline aircraft, and the airline's United Express carriers operate 551 regional aircraft. The airline is a founding member of Star Alliance, which provides service to 193 countries via 28 member airlines.
WestJet is a Canadian low-cost airline founded in 1996. It began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines. WestJet provides scheduled and charter air service to 107 destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. WestJet is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier, behind Air Canada, operating an average of 777 flights and carrying over 66,130 guests per day. In 2017, WestJet carried 24.13 million passengers, making it the ninth-largest airline in North America by passengers carried. WestJet is a public company with more than 13,000 employees and is not part of any airline alliance. The airline's headquarters is located adjacent to the Calgary International Airport.
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PSP Routes
Atlanta
Delta: 5x weekly to 1x daily | Dec. 19, 2020 - April 19, 2021
Bellingham
Allegiant: 4 times weekly year-round
Boise
Alaska: 1x daily | Dec. 17, 2020 - April 12, 2021
Allegiant: 2x weekly | Nov. 19, 2020 - April 11, 2021
Boston
JetBlue: 3 total flights: Saturday service on Dec. 19, Dec. 26 & Jan. 2
JetBlue: TBD January 3, 2021 onwards
Calgary
WestJet: 8x weekly Jan. 2021 – 3x daily starting Feb. 4, 2021
Chicago
American: 6x weekly | Nov. 27, 2020 - March 27, 2021
United: 1x daily | Nov.1, 2020 - June 2021
Dallas /Ft. Worth
American: 2-3x daily year-round
Denver
Frontier: 4x weekly | Nov. 19 - April 11, 2021
United: 3-4x daily year-round
Southwest Airlines: 1x daily year-round
Edmonton
WestJet: 1x daily | Feb. 5, 2021 - April 24, 2021
Eugene, OR
Allegiant: 2x weekly | Nov. 20, 2020 - April 11, 2021
Everett, WA
Alaska: 1x daily | Oct. 4, 2020 - June 2021
Fort Lauderdale
JetBlue: 2x weekly | March 7, 2021 - April 18, 2021
Houston
United: 1x daily | Nov. 2, 2020 - May 5, 2021
Los Angeles
Boutique Air: 1x daily | Oct. 1, 2020 - March 1, 2021
Delta: 1x daily, possibly year-round* | beginning Nov. 9, 2020 (*Note: service level still to be determined)
United: 1x daily year-round | beginning Oct. 2, 2020
Minneapolis / St. Paul
Delta: 1x daily | Dec. 18, 2020 - June (Note: subject to change; most likely April/May)
Sun Country: 2-7x weekly | Sep. 24, 2020 - May 17, 2021
New YorkJetBlue: 5x weekly | Dec. 19, 2020 - March, 2021
JetBlue: 1x daily March 6-29, 2021
JetBlue: 5x weekly April, 2021
Oakland
Southwest Airlines: 2x daily year-round
Philadelphia
American: Saturday only | Dec. 18, 2020 - March 27, 2021
Phoenix
American: 2-5x daily year-round
Boutique Air: 1x daily | Oct. 1, 2020 - March 1, 2021
Southwest Airlines: 18x weekly year-round
Portland, OR
Alaska: 2x daily year-round | beginning Oct. 4, 2020
Reno
Alaska: 6x weekly | Dec. 17, 2020 - April 12, 2021
Salt Lake City
Delta: 3x daily year-round - 4x daily starting Jan. 2021
San Francisco
Alaska: 3-4x daily year-round
United: 2-5x daily year-round
San Jose
Alaska: 2x daily year-round | beginning Feb. 11, 2021
Seattle
Alaska: 2-7x daily year-round
Delta: 2x daily | December 18, 2020 – June 30, 2021
Toronto
Air Canada: 3-7x weekly | Feb. 11, 2021 - April 30, 2021Vancouver
Air Canada: 1x daily | Feb. 11, 2021 - April 30, 2021
WestJet: 1x monthly | Jan. 2021
WestJet: 2-3x daily | February 5, 2021 through TBDWinnipeg
WestJet: 2x weekly | Feb. 7, 2021 - April 22, 2021
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Ailevon Pacific Aviation Consulting
The CVB maintains the services of Ailevon Pacific Aviation Consulting. Ailevon is a leading airline development consulting company with extensive expertise in aviation and tourism. Working collaboratively with Ailevon, the CVB’s goal is to expand existing air service while targeting new airlines and create both a short-term and long-term plan for future expansion, both domestically and internationally.
Our primary representatives:
- Oliver Lamb, Managing Director: Lamb has substantial experience in the aviation industry in a wide variety of capacities, including airline operations, distribution, industry advocacy, airport business development and strategy consulting. Beginning his career at Canadian Airlines and Business Travel International, with a deep understanding of the aviation industry and fluent in English, French and Spanish, his career has seen him working throughout the Asia-Pacific Region and Europe on the industry’s most challenging issues. Prior to co-founding Ailevon Pacific, Lamb was a strategy consultant for the aviation industry and for Port Jackson Partners, one of Australia’s leading corporate strategy firms. Lamb holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) from the University of Sydney and is a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and the Institute of Management Consultants.
- Carrie Kelly, Senior Consultant: Prior to joining APAC, Kelly worked at Southwest Airlines in a variety of roles. The most recent of those was in Business Development on the Commercial Initiatives team, where she focused on identifying revenue-generating ideas within the commercial space and constructing business cases to implement those ideas. Additionally, Kelly played a pivotal role in the creation and development of Southwest’s five-year strategy and capacity plan by conducting competitive analyses and customer research regarding the future of the airline. She also has extensive experience in Capacity Planning, Network Strategy and Customer Insights. Carrie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and Management from Texas Christian University and a Masters of Business Administration in Marketing from Southern Methodist University.
- Oliver Lamb, Managing Director: Lamb has substantial experience in the aviation industry in a wide variety of capacities, including airline operations, distribution, industry advocacy, airport business development and strategy consulting. Beginning his career at Canadian Airlines and Business Travel International, with a deep understanding of the aviation industry and fluent in English, French and Spanish, his career has seen him working throughout the Asia-Pacific Region and Europe on the industry’s most challenging issues. Prior to co-founding Ailevon Pacific, Lamb was a strategy consultant for the aviation industry and for Port Jackson Partners, one of Australia’s leading corporate strategy firms. Lamb holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) from the University of Sydney and is a member of the Financial Services Institute of Australia and the Institute of Management Consultants.
November 16, 2020: Palm Springs International Airport (PSP) is an essential and critical economic driver in the Coachella Valley. It is important for Coachella Valley residents to make a commitment to invest in the future of air travel at PSP. Remember, #FlyPSPFirst and show your support for our community and local economy. Click this link for more information and to sign the “FLY PSP FIRST” pledge.
November 16, 2020: Welcome Southwest Airlines! Over a decade of working diligently to attract Southwest Airlines to PSP, the moment finally arrived with their first flight from Phoenix. Additional direct service includes Oakland and Denver with all three providing year-round service to PSP.
November 12, 2020: Palm Springs International Airport is the ONLY major airport in the United States with growing capacity in December. According to DiioMi by Cirium & Ailevon Pacific Aviation Consulting, seat capacity is forecasted to be up 11% year-over-year for the month of December.
November 11, 2020: A warm welcome to Daniel Meier, Deputy Director of Aviation, Marketing & Air Service for PSP. Daniel has more than 15 years of experience in aviation from loading baggage and working the ticket counter to airport marketing, air service development, and negotiating airport leases and air service incentives. He joined Palm Springs International Airport in October 2020 coming from Allegiant Air as a Manager of Airport Affairs. Before Allegiant, Daniel worked in Marketing and Air Service Development at Tulsa International Airport and he was an Adjunct aviation professor at Oklahoma State University.
Over the peak holiday season, Air Canada is planning to deploy itsJetz A319 all Business Class aircraft on the Vancouver (YVR) to Palm Springs International (PSP) route. The aircraft is configured with 58 seats that usually are utilized to carry sports teams and other VIP charters.
American Airlines has announced it is adding seat capacity December - March for the PHL (Philadelphia)-PSP direct flight by utilizing an Airbus A319. New capacity per flight is 150 seats versus 128 seats.
Starting in January, 2021, Alaska Airlines is adding more daily flights between SEA (Seattle) and PSP. Alaska will now operate 7 daily flights, which is an increase from 4 daily flights during the same period in 2019.
Delta Airlines continues to see strong grown from the Minneapolis – St. Paul area by announcing an aircraft change on the MSP-PSP flight. Starting in January, 2021, Delta will fly a Boeing 737-900 with 180 seats compared to 128 seats in the previous aircraft on this route.