Wish someone would offer Key West nonstop As far as a flight to Key West, maybe AA or DL will add it. Allegiant doesn't serve RDU anymore and Frontier has shown no interest in flying to Key West whatsoever. AA would be a long shot, unfortunately. DL seems to be stuck in neutral and so that’s no lon...
Jump to postLooks like Air France is upgauging to a 777-200 starting Winter 2025. Here’s the link below: https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240412-afns25rdu Up guaging from the 787 and down gauging from the 350. I think I would rather keep the 787 than having the 777. I always feel so much better after getting off...
Jump to postI think you will see Craven, Carteret, Pamlico, Jones, Beaufort, and Onslow use it… hopefully will be enough
Jump to postGoing south in the late fall through early spring is a given to work for anywhere… add in cruises that happen year round.. I think lil New’Bren is gonna be okay..
Jump to postSo thinking ahead, if EWN works well for Breeze… and I find it almost impossible for the MCO flight NOT to be a game changer, what do you think will be the next step? My thought is probably 2w PVD and up MCO to 3w + 1w TPA with EWN being a Breeze through city again. And then maybe 2w RDU + 2w MSY wi...
Jump to postLooks like AF is enjoying their RDU adventure. On top of going daily, starting in October, they are increasing their winter schedule from 3x weekly to 5x weekly with no flights on Tuesday/Thursday. I'm liking that action. So it seems this summer, all international fights will be daily except FRA and...
Jump to postFrontier could probably make it with 1.5 gates. Spirit doesn’t need a solo gate. Sun country doesn’t need a solo gate. Beeeze could use 2,5. I think Frontier could go over right now without a problem. Southwest doesn’t need all the gates they have. Their service w is so low right now it’s dreadful.
Jump to postSun Country and Breeze joining Southwest, Avelo, and Spirit in T1. I don’t know how much space that frees up or if space was even needed, but moving next month.
Jump to post[ You don't think ILM would like to regain service to RDU? Des in ILM, Honestly, the VERY BEST option would be train service with a line that goes Raleigh-Wilmington, Raleigh-Morehead City, Raleigh-Greenville or Plymouth, Raleigh-Fayetteville, and Raleigh-Norfolk. Let this service compliment the S-...
Jump to postYes, very briefly in the 1990s. Would love to see nonstop service to RDU return (at various times JI, AA, and US all flew it), but I doubt we'll ever see it again. I would love to see a ATR-42-600 and ATR 72-600 operator do some Quad-State flights our of RDU and some Point-to-Point out of some of t...
Jump to postI think Avelo will give another stab at MCO… I would like to see them do some markets they have not joined yet… BHM, SDF or LEX, IND, CAE or GSP, CRW… or some places not necessarily large but can work with 2-3x week service… PGV would work with something like that.. or EWN… FLO… let it grow and mat...
Jump to postI am a firm believer of building g for the next 15 years because one does not know what the future holds. It’s easy to board off part of an unused terminal than it is to be insufficient in space.
Jump to postLooks like Spirit flew the coup on MCO-RDU.. is only FLL or does the signal the end of Spirit at RDU?
Jump to postStill interested to know how RDU is gonna manage addding Aeromexico, Lufthansa, and Copa to the overhead sign.
And lastly, I’m still waiting for either WestJet or Porter announcement. One of them has to be getting ready to do something… or wishing that is the case..
Looks like AA made some cuts to LGA this summer and/or late spring, basically reducing a bunch of markets by 1-2 daily. Nothing major, although interesting given their increases in PHL. LGA-BHM/DAY suspended LGA-CHO down to 1x daily LGA-CVG down to 2x daily LGA-STL down to 2x daily LGA-YUL down to ...
Jump to postHmmm… confrations to lil ole New Bern capturing another airline. Orlando I think is a no brainer. That route I have confidence in and it will probably expand to more flights a week. Hartford is a good size Breeze station but I too think PVD or Westchester or Tampa or even Charleston might have been ...
Jump to postI think the best answer is that all the European will take time to mature and grow but the airlines have some time to do that with the incentives provided. That’s what they are for. And in addition to the airport promoting the flights, the airlines will have to do their promotion also. They did not ...
Jump to postLooks like AA made some cuts to LGA this summer and/or late spring, basically reducing a bunch of markets by 1-2 daily. Nothing major, although interesting given their increases in PHL. LGA-BHM/DAY suspended LGA-CHO down to 1x daily LGA-CVG down to 2x daily LGA-STL down to 2x daily LGA-YUL down to ...
Jump to postMy 2 cents.. which doesn’t account for much.. but RDU doesn’t have the gate space for any type of hub, and BNA has a 300lb behemoth that would make anyone else hubbing there fail. And there is not enough population in either to support the current service plus a hub.. I just can’t see it working out...
Jump to postI’m thinking that with Copa and Lufthansa arriving, would United need to expand their lounge? Air France has been there a minute now but with a larger plan, could Delta look at expanding their lounge? AA lounge is just too small also. Can they all just expand to about double the size? And somehow g...
Jump to postWhich airline would be the most likely to fly RDU-MBJ and RDU-PUJ ? Having RDU-CUN might mean that RDU could support flights to those Caribbean airports too. I think F9 flew MBJ and dropped it. Not sure about PUJ but maybe. So I would gander if any airline was to do it, it would be F9 again. Not se...
Jump to postI’m thinking that with Copa and Lufthansa arriving, would United need to expand their lounge? Air France has been there a minute now but with a larger plan, could Delta look at expanding their lounge? AA lounge is just too small also. Can they all just expand to about double the size? And somehow ge...
Jump to postTruly, RDU has moved itself into a great position. Internationally, I would say it is set for a nice little while. These routes need to mature. Domestically, the only holes I see are PDX and another SFO flight on United or someone else. Regionally, say in the NC/VA/TN/SC range, a nice regional airli...
Jump to postSo i guess the next question is, what will RDU do about the overhead signs coming into the airport. They are, to say the least, crowded now. Might I be the first to say it's time to get electronic signs or add a separate International Airlines sign? That would include Lufthansa, Bahamas, Air Canada...
Jump to postSo i guess the next question is, what will RDU do about the overhead signs coming into the airport. They are, to say the least, crowded now. Might I be the first to say it's time to get electronic signs or add a separate International Airlines sign? That would include Lufthansa, Bahamas, Air Canada,...
Jump to post2travel2know2 wrote:New route?
perhaps CM sees in RDU something that not many see.
that too. AA meanwhile are very used to W patterning the 772 that operates RDU Yeah, but it's extremely inefficient. I don't know how AA crews it, if they W the crew, or dead head them to RDU, or have a small base there. Either way, running any wide body Int'l flight between two non-hubs isn't effi...
Jump to postMy guess is that BA will be taking over the LHR flight. I might be in the minority with this, but i have flow AA business class out of RDU and BA business class out of MIA and honestly, AA business class is so much better than BA. BA is literally like a cocoon where AA is like a pod. But that may j...
Jump to postIt just makes no sense for it to be a European carrier. There frankly isn’t the demand to be able to upgrade to the a350 on AF, go to daily on Iceland, add 5x weekly Lufthansa flights, AND add another carrier The timing of the announcment seems to scream European carrier for summer. The dollar to E...
Jump to postEirules wrote:ERJ170 wrote:I’m gonna have 3 guesses: WestJet, Copa, Qatar
Gonna go out in a limb here and say it’s not Qatar…
There is room to grow at T1. But I think the way they added the 4 gates was ineffective. Yes, it’s a low cost terminal but it looks like an add-on instead of an addition. There needs to be room for shops and things to do down there and space to truly expand. But it’s just a lean-to added onto the te...
Jump to postSomething I found strange.. F9 just announced 6 routes from RdU and on the wiki page, they all show up as seasonal even though the newsreel from F9 doesn’t say if they are seasonal or not. But when I look at the destination wiki page for all these flight, they do not show up as seasonal flights. If ...
Jump to postFrom GSP to the West Coast? Do they even have currently any transcontinental flights? I don’t think breeze flies transcontinental. They have separate East Coast and West Coast operations. Breeze flies RDU-LAX and starting SAN so they do fly transcons. I think there are transcons from PVD and ORF al...
Jump to postSo, Air France has updated their flights as expected from a 787-9 to a 350-900XWB. But they also changed the daily date from 31Mar2024 to now going daily 03Jun2024. That's a big difference. Delta was pretty good at pulling up their daily schedule from where they initially announced, but AF is pushin...
Jump to postBTW, this is an overhead virtual video of what EWN will look like after the major updates to the terminal and runway extension is complete. The runway extension and added gate space with jet bridges may help sell the additional service on DL to ATL. The 6800' runway length will reduce weight restri...
Jump to posthas there been word of when shovels will start moving earth for the new runway? There was an official groundbreaking, but when does dirt actually start moving
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Finally! What we’ve been waiting for! According to Ishrion Aviation, Breeze will be adding flights between RDU & SAN in a 5-route expansion from SAN (who will also have flights to ORF, PIT, JAX, and CVG). Also being added to RDU; HPN. RDU-SAN will start off running Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday, wi...
Jump to postI think the SAN flight will be successful and though it’s only starting as 3x weekly, I could see it as moving to a 6x or daily flight. It’s one of those markets that could push Breeze to its first daily flight at RDU. But that’s one of my predictions checked off already. My next guess for Breeze wo...
Jump to postSan Diego is a daily route.. not a weekly route. Whomever picks it up at some point would be challenged to not offer it daily. But I digress. I’m sure it will come and like quite a few RDU/west coast makers, I believe they will be pleasantly surprised with the result. That’s how it was when LAX, SFo...
Jump to postI think introducing rail service would also be bifocal to those areas. I mean, it’s nice to be able to fly into New Bern when I go visit my parents, but the flight options are getting far and few between and the prices are skyrocketing… a train from RDU with stops through to Morehead City and Jackso...
Jump to postWhat I would like for DL to launch from RDU RDU-AMS (Lots of people have been wanting that) RDU-IND RDU-SAN RDU-MCI (a completely underserved market that WN barely flies and I would want to see DL launch a flight) RDU-PDX Anything else? ~Tolbs I would like DL to relaunch all previous destinations… ...
Jump to postSeen in another thread, but it looks like BNA and RDU are attempting to lure Aer Lingus. https://ishrionaviation.com/news/could-aer-lingus-add-raleigh-durham-or-nashville Sorta.. I think it was BNA said they were luring Aer Lingus and the stated it would likely be between BNA and RDU. But RDU has n...
Jump to postHere’s my prediction for EWN:
Additional CLT flight added
DCA summer flight continues
Long shot:
New entrant to MCO or ATL
EWNAA:
Terminal construction nears finalization
Additional hangars built
Parking fee increase by $1
New Year, same RDU. Prediction time! And here I go… AA - maybe 1 new route, some upguaging occurring mostly AS - still banking on SAN AC - upguaging to YYZ flights LH - starts but remains status quo for most of 2024 AF - goes 5x in winter instead of 3x SY - status quo MX - additional 2 routes, more ...
Jump to postIt should also be noted that Icelandair is also a connection hub and LHR/CDG/FRA are both a huge O&D and Connection hub.. so they can work.. but a 5th TA flight probably will be too much and I believe this massively. I think Central/South America is probably gonna be the next best option… but ju...
Jump to postAlthough have a Shamrock at T2 would be nice, I would love to see Copa and Qatar second and expanded international gates first… and maybe change 2 of the D gates to international capable by adding a walkway on the RJ side? Would that even be possible?
Jump to postThere's an absolute reason for Aer Lingus to come to either Charlotte or Raleigh/Durham. AA/One World is strong in both regions, which continue to grow their base population, and a say 8am or later arrival would offer continued network connectivity into Europe via Dublin. The reality is the RDU arr...
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