Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

AMS has issues that are beyond aircraft availability.

Re: Nashville Aviation - 2024

I love on the west side of town and the Memphis drive isn’t too bad because there is usually no traffic to fight. Smaller airlines have tried to make it work (Seaport, Southern) but it never lasts. BNA-MEM to work would theoretically need a CRJ with a hub on either end (like DL/NW did, so connectin...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

How many US airports have any nonstop service to India?

Re: Nashville Aviation - 2024

If WN adds MEM-BNA, it likely won't be because of air travel O&D.

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

The tech travel crash also affected RDU, and by extension DL's focus city routes. While there has been some recovery of tech-related travel, it's been by far the slowest segment of business travel to return to normal (and will likely never be back to 2019 levels). If there's been a business travel ...

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

To some extent that is true, but also not. RDU’s O&D is (or at least was) larger than Charlotte’s to Asia. Connections would help a bit, but knowing how expensive it will be from Charlotte, people would rather connect in DFW. CLT didn’t always have the best results to CDG while RDU’s service wa...

Re: Nashville Aviation - 2024

I didn't expect an appearance from the I-40 truthers this morning...

Re: Delta Air Lines Network - 2024

doulasc wrote:

I wonder how Delta's Austin hub will work out. Why didn't it workout for American?

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

The tech travel crash also affected RDU, and by extension DL's focus city routes. While there has been some recovery of tech-related travel, it's been by far the slowest segment of business travel to return to normal (and will likely never be back to 2019 levels).

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

Isn't there a SCASD grant for IAD-MOB?

Re: American Airlines Network - 2024

But is it worth wasting resources/aircraft on opening a new station though when they could’ve just bumped up SLC-DFW/PHX frequencies instead? I've seen it done before ... NW was famous for doing it ... When Independence Air landed in LANSING, MICHIGAN with 7 flights to IAD, NW set up operation with...

Re: Charlotte Aviation - 2024

Has construction on Concourse E disrupted any of the employee break rooms? I travel a lot through CLT, especially E, and in recent months have noticed a large number of personnel taking their breaks in the gate areas. It only adds to the feeling of desperation in the building. None of the E break r...

Re: Charlotte Aviation - 2024

Has construction on Concourse E disrupted any of the employee break rooms? I travel a lot through CLT, especially E, and in recent months have noticed a large number of personnel taking their breaks in the gate areas. It only adds to the feeling of desperation in the building.

Re: Rest of the Carolinas Aviation - 2024

Go to Southwest’s website. Look up GSP-BNA starting June 4th. **whistling** Can you just share the information here? Sure thing. GSP-BNA launching on June 4th once a day seven days a week with Southwest Airlines. Now bookable on their website and app. Thanks! Great news. I assume this comes at the ...

Re: Rest of the Carolinas Aviation - 2024

Lilj4425 wrote:

Go to Southwest’s website. Look up GSP-BNA starting June 4th.

**whistling**

Re: Rest of the Carolinas Aviation - 2024

AVL announces that north concourse steel framing and concrete slab decking has been completed on the terminal expansion and renovation project: https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2024/04/04/asheville-airport-announces-milestones-in-construction-of-new-terminal/73188695007/. Completion of...

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

I think the key is finding secondary LAX markets that either (a) don't have any nonstop service, or (b) have no existing ULCC service.

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Agreed. However airlines do not use dartboards to pick and choose routes. They have access to PDEW data from BTS. Airport Catchment Area demographics. And here is one I didn't know about but just found out Hotel check in data by Zip Code. This was used for an airline to offer seasonal service from ...

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Agreed. However airlines do not use dartboards to pick and choose routes. They have access to PDEW data from BTS. Airport Catchment Area demographics. And here is one I didn't know about but just found out Hotel check in data by Zip Code. This was used for an airline to offer seasonal service from ...

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Why not MDW? Breeze isn't doing that many big city alternate airports.

Re: Raleigh/Durham Aviation - 2024

Bentheswim11 wrote:

Midwestindy wrote:

Looks like DL is adding 2x RDU-PHX flights this Friday for the final four

Plus returns on Tuesday. They are using 737 & 757 going out, a320 and 757 on way back.

Re: Rest of the Carolinas Aviation - 2024

Going 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.. During peak demand they should be fine. But the combined population of Craven and Carteret counties is only about 170K. Onslow County ad...

Re: Rest of the Carolinas Aviation - 2024

So 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 w...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

Has anyone seen these adds of IAD-MKE? This route hasn't been served since the COVID cuts to my knowledge, and now there are 12 departures scheduled for July. Is there some sort of event in MKE during that week of July? All on E175 aircraft. 2x IAD-MKE on July 13 4x IAD-MKE on July 14 2x IAD-MKE on...

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

It is. All of breeze's new cities have incentives I mean, at this point in the Air Service Development cycle, there's virtually no route anywhere in the world that is launched without an incentive. Incentives can run from basic marketing dollars to fee waivers to full blown cash subsidies/MRGs. But...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Publix is headquartered in LAL, and they're expanding into new states lately. Not sure how much travel they do, but maybe something Avelo should consider or already has? PUBLIX does continue to expand out of Florida to the north .. no small company with nearly 250,000 employees systemwide ... PUBLI...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

Does anyone know if any of the loss of flights at ORD and SFO in particular are due to significant upgauging?

Re: Rest of Tennessee Aviation - 2024

Does CHA's proximity to BNA and ATL play any kind of role?

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

doulasc wrote:

I wonder how long PNS to TPA will last.Silver Airways flies that route.

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

TVC attracts rich people. Turns out there's a lot of rich people around HVN. It's a whole lot of airplane from an unknown area, but if it can survive the first year, I bet it will be a wild success the 2nd year as word of mouth and marketing fully take root. There's not many places in America that ...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

TVC attracts rich people. Turns out there's a lot of rich people around HVN. It's a whole lot of airplane from an unknown area, but if it can survive the first year, I bet it will be a wild success the 2nd year as word of mouth and marketing fully take root. There's not many places in America that ...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

If LAL works, it will be because of the originating traffic from Lakeland. I just don't see Florida-bound passengers preferring LAL over TPA/PIE or MCO/SFB. Having just passed along Route 4 from Tampa to Orlando last week, I disagree. Anyone heading to either area will not have much in the way of h...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

If LAL works, it will be because of the originating traffic from Lakeland. I just don't see Florida-bound passengers preferring LAL over TPA/PIE or MCO/SFB. The same thing was said 25 years ago about SFB - it was basically a strip where all the European charter carriers operated, but domestic was a...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

If LAL works, it will be because of the originating traffic from Lakeland. I just don't see Florida-bound passengers preferring LAL over TPA/PIE or MCO/SFB.

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024