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. I predicted it in the southwest thread about two weeks ago. Just a good guess on my part. Off the top of my head without lo...
Jump to postProtecting Air Tahiti Nui... I'm not sure how filing schedules for international routes works, but how/why does the Tahiti government have a say in what equipment DL uses on LAX-PPT? When you get to third world countries, the government actually sometimes make stupid request like this. Can’t be bet...
Jump to postI'll throw out Manchester, just because everyone thought it was a done deal last year, and I think the time to return there is right.
Jump to postIf it’s metal neutral and it’s a bloodbath why wouldn’t DL cut theirs if they could? They can redeploy that frame on a route that is more profitable and isn’t metal neutral JV share. I think they're still using the flight's LHR slot for an extra ATL-LHR flight. We don’t know where this slot is goin...
Jump to postIt appears the airport is just making more space for non-AA carriers so AA can take over the old original 1980s concourses. (Concourse A south, B and C) AA clearly has veto power against the new terminal and would try to block it and stick with the band aids that are being done to the current conco...
Jump to postCLT has issued a RFP for the final pier for Concourse A North ("Phase III"). https://www.charlottenc.gov/files/content/city/v/2/growth-and-development/doing-business/contract-opportunities/rfq-capiii/rfq-avia-24-21-concourse-a-expansion-phase-iii.pdf Yay! Let's just keep hacking more conc...
Jump to postCLT has issued a RFP for the final pier for Concourse A North ("Phase III"). https://www.charlottenc.gov/files/content/city/v/2/growth-and-development/doing-business/contract-opportunities/rfq-capiii/rfq-avia-24-21-concourse-a-expansion-phase-iii.pdf Yay! Let's just keep hacking more conc...
Jump to postCLT has issued a RFP for the final pier for Concourse A North ("Phase III"). https://www.charlottenc.gov/files/content/city/v/2/growth-and-development/doing-business/contract-opportunities/rfq-capiii/rfq-avia-24-21-concourse-a-expansion-phase-iii.pdf Yay! Let's just keep hacking more conc...
Jump to postI don't think United will be launching any new UK routes soon, but *surely* it would be EWR-MAN? It was 99% done for a Summer 2023 resumption, apparently. What stopped it happening? My guess would be one of two things: a) EWR was an unholy operational mess last year and they were leery about adding...
Jump to postNo, they just need to give GSP IAD back. Most of the cities that lost IAD service just shifted it to EWR. GSP was running both, so just lost IAD without a replacement. GSP and GSO are the two most obvious adds southbound from IAD; both were usually served 3x daily pre-COVID. Their absence sticks ou...
Jump to postthey need to move GSP, GSO, ILM, ITH, MEM, and a few others from EWR to IAD too. this is a good start though! No, they just need to give GSP IAD back. Most of the cities that lost IAD service just shifted it to EWR. GSP was running both, so just lost IAD without a replacement. GSP and GSO are the t...
Jump to postYou can have airports that close and still have successful hubs. RDU or BNA could easily act as a reliever airport for IAD and it’s still a good 250 miles apart. JetBlue has hubs in Boston & JFK and it works, Delta has hubs at JFK, LGA, and BOS. And the thing with IAD is that it’s more of an in...
Jump to postI think a beefed up, tightly banked IAD and IAH can cover VA, NC, LA, TX, AR, and to a certain extent MS and SC reasonably well vis a vis ATL/CLT. What's left is GA (wholly owned by DL), AL, TN, and FL. Beefing up IAD-FL operations makes a lot of sense, but I'm pretty sure adding a whole hub to cove...
Jump to postUnited resuming IAD? :ill: As craptastic of a terminal complex as the A/C/D facilities are, it's still infinitely better than the crapshoot of making connections at EWR, and to a lesser extent ORD (OMP has done wonders for reliability there). I would welcome a resumption of IAD service with open ar...
Jump to postGood guesses. WN to BNA is another possibility along with G4 to LAS. The other WN idea that comes to mind is DAL. I think they’d long since have been flying there were it not so gate constrained. Less likely would be MDW or STL, though I wouldn’t fall over in shock at either. If it’s Delta, I tend ...
Jump to postSome of the airports being mentioned in this thread as possible UA hubs--BHM, MEM, GSP, CAE (!)--have given me quite the chuckle. And both BNA and RDU are already capacity constrained. I would say that GSP is a little different than the others. It has the highest international business demand of th...
Jump to postAF333 BOS-CDG 5:15pm - 5:55am A350 AF335 BOS-CDG 8:05pm - 9:00am 772 AF312 BOS-CDG 10:35pm - 11:10am A350 Hopefully, the next one AF/DL adds to CDG is an Eastbound daytime flight. AF333 seems dreadful timing-wise. For some reason the ST bunch (DL/AF/KL/VS) seem bearish on daytime flights ex. BOS. V...
Jump to postWonder if BOS will see something new for S24.. they didnt seem to get much attention back in the September announcement. Maybe BOS-SNN with a domestic 752 for peak summer? unlikely. There had been an expectation that BCN would be launched and maybe BRU and a Germany flight as there apparently is da...
Jump to postaviator2000 wrote:Wonder if BOS will see something new for S24.. they didnt seem to get much attention back in the September announcement.
I did not have GSP-LAX nonstops on this year's bingo card-maybe either Frontier or Allegiant to LAS, but nothing to California. My gut says it's probably too long and thin to actually work, but it will be interesting to see how it does for sure. Nice to see GSP not getting lapped by AVL for a chang...
Jump to postI did not have GSP-LAX nonstops on this year's bingo card-maybe either Frontier or Allegiant to LAS, but nothing to California. My gut says it's probably too long and thin to actually work, but it will be interesting to see how it does for sure. Nice to see GSP not getting lapped by AVL for a change...
Jump to postEveryone's talking about the DTW cuts, but SLC going to less than weekly is disappointing to me. I've been wanting more longhaul from SLC, so frequency cuts on what we do have seems like a step back. Can someone talk me off the ledge here, or is this a bad sign? SLC punches well above its weight fo...
Jump to postIf it's Breeze, I'll guess GSP-PIT/CVG/TPA/MCO/LAS as what they'll fly, but I'd be hugely curious to see how GSP-LAX would do.
Jump to postI wonder if the long term end game will be that DTW-LHR eventually ends up as a 1x daily service but on an A350-1000. I actually feel like I get the rationale for the LHR move more than whatever the hell they’re doing with MUC. DTW-LHR is not that large a market (about the same size as MSP-LHR). DT...
Jump to postI wonder if the long term end game will be that DTW-LHR eventually ends up as a 1x daily service but on an A350-1000. I actually feel like I get the rationale for the LHR move more than whatever the hell they’re doing with MUC.
Jump to postflymco753 wrote:DL is cutting LHR down to a single daily flight next summer. I’d say BA is likely to add DTW since DL is likely allocating that slot elsewhere.
Word on the street is that GSP Airport will be announcing a new airline next week. This is why they are adding two new gates ASAP. Any thoughts on which airline it might be? My initial thought was Breeze. I honestly have no clue who it is. My guess would be Breeze or Sun Country. I do know GSP has ...
Jump to postMy prediction is that a SAS 321 with long legs will show up at DTW sooner rather than later. That's the right gauge for the flight, and should be sustainable in some form year round (perhaps not daily in the dead of winter). It shouldn't be too hard to fill with connections on both ends, and it's do...
Jump to postI'm still surprised that nobody has taken a stab at GSP-BOS yet. It's been rumored off and on for probably two decades (first in the days when Delta didn't know what to do with all of the CR2s they had), and yet it hasn't happened yet. I thought Delta would be the most likely to do it as a way to bl...
Jump to postWhat's going on with IAD and how does UA pick which cities get service to IAD vs EWR? ILM started service to IAD with E-145's which then switched to EWR on CRJ-550 then to E-175 during summer months. ILM is back to CRJ-550's but my question is still the same. Why the switch to EWR? I am aware that ...
Jump to postI don't think we'll see a whole lot of movement in this direction in 2024. Maybe a few adds/domestic feeds for the late TATL bank, but that's about it. Gates are full for the main afternoon push. Additional gate capacity won't come on line until 2026 when Tier 2 is set to open (and the UAX operatio...
Jump to postOne of the big things I'll be watching this year is what United does in terms of rebuilding IAD's feed network. It is a relief to see MWAA and United finally start to build Tier 2. One of my long term theories has always been that once IAD was fully built out (and if United puts serious fleet assets...
Jump to postATL has been and forever will be a giant vacuum sucking traffic away for any market in the eastern half of the USA for DL. That's by design. Even after rebuilding the core hubs, ATL will be DL's network priority. Many things have led to this. The sunbelt boom has driven the need for air travel in t...
Jump to postMy position on DTW is that it's held hostage to all of Delta's other priorities: Delta can't meaningfully cut back at SEA/LAX/BOS because they need to hold onto the gates long term. JFK/LGA is slotted and sucks up a disproportionate amount of Connection feed. None of the coastal hubs actually justi...
Jump to postMy position on DTW is that it's held hostage to all of Delta's other priorities: Delta can't meaningfully cut back at SEA/LAX/BOS because they need to hold onto the gates long term. JFK/LGA is slotted and sucks up a disproportionate amount of Connection feed. None of the coastal hubs actually justif...
Jump to postSure, but 3 ORD-LAX r/ts will take out 12-15 current in-perimeter LGA flights. For the last three years, small plane/thin route services have been constrained. First by lack of pilots to fly A220s with the 777/MD-90/MD-88 displacement bid, then A220 delivery delays which persist, 717 reactivations,...
Jump to postSure, but 3 ORD-LAX r/ts will take out 12-15 current in-perimeter LGA flights. For the last three years, small plane/thin route services have been constrained. First by lack of pilots to fly A220s with the 777/MD-90/MD-88 displacement bid, then A220 delivery delays which persist, 717 reactivations,...
Jump to postSome examples of AA trying to rebuild ORD (Again not to dominate, but to pre-pandemic levels). OMA goes to 5X daily with 2X being mainline. RDU goes up to 5X with 3 being mainline. BUF goes to 5X with 3 being mainline. MSP goes to 5X with 1 mainline. Even GRR, which hasn’t seen mainline on AA out o...
Jump to postPuissance, I'm going to suggest there's a different way to interpret the present situation where, as you note NK hasn't expanded F9 hasn't expanded (and sustained its expansions) WN hasn't expanded UA and AA haven't expanded Maybe DTW just isn't the great domestic O&D market a few posters so pe...
Jump to postSure, but 3 ORD-LAX r/ts will take out 12-15 current in-perimeter LGA flights. For the last three years, small plane/thin route services have been constrained. First by lack of pilots to fly A220s with the 777/MD-90/MD-88 displacement bid, then A220 delivery delays which persist, 717 reactivations,...
Jump to postWell, with the year drawing to a close, I think it's fairly safe to say that all of Delta's talk about core hub rebuilding this year was total and absolute crap. The banks are full of more holes than a giant block of swiss cheese, but hey! there's still plenty of Delta Connection capacity to go arou...
Jump to postHere are the Q2 2023 PDEW's out of MSP to the top contiguous U.S. markets traveled to from MSP that don't currently have any nonstop service out of MSP on at least a seasonal basis and that don't already have any nonstop service in 2024 flight schedules (Source: https://data.transportation.gov/Avia...
Jump to postThink of the problem Delta has to solve. They severed a critical organ 20 years ago with the dismantling of the DFW hub. It offered access to close to 15 markets that they have not been able to serve profitably since. And they have a JV with Aeroméxico that they only feed from more distant hubs. Th...
Jump to postWithin a 10 year term, I think the ceiling for AUS for DL looks a lot like....the old CO operation at CLE. 60-80 mainline flights to the hubs and big spokes combined with say another 60-90 Delta Connection flights to a combination of regional TX/OK/LA/AR destinations as well as some longer thinner ...
Jump to postIn the much longer term, with the exceedingly high costs of expansion at ATL, I could easily see the scenario where Delta would realize much more bang for their buck in dropping a billion dollars on a new terminal complex in Austin as their Texas hub than whatever they would get for the same amount ...
Jump to postI suspect Delta has made a long term strategic goal of building a full hub in AUS, to compete with AA in DFW and UA in IAH, as well as WN in LUV and HOU. They must believe that AUS will continue to grow to be able to support that level of operations over the next couple of decades, matching the Tex...
Jump to postI can sorta figure out the short term game DL can play with MFE (at least in the winter months)-use MSP as a very fat spoke for winter beach traffic down to places like South Padre Island, and anything else you get from O&D traffic and the other spokes is gravy. DL could try doing the same thing...
Jump to postAustin is by far the poorest performing domestic market for just about everybody. Way worse than Miami, LA, and Boston which are also garbage domestic markets because of too much competition but they are all larger by a huge nth factor. This will be fun. Agreed but there’s a bit of a distinction. T...
Jump to postName a DL station that is exclusively served from a focus city and not a hub besides what was just announced today. It’s almost like AUS is going to be.. a hub. Except this needs 20 more routes announced to fill 3 daily RJ’s from MFE. Sure there’s meaningful connections to AMS, LAS, BNA and MCO but...
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