Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2024

What happened after the "feel good break-up speech" is SkyWest later pulled down a bunch of EAS flying and Contour jumped on it.

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

DAB is now being marketed as Daytona Beach/Orlando when booked as a destination. So now you have Daytona Beach/Orlando, Orlando, and Orlando/Lakeland. They market Rochester as rochester/buffalo and Lansing as lansing/grand rapids. Long drive ????? Airport to *downtown* of the other city is an hour ...

Re: Charlotte Aviation - 2024

Put the open flames in E and let nature take its course.

10 years ago today!

If some of you want more help feeling old, ten years ago today the aviation world enjoyed the *very* not safe for work US Airways tweet.

If you remember, *YOU* remember.

My how time flies.

Re: Boeing says NO to returning to Seattle

All that stuff you just mentioned, triangle steps up into the #1 priority of any CEO - maximizing shareholder value. I'll just go out on a limb and guess you've never attended Investor Day or a Board of Directors retreat. You would lose half that bet. But that’s hardly the issue. Perhaps we can agr...

Re: Boeing says NO to returning to Seattle

The CEO's job is to maximize shareholder value. No, it’s really not. The CEO’s job is to manage the company for long term success. HOWEVER… CEO’s are human beings and like most of us they will do what they are paid to do. So if Boards of Directors put in place compensation plans that richly reward ...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Nothing wrong with not adding on to the house this year - focus on upkeep and renovating of the one they have now.

Re: How easy would a A350-2000/1100 be to develop?

Just cut to the ultimate chase here -- Airbus won't rest until they can send a passenger plane nonstop around the world.

Re: Boeing says NO to returning to Seattle

Hopefully the new BOD will move Boeing back to Seattle if the stock owners get no vote on this. The bosses need to be close to the factory floor to get the real picture. This is what Boeing did with program management at Everett, Renton and Charleston, the same should be good for the top leadership...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

A220HubandSpoke wrote:

Southwest also isn't very profitable as an airline but I digress.

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2024

WN is launching CVG-BNA. It's amazing IND-BNA is still not a thing with WN. Never say never but could not be a thing right now because it doesn't need to be. Nashville is a great funnel to Florida and right now, it's probably more along the lines of Southwest can fill up 150 or so seats with people...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

If I'm Southwest and I'm looking at the U.S. - I'm looking at Chicago and Dallas being tapped out. I'm thinking relying less on PHX and LAS for connections helps improve the bottom line a little bit. Geographically, DEN, BNA and BWI become great connecting centers in already strong markets with room...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Yes, lookas though ATL is getting a major trim and the resources are going elsewhere.
If the shift goes to Nashville, Baltimore, and further support of Denver, might not bode well down the road for STL.

Re: Boston Aviation - 2024

Well E10-12 are mainly BA, EK and LH due to lounges and aircraft. DL seem to be taking the new gates. (E13-16) B6 tend to get preferential treatment on E1-3 (C5-7) in the am I believe. Although have seen them on E4 too in the past 2. As FGITD notes above, certain gates can only take certain aircraf...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2024

Which gates will the OS flight and the SK 359 use in E? Thank you Except for E1 & 2 - aren't most gates in E common use? Although it seems a couple of carriers 'hang out' at some gates more than others. As mentioned earlier, E3 can handle a 767 - so perhaps that's where Austrian gets to go for ...

Re: Spirit to close ACY base, open new Northeast Base

B6SpiritofEWR wrote:

flight152 wrote:

Oh yes, swoop into that highly lucrative ACY market.

You have a lot of the wealthiest municipalities in the nation within an hour and a half of ACY, many of which would prefer to avoid EWR if at all possible.

Re: Rest of the Carolinas Aviation - 2024

sonnyr23 wrote:

Great to hear about the growth plan of GSP. Great part of the country to live.

Re: BA Livery. Time for a change?

BA recently celebrated its 50th anniversary quite quietly. The current “Chatham Dockyard” livery has now been about since 1999 and looked great back then but now surely needs a refresh. Personally I was disappointed not to get to fly in BAs final heritage 747s which were retired tragically early du...

Re: Boston Aviation - 2024

Decided to make a spreadsheet of all BOS international flights for the Summer 2024 season. The sheet includes airlines, destinations, departure time(s), frequency by day of week and aircraft type https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MMIbLYf94J0DScJ2BNKjjXvYGXWZJ-izTQRLOkRtCn8/edit?usp=sharing Ni...

Re: 2024 Eclipse Airline Traffic

No. If Cleveland was the only airport in the states where it'd be convenient to see a total eclipse - then yes. But it's not. There's a dozen or so substantial-sized airports and then another dozen if not two dozen airports within a reasonable amount of drive. Leave traffic where it is and just jack...

Re: 2024 NCAA Basketball Tournament Charters (Men's and Women's)

Well you've got spring break, MLB back in season, and the Final 4 and the NIT all happening at the same time so finding someone with a crew and a frame was probably a *real* fun process.

Re: Ever flown O&D between two hubs?

I've probably flown ORD-CLT or CLT-ORD 50 times and I've also flown a wide variety of WN flights that are arguably hub-to-hub. It's not as much different as you'd think. I wouldn't even say that there are necessarily noticeably fewer people hanging around baggage claim. With you on AA CLT/ORD and A...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Don't forget in the early days of Allegiant, under Levy's leadership particpation, Allegiant picked up some contract/vacation/charter flying as a way to bring in some more revenue for the airline. For a period in the early 2000s, there was a plane solely based at STL flying charters 5 or 6 days a we...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Good for them, would love to see it continue. I wonder if they would ever a contender for service to Portland - they seem to be launching a number of new services out of there, as well. Just throwing that out there.

A shame Sun Country is still asleep at the wheel at the moment.

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Could also pick up STL-PVR. Apple flew that and STL-HUX prior to covid and in 2022. Are these rumors coming from employees/airports or are they just from Enilria’s speculative post I think we may be taking a bit of a jump to say that HVN-STL summer flights were launched with the exclusive purpose o...

Re: 2024 NCAA Basketball Tournament Charters (Men's and Women's)

Well, someone is headed from Lafayette to Phoenix/PHX today on an Allegiant 320. Assuming it's the Purdue team ... could always be a fan charter, of course, but probably way too early in the week for that.

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2024

The comment references the cities and routes already announced - Dallas/Ft Worth, New Orleans, Philadelphia.

Re: The end of GE

frmrCapCadet wrote:

Those turbines power US naval ships are close cousins of aviation turbines, as I understand.

Re: The end of GE

So a stupid made up word that tested well when explained in focus groups but that no one know what it means? Brilliant! Anybody and everybody in power generation knows GE Vernova, so yes, it is brilliant. The company is so big that anybody and everybody in power generation would have know it no mat...

Re: Building a connection at a non-hub airport

I've seen AA offer this directly on their website a few times - most recent example being last year flying from Charlotte to DFW to catch Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks. $700 plus coach and beyond nonstop, but if I went through Knoxville on the way out, nonstop on the way back, it was $240 for biz. Yes...

Re: The end of GE

Vernova? Electric power generation. From Vernova website: “Ver” / “verde” signal Earth’s verdant and lush ecosystems. “Nova,” from the Latin “novus,” nods to a new, innovative era of lower carbon energy that GE Vernova will help deliver. So a stupid made up word that tested well when explained in f...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

AC4500 wrote:

Why is everyone so dead-set on WN having a major operation at DFW? Why would they want to make DFW as large, if not larger than their DAL operation?

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

The addition of the runway way back when will serve a purpose as a runway, of course, but in graeater, it's about the land acquisition and connectability which will serve the greater purpose.

Re: Airlines selling F upgrades cheap, undercutting Elite flyers

I remember AirTran offering at airport upgrades - often at a pretty good deal, once you got to the airport and into the gate area. Took advantage of that a few times. In the case of AA - received e-mail and texts as I was about to head to the airport last year when I had to do a Chicago trip for a f...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

The “need” for the airport has always been fabricated. STL well served the area for years. The driving distance is about 30 miles extra. Today at BLV there are only four flights—all to Florida. And the first flight is delayed 1.5 hours. If it goes mechanical you’re screwed. The East Side’s fascinat...

Re: Why could AA never dominate at JFK?

SDQ is a "VFR" airport, meaning "visiting friends and relatives". Punta Cana (PUJ) is a vacation destination airport. MCO probably has the most children of any airport in the United States, given that the area is Disney-centric. Money-makers? At times, yes. As for AA at JFK, I t...

Re: Avelo Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

New Haven to Lakeland is just step one going in a correct direction.

Good lord on the reactions here.

Re: Airbus CFO: We're not happy with the issues at Boeing