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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2024

HSV has posted its February 2024 numbers: 115,326 total passengers, good for a 19.4% increase over February 2023. Year-to-date is 218,238 for a 11.7% increase. Ironically in a city of engineers, the HSV airport is lousy at math. YTD increase is actually 14.7% Credit to somebody who can actually do ...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

I’m not exactly sure what you’re talking about as far as looking for. Multiple day trips are just that, multiple days for the crews. Every transcon is a multiple day trip as the crews require rest, that’s for any airline. There are multiple day trips along the east coast as well where the crews lea...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

This is incorrect. The EJet does day trips minus the charter flying, but the A220 does multi-day trips. Thank you for the response, but I do not see any multi-day trips in the Breeze schedule though admittedly it is hard to research. If you can offer an example, that would be very helpful! Thank yo...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2024

MOB-IAD 2x Daily on United beginning on June 27. https://www.al.com/news/mobile/2024/03/mobile-getting-nonstop-flights-to-washington-dc-courtesy-of-united.html I assume both will be on RJ145s. It will be interesting to see how they manage the IAH frequencies. Flights are loaded and you are correct ...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Dumb question. Since Breeze's aircraft and crew return to the base at night, I expect that it is rare for the crew to stay at a hotel. Is this considered good from a quality of life standpoint, and does it save any significant amount of money on expenses for crew housing/meals and charges for parkin...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Lilj4425 wrote:
GSP to LAX, MCO, and BDL cut after Labor Day. No doubt seasonal routes. GSP to TPA and PVD get cut after Labor Day but return October 3rd with Sunday and Thursday service.

Also HSV-LAX ends after Labor Day.

HSV-LAS/MCO/TPA all continue through the new end of schedule.

David

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2024

Lilj4425 wrote:
HSV-LAX with Breeze.

Per several announcements, the service seems to be planned as summer only.

David

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Doesn't Breeze offer Breeze Thru from TPA and MCO to LAS via HSV? Ah, I only looked at service originating from Huntsville. At a glance, I do see those from TPA-XXX-LAS. Didn't see HSV on the day I looked but quite possible they have that on some days. It would make sense as the planes have to get ...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

HSV-LAX I'm sure they will offer some Breeze-thru options similar to that of their HSV-LAS. I took a quick look at a couple of dates. HSV-:LAS is a direct flight which spends less than an hour at LAS before returning, so I'm not sure what you mean here. HSV-LAX is published as a four hour and thirt...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2024

AA gave a presentation for BHM's Travel Advisory Group forum today. There were some good takeaways about their strategy. AA's focus at BHM in the near term is frequency to hubs and connectivity to as many destinations in one-stop as possible. They took pride in having the most daily departures out ...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2024

They mentioned that they want to see service to Chicago, Las Vegas, and San Diego and are trying to use the Port to draw that service. For what it is worth on the unserved markets, Mobile saw combined 2-way PDEW in Q3 2023 of the following mentioned markets: Washington DC 49; NYC 48; LA 39; Chicago...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2024

AL.com article with more and quotes linked here. https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/breeze-airways-to-offer-twice-weekly-flights-from-mobile-to-orlando-providence.html This article is behind the paywall, but I believe can be read for free on the al.com app: https://www.al.com/news/2024/01/how-mobile-i...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

BFM is where the US operations for Airbus is located. The city of Mobile has plans to build a new terminal there and is investigating moving all airline traffic to the downtown airport. Construction is underway, though costs are spiraling rapidly. MX can use the small temporary terminal. https://ww...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

Babyshark wrote:
Direct between military branch cities is a great play.

If Delta should see how it goes and then enter the market with 321s with the bigger name, better casm, and higher reliability.

IF DL has better CASM than MX, then the game really is over for MX.

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2024

Costs have increased from $252 million in late 2021 to $330 million in December 2022 to $380 million now.

That's 50% in right around two years. Seems like maybe it's time for some outside consultant or auditor to find out what is going on.

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

HSV has posted the October passenger numbers. October: 136,185 total passengers. That is good for a 21.7% increase over October 2022, and the highest month of 2023 and since the pandemic. For the year, HSV is now at 1,217,692 total passenger for a 18% increase over 2022 YTD. HSV has also surpassed ...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways applies to FAA to fly A220s from US to Ireland

The Narrow Body revolution is going to change the industry quite a bit. Good luck to Breeze on these flights. What revolution? Narrowbody aircraft have been crossing oceans for decades. This is nothing more than lighting investor capital on fire. Breeze has yet to fully establish itself as a domest...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

Jfermeee wrote:
Spendy airports.

Yes, MIA running around $20 CPE and FLL about half that.

PBI seems to run about $3 ish.

David

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

Correct. The numbers here are starting in either BHM or MSY, and ending at the other. So even in the lowest quarters pre-Katrina, there was an average of 115 going from BHM to MSY and back every day. WN did use MSY as a connection point though prior to the Wright Amendment expiring, which would exp...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

I agree…I probably should have included a “/s” at the end of my comment. While GPT is a decent destination with some nice casinos, I doubt many people from Vegas are drawn to the redneck riviera and will more likely be BreezeThru passengers to TPA. Maybe, maybe not. The Gulf coast in that area has ...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

Shared earlier in the thread, but here are the historic BHM-MSY numbers from when WN served the route. It shows a pretty definitive line pre/post-Katrina. Q1 2002-Q2 2005: Low 231, High 313 Q4 2007-Q1 2013: Low 120, High 225 (only 2 Quarters over 200). Didn't WN throw a lot of connections through M...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

HSV has posted August numbers. August: 130,920 total passengers. That is a 25.4% increase over August 2022. On the year, HSV is now at 947,869 total passengers, good for a 21.4% pace over 2022, and still on pace to reach and potentially exceed the 2019 highs. The 2019 high was 1,445,365. If the lin...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

nkops wrote:
Wasn't that their original idea at the beginning - to serve underserved markets?

Yes, but perhaps some of those markets were underserved for a reason?

David

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diverdave

Re: Korean Air donates 747 to Los Angeles museum

Note that the Wright glider is a replica. Wonder how much it will cost to clean and prep the 747 for display. Should be nice! Given the picture in the OP, looks like it's just the nose. You are correct, I found an article stating "the forward 50 feet of a Korean Air-operated Boeing 747 commerci...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

BTVB6Flyer wrote:
Shocked as well they chose PBG over BTV. Sure PBG is a handful of miles closer to Montreal, but also competing with G4.

I guess Avelo is BTV's now.

There might be some benefit to entering a market where at least some of the customers already have experience traveling with ULCC airlines.

David

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

Yes but the question is do people actually know the product is ‘night and day different’, do they even the former and its product exists. On that point, is it though? On the lowest fare tier what exactly is different, other than the aircraft? Breeze A220 is 30 inch pitch in coach. Spirit is 28 inch...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

To those saying Breeze isn’t doing enough marketing: I’ve just returned from a trip to New England and spent a couple days around Hartford and Providence. The most I saw about Breeze was a 30 second mention on a Providence news channel about a flash fare sale. There’s no billboards on any of the ma...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

Wow looks to be a hot summer for travel at BHM!

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

For the Breeze haters here is a review from SFGate.com. Took 20 minutes to check in, dirt around the seat, no wifi, and only one beverage/snack pass through the cabin flying SFO to MCO. Quite the horrific experience it seems. Even though the flight was smooth, on-time, and the seat was comfortable. ...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

CobaltScar wrote:
This airline is not long for this world. Slow A220 deliveries and a work force that is connected to social media and demands living wages will see to that.

Yet despite all of the contempt shown in this thread, Breeze has been operating now for two years.

David

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

Since when does MGM have cargo air service? I know that HSV,BHM,and BFM have cargo operations on multiple carriers. Again, my UPS friend tells me that MQM is UPS's air hub for Alabama. Can't find that documented anywhere. In the process of looking, I did find this list of top 100 cargo airports (ba...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

Posted this in the air cargo thread as well - BHM is adding international cargo flights in April 2023 in partnership with Kuehne + Nagel, "the first time Kuehne+Nagel is establishing a presence at a secondary airport in North America." Not sure of the operator, but my best guess is that t...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation - 2023

I doubt there is much, if any, leakage from BHM to HSV. If BHM folks are going to drive to catch a flight, they're going to go to Atlanta. There are just too many nonstop and time options in Atlanta to take the time to look at schedules and fares out of HSV. I agree. Leakage from BHM to HSV would b...

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diverdave

Re: Future of DL presence at CVG

kavok wrote:
I think what also gets overlooked in the whole CVG dehub discussion is that DTW never really became a significantly larger hub due to CVG’s demise. If anyone, ATL did. CVG’s “loss” was actually ATL’s gain, not DTW’s gain.

An excellent point, which IMO also applies to MEM.

David

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation Thread - 2022

https://www.flyhuntsville.com/huntsville-international-airport-statistics/ I was going to say that it is sad that our airport folks cannot add correctly as the YTD totals are plainly incorrect given the monthly numbers listed for 2022. But it turns out that they just quit updating the totals in July...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation Thread - 2022

Huntsville needs better lawyers negotiating their contracts if they're paying anything for a one-stop to Charleston via Orlando. If you read the previously liked article, you will see that the additional incentive is for HSV-MCO only, adding to the previous incentives for HSV-TPA and HSV-LAS. The i...

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diverdave

Re: United Considering Leaving JFK Again

SFOtoORD wrote:
This piece has been unclear whether they are losing their current slots or their current slots are moving to less viable times.

I had not read the entire thread, but I now see what you reference. Thank you!

David

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diverdave

Re: United Considering Leaving JFK Again

I'm just surprised by their stated timeline that they'd leave JFK by the end of October if they don't get more slots. That's only a month and a half away. I can't imagine any court or government agency moving that quickly. That could be read to mean that the current service is bleeding cash. David

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Based on the original Neeleman approach to the pilots at B6, unless he's changed remarkably in his sixth decade of life, I would not hold my breath. Now that the vote passed I wouldn't expect a pay raise for them until and unless there's a contract, or there's a massive attrition and hiring problem...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation Thread - 2022

Other BHM takeaways include LAS seeing minimal falloff with the discontinuation of the WN non-stop. Phoenix still holding on as a route that should support a once daily from either AA or WN. And if Breeze gets their act together, a large contingent of Breeze destinations that clearly support 4x ser...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Looks like Breeze convinced HSV to pay them $10k/month to not pull out. https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2022/06/huntsville-willing-to-pay-10000-a-month-to-land-low-cost-airline-service.html Wow that's pretty small change. After all, AirTran extracted in excess of a million dollars for service th...

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diverdave

Re: Capt 'Sully' Sullenberger quits ICAO ambassador role

GSPSPOT wrote:
I completely get that, but why did he accept the post in the first place then? That's my only question.

Could be that the position turned out to be more stressful and busier than he expected....

David

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion Thread - 2022

The A220 is a great aircraft, but it is still in its very early stages of airline use and the type rated pilot pool is shallow. No type-rated A220 captains with either DL or B6 would resign their more stable gigs to go direct entry into the left seat with MX for substantially less money. Come July ...

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diverdave

Re: Alabama Aviation Thread - 2022

So in exciting HSV news :), Breeze drops HSV-CHS in early September, though it had actually become HSV-TPA-CHS. (When I checked earlier it seemed the route was dropped in early July but now shows through September.) It is posted in the Breeze thread that HSV-TPA has good loads FWIW. Checking on Fron...

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diverdave

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Currently a 1-stop (Breeze thru) thru TPA. HSV-LAS also delayed until Sept. So current HSV schedule is 2x week TPA, with good load factors I'm told. Nearly all of us on this site are aviation enthusiasts and/or professionals with insight into the nuances inherent with a start up that operates less ...

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