I heard the MKE - PIT has a much higher Load Factor ... but I do not have hard figures to back that up https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/contour-airlines MKE-PIT did run substantially higher load factors than the rest of the system, but nothing was exactly great. Contour ran 1 daily flight on each c...
Jump to postA quick run through Friday 6/14 (new summer schedule) and Monday 6/17 (old summer schedule) shows 20 fewer ATL flights, down from 108 to 88. This was done quikcly and corrections are welcome but it should not be far off. And I believe Fridays and Mondays are typically the same scheudle at WN these d...
Jump to postAnyone have any insight about this? Will be a big improvement for the E175 experience. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/united-becomes-first-airline-to-add-new-larger-overhead-bins-to-embraer-e175-aircraft-302099459.html Quick math -- if being able to take 29 additional bags is about an 80%...
Jump to postHas 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...
Jump to postLooks like Delta is flying a Madison-Boston nonstop in the first two weeks of June, operating Tuesday-Friday + Sunday. It's an E175 or a CR 9 if I recall. Anybody know what this might be about? It's not anywhere near the end of the UW term, nor is it time for the Epic convention which typically sees...
Jump to postI am slightly surprised they didn't just cut out MKE altogether too instead of just making it BOS only. I didn't think MKE was doing any better than MCI was. MKE yields have been hugely better than Kansas City -- this is average through Q3 2023, raw averages: Boston 18.14 cents per mile MKE 11.93 c...
Jump to postAll very true. One glaring example from that list of factors is the current arms race in Denver. At Milwaukee WN level of service there has never been higher, and especially during summer UA has also been unprecedented in the modern era. Pumping substantial connecting traffic through Denver keeps th...
Jump to postCan anyone find the PDEW ( including leakage ) from unserved markets out of MKE ... the numbers are eye popping, I ran across it several months ago, but can no longer find it I don't recall seeing anything like that -- I'd love to see it as well! A few years back I crunched a whole lotta numbers wh...
Jump to postHere's some firmer info on how California to the Midwest has been slow to recover their nonstop flights since the pandemic Percent change in nonstop departures to California from select Midwest non-hub cities, first 11 months 2019 vs 2023. (2023 is only available through November, so this is a Jan-N...
Jump to postI’m surprised nobody serves Milwaukee. I believe there's some leakage to ORD Substantial leakage.. Q3 daily passengers each way to the LA Basin averaged 348 in the eight years from 2012 through 2019. So at only 232/day each way that's a full 1/3 of the typical pre-pandemic market (348) lost to Chic...
Jump to postSpeaking of Southern Airways Express, they just launched a new website. Looks a lot nicer than the old one, IMO. The interface when looking up flights and comparing options was made a lot better too. https://www.iflysouthern.com I like the message on the welcome page: THE LARGEST COMMUTER AIRLINE I...
Jump to postSY at EAU isn't really relevant. It's a one off that happened because there was nothing better on the table at the time. Clearly not the case at PQI. If I were a betting man, I'd say EAU reverts to type next time that contract is up for renewal. This is not true. Boutique and Southern Airways Expre...
Jump to postFor a quick analysis - JetBlue is the cheapest option and provides the most seats. I honestly think that they're most likely to get it. American wants $17 million per year for 12x weekly 50 seat service, United wants $13 million per year for 12x weekly 50 seat service, Boutique wants $12 million pe...
Jump to postUnless PQI is scared off by one flight per day I can't imagine them not pushing hard for JetBlue, especially if commit to a orginator. Boston is the market they've consistantly wanted and nobody except Delta (who pretty much hasn't been permitting new DL* EAS in years) offers a broad set of connecti...
Jump to postNo Manchester flights appear bookable after May 7th on their website.
Jump to postA few very recent MKE notes -- though this thread gets a lot of MSN and ATW there's no separate MIlwauke one: --Spirit just added MKE-TPA for March into early April (4x per week) --Fronteir is adding MKE-RDU and MKE-:PHL starting in mid May (3x/week) --Alaska just extended the period of double-daily...
Jump to postWould love to see what MBL could put on jets to O'Hare. In 2011/early 2012 when Frontier Connection had the EAS contract and flew 37-seat ER3 on MBL-MKE they averaged about 35 enplanements per day (12 flights per week so roughly 55%) with summer peak periods running 85%+ full. Cape's been running ab...
Jump to postAn internal memo described MKE-JFK as being suspended seasonally rather than dropped, but that can't be known for certain until it starts showing up in the scheudle again. Their booking window is only to 12/27 right now so it will probably be a few months until we see a return date. Separately I was...
Jump to postThis is fascinating info, thanks so much for sharing. The 2am 747s to/from JFK & MSP always baffled me. I wonder what kind of loads those flights saw, and what it was like at the A concourse in the middle of the night. Also, didn't Air Canada fly charter 747s for a time during the mid-80s? Didn...
Jump to postUpdates: Extra flights from Boston to seven Caribbean BlueCities, plus new Paris service Extra daily flights on FLL-NAS, JFK-CDG, JFK-KIN, JFK-PLS, JFK-PUJ, and SJU-STT Daily service from JFK-ANU New BlueCities in Tulum (TQO), Dublin (DUB), and Edinburgh (EDI) Boston-Baltimore will end on May 1, cl...
Jump to postIs this actually anytihng new for Southwest? --If you want to *ensure* an empty seat you can buy more than one. And that suggests if they are full you'll not get an additional seat or two. --They will assist moving other customers if you need extra space. They are open seating so this is a matter of...
Jump to postI commuted for a while from RNO, and occasionally had to do a 2-legger through LAS. WN has 11 (checking 12/18 flights) a day from RNO- LAS. I got a lot of comments like, “why don’t you just drive it? What is that 2, or 3 hours?” It’s a long drive, which surprises some people. The explanation I got ...
Jump to postFort Myers is seeing a big drop going into peak spring break (March) versus February.
Nonstops to BUF, DTW, MKE, MSP, ISP and SYR are all ending,
I think all that's left of RSW are multiple daily to CLE, CVG and PHL and three or four per week to DEN, GRR and TTN.
Neglecting work and poking around the new Frontier schedule, there might well be signs of the new scheduling strategy. Again, it's not like there were *zero* aircraft and crew originating at crew bases doing out-and-back scheudling, but it looks like they are indeed expanding that in this new scheud...
Jump to postNew schedule is out on F9's website. I'm seeing (so far) plenty of very early AM departures out of crew base cities, however it's not like there are zero fo those today. I believe some crew bases were already seeing more out-and-back scheduling prior to this point, so it's not yet clear if this new ...
Jump to postFrontier has ten existing crew base cities per their website: https://news.flyfrontier.com/corporate-stats--facts Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia/Trenton, Phoenix, Tampa If you consider MIA+FLL jointly as they do PHL/TTN and ORD/MDW, they are the ...
Jump to postSAN-MKE is also a new Saturday addition which for some reason didn't make the press release nor is it shown on the updated route map. However it's there each Saturday:
WN 4377
1355 MKE
1605 SAN
WN 472
1210 SAN
1810 MKE
Anybody know of Alleigant's outlook? Allegiant is less of a bottom-feeder than Frontier or Spirit, and maybe part of the deal is F9 and NK just aren't finding much fertile ground as they once did bouncing from market to market as they (especially Frontier) do.
Jump to postT100 onboard stats for July just came out and we can see by market how the Red Way service did with onboard loads. July was pretty much mid-stride for them -- all markets had at least a few inaugural trips under their belt. 69.6% (104.4 passengers per flight) Orlando 55.8% (83.7 passengers per fligh...
Jump to postBring back MSN-SFO and MSN-LAX. It's a huge gap in the network, considering that WN pulled out of MKE-OAK, there are now zero flights between WI and the entirety of the west coast. It was actually MKE-SFO but you're right that MKE currently has no nonstop flights to California. There is daily SEA s...
Jump to postDoes anyone have any knowledge how B6 is doing in MKE? I do know that their passenger numbers have been rising, but I'm also aware that doesn't always equal profitable. I wish they'd add more flights; it's been stuck on 1 daily to BOS and JFK since they began their service. I'm surprised they don't...
Jump to posthttps://www.jsonline.com/story/travel/2023/09/25/milwaukee-airport-passenger-traffic-grows-in-2023-what-to-know/70903848007/ Not super surprising IMO, but MKE traffic numbers continue to grow, which is good news. Link above. It's a little funny that the Journal Sentinel would publish this (talking ...
Jump to postAny adds (back) for MKE? For the longest time, we've been down to just MCO and LAS (both daily I *think*). Fort Myers is back for the winter starting in November -- current schedule has daily to MCO, LAS and RSW. The current schedule only runs until early March and it's not impossible they add a ci...
Jump to postSaw a 737 (couldn’t tell which variant) parked in the Skywest hangar at MKE Monday night. MKE seems to only get DL 717 and Airbus aircraft. Any idea what this aircraft was doing there? Two likely possibilities: --Republican presidental debate #1 taking place today in Milwaukee -- could be a related...
Jump to postIndividual airport reports can give us an early snapshot of how well they are filling seats. Atlanta, Minneapolis and Orlando are out for June so far. Atlanta 529 passengers on 10 total flights in June 2023 52.9 passengers per flight, 35.3% full @ 150 seats Minneapolis 332 passengers on 10 total fli...
Jump to postAmerican will run a daily A319 on MKE-MIA from mid December until early April. Here's hoping this is successful and ultimately runs through the year.
Jump to postYes I did fly in there once but I need a car when I get there anyway so I usually fly to STL and drive the 2hrs 20 minutes, Its usually faster then waiting for the connection and flying into Decatur anyway. I very much like Decatur and even think about moving there and hope they can keep air servic...
Jump to postNot seeing anything new or especially noteworthy out there with the new schedule so far. Not a big surprise. The only things of any note so far I've seen are: (1) this release has widespread frequency trims on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Certainly not *new* but summer and fall rollouts seemed to have a...
Jump to postAmerican is starting twice.daily nonstops from MIlwaukee to Washington DC with 65-seat dual-class CR7, complementing Southwest's twice-daily 737's. I was excited about the added flights until I read what type of aircraft it will be on. Now if only AA would make MIA-MKE daily. That would make it a m...
Jump to postAmerican is starting twice.daily nonstops from MIlwaukee to Washington DC with 65-seat dual-class CR7, complementing Southwest's twice-daily 737's.
Nice to see a little competition in this market for the first time in quite a few years. Hopefully they are both successful...
Maybe they figured it would take too many coats of white paint to obscure the Spirit yellow. Does Kilz come in an aircraft primer version??
Jump to postHere's last year's average local fares for JetBlue on the MCI/MKE - BOS/JFK routes. $166.17 MKE-JFK $157.48 MKE-BOS $150.90 MCI-JFK $150.51 MCI-BOS Because stage lengths are substantially longer to MCI (about 45-50% farther than MKE) the cents per mile yield differences are more pronounced: cents p...
Jump to postHere's last year's average local fares for JetBlue on the MCI/MKE - BOS/JFK routes. $166.17 MKE-JFK $157.48 MKE-BOS $150.90 MCI-JFK $150.51 MCI-BOS Because stage lengths are substantially longer to MCI (about 45-50% farther than MKE) the cents per mile yield differences are more pronounced: cents pe...
Jump to postSun Country Airlines (US) will resume flights from Minneapolis-St. Paul to St. Maarten on from 13 January 2024, and is expanding service out of Milwaukee, including to Cancun in March 2024. Source Aviator News Letter They flew CUN-MKE this March too. Glad to see it's coming back for another season ...
Jump to postI always wondered who thought rebranding Allegheny as USAir but leaving the regional partners as Allegheny Commuter was a good idea. This was the case from 1979 up until around 1989 when USAir Express was finally introduced. Allegheny was looking to shed the long-standing "Agony Airlines"...
Jump to postPossible that i misunderstood what the Hiring manager - Supervisor had told me about mainline. Appreciate the information on the aircraft types for July. Might have meant that Milwaukee- Newark is going all-mainline this fall, replacing the typcial Embraers. And this is planned and for sale as such...
Jump to postIn theory DAC could set up shop in BIL and operate this contract. But lest anyone think these airports woudl be better served by flights to DEN that was tried by Great Lakes and it devisated boardings at these airports. In addition to the fact that a solid portion of the traffic at these airports i...
Jump to postDOT has sent out an RFP for the Montana cities of Glasgow, Glendive, Havre, Sidney and Wolf Point. Currently Cape Air serves all these cities into BIL-Billings, Montana DOT Source: https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOT-OST-1997-2605-0261 Notes: By this Order, the U.S. Department of Transportatio...
Jump to postjplatts wrote:(a) WN has not yet resumed HOU-MKE nonstop service,
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I don't get why they thought the need to bring it up on social media. To me putting this on social media was where the ego and hubris comes in. Plenty of other people would have had a similar reaction to the FA telling them to clean up the popcorn, but they would have rolled their eyes and complain...
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