Re: iAero Group files bankruptcy

In the STL thread we were chatting about the Blues using NP. Looking at the seat maps, I am sure the teams preferred the iAero VIP config over these ex AA 752s

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Jshank83 wrote:

January international loads

WN CUN 94.3%
F9 CUN 75.5%
LH FRA 71%
F9 PUJ 67.23%
AA CUN 58.5%

AC YYZ- numbers way off so I am throwing them out. They would be like 3%

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

I just got home from STL and getting onto 70 a memory popped into my head from my youth. A plane crash that happened in 1984. A scene that I saw the following morning driving our duck club in Portage Des Sioux. I have no idea why it popped into my head, as I don't remember much about it, other than ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Jshank83 wrote:

Load for Lufthansa in March (customs numbers)
Inbound 96%
Outbound 83%
Combined 89.74%

Foreign 32.5%
USA 67.5%

Re: Caribbean Aviation - 2024

No surprise, questions are being raised about KX's poor loads on it's BGI-GCM route. ******* Barbados route questioned as low passenger counts revealed Cayman Airways CEO: Route is 'viable' By Reshma Ragoonath -April 9, 2024 Cayman Airways’ Barbados-Cayman route has averaged just 34 passengers a fl...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

random change to the southwest site I noticed today. Nonstop flights now show up bright orange when the flights are listed. Helps make them stand out. Nice change. I still get the same small aqua box that says NONSTOP Interesting. Mine used to all have the same grey box as 1 stop or 2 stop. Now it ...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Jshank83 wrote:

random change to the southwest site I noticed today. Nonstop flights now show up bright orange when the flights are listed. Helps make them stand out. Nice change.

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Seems odd they'd move from one airline that went bankrupt to another that's hanging on by a thread. Perhaps they just need something for a couple weeks to finish out the season then can negotiate something with one of the majors in the offseason. Were iAero's 737s in a typical 3-3 config? I'm assum...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

iAero did conduct the Blues flight from BNA-SJC, but does anyone know who they used leaving SJC to Anaheim? I would assume SNA, but not seeing anything. EDIT - Found it. iAero did it from SJC - LGB https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/SWQ2366/history/20240407/0200Z/KSJC/KLGB New pacific coming h...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

iAero did conduct the Blues flight from BNA-SJC, but does anyone know who they used leaving SJC to Anaheim? I would assume SNA, but not seeing anything.


EDIT -

Found it. iAero did it from SJC - LGB

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/SWQ2366/history/20240407/0200Z/KSJC/KLGB

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

stl07 wrote:

They might just bus them over

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

With iAero ceasing operations, looks like the Blues will have to find a new charter operator, and pretty quickly too. They're supposed to leave for Nashville this afternoon: https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/SWQ2364/history/20240403/1900Z/KSTL/KBNA I dont see any inbound aircraft either. Memo...

Re: iAero Group files bankruptcy

It looks like they are moving some airframes to storage already.

https://www.flightradar24.com/SWQ9458/349e5a38

https://www.flightradar24.com/SWQ9285/349ee81b

St. Louis Blues are scheduled to leave soon (STL-BNA), but I have not found any inbound aircraft.

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

February numbers for STL Nice jump over last February. Passed the 15 mil passenger mark over the last 12 months! Hit 1 million passengers each of the last 12 months. Up 9.6% vs Feb 2023 Up 7.5% YTD vs 2023 Down 2.1% vs FEB 2019 Down 4.9% YTD vs 2019 Passengers last 12 months: 15,029,593 https://www...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Not necessarily in the greater scheme of things - if anything it is good to put down a footprint for generations to build. One of the biggest challenges facing this country in the next upteen years or so is the lack of infrastructure infrastructure (yes, typed twice on purpose) for development and ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Frontier opened their schedule into early January. PHL/PHX stay 4x a week thru the entire thing. Although that Saturday STL-PHX flight that is going to run midnight to 2 am... yikes I wonder if the C food and bev places will extend hours to accommodate this? The website shows Schlafly and Chili's &...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

SweetAction wrote:

Anyone heard an update on 12R/30L? Last I heard the concrete wasn’t grooved right so it won’t pass FAA inspection.

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Pizza vending machine that cooks in 3 minutes? How much to install one in a living room? Asking for a friend... https://assets.katomcdn.com/q_auto,f_auto,w_500,dpr_2/v1522874466/products/589/589-HHD95001/589-hhd95001.jpg The TurboChef! And she can be yours for a cool $16k Sitting at the gate having...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

It will be a Pei Wei. Starts after Shake Shack is done Pizza oven looks like it has gone in at the crushed red spot. It will be one of those pizza vending machines where it cooks it in 3 minutes after you order it. Also has hot cookies. Should be a good addition with CPK and pasta house on the way ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

AUS was 55% for reference. SAN I didn't do the numbers but it is in the same ballpark based on total passengers. Feb is just a huge dip compared to other months. Agreed. While I don't have numbers, I used to travel extensively between IAH and FRA/MUC on LH/UA and remember almost empty A330's in Feb...

Re: United 737 off runway at IAH

Looks like this is a another MAX incident. https://abc13.com/bush-intercontinental-airport-flight-evacuated-united-issues-houston-passengers-evacuate-plane-iah-landing-problems/14503758/?ex_cid=TA_KTRK_FB&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+New+Content+%28Feed%29&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Five returning flights start today. Southwest-San Francisco, West Palm Beach, Panama City Spirit-Fort Lauderdale Allegiant-Jacksonville SFO, West Palm Beach this is the first flights since covid Fort Lauderdale on Spirit last flew May 2022 Really big to have SFO back after 4 years. Now WN is back t...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

If southwest is legitimately (I’ll believe it when I see it) considering a codeshare, we could easily position ourselves to benefit from it. Especially if it is with FI/play/Norse/porter Is this something that is actively being considered? Interesting if so. I think the last one they had was with V...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

If southwest is legitimately (I’ll believe it when I see it) considering a codeshare, we could easily position ourselves to benefit from it. Especially if it is with FI/play/Norse/porter Is this something that is actively being considered? Interesting if so. I think the last one they had was with V...

Re: Significant DEN Diversions

STL will go from 81F to 22F overnight. It should be fun.

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

stl07 wrote:

And a more importantly, a drinks station from the look of it!

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Wasn’t mbj having trouble? Loads were 52% for 2023. It was its first year. Maybe year two is looking better? Maybe they will run more 320s and less 321s PUJ made pretty good jumps each year after it started 2021 65% 2022 73% 2023 85% Hitting Bayahibe in three weeks, and we are on the WN direct to P...

Re: Icahn Takes 9.9% Stake in JetBlue

SEU wrote:

For those who don't know, why is this deemed a negative thing?

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Customs numbers for LH in Jan 74.5% load. Missing last outbound for the month. Should be around what it was last January. Might end up a tick higher. 41% foreign nationality on board. That is probably about the highest I have seen but I guess makes sense because it is probably a low month for vacat...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Customs numbers for LH in Jan 74.5% load. Missing last outbound for the month. Should be around what it was last January. Might end up a tick higher. 41% foreign nationality on board. That is probably about the highest I have seen but I guess makes sense because it is probably a low month for vacat...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Jshank83 wrote:

Supposedly G4 is adding BLV-TYS

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

stl1326 wrote:

Anyone know if they are still moving forward with the Southwest baggage claim expansion in T2? Haven’t heard anything about that in a while

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Nice to see AC doing advertising on Bally’s with the dashboard digitals promoting the nonstops to Montreal. First airline I have seen doing this during TV broadcasts.

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

When they re-open D, I pray the purple carpet is still on the ceiling and walls.
[photoid]Lambert St. Louis Intl. Airport: Concourse D by TheElevatorChannel, on Flickr[/photoid]

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

F9 doesn't have the greatest track record on being the 3rd carrier on routes out of STL. MCO,LAS,DEN & CUN have been around for years but all of the others have failed. Given the shift in F9's business model, I wouldn't be surprised if these routes have more staying power, and return next summe...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Repurposing the garage as a consolidated rental car facility would make a lot of sense, especially if they could work with Bi-State to increase rail frequency between Terminal 1 and Terminal 2. That would have some costs but would also avoid the need for busses, so I'm not sure it would be a net co...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

First time I’ve seen actual suggestions of what they will do with T2 Hamm-Niebruegge: We identified different potential repurposes for it, including a boutique hotel, business center, putting all airport administration offices there, offices for concessions, vendors, airlines. We don't think there'...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

So I just got a notice from a co-worker that LH is going to cancel our return flight home on Wednesday. We are in Amsterdam and connect to FRA to come home. Anyone know what's up? It's a day ending in y, so German airport workers are on strike: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uni...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

strangeplanes wrote:

Met a German man at Wingstips who is going to launch an agri-business in the region. Frequent flier on LH FRA-STL. Having a direct flight was important to their site selection

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

So I just got a notice from a co-worker that LH is going to cancel our return flight home on Wednesday. We are in Amsterdam and connect to FRA to come home. Anyone know what's up?

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Those actually look really nice! But also quite thin. What other airline uses this type of seat? Are they comfortable? I feel like WN is going to increase density with this type of seat. Not a positive development. I don't see it changing. It can't be that much different than their newest seats now...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Final numbers for STL are out for 2023 Total Passengers: 14,886,000 Up 8.9% over 2022 December was up 15.6% over December 2022 Down 6.3% Vs 2019 December was down 6.7% vs Dec 2019 https://www.flystl.com/uploads/documents/public-notices-and-reports/2023-CY-Air-Traffic-Activity-Report-FINAL.pdf It is...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

The reality is if there was / is sufficient demand they would have / will increase the flights. My guess is this is primairly a flight performance issue. Every STL supporter needs to keep in mind that loads were, what, high 80's, with 20 some passengers connecting on junk yields per flight? Hopeful...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

STLflyer wrote:

There are pipe dreams, then there's GRU.

I think we'll get a non-stop to Asia before we get GRU. And I don't think we'll ever get a non-stop to Asia.

Re: BUR replacement terminal construction begins

CarlosSi wrote:

Goodbye to the hard stand gates! Never flew there but have been a fan. This will be better.

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Kind of STL related, that J-32 that crashed in Ft. Smith, NWT Canada, was an ex-TWE bird from Trans States.



https://avherald.com/h?article=51411802&opt=0

Re: Ameriflight Beech 99 crashes at MHT

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/n53rp#33c14d62

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

It doesn't even matter imo. The route will be gone before the summer is over These LCC's shoot themselves in the foot with awful flight times. Who wants to sit around until 11:30pm in a deserted terminal for this flight and only to arrive in PHX in the middle of the night. Also, NK is bringing back...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024