Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

No new routes for MKE but +11 daily departures from last year October, about a 58% increase. 2023 will see 30 per weekday versus 19 last year. 2019 October was 33/day so it's not complete recovery yet, but with a higher diet of 175-seat aircraft in MKE total capacity should be about 94-95% of 2019....

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

MSP-LAS goes daily

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Southwest’s new Long Beach nonstop routes Albuquerque: Daily flights begin Sept. 5. Colorado Springs: Daily flights begin July 11. El Paso: Daily flights begin July 11. Kansas City: Daily flights begin March 9 (previously announced). Orlando: Seasonal, Saturday-only flights begin July 15 (previousl...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

I have seen job postings for all the work groups for MSP at least twice in the last couple months so i take that as a sign that they plan to increase flights there to Pre Pandemic level. Only speculating. What flights are we missing at MSP from southwest that were served pre-pandemic? MSP-OAK is th...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation - 2023

SESGDL wrote:

rainaviation2 wrote:

Bye Air France

Our airport gets more and more boring. Fewer airlines, fewer flights, a lot less variety in aircraft types. Sadly the glory days of being an aviation enthusiast have slowly come to an end…

Jeremy

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

Delta is adding and/or resuming service from MSP almost entirely in response to SY's additions for the summer. New routes are as follows: Burlington, Vermont (BTV): 3x weekly, June – August Richmond, Virginia (RIC): Daily, starts in June Harlingen, Texas (HRL): Daily, February – April Colorado Spri...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

This is impressive... I like to see more than just SY and DL adding in MSP. Now if they would just bring back that Orlando service... Honestly, they could probably swing a daily LAS, MCO. NK left MSP-MCO, so why not? They used to serve OAK and HOU as well. Those two would get us back to "norma...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

AUS 1 BNA 1 BWI 2 DEN 8 MCI 1 MDW 8 PHX 1 STL 2 This is impressive... I like to see more than just SY and DL adding in MSP. Now if they would just bring back that Orlando service... Honestly, they could probably swing a daily LAS, MCO. NK left MSP-MCO, so why not? They used to serve OAK and HOU as ...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

AUS 1
BNA 1
BWI 2
DEN 8
MCI 1
MDW 8
PHX 1
STL 2

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

Southwest schedule extension today. This only covers July 11-Aug 14. Here is the MSP impact. Previous post mentioned the SRQ seasonal, saturday-only. Added 1 BWI and subtracted 1 MDW. One flight to MCI has returned as well. In total, mid-week, 24 flights to 8 cities. 16 of those flights are to MDW/...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

Southwest schedule extension today. This only covers July 11-Aug 14. Here is the MSP impact. Previous post mentioned the SRQ seasonal, saturday-only. Added 1 BWI and subtracted 1 MDW. One flight to MCI has returned as well. In total, mid-week, 24 flights to 8 cities. 16 of those flights are to MDW/D...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

MCI-MKE/MSP are back MCI-DEN up to 8x daily MCI-LAS up to 5x daily Additional MSP info. Added 1 BWI and subtracted 1 MDW. In total, mid-week, 24 flights to 8 cities. 16 of those flights are to MDW/DEN. DAL is Sat/Sun only. Still a ton of connection routing through MDW/DEN, but seems MSP is working ...

Re: Sun Country - News and Discussion Thread - 2022

I'm not understanding the correlation with MLS teams and these new routes. Are they going to be mixing the teams and regular passengers on flights to MSP? More than likely they’re selling tickets on what would have been the inbound repositioning flight, doing the charter, and then selling the repos...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

As discussed in the Sun Country Airlines Thread... Looks like the airline is announcing a major seasonal expansion out of MSP for next summer with 13 new twice-weekly flights out of MSP. https://ishrionaviation.com/news/sun-country-major-route-expansion Some of those are interesting, with no compet...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

With this schedule extension, MSP goes up to 23 daily flights to 7 cities, with 17/23 to MDW/DEN.

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

Antoli0794 wrote:

What routes DL are still missing from MSP? O&D is increasing but connecting traffic is decreasing.

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

I had zero expectations this schedule release would contain much. For my MSP home airport, a loss of one daily DEN flight to drop to just 16 daily flights covering 7 cities. Here’s hoping for planes and flight crews so we can ramp back up n 2023. What was MSP pre Covid because it’s seems like your ...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

I had zero expectations this schedule release would contain much.
For my MSP home airport, a loss of one daily DEN flight to drop to just 16 daily flights covering 7 cities.
Here’s hoping for planes and flight crews so we can ramp back up n 2023.

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

It looks like the schedule extension was pushed a week or so to June 16. I'm wondering if the MAX 7 approval is close and they want to hold off to include it in the schedule instead of adding it in after the fact as it includes Christmas-New years? It was always June 16th for awhile ? It has fluctu...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

The ribbon was cut on the 16 gate expansion at DEN yesterday, it will be operational in June. While there are more details about the expansion in the Denver thread, there were plans given for the growth of Southwest in DEN. This spring they are currently at 230 departures, that grows to 250 during ...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Let’s hope we see at least some frequency increases in the update I doubt we get new adds but who knows maybe a few. MSP down to 17 departures to 7 cities. I know Sept/Oct are quite slow, but this is a continued drawdown, with the main focus at MDW/DEN as though it was 2009 again. September is slow...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Wneast wrote:

Let’s hope we see at least some frequency increases in the update I doubt we get new adds but who knows maybe a few.

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Sounds like summer cuts are coming. Is this staffing related? I just saw a news report last night that bookings are at pre-pandemic levels now, so I can't see low bookings being the cause. My understanding is that it's (at least primarily) because of higher fuel costs In other words, airlines can s...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Jshank83 wrote:

Sounds like summer cuts are coming.

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

I just noticed that AC is launching MSP-YUL starting June 2nd. . It doesn't seem to have been announced anywhere but it is in the schedule - a 1x daily CR9. I guess that is why AC has their own gate now (E3) instead of sharing with UA as they've done for the last 25 years. UA still seems to be doin...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion Thread - 2022

WN route predictions for the new year ? Not much until the 737-7 is certified. WN is going to be dropping the following routes in June 2022: DAL-SDF/MSP DEN-CLT/RIC HOU-CVG/DTW/MKE/MSP TPA-RIC DCA-JAX IAD-MCO WN will also be reducing DEN-CVG/GRR/BDL/JAX/ORF nonstop service to Saturday-only starting...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

WN has been running between 11-14 departures a day out of Minny for a few months now, with some higher days over the holidays. Current planned schedule has MSP up to either side of 21 departures a day in June, which was around where things were pre-COVID, so hopefully that is a good sign! It’s reas...

Re: Sun Country - News and Discussion Thread - 2022

Outsourced their crew management to a company in Dubai which apparently lacked redundancy. They also had issues with them last Summer. Might be a good idea to think of managing that in house from an IT perspective. On a personal note I am heading to Play Del Carmen in Feb(MSP-->CUN) and looked at S...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

WN is going to be completely dropping MSP-DAL/HOU nonstop service (and some other nonstop routes) on 6/3/2022, but WN is facing a fleet shortage due to delays in getting the 737 MAX 7 into service. Both DFW and IAH will still have nonstop service on multiple airlines after WN discontinues MSP-DAL/H...

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