Has the aircraft been moved yet? It has not. I just left IAH an hour ago and it was still sitting in the grass. I flew through there today and it looked to me like it has been moved south of Runway 9/27 into the grass there. It was hard to tell though, I happened to notice it when exiting the airpo...
Jump to postSame dynamic at work in MKE vis a vis ORD/MDW. :evil: It is infuriating for sure for such a majorly underserved market in both cases. I heard a story years ago that the CAA, predecessor to FAA, analyzed N/S & E/W airplane traffic of eastern and Midwest for a major airport, drew and intersection...
Jump to postMario Diaz retires as HAS Director, COO Jim Szczesniak in. https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/02/02/mario-diaz-resigns-as-houston-airport-system-director/ I wonder how this will change things at HAS? My guess is not much at first, but Diaz has been at the forefront of a lot of good growth...
Jump to postRumored details of AI’s DEL-DFW and DEL-LAX. Article says 5X DEL-DFW and 4X DEL-LAX https://simpleflying.com/air-india-delhi-dallas-los-angeles-details-emerge/ Question for people in the know. The article says DEL-DFW will be operated by Delta’s 77L. Can Delta operate its current schedule of the DL...
Jump to postI must say that UA's DFW schedule from IAH is very disappointing - on a random Wednesday next month, the last UA flight of the day leaves for IAH at 1835. For business travelers trying to do a full day in the Metroplex and then make it home to Houston (like myself) that's too early for the day's fi...
Jump to postI must say that UA's DFW schedule from IAH is very disappointing - on a random Wednesday next month, the last UA flight of the day leaves for IAH at 1835. For business travelers trying to do a full day in the Metroplex and then make it home to Houston (like myself) that's too early for the day's fin...
Jump to postI’m not sure where you’re getting your statistics, but United isn’t ‘tiny’ at PDX or SEA. At PDX, DL and UA have very similar footprints, with 14% and 13% year-to-date market share as of October. UA has multiple daily non-stop service to a number of cities from PDX including, EWR, ORD, IAD, IAH, DE...
Jump to postWashington, Miami, Paris, Milan, Moscow….plenty with three. 5 is not plenty. Sounds more like “can’t be many”. Thanks for listing the rest of them, Ace. It just shows the pull of the Yucatán. Mexico City, Dubai/Sharjah/Abu Dhabi, San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago/Milwaukee, Edinburgh/Glasgow, Manches...
Jump to posthttps://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/1725275256468758778 This post shows the numbers UA presented. What is UA even thinking submitting that to DOT? That's wild, to say the least. I'd be very surprised if they got the route, and that's before reading the snippets of their response. IAH would be a net...
Jump to postOMG, Houston desperately needs new journalists. What a pathetic information-free snarky report. Really? The most important thing to report is some (apparently quickly resolved) technical difficulty with the teleprompter? I also noticed that the reporter and the director are both named "Mario D...
Jump to postTerminal B North is closing January 7, 2024 for demolition, according to what UA management told rampers today. Closing the complete north all at once and losing 13-14 gates. Guess Terminal D will become more RJ active to replace those gates if that's even the plan as I've not looked at anything fr...
Jump to postiAH expansion has been a nightmare for travelers, seems like HAS could have done a better job planning it out. The newest one is you have to have a reservation for Terminal parking. So people are driving up for terminal parking only to be turned away after waiting in line because they don’t have a ...
Jump to postHmm...ET and UA are the obvious candidates for LOS While on paper at least it would seem like IAH-LOS is a no brainer, the realities of doing business in Nigeria is whole 'nether story. For starters airlines struggling to get their money out... Is this still an issue with UA's IAD-LOS flight? I hav...
Jump to postEven before the construction, that entire roadway system seemed to be designed by someone who was simultaneously drunk, high, and crazy. Add onto it the construction and parking issues and the entire place is really inefficient and hard to deal with right now. And it's not over, the B South renovati...
Jump to postOnce UA gets IAH to 700 daily flights, I can definitely see EZE and GRU going double daily 77E, LIM, GIG, and SCL daily 77E, and BOG and UIO with double daily 7MJ Polaris. Hopefully by then, UA can reinstate CCS with at least a daily flight with 7MJ Polaris. As for adds, I can see daily/5-Weekly MV...
Jump to post"Millions" of affluent people? lol okay. Average McKinney household income: $130, 717 Average Frisco household income: $165,827 Average Allen household income $118,254 Average Plano household income $134,666 Is that affluent enough for you? That's about 800,000 people - there's more to Co...
Jump to postI live south of downtown, so IAH is a little further from me. About 30-35 minutes on average. HOU is normally 15-20 minutes. With that said, neither is far enough to affect the one I choose. I fly UA most of the time, so normally choose IAH, but I'll happily go down to Hobby if it works better for a...
Jump to postLarge airports should have dedicated security lanes. That would solve the issue and all crew members would be screened, which I think is important. Many are saying "well the pilots fly the planes, why do they need to be screened?" A pilot could bring weaponry and pass it to someone else in...
Jump to postI wonder if a Breeze or Avelo might every try and run something out of FTW Meacham? I've never understood why this idea hasn't gotten more traction. TKI may work and I get all of the growth in the northern suburbs but it seems to me even if TKI ever becomes a thing, most of the northern suburbs of ...
Jump to postI will let them answer officially, but I read it as him saying some markets have more O&D demand, even to a smaller metro; using SJC as an example they have more O&D to Austin than they do to Houston. I don't see it as comparing traffic on AUS-HOU/IAH Yes, this is what I meant. AUS-SJC is a...
Jump to postThe current plan is to renovate the existing Terminal D, add a new pier where old Terminal C was at, consolidate both Terminal D and E which will then be referred as the international terminal, and eventually build two more piers on Terminal D side. Terminal D and Terminal E will no longer exist, i...
Jump to postMan...if it transitions to at grade or elevated from sub.... that drainage would have engineering working overtime to design. I think it's time for IAH to think out of the box and have the Skyway train head to the rental car area with a TSA checkpoint and maybe even some airline ticket counters or ...
Jump to postYeah, it was that Customs connector. Lower D was a hole, truth be told. When they built D, which was a forced design and hurried with little concern for architectural aesthetics, they just glommed it onto lower D and the older part of C. “…forced…hurried…”. Two words that summarize IAH. That may be...
Jump to postThis is nearly an 18 hour flight, it must be at the range limit of a 789. MEL - DFW is slightly longer than PER - LHR by about 17 miles. MEL - DFW is shorter than PER-LHR by 17 miles Also, is DFW Terminal D reaching full capacity? Because at this point, there has been so much international expansio...
Jump to postIs there a lot of tourist or business demand between Aus and Texas? If so, what are the drivers of this demand? No…most Aussies have little or no interest in Texas. Strictly a feeder run. A feeder run for what? An 18 hour flight as a 'feeder' I would find strange. Am curious how you make a very gen...
Jump to postWhile I assume this is Dallas' to lose, supposedly Houston is in the running for DHL's future Texas air gateway, to open in 2024. https://www.flyingmag.com/dhl-eyes-major-air-hub-expansion-in-u-s/ Interesting. They tend to use large hubs for their operations so ostensibly this is either going to ha...
Jump to postYou have to remember that IAH was CO only East to west/west to east connoting hub. Now with UA, DEN acts as the catch all for connecting flight flights to HI with ORD/IAH/SFO/LAX serves a combo of O/D and connections from respective regions… I completely remember however, think my question was dire...
Jump to postOh I don’t think IAH-MEL is a good idea. But several articles have mentioned it specifically. With VA and UA hoping into bed, IAH-SYD should be cemented. As for the pandemic, aside from some countries like New Zealand, most people seem to be moving on. Given how contagious omicron is, it’s highly u...
Jump to postAVENSAB727 wrote:It states in this article that UA will launch IAH-MEL in mid 2022…
https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/virg ... nited.html
Not to mention exhibit A of the lack of civics education over the last 50 years in the US. Maybe at your school? Seriously, what does this have to do with an unruly passenger assaulting others?! Because the impetus for a lot of these incidents about mask wearing is, "My rights!" or wild, ...
Jump to postYou have to understand something, at those airports there is a single dedicated facility for baggage claim where as IAH has 3 for domestic. I’ll be ticked if I got off of a flight followed the baggage claim sign downstairs to the A terminal only to find out that i have to go get my bags from the B ...
Jump to postThe foreign OW carriers are really filling in at DFW nicely. Finnair is a good add though I have to question the late evening arrival timing into DFW for connections. Clearly they're aiming for providing a lot more on the HEL end of the route. As for IB and AY appearing at DFW, why on earth would an...
Jump to postI have to say, I passed through SLC for the first time in a LONG time yesterday and their new terminal is absolutely outstanding. It's just impeccably designed and user-friendly - add to that the ease of using the airport (I actually left and had lunch in downtown SLC with a friend before going back...
Jump to postDoes this airport not have appropriate ARFF? Pretty painful watching the local VFD put out that fire with a squirt gun. I am not positive, but I do not think this airport has any on-site ARFF. The guys in the video probably drove over from the town of Brookshire, which is like 5 miles away. I happe...
Jump to postBased on other threads here, probably shuttling refugees to Fort McCoy in Wisconsin.
Jump to postAA's June 1, 1973 timetable shows the following flights out of DAL, 7 months before DFW opened: ACA: 1x 707 BAL: 3x 707 BOS: 1x 727 ORD: 2x DC-10, 3x 707, 1x 727 CVG: 1x 707, 3x 727 CLE: 1x 707, 3x 727 DAY: 1x 707, 1x 727 DTW: 1x 707, 1x 727 ELP: 2x DC-10, 1x 707, 2x 727 IND: 3x 707 LIT: 4x 727 LAX...
Jump to postSeems to me this is the equivalent of those t-storms (or the power outage...) at ATL several years back, but now it’s really hitting AA. 49% of MQ ops canceled on the day and 28% of AA mainline... it’s a mess, crews out of place everywhere, they’ve already canceled my flight into DFW on Wednesday a...
Jump to postI'd have to disagree. There is a huge population that won't go if WN doesn't fly there. That is a myth, especially in Chicago. I have two family members that fly only WN and generally won't fly anyone else absent extenuating circumstances. We had to beg and plead my aunt to get onto Delta Connectio...
Jump to postImo, this is usually what people mean when they say IAH is more "convenient" because honestly HOU is the same distance or closer to most of the business and wealth as IAH is. From the westside (say I-10 and the Beltway), taking the Beltway south is normally actually easier than taking it ...
Jump to postWe live in the far west Houston area in Katy/Cinco Ranch. We’re 32 miles to either IAH or HOU. 99.9% of the time we’ve flown from/to IAH. It just seems a bit more “safe” to fly from IAH vs. flying from HOU. We’ve only flown WN from HOU one or two times in the last 40 years. Hobby isn’t located in t...
Jump to postWe live in the far west Houston area in Katy/Cinco Ranch. We’re 32 miles to either IAH or HOU. 99.9% of the time we’ve flown from/to IAH. It just seems a bit more “safe” to fly from IAH vs. flying from HOU. We’ve only flown WN from HOU one or two times in the last 40 years. Hobby isn’t located in t...
Jump to postI'm not surprised to see them finally enter ORD and return to IAH. I never understood why it was apparently acceptable to serve all the major airports in the greater LA area, Bay area, DC area (and most recently South Florida) but not Chicago and Houston? If they are happy with the results then I s...
Jump to postYet they are still irrelevant in NYC. Yet they still fly more domestic passengers than EVERY other airline. New York aint the center of the universe. No just the most populated city in the US. They seem to have done just fine so far without being relevant in NYC. With that said, I'm sure they would...
Jump to postThe gate cap at DAL has always been about protecting AA and indirectly DFW Airport. A larger WN at DAL takes business away from AA. It is not just that. The gate cap protects Southwest from competition at DAL. Lift the cap and many competitors will want in to share the high fares that Southwest cha...
Jump to postThey're taking advantage of perceived weakness by the hub carriers, UA in particular.
Excited to see what they're planning on adding initially out of IAH (even though I prefer to use HOU when possible). I'm thinking BWI, LAX, FLL, MDW, and maybe DEN or PHX to start with?
What gets me is that people from outside this city are under the false impression that this city solely depends on energy (Houston is not the oil capital of the world, it is the ENERGY capital of the world). This isn’t 1986. Yes, there are routes flown from Houston that will be vulnerable in this e...
Jump to postI thought it was rather funny (and maybe infuriating) watching an interview with Doug Parker on CNBC today that when speaking about the loans and grants and their stipulations, he said "Its fair to say that until you've paid off the loans...that you don't have stock buybacks, dividends, that t...
Jump to postI sincerely doubt that AUS, IAH or DFW will see any resumption of int'l service on the scale that it was prior to Covid. On top of that, the slide in the price of oil will have a huge impact on Houston's marginal routes like Lome, Taipei, Istanbul. Most of the tentative re-start skeds that have bee...
Jump to postWow! I would have assumed HOU had more passengers than DAL as a bigger facility with less restrictions! I'm quite impressed with what WN is able to accomplish with limited gates and no international facilities at DAL! Before the repeal of the Wright amendment, DAL was smaller. WN added quite a bit ...
Jump to postDFW has slightly better geography as a domestic connecting hub. I'm sure that's not the whole picture, but AA's DFW hub has had more flights and larger average aircraft gauge than UA's (and previously CO's) IAH hub for as long as I can remember. I've also heard it said here that the nature of busin...
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