Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

I don't get the Denver timing this summer. Going from Sa to Tu there are four different departure times: 3:05pm Sa, 4:10pm Su, 5:05pm Mo, 10:55am Tu. The later departures take out any possibility of connecting to LGA, FLL, BOS, and a number of other East Coast destinations on those days. I think it...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

WN has added a second DEN on Saturdays for Thanksgiving and Christmas per their website. One can speculate as to whether that will stick if they are planning to trim their schedule for Q3 and Q4 per published reports. Still missing an early am departure. I don't get the Denver timing this summer. G...

Re: Southwest Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

They got GSP-ATL going from three times a day to once a day starting June 4th which makes no sense as that is when peak travel season occurs. Are all of the flights not loaded yet? It looks like they’re still adjusting the prices. GSP-BWI goes from once a day to twice a day starting at the same tim...

Re: Nashville Aviation - 2024

Here are the Q3 2023 PDEW's out of BNA to the top remaining contiguous U.S. markets traveled to from BNA that don't currently have WN nonstop service out of BNA (Sources: DOT Consumer Airfare Report Table 6, which can be found at https://data.transportation.gov/Aviation/Consumer-Airfare-Report-Tabl...

Re: OAK Renaming Proposal: San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport

This fight is ridiculous. We aren't talking Melbourne, which is over an hour from Orlando and has no business renaming itself "Orlando;" this is an airport that can actually be a shorter drive to/from parts of San Francisco than SFO is (as I write this, Google Maps says Salesforce Tower is...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

January 2024 numbers were posted. The high growth rate continues. Enplaned Domestic: 74,326 (up 12.72%) International: 18,304 (up 25.61%) Total Enplaned: 92,630 (up 15.06%) Deplaned Domestic: 75,915 (up 14.53%) International: 21,595 (up 35.23%) :shock: Total Deplaned: 97,510 (up 18.55%) http://flyf...

Re: Sun Country eyeing second focus city similar to MSP

mikejepp wrote:

How about SLC? Its very similar to MSP.... fairly cold a lot of the year, a large(ish) city, a Delta hub, etc

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

January 2024 numbers were posted. The high growth rate continues. Enplaned Domestic: 74,326 (up 12.72%) International: 18,304 (up 25.61%) Total Enplaned: 92,630 (up 15.06%) Deplaned Domestic: 75,915 (up 14.53%) International: 21,595 (up 35.23%) :shock: Total Deplaned: 97,510 (up 18.55%) http://flyf...

Re: Delta Air Lines Network - 2024

I agree that STS and a few other California airports seem like holes in the network. They did recently add some California stations like you said so I assume more could be soon. MRY in particular surprises me too since the area has lots of money and DL and UA both have multiple routes from it. DL h...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

If AA doesn’t increase PHX to where it was last year, could we potentially see WN jump in on the route? If they’ve been waiting for something like this to jump in, this is the time for them to jump in. Per AA web booking, AA has added an 8:45 pm 321 to Phx on 5/23 only. Same add at SMF. Why a one-t...

Re: Sun Country Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

I was thinking the exact same thing. However, Delta "serves" FAT with connections in SLC. That's sort of like saying UA "serves" MRY-MSP through DEN. Sort of yes, but MSP is nowhere near a UA hub and is very much a DL and SU hub which are the primary two players in the MSP marke...

Re: Sun Country Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

rainaviation2 wrote:

I was thinking the exact same thing. However, Delta "serves" FAT with connections in SLC.

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

It appears that SY chose MRY over FAT for this summer...makes very little sense considering MRY barely registers on the PDEW to MSP.

Re: Sun Country Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

MSP-MRY over MSP-FAT? Jeez, FAT is the top unserved destination by PDEW out of MSP, MRY didn't even make the top 10...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

FAT's capacity this summer will be close to even and maybe a bit under last summer's. Here's some differences I am seeing, looking in July: 1) Most notably, American to PHX is down to only one mainline and two CR7s, a big drop from last summer (and even down from May of this year). 2) Delta is up wi...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

AS will increase FAT-PDX to 2X daily on October 1. http://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/alaska-airlines-better-connects-portland-with-more-flights-to-popular-destinations/ Both flights will be operated by Skywest on 175s. The schedule beginning October 1: dep FAT 7:45am arr PDX 9:39am dep PDX ...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

FAT announced its 2023 numbers, a "historic passenger volume of over 2.4 million passengers served in Calendar Year 2023, representing a more than 12% increase compared to Calendar Year 2022, which served 2.1 million passengers." https://flyfresno.com/airport-reaches-all-time-record-with-...

Re: 4 Feb 2024 SFO diversions

The very very likely scenario is that SLC was the closest suitable option. OK, but LAX was closer. LAX is also getting crapped on. An earlier DL LAX-SFO flight diverted to FAT. Delta does not have a mainline station there (but will soon!), only Connection. It took an extremely long time for them to...

Re: 4 Feb 2024 SFO diversions

At least 13 flights went to FAT yesterday: UA YYC-SFO AA CLT-SFO AA ORD-SFO AA PHX-RNO WN LAS-SMF WN SAN-SJC DL LAX-SFO AM MEX-SFO OO ABQ-SFO OO DEN-SFO OO FAT-SFO OO SEA-SJC OO LAX-MRY … Thanks for these details. As I read the earlier comments, I wondered why not somewhere else in California? Can ...

Re: 4 Feb 2024 SFO diversions

At least 13 flights went to FAT yesterday: UA YYC-SFO AA CLT-SFO AA ORD-SFO AA PHX-RNO WN LAS-SMF WN SAN-SJC DL LAX-SFO AM MEX-SFO OO ABQ-SFO OO DEN-SFO OO FAT-SFO OO SEA-SJC OO LAX-MRY The ramp was completely full basically all day, including the extra positions that are usually RON but can also ac...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

Lots of diverts into FAT today, including a DL 319 (LAX-SFO), United 320 (YYC-SFO), American 737 (PHX-RNO), American 737 (ORD-SFO), American 321 (CLT-SFO), Southwest 737 (LAS-SMF), and multiple SkyWest E175s. The terminal is a total mess and the lack of extra ramp and gate space is causing delays of...

Re: Oregon Aviation - 2024

PDX received a lot of diversions today from ANC - anyone have photos? There should be about 6 B747's and a couple of B777s from Atlas Air https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI8629/history/20240129/2100Z/ZUCK/KPDX https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI8012/history/20240130/0014Z/VHHH/KPDX...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

FAT announced its 2023 numbers, a "historic passenger volume of over 2.4 million passengers served in Calendar Year 2023, representing a more than 12% increase compared to Calendar Year 2022, which served 2.1 million passengers." https://flyfresno.com/airport-reaches-all-time-record-with-o...

Re: Sacramento Aviation - 2024

It appears from the JetBlue thread that B6 is cutting SMF-JFK starting in November. Slated to be seasonal for now, but I believe this will mean no service to the NYC region from SMF during the seasonal EWR cut unless someone else steps up. This seems odd given SMF having MIA and YYZ service (I would...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2024

Been playing around with USDOT DB1B data for Q3 2023 today and here's a map of the largest 100 or so connecting itineraries through DEN on United (excluding Hawaii): https://i.imgur.com/UP5UZhh.gif IAH-BZN at about 54 PDEW carried by United through DEN in Q3 2023, was that quarter's largest UA @ DE...

Re: New York City NYC (JFK/EWR/LGA/SWF/HPN/ISP) Aviation - 2024

Here are the Q3 2023 PDEW's out of NYC to the top contiguous U.S. markets traveled to from NYC that don't currently have any nonstop service to the NYC market (Source: https://data.transportation.gov/Aviation/Consumer-Airfare-Report-Table-6-Contiguous-State-C/yj5y-b2ir/explore): NYC-ELP - 138 NYC-T...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

I will be curious to see whether there are any more summer additions as a result of these numbers. We already have daily ATL from DL and the weekly DAL from WN, but also slightly less capacity on DEN from UA. Will AA and AS add any more service this summer over last summer? Will FAT "jump"...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

FAT posted passenger numbers for both October and November 2023. https://flyfresno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023.10.pdf https://flyfresno.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2023.11.pdf With December 2023 left to report, the airport in only 11 months this year has already handled 2,238,937 passeng...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

A post above predicted Sun Country flying to FAT. Do you guys think we'll see Sun Country start flying to MSP before a Delta flight from here to MSP? FAT is the top domestic airport from MSP in terms of PDEW that does not have non-stop service. With credit to jplatts, here are the numbers: "He...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

UA is loading summer tonight. ORD is moving to 7a, more or less in keeping with the placeholder. DEN has only 1X mainline and 2X 175’s. SFO 3X 175/700. LAX 2X 175, with a schedule that pushes #2 to almost 5pm. DEN is a head scratcher. It’s not that they don’t pack the 1pm flight. Better opportuniti...

Re: Rest of Ohio Aviation - 2024

Cosigned! Also cosigned! Especially once terminal construction gets closer. A separate thread exists for FRESNO ... FAT https://flyfresno.com/airport-reaches-all-time-record-with-over-2-million-passengers-served-in-2022/ How many passengers fly out of both CMH and LCK combined ... just saying LCK i...

Re: Delta Air Lines Network - 2024

flymco753 wrote:

ATL-FAR, FCA, and RAP are not terrible

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2024

Predictions for 2024? Here's what I think could happen, from most likely to least likely: 1) 2023 is officially announced as the biggest passenger year ever for FAT, eclipsing 2022 by at least 5%. 2) WN pulls DAL after the summer but adds another daily flight to either DEN or PHX. 3) SY announces MS...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation - 2024

Definitely looking for FAT in 2024 or 2025, the top domestic destination that's unserved from MSP!

Re: Minneapolis Aviation - 2023

Here are the Q2 2023 PDEW's out of MSP to the top contiguous U.S. markets traveled to from MSP that don't currently have any nonstop service out of MSP on at least a seasonal basis and that don't already have any nonstop service in 2024 flight schedules (Source: https://data.transportation.gov/Avia...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2023

It looks like AA is going to be adding GEG and JAC as daily summer seasonal routes from CLT, along with Saturday only service from BZN and YYC. Makes me wonder how likely FAT service is next summer. I bet it’ll happen in the next few years but will we see it soon? JAC and BZN are both "resort&...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2023

FAT put out requests for a firm to help with "rental car RFP, lease agreement, and planning future facilities." https://flyfresno.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/RAC-RFP-Consultant-RFQ-2023.pdf It's hard to tell from the documents whether the airport is planning to expand its current facili...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2023

Looks like the local news is already speculating: https://gvwire.com/2023/12/04/could-alaska-airs-hawaiian-purchase-bring-back-fresno-flights-to-the-island-paradise/ I went back and looked at visitor stats to Hawaii, and Fresno actually sends significantly more people to Hawaii today than it did in ...

Re: AS to acquire HA; operate as separate brand.

YamDreaming787 wrote:

Are any of HA’s HND slots transferable to other airports?

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2023

Also a genuine question for those familiar with FAT. How much traffic would a direct flight to Hawaii from FAT pull from Bakersfield, SLO, Paso Robles? Would these people still opt to connect in LAX, SFO vs driving to FAT? Paso Robles is about the same distance from SJC as FAT, and on a much better...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2023

So does today's shock announcement about AS buying HA help or hinder the up-thread discussion about HI nonstops from FAT? One of my big concerns is about how all of this, assuming it gets approved, affect AS's domestic operations? I don't see many positives coming out of this if AS does in fact suc...

Re: Fresno Aviation - 2023

Hawaiian is adding 2 more destinations out of Sacramento. I would think Fresno could support a A321 a couple times a week to HNL. Am I wrong in that assumption? Hard to say. SMF is an interesting case; according to the Hawaii visitor stats, the Sac metro area sent more people to Hawaii in 2022 than...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation - 2023

G is a mess right now. The jet bridges for G9/10 are being used as an extension to the intl arrivals corridor. I believe that G can handle 6 wide bodies at a time right now just sitting there. Again, with the poor design of the FIS facilities they cannot all necessarily be used to board and deplane...

Re: Minneapolis Aviation - 2023

I wonder how many of these new int'l flights, if they end up happening, will be pushed over to the Humphrey Terminal. Already customs gates are tight in the late afternoon and early evening most days, with Delta towing aircraft to non-customs gates in G and F sometimes.

Re: Minneapolis Aviation - 2023

It would have approximately zero to do with any cultural ties and everything to do with changes in partnerships; leaving Star means leaving a Star hub at IAD in exchange for flowing more passengers over a Delta hub at MSP. It’s not like there’s some huge cultural connection between the Twin Cities ...