Sure FI has some cheap fares which DL can match. DL can’t match FI’s connecting network in Europe though which we can assume is the majority of the DTW-KEF traffic on FI. This also makes the volcano impact less relevant. FI’s Europe network is better than what WOW ever offered and they also have mo...
Jump to postPSU.DTW.SCE gave an excellent summary of DTW at year-end. I would expand upon the non-DL situation in that with NK being static or shrinking and F9 being so chaotic in its flights, we have not seen the stability in opportunity for Southwest to try to grow in Detroit, where its presence is below-aver...
Jump to postFor Manila, the issue has been price and available seats. One of the reasons Delta was going to do the flight between ICN and Manilla when it closed Narita, was because Korean could not get another slot to MNL, and had a lack of capacity so, with the JV, the Delta flight was a benefit to Korean, as ...
Jump to postIt would be nice if DL threw an AMS frequency to KL, and added an ICN frequency for KE if feed is restored/rebalanced. I would take KL/KE in J any day over DL… I really want to see KE add a frequency at DTW. I also think CI would be a good fit but less good. The local DTW market is centered around ...
Jump to postThe government is evoking the Clayton act. If the judge sees that as a valid argument, I can’t see how any other airline merger will be allowed. Spirit leadership is telling you under oath there is no plan without a merger, that their current growth plans are not viable without a merger, and that t...
Jump to postDid they have a deal with NW to use their lounge at the Mac when they last served DTW? BA had their own club in DTW. It was converted into a lounge for military personnel once they left and is still in operation. Really? I thought they had a lounge set up in the Westin Hotel adjacent to the Mac. He...
Jump to postJust curious to know how the route performed when it did exist Here are a couple of articles that touch on the discontinuation....https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna20873072 https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/story?id=3627456&page=1 There have been some good discussions on the forum previously with furt...
Jump to postAir France is suspending service to Freetown, citing low demand. High taxes also cited in media coverage. https://sierraloaded.sl/news/airfrance-flight-sierra-leone/ I'm surprised they operated to Freetown in the first place. Is there any natural market between Sierra Leone and France? Maybe they w...
Jump to postAir France is suspending service to Freetown, citing low demand. High taxes also cited in media coverage. https://sierraloaded.sl/news/airfrance- ... rra-leone/
Jump to postAlso, searching September to Iceland, Delta is the lowest cost flight to Iceland (usually via DTW) for cities with lots of seats on DL to Detroit such as Indianapolis and Lexington Ky (cities that do not have Jetblue who would do a connection with Icelandair in Boston). They are selling those seats ...
Jump to postAs the Baguio flights get ready to begin, there is some controversy about a road that crosses right after the end of the runway, and the closing of the road to traffic will result in a lengthy detour for many. https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1703147/ibaloy-folk-brace-for-change-as-baguio-flights-resum...
Jump to postCheck out Spirit on Friday January 20th. Weird addition of flights with 3000 flight numbers. ATL shows 4 flight, MCO 4 flights, MSP 2 flights…BWI & PHL re-added but it all ends in March. There is some additional context in this Airlines Weekly article about Spirit´s cuts. They are reducing flig...
Jump to postThe airport and Frontier got some press coverage that they are adding A320 flights to Tampa and Phoenix. https://www.freep.com/story/travel/mich ... 622489007/
Jump to postI flew the Cebu Pacific A330-300 from MNL-NRT and it was fine. It was slightly better than most Spirit flights I have taken in terms of seat room and comfort. Nothing great, but nothing terrible. The staff was friendly, the bag prices much more reasonable, and the food for sale on board was a better...
Jump to postFor international flights, there were once strict IATA restrictions on meals, movies, amenity kits, etc. This article talks about the start of in-flight movies, and such things as the requirement of a headset charge for economy passengers. It starts on page 37. https://books.google.com/books?id=sksE...
Jump to postSince COVID hit, the Jamaican Airport Authority decided not to do the runway extension announced 3-4 years ago at this time. They have been focusing on build-out inside the facilities, built a new police station on-site, and are building a new fire station this year, as well as looking to further im...
Jump to postI think the two issues of discussion lately, Spirit and ULCCs at Flint are related. I think it is true that Spirit no longer considered Detroit as special as it once did for growth, but it clearly will not be leaving. Spirit has had ebbs and flows of growth at DTW before as well. Spirit´s long prese...
Jump to postWhen RJ has a sale, they do include DTW-ATH frequently. My daughter got a very good fare on that route. They typically do not book LHR,CDG, and FRA from DTW.
Jump to postTo save money, we self-connected on FLIXBUS at FRA, which had many buses going to the bus terminal at FRA all over Central Europe.
Jump to postWhen I saw this news report, I immediately thought of the discussions about leakage on international flights from Detroit. Here is someone whose car is still stranded in Toronto, because pre-covid, she flew from Toronto to save about $1000 on her international ticket. I think those of us in the Detr...
Jump to postIf you purchase a ticket online for someone other than yourself to certain high fraud risk destinations, Delta may make you present yourself with your credit card at the Airline Ticket Counter. I have had to make two trips to DTW to do this. Turkish also has this requirement. By contrast, TAP wanted...
Jump to postI know this was an issue on IST-ABJ last Christmas season. My friend had the misfortune of flying with them on this West African route. They were flying a 737-800 on the route, and only business passengers were getting their bags put on the flight. This went on for at least 10 days according to empl...
Jump to postThe public transportation options to Downtown Detroit have improved with the FAST bus, which stops at both terminals and runs from early morning to around midnight seven days a week. SMART, the transport authority uses dedicated buses with free Wi-Fi, and they are the newest buses in their fleet, le...
Jump to postAs said many times previously, a full plane does not equal profit in the airline industry. While a "full plane" may look good, it can still lose money per flight if the yields are very low (aka price sensitive VFR (Visiting Family Relatives)) passengers travelling mostly on discounted tic...
Jump to postThe economy Detroit fares to Manila were generally at least $1300 on Delta, and the published competitors with two changes of plane were only a couple of hundred dollars cheaper, so, if you weren't willing to go to Chicago or Toronto, they did have a fair number of customers from Detroit though NRT,...
Jump to postI think any carrier going against DL to Europe is in for a slog. The good thing is that with the A321, it becomes less risky to try Detroit, and there is a potential cost advantage as well which makes it more likely to be ignored by the majors. DL and LH have resumed ignoring WOW when a month ago th...
Jump to postTAP has added flights to Abidjan back to its listings online. May have just been a computer glitch.
Jump to postAnd I keep hoping that Delta and Skywest will rebid to take back CMX after it moved to United Connection about 8 or 10 years back. People up here still prefer to go to Detroit or Minneapolis and not Chicago. Detroit because CMX is in Michigan even if we are 550 miles from Detroit. Minneapolis for t...
Jump to postRumours that Air Malta is awaiting to secure 737max as they are interested to fly to Accra and Addis Ababa Any ties between Malta and Ghana? It would be nice a new European airline at ACC, after AF. Is TAP dropping Abidjan? I am coming up with no flights after March 10th......Are they doing other c...
Jump to postIs TAP dropping Abidjan? I am coming up with no flights after March 10th......Are they doing other changes to flights in West Africa?
Jump to postSkyjet in the Philippines flies the 146 from Manila to Bosco (BSO), a hot eco-tourism destination there. It is the northernmost island of the Philippines. From their website: What is the Fleet of SkyJet Airlines? SkyJet Airlines utilizes a fleet of 80-seater BAE-146 manufactured in the United Kingdo...
Jump to post. Why hasn't BA re-deployed nonstop capacity from LHR to DTW? Since cancelling DTW service in 2008, BA has added LAS, SJC, ATL, BNA, MSY, AUS and SAN. There was a great deal written and spoken by BA how emotionally difficult it was to drop the service after so many years of doing. They also spoke o...
Jump to postYVR has a leakage issue. Many people fly to Seattle and then take the Quick Shuttle right from the airport.
Jump to postWOW is still hanging on. I think WOW dove into a decent niche market for travel to Europe. I assume it helps that WOW Premium is constantly either nearly full or sold out. What also helps is the gap between WOWs fares and Delta's fares. It's leaving a decent margin for WOW to charge more. I think f...
Jump to postNew information on http://www.aviation24.be from forum leader posted on thread linked to earlier- "Subscription to ch-aviation is expensive. Aviation24 doesn't have access, hence we called Brussels Airlines, which told us there is nothing new. Earlier this year, SN CEO Christina Foerster grante...
Jump to postThis thread had news about SN during the strike. They have started talking about the article, but no one has access to the pricey subscription either. https://www.aviation24.be/forums/viewto ... start=1240
Jump to postI got one from NH this summer
Jump to postI'm not sure I necessarily agree, there are actually some pretty cheap fares to Europe on LH via FRA almost price-matching WW. Not to mention, AC DTW-YYZ-Europe flights are also almost competitive with WW prices, not to mention flying out of YQB. Yes I see your point. I picked a slow time,, end of ...
Jump to postI'm not sure I necessarily agree, there are actually some pretty cheap fares to Europe on LH via FRA almost price-matching WW. Not to mention, AC DTW-YYZ-Europe flights are also almost competitive with WW prices, not to mention flying out of YQB. Yes I see your point. I picked a slow time,, end of ...
Jump to post"Very basic supply and demand are the reasons that DL and LH can charge premiums for their nonstop services from DTW to Europe. " On this, I would somewhat disagree. I think DL and LH are informally signalling each other to act anti-competitively on flights to Europe and using excess capac...
Jump to postI think the A321 may really be a game changer as EI gets more of them. In West Africa, marginal and non-incumbent carriers such as Royal Air Morocco, Air Tunisie, Air Algerie, and most interesting TAP have been sending more and more narrow-bodies to West Africa as they have the range to get there fr...
Jump to postTAP changed the ABJ departure from initially being a redeye to ABJ with morning departure back to LIS to an afternoon departure to ABJ with late night return to LIS, similar to the other European carriers. This has made some of the connections to points within Europe subject to long layovers. Prices...
Jump to postHere is a former thread about the service ending: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=471165 I remember a very good article that also talked about the ground crew getting laid off in Detroit and how long most have them had worked for BA, and that it was an emotional and long drawn out de...
Jump to postFinally, as we all know, public transportation is a joke in Michigan, so given no public transit choice, visitors are greeted with a $65 Metrocar rate to get a oneway cab ride to downtown. Welcome to the Motor City! Just to note that the new FAST bus service from SMART is a big improvement if you w...
Jump to postPart of the problem in the Detroit market from a consumer point of view is that both AF/DL and LH dump their excess capacity on reasonably priced flights to India. They may not be the low prices of the Chinese carriers, but they fill up their planes with tickets to India that are only slightly highe...
Jump to postNo airline worth the effort is going to go to DET. Metro Detroit already has a more than adequate secondary airport....FNT. As Allegiant continues to expand there, you are going to see it start returning to its role during the AirTran days. I can assure you that Allegiant views FNT as its Southeast...
Jump to postPress coverage of the new Montreal flight. Starts July 2nd on a 50 seater jet. London gets Q400 service starting the same time. http://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/ ... al-flights
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Jump to postI have to give credit to RJ. My daughter just bought a ticket to Greece on them in March for $503. DL and LH are within ten dollars of each other at $1338. They really act as an oligopoly to Europe from DTW. Options from Windsor are $1020 US.
Jump to postFrom a family member, I know a little bit about the Penair experience in Klamath Falls. During the first few months, they would sell flights interlining with both United and Alaska. The United fares were often much cheaper, and could be booked through the United website. After about six months, the ...
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