Re: Washington, DC (BWI / DCA / IAD) Aviation - 2024

Southwest adding twice-daily RIC-BWI starting June 4: https://twitter.com/IshrionA/status/1777749907140386871 On the surface this is entirely oriented towards connections, as this slightly edges out BWI-ORF as the shortest route out of BWI, but that drive can push five hours in traffic. On a good d...

Re: Brazilian government looking into 3 way Azul/Gol/LATAM merger

I'll believe it when I see it. Imagine if the Canadian government orchestrated a merger between Westjet, Air Canada, and Porter. Just... no.

Re: Breeze starting BGR, DFW, LNS, LAN, PNS

When I see the Breeze route map, it's clear the Pacific Northwest & The Midwest need some love from MX. I'd love to see them bring some of those A-220's to Washington & Oregon, as well as some select cities in the Midwest getting service from Florida & California. wonder if they'd do PA...

Re: Former Global Crossing Chief to start Florida based A220 airline: Air Flo

Maybe it will be more like a Florida-only version of AirTran? If so, they'll probably have to rely on connections to the Caribbean to some extent.

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

Presque Isle would be one heck of an oddball in the JetBlue network. They really must be strapped for cash to go after EAS… Are UA, AA, and Boutique strapped for cash since they're going after EAS? A short-haul route from their BOS hub fits into the JetBlue network better than UA to EWR or AA to PH...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

Well PQI sure is going to be interesting! AA (to PHL) and B6 (to BOS) are both challenging UA. Oh, and Boutique too, but whore cares. ;) https://www.regulations.gov/docket/DOT-OST-2000-8012/document?postedDateFrom=2024-02-20&postedDateTo=2024-02-23 First time B6 is bidding for EAS, to my knowle...

Re: The Rest of Virginia Aviation - 2024

MavyWavyATR wrote:

At what point do we see AA/Eagle drop PHF in favor of consolidating their operation in the region over at ORF?

Re: I think Delta should order the DO328ECO. What say you???

What’s the market for a sub 50 seat regional jet or prop? Zero. Zero chance. Zero. I bet there’s a few Part-135 charter “airlines” that would love if a new sub 50 seat jet is built. That's what I was thinking... when the ERJs and CRJs are too old to operate, they'll need something new to operate un...

Re: Icahn Takes 9.9% Stake in JetBlue

Fortunately, the odds of asset stripping-and-sale are lower than twenty years ago, given that the DOJ would stop JetBlue from being merged into Delta, United, or American, given that they all have a large presence in New York, Boston, and/or Miami. That pretty much just leaves Alaska and Southwest, ...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

Some unusual proposals came out today, to say the least: Contour has submitted proposals for EAS for ORD-MKL (Currently served by Southern, but to ATL and STL), and ALS-DEN (Currently served by Key Lime Air to DEN). Boutique has submitted a proposal for EAS at MKL to a variety of destinations, inclu...

Re: Mesa Faces Threat of Stock Being Delisted

At this point, I think United should just do what they did with ExpressJet before they dumped them as a carrier and buy whatever percent of them that they’re allowed to, simply because they’re just that cheap even just for the AOC and a few aircraft.

Re: Should Boeing buy back the Wichita plant?

frmrCapCadet wrote:

Transporting hulls via rail is probably pretty efficient.

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

Honestly, I think there's a very good chance that MCK will go to Contour. All of the other options are nine-seaters, and the DOT tends to select against nine-seat options. Contour provides much more capacity than the three other options, and I think they'd be quite successful as a result. This does ...

Re: The future of Silver Airways

Silver is significantly expanding to daily and multiple nonstops for some intra-FL routes effective March 5 or thereabouts. Website is updated. Random service I found were new 3 nonstops daily TPA-FLL, 2 to PNS, 2 to NAS, 2 to PBI, 2 to EYW and 3 daily FLL-TLH. I suspect HSV will be off the map by ...

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

It appears MX is now seeking out EAS routes against 9 and 30 seat aircraft ... desperate for cash anyone .... https://www.djournal.com/news/business/breeze-airways-may-submit-bid-for-air-service-in-tupelo/article_54eda5c8-b00e-11ee-9820-670f3ac5630c.html To where would a passenger connect? Are they...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

Things just got a bit more interesting in the EAS world... Breeze is possibly going to start bidding on EAS airports in a move that is very similar to what Sun Country did in EAU: https://www.djournal.com/news/business/breeze-airways-may-submit-bid-for-air-service-in-tupelo/article_54eda5c8-b00e-11...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

Things just got a bit more interesting in the EAS world... Breeze is possibly going to start bidding on EAS airports in a move that is very similar to what Sun Country did in EAU: https://www.djournal.com/news/business/breeze-airways-may-submit-bid-for-air-service-in-tupelo/article_54eda5c8-b00e-11e...

Re: GSP Airport to make major announcement tomorrow.

Good for Breeze - I think GSP-LAX/MCO/TPA will do well.

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Spirit updated the schedule through mid-March. New Routes: FLL-MCI FLL-STL IAH-SJO MIA-RDU Routes removed from further schedules: MKE-RSW DTW-PHX Routes suspended for now: ATL-CLE BDL-MYR BNA-RSW BOS-LAS CHS-RSW CLE-MIA CLE-LAX IAH-SAL LAS-SDF LAS-STL LAX-SDF MCO-RDU RIC-TPA Other than that, severa...

Re: Avatar Airlines is back seeking investors

They've been around since 1992, according to wikipedia, and Baltia Airlines has been around since 1989. Neither have flown a single commercial flight, and it's about a 99% chance that neither ever will. The real question? Who will finally go under first.

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

It seems that Southern reduced the schedule for DEN-PUB fairly significantly in April/May, to just 6x weekly on the PC-12, while DEN-CDR will still be operating at normal flight volume. Anyone know what's up with this? It's certainly quite far from the capacity they used to be at with the 12x weekl...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

It seems that Southern reduced the schedule for DEN-PUB fairly significantly in April/May, to just 6x weekly on the PC-12, while DEN-CDR will still be operating at normal flight volume. Anyone know what's up with this? It's certainly quite far from the capacity they used to be at with the 12x weekly...

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024

I would suggest that folks read the order before commenting on this thread. The issue is that the effect that Spirit has on the INDUSTRY would disappear and not be replaced in a timely fashion. This is 100% fixable with a new entrant. The smaller new entrant would rush the others to backfill some o...

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion thread - 2024

The only airline JetBlue could really merge with at this point without anti-competitive concerns would be Alaska, given that they operate on different coasts and have a very low amount of overlap. In this case, I suspect that we'd see a US version of IAG with Alaska, Hawaiian and JetBlue serving the...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

I suppose LF throwing in the towel at CEC makes sense for them. They started out with this the only West Coast market for the AEAS. Then they added SBA, SMF, LAS and the subsidized PGA-PHX, which became interconnected. Bigger base at OAK, at least 2 aircraft and more crews. But the non-subsidized r...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

Contour’s last flight to Crescent City is March 16th, with Advanced Air taking over the Contract on March 17th, running a 328j CEC-OAK-LA (Probably Hawthorne). This looks advantageous to all participating… Contour frees a remote and hard-to-service aircraft and crews up for more efficient PHX ops o...

Re: Should Boeing sell BCA to Airbus ?

As others have said, the short answer is that anti-trust law wouldn’t let it happen. The only real suitors to buy BCA are the major US defense contractors, such as General Dynamics, Lockheed, Raytheon, and Textron, though even these companies may not have a large enough market cap absent any signifi...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2024

Honestly, I think CEC may have done at least a little better with Contour if they had split the traffic between OAK and PDX or sent all of the traffic through PDX so that some passengers could interline onto AA flights. PDX is about 25 miles closer to CEC, and has flights to the major AA hubs, where...

Re: Boutique Air Shrinkage

A lot of this has to do with the fact that they operate single engine aircraft, which many EAS communities just aren't willing to have even if it is the only proposal (and instead opt to ask for more proposals with dual engine aircraft from other operators), while many of their former routes have b...

Re: Boutique Air Shrinkage

A lot of this has to do with the fact that they operate single engine aircraft, which many EAS communities just aren't willing to have even if it is the only proposal (and instead opt to ask for more proposals with dual engine aircraft from other operators), while many of their former routes have be...

Re: Ultimate Air Files Chapter 11

ONEJET owed ULTIMATE AIR a lot of money for their failed effort, likely never got a dime from that fiasco I remember that! At one point OneJet was going to buy Ultimate Air but keep the shuttle services separate from their ops. out of PIT. Their initial operation was with a small fleet of eight-sea...

Re: Ultimate Air Files Chapter 11

I wonder if Contour would be interested in acquiring them or some of their assets. The part 380 ops that they used to do at Ultimate were similar to those previously done at Contour before they became an all-EAS carrier.

Re: Breeze Airways News and Discussion - 2024

My guess is that 2024 will see a much higher ratio of short routes to long routes introduced. Undoubtedly, after the cuts seen at PHX, I suspect that the less profitable cross-country routes will be reduced or removed entirely in favor of shorter routes that can be sold at a higher fare per mile. Al...

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

To the people in the thread suggesting that MX swap to a hub-and-spoke model: as fun as it is to think about MX literally taking over half of the airport at BDL, RIC, CHS, and/or TPA to set up a connecting hub operation, it takes years to set up such an operation, especially for a ULCC. While yes, S...

Re: JSX signs LOI for 150 ERA hybrid-electric regional aircraft

Some of the routes on the map look like they'd be EAS bids... for example, MSP-TVF/HIB and MCN-BNA. I can't imagine that these routes would otherwise be very successful without the government funding. Others, like ICT-OKC, I don't really see much demand in. I'm also seeing that they signed an LOI fo...

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2023

How about they just go for that (added screening areas), convert the center of the terminal back into shops (like it used to be which was quite attractive), add a few more restrooms (which the center area used to have), get rid of all the tacky little kiosks in the concourses, put in a few more win...

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

I suspect that this may mean the end of the JetBlue codeshare with Hawaiian, and possibly other codeshares to avoid antitrust concerns.

Re: The Rest of Virginia Aviation - 2023

Richmond's October stats are out and they are at 3,939,006 passengers for this calendar year up 17.56% compared to 2022. So with two more months to go they may hit 5 million this year. Cargo for year to date is up 32.9%. https://flyrichmond.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/RIC-OCT23-Activity-Report.p...

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion - 2023

50% true ULCC? Without Spirit there are still 4 of them in operation: F9, G4, MX, and XP. MX and XP have become bigger players since this acquisition was announced. The nature of the ULCC model seems to be: start out with low costs, build the airline on the backs of labor, grow so you can offer mea...

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion - 2023

This is quite a long-shot, but would Spirit and/or JetBlue have a case against the government regarding the previous mergers of the big three if this one fails? I realize it’s a stretch, but one could argue that a large reason why smaller carriers struggle to compete is because of the mergers of th...

Re: Is it difficult to get part time as an airline pilot?

I haven’t heard of this for majors, but l think contract pilots are sometimes used at corporate flight departments.

Re: Sun Country adding 11 destinations

It seems that the destinations from last summer that will be returning have been loaded in as well.

Re: Portuguese President flies commercial

Flying commercial is WAY beneath the White House and most US politicians. They cannot be expected to put up with the rules and security checks that they put in place for the commoners. Almost all Senators and Representatives routinely fly commercial. True--especially this Senator who enjoyed flying...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2023

Some EAS news to catch up on for the past week... Contour Airlines at Cape Girardeau (CGI) This is a news article posting about issues with delays and cancellations concerning Contour. Seem to be on par with the industry standards. Article mentioned that CGI saw 671 passengers (not confirmed by Con...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2023