SHUPirate1 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3661 posts, RR: 18 Reply 1, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 1970 times:
ORD2PHL-If I am not mistaken, D2 and D4 were the two gates that the City of Philadelphia stripped from US Airways...I'm not surprised at all that they were given to Southwest, if they were...
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Usairways85 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 3097 posts, RR: 8 Reply 2, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1944 times:
The two gates at D were given to WN after being taken from US. Thus WN now has 6 gates at PHL and starting today will have 41 flts
Haveric From United States of America, joined Jan 2001, 1247 posts, RR: 5 Reply 3, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1929 times:
SonOfACaptain From United States of America, joined May 2004, 1747 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 1858 times:
Oh man, those were the exPiedmont gates too. Why did PHL strip those gates from US.
Us653 From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 161 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1768 times:
It interesting seeing WN's presence here in Philly. Today for the first time I saw 2 WN 737s take off back to back and have seen back to back landings several times.
Does US have any more gates in D, or were those the only ones?
Jeff
P.S. I also saw one of their 737-700s land on 17/35 for first time a couple of weeks ago...weird seeing that instead of the normal Dash 8s and CRJ using that runway.
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USAFHummer From United States of America, joined May 2000, 10685 posts, RR: 54 Reply 6, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago) and read 1754 times:
"Does US have any more gates in D, or were those the only ones?
P.S. I also saw one of their 737-700s land on 17/35 for first time a couple of weeks ago...weird seeing that instead of the normal Dash 8s and CRJ using that runway."
D2 and D4 were US' only gates in D...also mainline-size jets landing on 17/35 isn't terribly uncommon these days, FYI...
I wonder how this will work for transit pax on WN since to get between D and E you need to reclear security...or will they be starting a shuttle service like US has between C and F?
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Usairways85 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 3097 posts, RR: 8 Reply 7, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1740 times:
I was spotting at PHL for a little today and saw a decent number of WN planes but none at D. Saw aircraft approach for landing on 26, 27R, and 27L at the same time. It was pretty impressive. They were actually landing simultaneously on 27R and 27L for a while since not many planes were taking off. Also saw a few RJ's land on 26. Surprisingly not one aircraft used 17/35 for the hour and a half that I was there.
UALPHLCS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 1681 times:
For the past couple of weeks we have watched the gradual transormation of these gates from US to WN.
US lost the gates when they failed to pay the rent on them. At least that was the rumor.
When I left on vacation Oct 16th these gates had been stripped of every thing from US, but nothing was moved in from WN. When I got back everything was ready for WN. That was Friday. I guess they opened up on Saturday.
As for tranfering from D to E that is going to be tough for pax. But they are adding another lane of security in D. They have cloed the coffee shop that was located just ont he other side of Security so that they can revamp the checkpoint.
Usairways85 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 3097 posts, RR: 8 Reply 9, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 1671 times:
Also a note for connecting paxs, Southwest's business model is to mainly draw on O&D paxs. While there may be a few ppl connecting between WN flts in PHL, i'll bet most are O&D passengers thus transfering between terminals is not necessary.
7E72004 From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 3586 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1595 times:
Can't they rearrange the airlines further and move DL or someone else out of E so all WN flights could be in the same place?
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USflt1778 From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 268 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1585 times:
Can't they rearrange the airlines further and move DL or someone else out of E so all WN flights could be in the same place?
Moving is expensive, so unless the lease has expired the only way you will see another carrier being moved is with either WN or the airport paying the related costs. DL's lease expires in 2006 and it's generally expected that they will be required to move at that time to accommodate WN.
PHLBOS From United States of America, joined Mar 2004, 7253 posts, RR: 25 Reply 12, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 1586 times:
Can't they rearrange the airlines further and move DL or someone else out of E so all WN flights could be in the same place?
7E72004,
DL has 4 gates (E1, E3, E5, & E7) and NW has 3 gates (E2, E4, & E6) plus they have been at PHL a lot longer than WN. Why disrupt the gate operations for 2 or more carriers for only a 'temporary' establishment?
I mentioned this on previous threads: WN getting gates D2 & D4 is only a temporary measure until either the Terminal E gate expansion is completed or if US shuts down, WN decides to transfer all its operations to B or C if it wanted to.
[Edited 2004-11-01 16:26:10]
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ScottB From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 6358 posts, RR: 34 Reply 13, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 1503 times:
My understanding was that US Airways wasn't using its two gates in Terminal D for the number of daily departures required under their leases, so the airport ended up taking back the gates. Of course, it would have been easy enough for US to put a half-dozen daily flights at each gate so there had to be some reason they gave up the gates.
To quote the Philly Inquirer story from September 28:
"At the airport, officials said yesterday that they had told US Airways that they wanted to reclaim two gates in Terminal D that the airline had not been fully using and had been on month-to-month leases."
The same story does state that US missed its August rent payment to the airport as well (and owed the city about $4 million).
I'd surmise that WN would (for now) mostly use those gates for evening arrivals with few connection possibilities and morning push departures.
As far as I know, most (or all) of the gate leases at PHL expire in 2006. If US Airways survives until then, it will be interesting to see how everything gets reallocated then.
UALPHLCS From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 14, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1450 times:
Additionally the Airport plans to revamp over the next two years the entire D and E checkin area and create one huge check point for both terminals with a connecting hall on the secure side of the terminal connecting E to D and therefore the rest of the airport.
Usairways85 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 3097 posts, RR: 8 Reply 15, posted (8 years 6 months 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 1451 times:
UALPHLCS:
I recently heard a rumor that in the new UA schedules that will be loaded this week ORD-PHL has been drastically cut. Is this true. I can't imagine UA retreating on this route that much with WN competing from MDW with 5 daily in March '05. If frequencies are cut will some 733's and airbus aircraft finally be upgraded to 752's.
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