Darrell From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 236 posts, RR: 0 Posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 3997 times:
I was just surfing around the PDX homepage and noticed that todays 2:05pm arrival of LH flight 468 to Portland has been cancelled (along with the 3:50pm departure, obviously) Does anyone know why? How often does this happen? Just curious...
Roseflyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 8754 posts, RR: 52 Reply 1, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 11 hours ago) and read 3666 times:
Hmm, well I was in Frankfurt earlier today and everything seemed normal and I didn't hear of any cancellation as of noon when my flight left. I wonder what could have caused it. It certainly wasn't weather.
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BlatantEcho From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1870 posts, RR: 1 Reply 2, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 10 hours ago) and read 3576 times:
717-200 From United States of America, joined Oct 2000, 601 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 3468 times:
I am surprised that LH even flies to PDX in the first place with SEA
up the road from there. Just doesn't seem like a logical market for
LH, but then again people are surprised that AA has a daily nonstop
from RDU to LGW, but this is mainly subsidized by Glaxo-Smith-Kline
Does LH have a similar arrangement in PDX like AA does in RDU or
is there enough feed from the QX/AS hub to justify this?
ETStar From Canada, joined Jan 2004, 2103 posts, RR: 9 Reply 4, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 8 hours ago) and read 3413 times:
Quoting 717-200 (reply 3): I am surprised that LH even flies to PDX in the first place with SEA
up the road from there. Just doesn't seem like a logical market for
LH, but then again people are surprised that AA has a daily nonstop
from RDU to LGW, but this is mainly subsidized by Glaxo-Smith-Kline
Does LH have a similar arrangement in PDX like AA does in RDU or
is there enough feed from the QX/AS hub to justify this?
PDX gave LH a lot of incentives to fly into that city, which was better than what LH would have gotten from SEA. Plus, at SEA, there is more competition from the likes of SAS, BA and NW to Europe.
Daumueller From Germany, joined Nov 2003, 677 posts, RR: 7 Reply 6, posted (8 years 2 months 3 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 3311 times:
PDX has (compared to the other north american LH destinations) some weak loads so maybe they had some aircraft going tech and decided to cancel PDX instead of a high-yield route.
Kwbl From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 438 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2828 times:
The LH flights are now daily (effective 2/28/05. I do not know about the weak loads-I have checked several dates for March and the only thing available on at least 5 flights for the month is 1st class or business class (3 of those are 1st class only!) and several more have just a handful of seats in coach.
StevenUhl777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (8 years 2 months 2 weeks 6 days 19 hours ago) and read 1765 times:
probably a maint. issue, nothing to get too worried about. It's due in today at 1:55pm according to the Port of Portland website.
LH468 has been delayed in the past flying to PDX, due to a medical emergency, and diverted to KEF before continuing on.
In general, the Port of PDX offered incentives, along with pre-purchased blocks of tickets from companies in Oregon with ties to Germany. So yes, somewhat similar to the AA RDU-LGW flight in that respect.
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