MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31118 posts, RR: 73 Posted (8 years 1 week 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 3889 times:
American Airlines mainline is returning to Greensboro after being absent since 2002. They will operate one daily M80 Dallas-Greensboro service starting 23 August 2005:
AA 2576 DFW 1244-1613 GSO
AA 2591 GSO 1655-1855 DFW
Also, I don't know if it ever started as planned two weeks ago, but weekend Raleigh-Pensacola service is gone.
DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8771 posts, RR: 13 Reply 3, posted (8 years 1 week 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 3830 times:
Little bit of a surprise...I was talking to an AAgent at GSO a week or so ago, and the only speculation they were having was a possible MIA flight...nothing about a mainline flight. Still, very exciting news, and not unexpected...Eagle has really expanded since I moved down there, starting with 3 daily ERJ-140s, up to 3 daily CRJ-700s, and then up to 6 daily ERJ-140s. I'll be quite happy to see this plane in GSO. This will leave only CO as the only legacy not having mainline full time at GSO (DL has ATL and CVG comes back in fall, NW has DTW, US has CLT and PHL occasionally, UA has ORD; CO only does mainline during Furniture Market time).
Pensacolaguy From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 535 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (8 years 1 week 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 3705 times:
Yes, RDU-PNS-RDU started. To bad it didn't last longer. I guess AA just wanted to test the waters. Most people would rather drive to RDU then pay $240+ RT to fly.
ERJ170 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 6626 posts, RR: 19 Reply 6, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 3645 times:
RDU-PNS-RDU.. still never got that one. Oh well. They come, they go.. Expectations for AA/AE at RDU are running pretty low.
Hopefully, RDUAA will take back some more gates since they have decreased flights by ~20%. Offer those gates to someone new.. whomever would want to come..
PVD757 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3375 posts, RR: 18 Reply 7, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 17 hours ago) and read 3564 times:
I was pretty certain that the RDU-PNS service was cut prior to it ever starting. It was taken out of the timetable in early/mid April. Still hoping for a 2nd PVD-DFW and the elusive PVD-MIA this winter...
CASInterest From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3280 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 16 hours ago) and read 3520 times:
RDU -PNS was interesting, but if AA ever wants to try to compete with Delta/Airtran in that market, flying through RDU is going to be inportant. It can't be a weekend flight either. It would need to be daily. With delta having given up the Dallas Market, it leaves AA with a chance to gain market share in those gulf coast states. However not offering good east coast connections is not going to help.
Quoting ERJ170 (Reply 6): Hopefully, RDUAA will take back some more gates since they have decreased flights by ~20%. Offer those gates to someone new.. whomever would want to come
Interestingly, I saw a Spirit jet there today near the Observation deck. Probably just a charter...but one can hope.
Older than I just was ,and younger than I will soo be.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31118 posts, RR: 73 Reply 9, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 3466 times:
Quoting CASInterest (Reply 8): RDU -PNS was interesting, but if AA ever wants to try to compete with Delta/Airtran in that market, flying through RDU is going to be inportant. It can't be a weekend flight either. It would need to be daily. With delta having given up the Dallas Market, it leaves AA with a chance to gain market share in those gulf coast states. However not offering good east coast connections is not going to help.
The flight had one purpose: make use of an ERJ-135 that would otherwise sit on the tarmac and do nothing on a weekend because of reduced schedules on business routes. It clearly wasn't making enough money to make it worth the fuel.
CasInterest From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 3280 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 3430 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 9): The flight had one purpose: make use of an ERJ-135 that would otherwise sit on the tarmac and do nothing on a weekend because of reduced schedules on business routes. It clearly wasn't making enough money to make it worth the fuel.
Yeah I get that part, but it just doesn't make sence to offer a Pensacola RDU flight for 2 days on the weekend. There is nothing driving that market. Perhaps make it daily and use it as a New York/London connector.
Older than I just was ,and younger than I will soo be.
Commavia From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 10193 posts, RR: 62 Reply 11, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 3403 times:
Effective 23 August, AA will also be adding a daily ORD-Omaha, Nebraska flight to compliment their five Eagle CRJ-700 flights.
DeltaMIA From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1672 posts, RR: 19 Reply 12, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 15 hours ago) and read 3392 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 9): The flight had one purpose: make use of an ERJ-135 that would otherwise sit on the tarmac and do nothing on a weekend because of reduced schedules on business routes. It clearly wasn't making enough money to make it worth the fuel.
That was the best they could come up with, PNS? If I had a plane sitting around I would send it to a destination that could make money. NAS, MIA, FLL, PBI. Plenty of destinations would have been better than PNS.
What are they doing with it now?
It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
Pensacolaguy From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 535 posts, RR: 1 Reply 13, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 3353 times:
Quoting PVD757 (Reply 7): I was pretty certain that the RDU-PNS service was cut prior to it ever starting. It was taken out of the timetable in early/mid April.
Flights started as scheduled May 7th. And ended after only four flights.
5/7/05
05-07 13:16 EGF489 E135 Arrived from RDU First Flight
RDU.PACK5.AZELL..SPA..CEW..PENSI..PNS
05-07 14:00 EGF490 E135 Departed to RDU
PNS..CEW..CAE.BUZZY6.RDU
5/8/05
05-08 13:18 EGF489 E135 Arrived from RDU
05-08 14:05 EGF490 E135 Departed to RDU Last Flight
PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6874 posts, RR: 29 Reply 15, posted (8 years 1 week 2 days 10 hours ago) and read 3205 times:
Nice to see mainline returning to some of these all-Eagle markets
Gsoflyer From United States of America, joined May 2001, 1090 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (8 years 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 3017 times:
DeltAirlines said:
"I'll be quite happy to see this plane in GSO. This will leave only CO as the only legacy not having mainline full time at GSO (DL has ATL and CVG comes back in fall, NW has DTW, US has CLT and PHL occasionally, UA has ORD; CO only does mainline during Furniture Market time)."
Uhm, CO has a daily 737 to Newark, or at least 5 days a week as I see it every day. US has PHL and CLT fulltime with LGA a few times a week.
DeltAirlines From United States of America, joined May 1999, 8771 posts, RR: 13 Reply 18, posted (8 years 6 days 13 hours ago) and read 2994 times:
I don't remember seeing a US mainline flight up to PHL for some time now...schedule currently shows all CRJs and ERJs as well (this is through September). CLT does stay at mainline all the time...currently, I believe it's all 733s (with Express flights mixed in), but I have seen 734s on this route.
As for CO, all I see on mainline on them right now is a once a week (either Saturday or Sunday evening) 735 departure up to EWR...everything else is ERJs (including IAH).
Gsoflyer From United States of America, joined May 2001, 1090 posts, RR: 1 Reply 21, posted (8 years 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 2800 times:
I flew a mainline US Air flight to PHL three weeks ago.
I was at the airport two days last week and both days CO has 735s going to Newark for the evening flight around 6pm.
Commavia From United States of America, joined Apr 2005, 10193 posts, RR: 62 Reply 23, posted (8 years 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 2735 times:
Quoting BHMNONREV (Reply 22): Interesting, so all flying will be done from the STL end on Connection ERJ's?
I am not positive, but I think that the route will be discontinued completely. We will have to way and see when the schedule is loaded this weekend unless somebody else knows for sure.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31118 posts, RR: 73 Reply 24, posted (8 years 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2712 times:
Quoting Commavia (Reply 23):
I am not positive, but I think that the route will be discontinued completely. We will have to way and see when the schedule is loaded this weekend unless somebody else knows for sure.
Wow. I would be shocked to see it gone for good.
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25 BHMNONREV: As would I. I understand those flights to be very popular and the STL-RDU route was one rumored to possibly get some mainline re-instatement...
26 ERJ170: This is a very interesting move by AA/AE.. seems they are dropping a LOT of routes during a time when traffic at RDU has grown by 8.7% in the past 4 m
27 Flyibaby: Since when did AE use CRJ-700's? I have never seen one of these in Eagle colors? Its sad to think that AE would pull out of PVD, CMH, PHL and FLL as t
28 ERJ170: Sorry FliBaby.. I never flew Midway.. and someone I didn't like worked for them.. so I kinda boycotted them.. but would love for another airline to ma
29 A330323X: I'm sure US/HP would love to move their 5 gates to Terminal C with UA.. I'm sure they wouldn't. The US Airways Club at RDU is one of the newest in the
30 ERJ170: Ahhh... forgot all about that club.. Well they will have to move eventually anyway because Terminal A is supposed to come down circa 2010 (even though
31 Commavia: Their first went into service in 2001 and today they operate 25, the maximum allowed under the AA pilot scope clause.
32 Flyibaby: I remember back in 1997ish...when Eagle first bought the ERJ's, they made a big deal about why they decided to go with the ERJ instead of the CRJ..ec
33 LambertMan: If true, I will simply be shocked. After the AA St. Louis reorganization, Raleigh initially did well out of St. Louis and serves as one of the primar
34 Flyibaby: LambertMan How is Corporate Airlines doing out there as AA connection since the incident in MO a few months back?
35 Commavia: I agree. I would be surprised to see it cut as well, and I don't know for sure if Connection will reenter the market. All I do know for now is that E
36 LambertMan: Commavia, If that is the case, then I guess its discontinued for good unless it becomes: A. Strictly mainline (Doubtful) or B. Am. Conn. (Very possibl
37 RDUDDJI: It's good to see AA mainline back at GSO. Add me to the list of surprised to see RDU losing STL service (if that is the case). ERJ170, Unfortunately,
38 Commavia: I totally disagree. First of all, AA did not ever codeshare with Midway, only had a marketing and FF alliance, and they did not drop it by choice, th
39 MAH4546: The changes have been uploaded. RDU-STL is staying, it is just switching back to AmericanConnection.
40 CasInterest: Makes sense that AA wouldn't drop St Louis, unless the O&D is really bad. Right now, RDU's traffic numbers indicate that anyone dropping service is nu
41 Commavia: That settles it then -- RDU-STL will remain intact, just revert back to American Connection.
42 BHMNONREV: If this is the case, with the shortage of airframes that LambertMan noted, which routes out of STL will take the hit? Can anyone check the numbers of
43 Commavia: There is no way AA RDU could support flights to places like Pensacola, Mobile or Tallahassee. At ATL, DL has 757s and 767s from the Northeast feeding
44 CasInterest: There is no way AA RDU could support flights to places like Pensacola, Mobile or Tallahassee. At ATL, DL has 757s and 767s from the Northeast feeding
45 MAH4546: Eagle and RegionsAir (formerly Corporate) have nothing to do with each other, so it is not the latter. The idea is shelved because the flights are on
46 Flyibaby: AAdvantage was a huge reason. Keep in mind, it wasn't just about earning miles or anything, Midway was hauling American's AAirpass holders around wit
47 ERJ170: Au contraire.. AA does have a contract with RDU for 10 gates in Terminal C.. but much like the other airlines, it has been reverted to month-to-month
48 MAH4546: They will be at 65 daily flights in July. The maximum they were at recently was 78.
49 LambertMan: I knew it, they wouldn't drop RDU at the LF's they have been getting. Reasonable logic would dictate that there aren't many leisure passengers on that
50 Womack17: Just got back in town. Flew the ISO-ATL-PBI Delta Flight - Wish it was from EWN but ISO is certainly better than driving to RDU to redeem my Skymiles
51 Delta767: I see a couple of days the next week or so with CO mainline on the last evening departure from GSO-EWR, but then I dont see it anymore. Has it been pu
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