Beginning in May, Delta will expand its summer schedule to include new nonstop service between Atlanta and:
* Fort Smith, Ark. (effective June 7)
* Halifax, Nova Scotia (effective June 7)
* Kalispell, Mont. (effective June 9)
* Newburgh, N.Y. (effective May 7)
* State College, Penn. (effective June 7)
RL757PVD From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4537 posts, RR: 13 Reply 1, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 10854 times:
Food news for small airports like FSM.... maybe TXK can be next
Experience is what you get when what you thought would work out didn't!
RL757PVD From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4537 posts, RR: 13 Reply 3, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 10740 times:
FSM does manage to hold their own with AA and NW (all RJ/S340's) providing a stable level of enplanements. I believe they had somewhere between 90,000 and 100,000 annual enplanements last year.
XNA probably doesnt pull that much because they dont have an LCC (yet)
Experience is what you get when what you thought would work out didn't!
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 4, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 10721 times:
Quote: Thats interesting....I'd heard that with XNA nearby, FSM had become almost a ghost town.
All the business traffic that is going to Northwest Arkansas heads to XNA and has left FSM almost a ghost town. Five daily round-trips to DFW and three a day to MEM is sad when compared to the explosive growth at XNA and even LIT down I-40.
I am glad that the market is there and that FSM will be connected to ATL - congratulations!!
You can also include to that the fact that FAT is getting 4x weekly service to ATL...temporarily (?) to test the waters.
Pan Am:The World's Most Experienced Airline - P(oor) S(ailor's) A(irline): San Diego's Hometown Airline-Catch Our Smile!
DeltaDAWG From United States of America, joined May 2006, 620 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 10529 times:
Great News...at least for me. Direct service to FSM, fantastic. I have two customers right in Fort Smith, Planters & Hiram Walker. Now, if I could convince them that an MD-88 will be better than those d*mn CRJ's.
DAL767400ER From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, RR: 50 Reply 6, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 10442 times:
Good news, 2 returning markets (FSM, SWF), and 2 new markets from ATL (FCA, YHZ). Though I'd bet $20 that once ATL-SCE starts, CVG-SCE will be history.
Jetlanta From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2906 posts, RR: 28 Reply 7, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 10277 times:
Quoting DAL767400ER (Reply 6): Though I'd bet $20 that once ATL-SCE starts, CVG-SCE will be history.
You'd likely lose that bet. Unlike a lot of the other CVG markets added since 9/11, this one is actually good. The only reason you haven't seen ATL service prior (Like ERI and BGM) is because they didn't want to damage the strong performance at CVG.
No, this is a CVG bread and butter market now. I don't think it will be going anywhere.
ERJ170 From United States of America, joined Apr 2004, 6626 posts, RR: 19 Reply 8, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 10240 times:
Quoting Jimyvr (Thread starter): Beginning in May, Delta will expand its summer schedule to include new nonstop service between Atlanta and:
* Fort Smith, Ark. (effective June 7)
* Halifax, Nova Scotia (effective June 7)
* Kalispell, Mont. (effective June 9)
* Newburgh, N.Y. (effective May 7)
* State College, Penn. (effective June 7)
OOer From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 1395 posts, RR: 2 Reply 9, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 9991 times:
What are they uaing on the ATL - FCA run? A CRJ-700/705 or an E170 or mainline?
SLCUT2777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2005, 3861 posts, RR: 11 Reply 12, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 9829 times:
Quoting Noise (Reply 11): Wow ATL-YHZ eh? With the CRJ-900! That's not a big market...hope it works!
They could actually make this one work year around since DL has many more destinations and frequencies in the Caribbean than does AC or the charters. Just dealing with U.S. Customs enroute back to YHZ.
DELTA Air Lines; The Only Way To Fly from Salt Lake City; Let the Western Heritage always be with Delta!
Jetlanta From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2906 posts, RR: 28 Reply 13, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 9540 times:
Quoting SLCUT2777 (Reply 12): They could actually make this one work year around since DL has many more destinations and frequencies in the Caribbean than does AC or the charters. Just dealing with U.S. Customs enroute back to YHZ.
YHZ has U.S. Customs pre-clearance. It will be a fine market.
BigGSFO From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2755 posts, RR: 7 Reply 14, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 9503 times:
Well I keep thinking there aren't many runways left east of the Mississippi that doesn't see DL/DL Connex. What's next? ATL-Target's parking lot?
It's an interesting study - the ATL hub has reached such a critical mass that very small communtities with virtually no O&D to the city of Atlanta itself will get non-stops.
Iloveboeing From United States of America, joined Oct 2005, 750 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 4 days ago) and read 9473 times:
I think they're restarting service to SWF in response to FL.
TokyoNarita From Palau, joined Aug 2003, 570 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 9323 times:
Halifax needs to be on a CRJ700. There is no way a CRJ200 can pull that trip. It does not have the range. Either way, it's a discustingly long way to be on n the regional jet.
Delta787 From United States of America, joined May 2006, 321 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 8851 times:
Quoting TokyoNarita (Reply 16): Halifax needs to be on a CRJ700. There is no way a CRJ200 can pull that trip. It does not have the range. Either way, it's a discustingly long way to be on n the regional jet.
FATFlyer From United States of America, joined May 2001, 5668 posts, RR: 17 Reply 18, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 8628 times:
Quoting BigGSFO (Reply 14): Well I keep thinking there aren't many runways left east of the Mississippi that doesn't see DL/DL Connex. What's next? ATL-Target's parking lot?
Its why they are now going west of the river.
Fresno-ATL should be announced in the next few days. Also Spokane-ATL.
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." - Mark Twain
MCOflyer From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 8553 posts, RR: 14 Reply 19, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 8481 times:
I have a good friend who will like FCA as he has family there. Can someone give me updates on deparrture times for these cities please.
JAAlbert From United States of America, joined Jan 2006, 1192 posts, RR: 1 Reply 20, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 8340 times:
RL757PVD From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4537 posts, RR: 13 Reply 22, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 21 hours ago) and read 7963 times:
Quoting JAAlbert (Reply 20): "Enplanements"?? Good heavens, what happened to the passengers? lol!
Enplanements if the OFFICIAL term used by the FAA, and the unit in which commercial service airport are categorized!
Enplanements + Deplanements = Total passengers
Experience is what you get when what you thought would work out didn't!
Steeler83 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 8811 posts, RR: 19 Reply 23, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 7627 times:
How about State College? Is that going to be a Delta Connect flight by Atlantic Southeast or something of the type?
Do not bring stranger girt into your room. The stranger girt is dangerous, it will hurt your life.
PSU.DTW.SCE From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 6874 posts, RR: 29 Reply 24, posted (6 years 3 months 1 week 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 7529 times:
ATL-SCE will be operated by ASA with a CRJ
This route has been in the works for a while as the airport officials at SCE/UNV had been pushing for a flight to a more southerly hub, to either CLT or ATL. With the huge power of ATL, this route should have no problem. However, it may eventually mean that SCE-CVG loses a frequency in the future. For right now it will still be 3 daily flights to CVG, but I could see it being cut to 2. CVG is important as a lot of the traffic out of SCE is headed for the Midwest/Upper Great Lakes region, hence the need for flights to DTW & CVG.
Bring service now to include US-PHL, NW-DTW, UA-IAD, DL-CVG & ATL. Not a bad service offering. This may be what leads to the new terminal construction that has been on the drawing board for some time now. However, other than when all the RONs leave after first thing in the morning, the airport is pretty sleepy for the rest of the day.
25 SLCUT2777: Also some returning seasonal non-stop flights will resume from ATL. YVR-ATL returns June 7th and runs through September 30th on a 752. SLC-YVR continu
26 UnitedMSY: Now we need SCE-ORD on United Express CRJ-200's, and we will have everything set for these midwestern travelers
27 Rookinla: True...but there are still some viable markets left that DL has not yet touched. I completely agree. DL feeds so many flights through ATL that more m
28 TWA902fly: I think it would be interesting if ATL-HST (homestead, Florida) was a possible new route. seems like a good amount of populations south of miami that
29 Rookinla: You never know about the future but I think that DL has bigger fish to fry in the shorter term, including 2 to 3 potential new cities in Florida. Hom
30 DAL767400ER: It's only Saturday-only service for now, so DL doesn't take a big risk with the route, and can easily increase frequency if the demand proves to be t
31 PSU.DTW.SCE: That was the other airport on the wish list in SCE/UNV as it is one of the top 5 O&D cities from SCE, however I highly doubt United is going to throw
32 Rookinla: You never know...UA serves both IAD and ORD from DAB with a CRJ. However the ORD service was Saturday-only seasonal and ends this Saturday while IAD
33 PSU.DTW.SCE: Well DAB & SCE are apples and oranges. DAB is a significantly larger market with a large amount of tourist traffic. SCE is an isolated college town wi
34 Jetlanta: Plus UA is pulling out of DAB after the Spring.
35 Coleplane: Wow, a daily frequence? I'd like to know what DL's rationale is. Surely it's not just PSU.
36 PSU.DTW.SCE: Don't underestimate the traffic that the university generates. The majority of passengers, except around breaks, are not students. You have conferenc
37 MAH4546: Homestead makes way more sense than any of those, except for the fact it doesn't, to my knowledge, have commercial facilities. All those are small, l
38 Skibum9: Seriously, does it really matter at this point. CVG is down to 60 mainline flights and 200+ RJs. At what point do you stop calling it a hub, and star
40 Delta787: CVG is still a hub with plenty of connecting opportunities. In my opinion, its still to large to call a focus city.
41 CIDflyer: I thought it had heard the CVG hub still has over 400 daily flights, granted more are are RJ's but that is still a large amount of flights to be call
42 Skibum9: In this weeks enquirer they, during the ice storm, they said delta cancelled 40, or nearly 2/4rds of its 60 flights, and I forget how many connection
43 JAAlbert: My English teacher must be turning in his grave!
44 FlyDeltaJets87: I'd say they're going after military traffic at Camp Camp Lejeune, but they already serve Jacksonville, NC as well as a couple other cities in the ne
45 Floridaflyboy: I'm hoping it's only a matter of time before we see BIL-ATL. Billings is by far the largest city in Montana, and a fast-growing business center. Plus
46 Fewsolarge: On my watch list for new nonstop service from ATL. Some of these are a real stretch, and some would require runway upgrades, but I at least find them
47 AvConsultant: CVG will stay a hub and DL might place more of a focus now AA is building up its operation and snagging DL largest corporate client, Procter and Gamb
48 Floridaflyboy: I think you'll definitely see developing business markets in fast-growing cities like BIL and MSO occur before you'll see cities like RAP.
49 Gregarious119: One thing that suprised me about SCE this week while I was humming around on flight gear is that it doesn't have a control tower (or at least a posted
50 Montanaflyer: With a metro population pushing 150,000 I would hope to see a seasonal mso-atl; definately a bil-atl flight. FCA is a bit of a surprise, but I'm hopin
51 CIDflyer: looks like Delta's number of daily departures, at least according to this article below, is about 400 per day, so it is a pretty good sized hub still
52 PSU.DTW.SCE: Its in the works, as its been in the works for some time now, along with installing an ILS on runway 6. Currently only 24 has an ILS, which works in
53 MAH4546: Billings is very unlikely. FCA and BZN have a lot of vacation traffic, BIL does not. Also, Cincinnati-Billings was a terrible performer. Outstanding
54 AvConsultant: I thought I read on here DL is down to 60 mainline flights in CVG?
55 Floridaflyboy: Not true. I worked for Skywest at the time, and we operated the ground handling. The flight frequently went out with 90%+ loads. I don't know where y
56 CIDflyer: I believe the 400 daily departures is mainline and connection combined
57 MAH4546: Maybe during peak summer travel it did well. The average load factor over the short run was in the mid-50s/low-60s. It was a terrible performer, espe
58 Floridaflyboy: It was only operated as a seasonal service during the peak summer months. Do you have a source for your information? Because I worked those flights a
59 Floridaflyboy: Oh, and by the way, we were actually given a notice the next spring that the only reason CVG-BIL was not being added back was because of reducations a
Sponsor Message: 
From , joined Dec 1969, posts, 
From United States of America, joined Dec 1999, 4537 posts, 
From Italy, joined Jun 2004, 3943 posts, 
From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, 
From Palau, joined Aug 2003, 570 posts, 
From , joined Dec 1969, posts, 
Printer friendly format 
