MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 25811 posts, RR: 77 Posted (2 years 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 3312 times:
Just some news on airlines at MIA for those interested. Lots of it has been discussed, but here's a complete review of what's going on for 2008 by airline.
AeroGal
Newest airline at MIA. Daily service to Guayaquil begins on 7 December. They will be using a specially configured 737-400 that will seat 136 passenger in a single-class layout with 35" of seat pitch and PTVs at every seat.
Aerolineas Argentinas
Daily A310 service to Buenos Aires is finally here after many delays, though 5w daylight flights to Sao Paulo have been put on hold.
AeroMexico
One additional weekly flight on the Miami-Merida route effective this spring, total 4x weekly 73G.
AeroRepublica
Have applied to begin two daily flights to Miami from Colombia, with Colombia's aviation authorities.
AirTran
Recently began new non-stops Kansas City and resumed non-stops to Baltimore, in addition to Atlanta and Chicago Midway flights.
Alitalia
If the move to the Rome hub becomes reality, daily Miami-Milan service will be replaced with daily Miami-Rome service at the end of March. Until then, they are still accepting bookings on MIA-MXP this summer.
Alitalia Cargo
Launched one weekly MD11 cargo flight to MIA earlier this year. The flight has done so well that the service is now operating at 4w less than eight months after launching: 2w MXP-MIA-MXP and 2w MXP-MIA-ATL-MXP.
American Airlines
Launching on 13 December are new, daily non-stop flights to Barranquilla and Phoenix, both with 737-800s, and new 3x weekly non-stops to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, with 757-200s (this is in addition to daily one-stop service to Santa Cruz via La Paz). Winter ski service to Eagle County, Colorado will operate 3w this year, with a new Monday flight. Another new destination, Antigua in the Leeward Airlines, will begin on 19 November 2008, with five non-stop flights a week.
Also, frequencies increases on 13 December:
MARKET (ADDITION) (TOTAL FREQUENCY)
Bogotá (+1x) (1x AB6, 1x 763, 1x 757) (year-round addition)
Boston (+1x) (5x 757, 1x 772) (seasonal addition)
Chicago (+1x) (8x 757, 1x 763) (year-round addition)
Detroit (+1x) (2x 738) (seasonal addition)
London Heatrow (+1w) (9w 772) (seasonal addition)
Medellin (+1x) (2x 738) (year-round addition)
Montevideo (+2w) (5w 763) (seasonal addition)
Providenciales (+1x) (3x 738) (seasonal addition)
Rio de Janeiro (+5w) (12w 763) (seasonal addition)
Santiago de Chile (+3w) (10w 763) (seasonal addition)
Santiago de Los Caballeros (+4w) (11w 738) (seasonal addition)
Sao Paulo (+5w) (21w 772, 5w 763) (seasonal addition; 01Dec07 through 31Jan08)
Some notable aircraft up-gauges:
Bridgetown: Daily 763 service during peak Carnival period, late February/early March.
Boston: New daily 772 service, year-round.
Panama City: Daily A300 service recently began.
Sao Paulo: Three daily 772 flights all winter long.
American Eagle
New non-stop service on ATRs to Sarasota (new AA destination) and Savannah begins 13 December 2007, with 2x daily to Sarasota and daily to Savannah. Two daily ERJ flights to Tallahassee (another new AA city) start on 2 March 2008. Service to Fayetteville, Arkansas will be retimed to connect with deep South America flights. Service to Indianapolis reduced to 1x daily at the end of February (they need those planes to start TLH from somewhere), but rumor is MIA-IND will become a daily 738 in the summer.
Aviacsa
Had daily MIA-CUN-MTY service in booking systems for a short time earlier this fall, but those plans are on hold again.
Avianca
Service on the MIA-CTG-PEI route becomes daily this winter, year-round.
Avior
Recently added a fourth weekly flight to Miami, non-stop to Barcelona. Still have an application pending with the U.S. DOT to start Miami-Valencia.
Delta Airlines
LaGuardia service ends in mid-December, but JFK service will increase to 2x daily MD88 service. Also, new third daily to Cincinnati this winter, and fourth daily to Tallahassee.
Icaro
Have applied with DOT to fly to Miami from Manta and Quito.
Insel Airways
Recently received US DOT approval to fly to Miami from Curacao. Let's see if it happens...
LTU/Air Berlin
Service to Miami will be daily starting in May 2008. 5w to Düsseldorf, 2w to Munich.
Lufthansa
Six weekly non-stop flights to Düsseldorf start next fall, 26Oct08, A340-300.
Northwest Airlines
Winter schedule is 3x daily each to Detroit and Minneapolis, 1x daily to Memphis.
SAM
A subsidiary of Avianca, they have applied with Colombia's authorities to begin two daily flights to Miami, one each to Barranquilla and Cartagena.
Swiss
Daily Zürich flight is upgraded to a year-round A340-300 on 11Jul08. This also brings back First Class service on the Miami route.
Sun Country
Operating six weekly flights on Miami-Minneapolis this winter: 1x Fr/2x Sa/3x Su.
TAM
MIA-GIG non-stops keep getting pushed back, now looking at July 2008 or so. During June and July they will also operate scheduled non-stops to Fortaleza, Natal, and Recife, as it's a busy travel period for Brazilians to Florida.
TransAero
Announced plans to fly to Miami starting next fall, non-stop from Moscow/DME. Have not applied with DOT yet.
United Airlines
Mainline service returns to the Miami-Dulles route on 13Feb08, 2x daily 733.
US Airways
Saturday non-stops to Pittsburgh just resumed; daily non-stop, year-round service to Las Vegas resumes in December. It had been operating 3-4w for the past year or so.
Varig
No exact date has been set, but service to Miami is tentatively set to resume in early March. Varig will operate two daily flights on the Miami-Sao Paulo route, with a daylight and a redeye. They also are planning to launch non-stops between Miami and Rio de Janeiro around July 2008, also at 2x daily, so, yes, that means four daily Varig flights to Miami.
Virgin America
Unconfirmed rumours are they've started hiring for their MIA station.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 25811 posts, RR: 77 Reply 5, posted (2 years 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3116 times:
Quoting LVTMB (Reply 2): Thanks, Mark. I have noticed that LAN and BA have moved out of concourse A. When is A-C scheduled to close? Also, is concourse H fully operational?
A has closed, IIRC. C will close mid-2008, possibly earlier. Even though it's only five gates, AA needs those gates right now because of the closure of A, and they will stretch out keep C open for as long as they can until it needs to be demolished to let construction move forward.
Concourse H is fully operational, except for the new Delta Crown Room Club opening next month.
Quoting Drerx7 (Reply 4): What about Korean? There were rumors about them starting IAH and MIA
They weren't rumors. Korean Air's President COO said so himself, but they gave no strict timeline:
Their cargo service at MIA, launched last summer, has been doing very well, which will only help MIA-ICN becoming reality. And, FWIW, Korean Air is very good about keeping it's promises. They "announced" service to Las Vegas, Madrid, and Seattle in a similar fashion, nearly two years before each began.
OA260 From Ireland, joined Nov 2006, 16801 posts, RR: 53 Reply 6, posted (2 years 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 3101 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Thread starter): Daily Zürich flight is upgraded to a year-round A340-300 on 11Jul08. This also brings back First Class service on the Miami route.
Thats great news . Nice to see the A340 on the MIA route .
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GARUDAROD From United States, joined Apr 2000, 1354 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (2 years 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 3081 times:
You can add Cargo operators Tesis and MK/British Global as airlines that have filed to begin B74F
to MIA. Tesis from KHV then ferry out to Quito. MK/British Global from Manston and Prestwick.
What about MaxJet which has announced their intention to start MIA service as well, all though their
route network is under review due to operating losses.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 25811 posts, RR: 77 Reply 8, posted (2 years 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 3075 times:
Quoting GARUDAROD (Reply 7): What about MaxJet which has announced their intention to start MIA service as well, all though their
route network is under review due to operating losses.
It was supposed to start in mid-February, but, as you said, they have put their entire network under review. They still plan on launching MIA, though, as their next destination when (or if) they get back on their feet. The capacity that was to go to MIA is going to beefing up their current stations.
Quoting GARUDAROD (Reply 7): You can add Cargo operators Tesis and MK/British Global as airlines that have filed to begin B74F
to MIA. Tesis from KHV then ferry out to Quito. MK/British Global from Manston and Prestwick.
Awesome news. Any details on when this should start. A non-stop KHV-MIA cargo light? Sounds very interesting.
MIA has been seeing a nice boost in cargo carriers the past year or so, especially long-haul ones.
GARUDAROD From United States, joined Apr 2000, 1354 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (2 years 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 3046 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 8): Awesome news. Any details on when this should start. A non-stop KHV-MIA cargo light? Sounds very interesting.
Tesis is taking delivery of some freighters shortly. The routings will be via ANC inbound and then ferry
outbound to UIO.
Yes the cargo market in MIA is one the rise again. I would imagine with weakness of the Dollar, this
will increase for the near future. Factor in the natural link between South Florida and Latin America
and you have a natural link between Asia and Latin America. First China, then KE, I would expect
SQ and/or BR will be looking at the market quite seriously in the next year
GARUDAROD From United States, joined Apr 2000, 1354 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 years 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 2937 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 10): Hasn't SQ been operating some cargo charters to MIA on/off for the past year or so?
It wouldnt surprise me in the least. SQ has been discussing MIA for over 20years. It is well within their
standard to operate charters into a market for evaluation purposes, then if it proves viable, switch it to
scheduled service. The bilateral between the U.S. and Singapore is open skies for cargo, so they can operate
as many charters as they want.
GARUDAROD From United States, joined Apr 2000, 1354 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (2 years 1 day 6 hours ago) and read 2926 times:
Mark,
Do you have any info on Arrow Air?. I hear they are in severe financial difficulties and they are
kind of spinning their wheels as to what they need to do to solve the problem. I've heard a
varied spectrum of solutions anything from liquidation to merger to sell-off.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 25811 posts, RR: 77 Reply 14, posted (2 years 21 hours ago) and read 2704 times:
Another news item I forgot to leave off on the first thread is that Air France is now offering daily A320 service between Miami and Port Au Prince, increased from 3x weekly. The service continues on to a combination of Cayenne, Fort de France, Pointe Pitre, and St. Maarten, depending on the day.
Humberside From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2005, 4393 posts, RR: 7 Reply 17, posted (2 years 12 hours ago) and read 2402 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Thread starter): Recently began new non-stops Kansas City and resumed non-stops to Baltimore, in addition to Atlanta and Chicago Midway flights.
MIAMIx707 From Cuba, joined Oct 2003, 4619 posts, RR: 51 Reply 19, posted (2 years 10 hours ago) and read 2287 times:
Quoting MAH4546 (Reply 10): Hasn't SQ been operating some cargo charters to MIA on/off for the past year or so? Do you know how consistent they've been?
There's little cargo market for SQ on the outbound leg from Miami. The SQ cargo flights were charters 1x every two weeks during the fall last year. There were about 3 charter flights during one or two days in October this year, one of them continued on to Brazil, but that's it.
Surprised so few latin cargo-only airlines are operating to MIA these days. Must be that between Arrow, Centurion and foreign ones like Cielos, Tampa and LAN have latin america covered pretty well, using higher capacity widebodies vs the older narrowbodies that were the staple of MIA cargo planes.
As an example Mexico which has quite a few rreighter airlines none of which fly to MIA. Aerounion has been the only one bur rarely flies to MIA.
[Edited 2007-11-25 14:08:01]
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MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 25811 posts, RR: 77 Reply 20, posted (2 years 10 hours ago) and read 2275 times:
Quoting MIAMIx707 (Reply 19):
As an example Mexico which has quite a few rreighter airlines none of which fly to MIA. Aerounion has been the only one bur rarely flies to MIA.
Estafeta Cargo flies to MIA, IIRC. It's their only U.S. destination.
MIAMIx707 From Cuba, joined Oct 2003, 4619 posts, RR: 51 Reply 21, posted (2 years 10 hours ago) and read 2251 times:
Yes I forgot about Estafeta but that's about it. Mexico had quite a few airlines flying cargo to Miami years ago and other countries like Colombia have several freighter-onlly airlines that never fly to Miami for whatever reasons.
Transportes Aereos Bolivianos (TAB) Cargo is the latest all-cargo airline flying to Miami, not sure the frequency but it's supposedly scheduled with their recently acquired DC-10.
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Avianca From Peru, joined Jan 2005, 4945 posts, RR: 47 Reply 22, posted (2 years 9 hours ago) and read 2248 times:
Quoting GARUDAROD (Reply 7): You can add Cargo operators Tesis and MK/British Global as airlines that have filed to begin B74F
to MIA. Tesis from KHV then ferry out to Quito
Quoting GARUDAROD (Reply 9): Tesis is taking delivery of some freighters shortly. The routings will be via ANC inbound and then ferry
outbound to UIO.
very interesting... well the flight return from UIO to KHV... or will it send via europe loading perishable cargo... any chance that they will ferry the flight to UIO via CCS with full rights on MIA-CCS leg... this flight could be filled without any problem... but in generally I have big doubs about that they will fill the space from KHV to MIA...
GARUDAROD From United States, joined Apr 2000, 1354 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (2 years 7 hours ago) and read 2133 times:
Quoting Avianca (Reply 22): very interesting... well the flight return from UIO to KHV... or will it send via europe loading perishable cargo... any chance that they will ferry the flight to UIO via CCS with full rights on MIA-CCS leg... this flight could be filled without any problem... but in generally I have big doubs about that they will fill the space from KHV to MIA...
The Tesis flights will ferry empty to UIO non-stop. They will have no traffic rights on the flights ex-MIA.
Where the flights stop from UIO to KHV has not been specified.
MIA From United States, joined Feb 2004, 836 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (2 years 7 hours ago) and read 2126 times:
I am very excited about the prospect of DME / Moscow flights from Miami. I think it would be a much needed link between Russia/CIS and Florida/ South America.
Avianca From Peru, joined Jan 2005, 4945 posts, RR: 47 Reply 25, posted (2 years 5 hours ago) and read 2036 times:
Quoting MIAMIx707 (Reply 21): Transportes Aereos Bolivianos (TAB) Cargo is the latest all-cargo airline flying to Miami, not sure the frequency but it's supposedly scheduled with their recently acquired DC-10.
and they do a hell of money on the route down to Bolivia from MIA, including many many interline agreements... and very high rates!
Quoting GARUDAROD (Reply 23): The Tesis flights will ferry empty to UIO non-stop. They will have no traffic rights on the flights ex-MIA.
Where the flights stop from UIO to KHV has not been specified.
well still have my big doubts they will make money on the route... but hey very interesting.!
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26 MaverickM11: There's nada in Manta...especially with Correa wanting to kick the gringo military out of the country. I wonder why Icaro thinks there's a market for
27 MAH4546: There's tons of cargo, U.S. military traffic, chemical and tuna industries, a quickly growing tourism industry, and Ecuador's third largest economy o
28 MaverickM11: That may be so, but the passenger demand between Manta and the entire North America is currently between zero and zilch.
29 Ualcsr: Thanks as always for all your insight!! Why is UA reinstating mainline service and more importantly, why mainline and not Ted? I'm thinking UA is gra
30 MaverickM11: Whoever is in charge at UA probably paused his reruns of the Golden Girls long enough to realize that in addition to Blanche, Rose, et al there are a
31 Ualcsr: Yep, there should still be sizeable number of Mileage Plus members from the times when MIA was UA's Latin America gateway. I just hope that we're see
32 MaverickM11: I've never understood why UA is so thin to anywhere in FL other than MCO, particularly from IAD and less so from ORD. Maybe the routes don't do well
33 Atnight: I don't think your appreciation of the issue is accurate. There is a market for flights from Manta to the US, albeit a small one, but there sure is o
34 MaverickM11: All I said is that bookings between Manta and the US currently are pretty much zero, which is true. People may very well be driving to other location
35 MAH4546: There is a logical reason why bookings might be zero if you were to look at traffic data. Ecuador's domestic travel market is small and made up of a
36 MIAMIx707: Even if this is true right now, Manta is becoming "la ciudade de Moda" (the In / Fashionable city) in Ecuador. Not that it says much but I've met peo
37 MAH4546: They really wouldn't lose out on much. The proposed route is UIO-MCE-MIA, and if the cargo they pick up in Manta can't justify the expense, they woul
38 MaverickM11: There are a lot of things wrong with looking at bookings, but even with that in mind there's still close to zero demand. There's some interlining goi
39 MAH4546: FYI: Ribbon cutting ceremony at MIA on Friday morning at 10.30AM to "officially" open Concourse J.
40 MAH4546: Aerolineas Argentinas will start Miami-Sao Paulo, after all, assuming they don't change their mind. It was supposed to launch in September, then pushe
41 CayMan: That would be severely weakened by the fast growing reluctance (if not outright hositlity) for passengers to transit through US if it can be avoided,
42 MAH4546: That "fast growing reluctance" is anything but, as transit between Europe and the U.S. to Latin America continues to increase after it's sharp falls
43 OB1504: Is the shopping mezzazine and the other components of the terminal not-yet-open finally operational?
44 MAH4546: Stores and restaurants open independently as they are complete. They are not all complete, and won't be until early 2008. I don't know details of the
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