Buddys747 From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 467 posts, RR: 4 Posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1188 times:
Saw on HIA's website for the month of January and February combined. www.flyhia.com/news
I'm trying to remember what was lost and what we gained seat/aircraft wise.
US- Lost - 3x LGA (Saabs and B1900's) 2x PIT (Dash-8)
Gained - 3rd daily to BOS (Dash-8), and upped CLT to CRJ in afternoon from the Dash-8 in the late morning.
UA- No major changes that I can remember , 733/735's are being replaced with A319/320. Lots of cancelled ORD flight this winter.
NW-No DC-9's currently unlike last year
DL- was down to 4x ATL in the beginnig of the year, now back to 5x like last year
AA- Lost 3X ORD (E145), 1x DFW (CR7), AA gone from MDT
Max550 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 1025 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1173 times:
I guess it's to be expected in this economy. I'm actually a little surprised it wasn't worse.
Hopefully once things start picking up again we'll get more new service.
Buddys747 From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 467 posts, RR: 4 Reply 2, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 2 days ago) and read 1105 times:
Quoting Max550 (Reply 1): guess it's to be expected in this economy. I'm actually a little surprised it wasn't worse.
Hopefully once things start picking up again we'll get more new service.
According to their report nationwide traffic was down 12%, so they did fair better than most. I wonder how they did compared to the likes of ABE and AVP, since they are similar sized and close by.
US really had a big drop of almost 9000 passengers. Not great for the #1 carrier at the airport. I am flying on them at the end of the month to PBI and the fares were good and the plane is almost full. Hopefully things will rebound with the new services we now have.
I really hope to see FL expand service since MDT is doing well for them. I really think they could take away some of WN's central PA market if they gave it a try.
Steeler83 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 8524 posts, RR: 22 Reply 3, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 1016 times:
Quoting Buddys747 (Reply 2): I really think they could take away some of WN's central PA market if they gave it a try.
Ah, you mean those who drive 2 hours to BWI or PHL? I hope so, too!
1) They introduce more competition at lower fares.
2) They provide new service to a previously unserved market from MDT.
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BatonOps From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 713 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 974 times:
Quoting Buddys747 (Reply 2): I really hope to see FL expand service since MDT is doing well for them.
I really think you'll see that happen later this year. I've heard rumors that FL might add additional destinations from MDT. With a 91% load factor in February I think FL is very happy with their service out of MDT.
FLYjoe From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 227 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 955 times:
Quoting BatonOps (Reply 4): I've heard rumors that FL might add additional destinations from MDT.
FL will offer a daily 717 flight between ATL and MDT. The interesting part is it's a summer season only flight between June 11 and Sept 8. With Central PA not being the big summer vacation destination, like the PWM area also mentioned in the PR, my guess is they are going to test the waters to see how the route does, any responses by DL with additional capacity, etc... and then decide if they would make it a year round flight. I believe FL has done this in the past. IIRC, PWM was originally a seasonal destination from BWI and became year round service.
Max550 From United States of America, joined Nov 2007, 1025 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 949 times:
BatonOps From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 713 posts, RR: 5 Reply 7, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago) and read 902 times:
Quoting FLYjoe (Reply 5): FL will offer a daily 717 flight between ATL and MDT.
WOW...wasn't expecting that one. I was told to expect new routes to Florida. Maybe that will come later in the year. I hope the service to ATL becomes permanent. I'm tired of riding CRJ's to ATL on DL.
Steeler83 From United States of America, joined Feb 2006, 8524 posts, RR: 22 Reply 8, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 829 times:
Quoting Max550 (Reply 6): Wow, I had to double check the date, make sure it wasn't April 1st
April 2nd at 7 am, so it was added earlier this morning...
Good job Airtran!!
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Buddys747 From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 467 posts, RR: 4 Reply 9, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 814 times:
Quoting FLYjoe (Reply 5): FL will offer a daily 717 flight between ATL and MDT. The interesting part is it's a summer season only flight between June 11 and Sept 8. With Central PA not being the big summer vacation destination, like the PWM area also mentioned in the PR, my guess is they are going to test the waters to see how the route does, any responses by DL with additional capacity, etc... and then decide if they would make it a year round flight. I believe FL has done this in the past. IIRC, PWM was originally a seasonal destination from BWI and became year round service.
NICE!!!!
Quoting BatonOps (Reply 7): WOW...wasn't expecting that one. I was told to expect new routes to Florida. Maybe that will come later in the year. I hope the service to ATL becomes permanent. I'm tired of riding CRJ's to ATL on DL.
Amen brother!! And better fares!!!! I'm glad they are giving Harrisburg a chance. I hope central PA supports this new addition
CO to EWR is doing quite well also. My only concern there is the fact that there always seems to be a lot of delays. Understandable, but I hope this doesn;t hurt things like it did when US did LGA last year. My aunt has been using them lately coming up from Baton-Rouge thru EWR and says the service was good.
BatonOps From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 713 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 2 hours ago) and read 792 times:
Quoting Buddys747 (Reply 9): Amen brother!! And better fares!!!! I'm glad they are giving Harrisburg a chance. I hope central PA supports this new addition
In my opinion this new flight will be just as succesful as the one to MCO. I think you'll see more service added by the end of the year.
Quoting Buddys747 (Reply 9): CO to EWR is doing quite well also. My only concern there is the fact that there always seems to be a lot of delays. Understandable, but I hope this doesn;t hurt things like it did when US did LGA last year. My aunt has been using them lately coming up from Baton-Rouge thru EWR and says the service was good.
I flew on the LGA service once and it was late. It was on a B1900...one of my favorite turboprops.
AAflyguy From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 335 posts, RR: 2 Reply 11, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 774 times:
Great to see FL doing well enough in MDT to expand so quickly. What's more, MDT's seat capacity is now going to be higher in June '09 than it was last year, thanks to FL's ATL and CO's EWR service. Pretty amazing considering virtually all airports are reporting seat capacity declines. ABE, in comparison, is going to be down about 13%. Also, there are twice as many seats available @ ABE as there are @ MDT. I didn't realize there was such a disparity now. Used to be a time when ABE had a lot more seats and flights. AVP is flat on seat capacity, but is only 1/3 of the total daily seats @ MDT. Looks like 2009 might actually become a growth year for MDT if things continue on the current path, even though traffic was down 8% in Jan/Feb.
AAflyguy From United States of America, joined Apr 2006, 335 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (3 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 757 times:
What is interesting is that it appears the airport is attempting to mask how much its Feb traffic was down. It was down 6.5% in Jan, and instead of reporting how much it was down in Feb, the Airport instead announced only the Jan/Feb combined totals of 8%. Sounds like about a 10% decline in Feb, which still isn't at all bad compared to a lot of similarly sized airports in the U.S.
Quoting BatonOps (Reply 10): In my opinion this new flight will be just as succesful as the one to MCO. I think you'll see more service added by the end of the year.
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