BACCALA From United States of America, joined May 2009, 127 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 6929 times:
Continental Airlines Begins New Nonstop Service From Houston and Cleveland Hubs to Washington Dulles after Nov. 1, 2009, Continental will offer three daily flights from Houston Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to Dulles and two daily flights from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) to Dulles.
Continental Express service from Houston will be operated by ExpressJet using an Embraer regional jet aircraft with 50 seats. The flights from Houston will depart at 7:25 a.m., 10:15 a.m. and 6:50 p.m. Return flights will depart Washington, D.C. at 6:05 a.m., 12:30 p.m. and 2:35 p.m.
Continental Connection flights from Cleveland will be operated by CommutAir using a Bombardier Q200 aircraft with 37 seats. The twice daily flights will depart Cleveland at 3:35 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Return flights will depart Washington, D.C. at 6:25 a.m. and 5:35 p.m.
N104UA From United States of America, joined Dec 2007, 889 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (3 years 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 6878 times:
This is coming just about the time CO is joining STAR so I assume they will use the UA express terminal (A) and UA will ground handle and this will allow connections to UA intl flights that they should be code-sharing on by then
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Cubsrule From United States of America, joined May 2004, 21239 posts, RR: 19 Reply 2, posted (3 years 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 6866 times:
I wouldn't be so sure they won't use C or D. I presume that most connecting passengers will leave from C or D, and there's plenty of gate space there for most of the day.
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Panova98 From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 280 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (3 years 9 months 2 days 1 hour ago) and read 6648 times:
Great! Some more regional jets! That' all we need!
Hope these ExpressJet captains will have learned what to do when diversions take them to Richmond or Harrisburg. By Nov. 1, Commonwealth of Virginia's budget will have limited Richmond operations to a few hours a day; and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, well they have no budget and probably won't have one by then, so don't look for anyone at Harrisburg to help your stranded passengers anytime of the day or night!
Panova98 From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 280 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 6314 times:
This regional jet kick, really something!
How long will it be before every single AA, CO, and UA flight between DCA/IAD and Texas--IAH, DFW, and SAT--will be on a regional?
Tell me again why the legacies still exist? Sure, "Our flights operated by ExpressJet, GoJet, Shuttle America, Trans States, whatever, are better than their flights operated by ExpressJet, GoJet, Shuttle America, Trans States, whatever!"
Greenair727 From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 442 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 6305 times:
how many flights per day did CO have to IAH and CLE before they cut these routes a few months ago? Was the IAH service an ERJ or mainline? And CLE was an ERJ, not a Q200, if I recall correctly.
KGAIflyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 3648 posts, RR: 1 Reply 11, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 23 hours ago) and read 6216 times:
Quoting SpdBrdConcorde (Reply 7): IAH-IAD...on an XR..ooohhh...that is a long RJ trek....
Been there -- done that.
CO has been off-and-on at Dulles for years.
I flew the route last year on an XR. Not bad, actually. Except it's 3 hours with no snacks and no buy-on-board food.
MasseyBrown From United States of America, joined Dec 2002, 4724 posts, RR: 7 Reply 12, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 6147 times:
Quoting N104UA (Reply 1): this will allow connections to UA intl flights that they should be code-sharing on by then
The CLE flights are precisely scheduled for CO connecting banks in CLE; the feed to and from UA at IAD seems serendipitous.
Drerx7 From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 4906 posts, RR: 9 Reply 15, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 5896 times:
Quoting Panova98 (Reply 9): How long will it be before every single AA, CO, and UA flight between DCA/IAD and Texas--IAH, DFW, and SAT--will be on a regional?
UA has mainline between IAH and IAD right now. It is twice daily with usually one of the flights an express 170 but the mainline rotates between 733 to 319 to 320 depending on the days.
LACA773 From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 3749 posts, RR: 2 Reply 16, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 13 hours ago) and read 3969 times:
Quoting KGAIflyer (Reply 11): flew the route last year on an XR. Not bad, actually. Except it's 3 hours with no snacks and no buy-on-board food.
All the flights from IAH should have meal snacks & from IAD the same with the exception of the 2:35pm but since it's longer, maybe they will have something catered on this flight.
KGAIflyer From United States of America, joined Jul 2008, 3648 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 3919 times:
Quoting LACA773 (Reply 16): All the flights from IAH should have meal snacks & from IAD the same with the exception of the 2:35pm but since it's longer, maybe they will have something catered on this flight.
Yeah, should've / could've / would've.
My understanding is that the XR doesn't have an oven
So I guess it would be a cold snack.
KAUSpilot From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 1955 posts, RR: 37 Reply 18, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 12 hours ago) and read 3908 times:
Quoting Panova98 (Reply 9): This regional jet kick, really something!
How long will it be before every single AA, CO, and UA flight between DCA/IAD and Texas--IAH, DFW, and SAT--will be on a regional?
Tell me again why the legacies still exist? Sure, "Our flights operated by ExpressJet, GoJet, Shuttle America, Trans States, whatever, are better than their flights operated by ExpressJet, GoJet, Shuttle America, Trans States, whatever!"
Heaven help us!
Is there any point to your posts other than to be a derisive jackass? If you don't want to fly the route on an RJ, don't buy any tickets. Seriously.......
ADXMatt From United States of America, joined Jul 2006, 933 posts, RR: 2 Reply 20, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2726 times:
I predict that it will be mainline to IAH by next summer if not earlier. Once the Star alliance is in full swing with code shares and all I think we will see an upgrade. At least from Houston. Either that or more frequencies.
Panova98 From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 280 posts, RR: 0 Reply 21, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2716 times:
Quoting KAUSpilot (Reply 18): If you don't want to fly the route on an RJ, don't buy any tickets. Seriously.......
Motion made and seconded, and having already made known my feelings, I stand down on commenting further on matters regional!
Regarding CO starting IAD flights, including to IAH, I see that UA again (effective Oct. 1) has the annual Federal Gov't city-pair contract (YCA fare) between IAD and IAH. Likewise to SAT and AUS from IAD. [AA has the DFW contract.] I would think the government employee/contractor business is a big part of these routes.
Since CO has recently stepped away from bidding on the government contracts [for reasons unclear to me], but is now coming back to IAD, I wonder if it has changed its mind about bidding on government city-pairs. Or, will it simply float non-capacity-controlled general public fares (Y) that anyone can use, government included, to try to take away the business from UA?
Greenair727 From United States of America, joined Jan 2007, 442 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 2708 times:
Quoting Panova98: Regarding CO starting IAD flights, including to IAH, I see that UA again (effective Oct. 1) has the annual Federal Gov't city-pair contract (YCA fare) between IAD and IAH.
Panova98---is there a list somewhere of all the routes under the Federal contract? Thanks.
Panova98 From United States of America, joined Apr 2008, 280 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day ago) and read 2692 times:
Quoting Greenair727 (Reply 23): Panova98---is there a list somewhere of all the routes under the Federal contract? Thanks.
They're at www.gsa.gov. Look down at the left under Federal Travel resources and go from there.
All contract routes/fares/airlines, domestic and international, non-capacity-controlled and capacity-controlled, current year (fiscal year 2009) and upcoming (Oct. 1) year (fiscal year 2010) are listed.
LAXdude1023 From Lebanon, joined Sep 2006, 6779 posts, RR: 25 Reply 24, posted (3 years 9 months 1 day ago) and read 2633 times:
Quoting Panova98 (Reply 9): How long will it be before every single AA, CO, and UA flight between DCA/IAD and Texas--IAH, DFW, and SAT--will be on a regional?
DFW-IAD on AA will always be at least mostly mainline.
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25 SHUPirate1: I remember about five years ago, when there was no United service between IAH and IAD at all. Does anybody remember the exact start date?
27 ExFATboy: Well, since RIC is operated by an independent commission and is fully self sustaining, the Virginia budget won't affect it at all. Harrisburg is run
28 KGAIflyer: I would guess that it's possible that CO will do at IAD what they did at ORD. At ORD, CO has moved into UA's B concourse. At IAD there is room for CO'
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