boberito6589 From United States of America, joined Nov 2009, 239 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 2 months 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 9914 times:
US has loaded a few more DCA flights to schedule effective Jul 11. There is still no beyond perimeter flight added yet unfortunately. Flights added tonight are:
boberito6589 From United States of America, joined Nov 2009, 239 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (1 year 2 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 9561 times:
Quoting dumbell2424 (Reply 2): Not seeing this on the schedule, or thru flight searches. This would be huge news for the AGS community, though.
It should be on usairways.com sometime tonight
It will be US 3599 AGS DCA 1835 2017
and US 3598 DCA AGS 1620 1807
southwest737500 From United States of America, joined Mar 2011, 594 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 2 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 9508 times:
Wow XNA. Good for them
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CRJ900LR From United States of America, joined Mar 2011, 197 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 2 months 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 9497 times:
Oh great even better that Air Wisconsin is flying that AGS flight. Hope they (AGS) are planning for canceled and delayed flights already. PSA should be flying this, not Air Wisconsin.
HPRamper From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3661 posts, RR: 8 Reply 8, posted (1 year 2 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 9313 times:
Quoting PHX787 (Reply 1): looks like these are all US Airways Express flights. Are there plans to add more mainline out of DCA?
Considering most of the new DCA flying is being funded by cuts at LGA - which was mainly express flying - a lot of DCA will be Express, within perimeter and especially to small markets like XNA and AGS. And as Flighty said the E170/E175 is practically a mainline plane.
I really like the MSP adds. The route needs some more competition.
boberito6589 From United States of America, joined Nov 2009, 239 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (1 year 2 months 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 9221 times:
In my OP I was trying to ask if anyone knows how many slots are still left not allocated to any flying? Or do these flights use up all the slots gained from DL?
RWA380 From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 2160 posts, RR: 4 Reply 14, posted (1 year 2 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 8448 times:
US is poised to make a true hub there at DCA, it will be a great connection and O/D market, they could fly just about anyplace, within perimeter, and take any flight out of perimeter they can get and make it all work, US is poised better in DCA than LGA, at least DCA is getting some exemptions to fly beyond the posted distance, while LGA is not.
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slcdeltarumd11 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2452 posts, RR: 0 Reply 15, posted (1 year 2 months 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 8433 times:
Yeah i think US is in the process of a very profitable and successful hub in time. For the people that think US should have so much mainline right out of the gate remember that this is bascially a move from LGA which was mostly RJs and they want to build the market not fly a bunch of empty planes around. This is US trying to build into becoming the premier DCA hub airline. Destinations and plane types will certainly change many times over as they see how the market does. Some routes will be successes and others will fail miserably. Just like DL at LGA some flights will be total successes and others will fail miserably no ones knows yet these things take time and experimentation.
usflyer msp From United States of America, joined May 2000, 1785 posts, RR: 0 Reply 16, posted (1 year 2 months 5 days ago) and read 8185 times:
US must be getting another gate at MSP. That is the only way these DCA times will work. Under the current schedule ~ 30% of their flights have to use gates borrowed from other cariers and the DCA flights will only make it worse.
I welcome their expanded service however! This is route I will definitely use.
bobloblaw From United States of America, joined Jan 2012, 1360 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (1 year 2 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 8008 times:
I am really hoping that US opens up GRR as a station.
HPRamper From United States of America, joined May 2005, 3661 posts, RR: 8 Reply 18, posted (1 year 2 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 7842 times:
Quoting usflyer msp (Reply 16): US must be getting another gate at MSP. That is the only way these DCA times will work. Under the current schedule ~ 30% of their flights have to use gates borrowed from other cariers and the DCA flights will only make it worse.
US is growing a nice little presence at MSP. I was surprised at the number of flights out of here, on everything from E-jet on up to A321.
Quoting bobloblaw (Reply 17): I am really hoping that US opens up GRR as a station.
It would begin with a PHL flight, but I think as long as the UA codeshare is in place US will be looking in other directions.
FlyASAGuy2005 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 6517 posts, RR: 11 Reply 19, posted (1 year 2 months 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 7744 times:
Quoting usflyer msp (Reply 16): US must be getting another gate at MSP. That is the only way these DCA times will work. Under the current schedule ~ 30% of their flights have to use gates borrowed from other cariers and the DCA flights will only make it worse.
I welcome their expanded service however! This is route I will definitely use.
May use the old DL gate; the one currently being used by ZK. Outside of them and sometimes AA, it sits unused pretty much all day.
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XFSUgimpLB41X From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 3952 posts, RR: 36 Reply 21, posted (1 year 2 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 7214 times:
AVLAirlineFreq From United States of America, joined Jun 2008, 786 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (1 year 2 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 7179 times:
Quoting ScottB (Reply 12): Quoting dumbell2424 (Reply 2):
This would be huge news for the AGS community, though.
Why? Few, if any, will be able to afford the fares.
US is taking a page from the pre-bankruptcy AA playbook and connecting several strong military communities in secondary markets (AGS, OAJ, FAY, VPS, etc.) to DCA.
FlyASAGuy2005 From United States of America, joined Sep 2007, 6517 posts, RR: 11 Reply 23, posted (1 year 2 months 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 7141 times:
Quoting AVLAirlineFreq (Reply 22): US is taking a page from the pre-bankruptcy AA playbook and connecting several strong military communities in secondary markets (AGS, OAJ, FAY, VPS, etc.) to DCA.
Those booking on DTS will likely take the non-stop vs a connection on the GSA even if its more expensive
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boberito6589 From United States of America, joined Nov 2009, 239 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (1 year 2 months 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 6577 times:
You are right, it was in my OP but also got edited out...It is DCA-YYZ 4x CRJ
25 Noise: Any press release? Any official source whatsoever for these additions?
26 boberito6589: You can find these flights on usairways.com?
27 D L X: Could the reason behind using all RJs on these new flights be in part because of gate space at DCA? For the time being, there is simply not much space
28 FlyPNS1: Most of these routes don't justify mainline and US's mainline fleet is stretched pretty thin with minimal growth on the horizon. US has plenty of RJ'
29 D L X: Write your congressman. My understanding is that under federal law, DCA is only allowed to have 44 gates. Therefore, it has exactly 44. If US were al
30 SANFan: I'm confused. Are there more slots available for more flights that could use additional gates? I didn't think so. I thought the airport was pretty mu
31 D L X: The new slots must be shoehorned into the existing gates. THat's not much of a problem for every airline except US, which has clearly exceeded the ma
32 frntman: This is long overdue! Looking forward to flying this frequently!
33 PA727: Wow, didn't see XNA coming. Thought PHX or PHL would have come long before DCA. Would love to see PHX come online since geographically logical West Co
34 WesternA318: Only slightly off topic, but PHL-SLC has been axed...grrr....
35 boberito6589: A casualty of increased fuel prices
36 SouthernDC9: I'm happy to see DCA-XNA from a convenience standpoint (I wasn't flying the route when AA covered it for a bit) but hate the idea of 2+ hours on a CR
37 PHX787: Wouldn't they have to get FAA permission to fly to PHX since it (I believe) is out of the radius? Or have they already gotten that slot already, and
38 usflyer msp: He is talking about XNA-PHX not DCA - PHX (which US already flies 3x daily)
39 PHX787: Oh my mistake, sorry. Yeah XNA-PHX might be iffy. How's the traffic out of Fayetteville?
40 gigneil: Such a building could easily have 1 gate number, as many express ops around the country do. But I'm uncertain where to put it. I'm also uncertain why
41 usflyer msp: Terminal A is a historic landmark and as such is difficult to alter in any significant way.
42 kgaiflyer: Even AC flies E75s on the route. So no problem.
43 kgaiflyer: He means the 'A' terminal banjo rather than the historic, old terminal building which houses a museum. Myself -- I've been boarding planes in the ban
44 Noise: Flew out of there two weeks ago with AC to YUL. You're totally right, the Banjo is noting to write home about at all. Why can't they renovate it to m
45 knope2001: Here are the 30 businest local city pairs from DCA in Q3 of 2011, including if US/US Express serves them. The markets noted as USUA are served by FF p
46 D L X: Don't you think calling it all the same gate, while still actually having a whole lot of gates, would violate the law that says you can only have 44
47 southwest737500: I fly to XNA every 4-6 weeks out of CLT. the flight usually packs from 43-50 passengers. I would imagine they could support a flight. But the flight
50 PA727: Loads and yields seem strong given the corporate travel. Seem to be growing slowly at 1.1/1.2 million pax/yr. AA and UA dominate w/DL and US three an
51 SANFan: Hmmmmm. Thank you so much for the list knope'. I find it very interesting in my own way (which is probably quite different than the points you are tr
52 PHX787: Please do so It makes sense, to a degree.
53 FlyPNS1: I've heard of this 44 gate rule, but never seen any documentation that supports it. Has anyone seen any documentation about this?
54 LOWS: I think CLT-OKC would be a better choice, and one I would use when going to visit my mom, but it seems unlikely to happen. Which is unfortunate, beca
55 saab2000: Is this even remotely likely? They closed GRR a few years back. I'd love to see it (I live in GRR) but I'll believe it when I see it. They do everyth
56 southwest737500: They should add them together. TUL is not that small I know OKC is the biggest in the state but I know they can support 100 seats a day con a CRJ. I
57 usflyer msp: When US originally announced the slot swap, MSN and GRR were listed as destinations to be added from DCA. Now that F9 is flying both of these routes,
58 LOWS: Looking at the PDEW report, only about 15 pax in each direction OKC-CLT and TUL-CLT, so maybe it's understandable that US doesn't open up the route.
59 knope2001: No problem! Here's the source I use.... http://ostpxweb.dot.gov/aviation/X-5...le_files/consumerairfarereport.htm The stats have (unhappily) been inc
60 ouboy79: Always got to be careful using that report. A lot of times if there isn't nonstop service, you aren't seeing the true O&D market on a particular
61 SANFan: Thank you mucho! I thought I'd checked all the other tables but obviously not carefully enough. bb
62 yyz717: and things come full circle. USExpress operated 3x daily YYZ-DCA CRJ a few years ago.
63 pvd757: Looks like they also loaded a 3rd DCA-BUF flight.
64 yegbey01: I am quite thrilled with US adding YYZ. Long overdue indeed. Finally, the DC-Toronto market is getting good dose of competition - with AC and US on th
65 usflyer msp: BUF-DCA has historically been 3x daily.
66 TOMMY767: they should opt for DCA-EWR. Only UA commuter jets and props are flying the route.
67 apodino: I don't know if PSA has a domicile in DCA or not, but if they don't that is a better reason why Air Wisconsin makes sense on this flight. I think USA
68 erj170: IMHO, ZW needs to be pushing to either get some E70/E75/CR9s or some Q400/ATR42/ATR72 to diversify their fleet. I think every major airline has state
69 WesternA318: Yeah, I know, I was seriously hoping to use it this summer on my annual trip to Greece, but, I'm toting a 10 year old, my finacee and my parents who
70 pvd757: I see that there are only 2 DCA-BUF flights during April, May and June and saw a 3rd for July. I was actually surprised that it is only at 2/3 flight
71 southwest737500: Is that based on connecting traffic or just from clt I would collapse if that is connecting traffic. It has to be just fromCLT
72 LOWS: That was the number of passengers going to CLT from OKC and TUL and return. Origin and destination only. If you look at the report, it indicates that
73 gigneil: On such a short stage, I fully support UA choice. I wish it were all Q400. Anything else, imho, is super irresponsible - both fiscally and environmen
75 gigneil: Uh. Yes. Flying a big jet on a 150nm stage unless you're carrying 150+ pax per flight is irresponsible, and they aren't doing it and US can't. Hourly
76 yyz717: I agree with you on several levels: customer choice of flights, smoothing passenger flows thru airports thru the day, greater revenue opportunities.
77 gigneil: An almost extreme example don't you think. Hourly 773s is still pretty outstanding customer choice. Quarter hourly routes wouldn't be superior in term
78 yyz717: Yes fellow Neil, an extreme example perhaps. But everytime I fly out of EWR, and I'm stuck in a line of 25 Q400's and E145's, I think wouldn't it be n
79 HPRamper: You can't have a comprehensive hub without serving smaller communities with regional-type aircraft. Now, if we were to say that flights between these
80 southwest737500: The route would do fine because of the connecting traffic
81 usairways85: Also flts within the Northeast routinely have horrible on-time percentages, for every airline. Because when the likes of LGA/JFK/EWR/PHL/DCA/IAD have
82 TOMMY767: Well if BOS can get a mixture of 757, A320, 738, and 739, from EWR why can't DCA? Why does DCA get a more 'environmentally friendly' Q400? EDIT: but
83 apodino: It's pretty simple. UA connects a ton of pax on BOS-EWR as the location of the EWR makes it ideal for BOS passengers to connect to just about anywher
84 knope2001: Today's official release describes this as the "final phase" in US Airways' plan. So while they can always make changes, it sounds like this is "it" f
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