Re: West Coast Florida (APF / LAL / PGD / PIE / RSW / SRQ / TPA) Aviation - 2024

BTVB6Flyer wrote:

I've noticed SunCountry has been occasionally using Airside F at TPA lately.

Re: The future of Silver Airways

sunking737 wrote:

Everyone talks about how bad Silver is, didn't they just pick up another ATR ??

Re: Former Global Crossing Chief to start Florida based A220 airline: Air Flo

I’m not sure that name will work well. Seems like it’d be a headache of an airline, with cramped seats and irritable employees. The red paint scheme also might not work with the Florida heat. "Air Flo" sounds more like an HVAC company; maybe a little more though needs to go into that name...

Re: Southwest seems to be seriously considering an alliance, again

Shot in the dark but what about Virgin Atlantic? They seem to have a pretty decent LHR/MAN-US market. Looking at their existing codeshare and interline agreements they have a solid mix globally with DL and HA being the only US carriers. I don't want to be the pessimist but I would rather see any oth...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA / PIE / SRQ / PGD / RSW / APF) Aviation - 2024

If that's the case, we'll likely expect AA to start spilling flights again from Airside F to E. No chance as Airside E is bursting at the seams with Frontier having such a busy operation along with Air Canada. Those days are over. Was watching FR24 tonight, and F9 had 7-8 arrivals within an hour. T...

Re: Rumors of Possible New United (UA) Hub

I wouldn't discredit TPA as an option. Short term there is a new airside being built within the next few years. Not too far down the road the Airport is planning on building a somewhat similar north complex to what the footprint looks like today. UA already has the hangar there as well as the joing ...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA / PIE / SRQ / PGD / RSW / APF) Aviation - 2024

How about a Centurion Lounge or Escape Lounge by AMEX, or a Priority Pass Lounge all of which are higher end clubs IMHO. The main problem with making this / any third party lounge work at TPA is the segmented secure airsides. Whichever airside you build this lounge in, only passengers departing fro...

Re: The future of Silver Airways

One idea I want to throw out there is, why not feed TPA-MCO and continue on to the Bahamas, they could tap into the MCO international flights and bring traffic back and forth. A predecessor of what Brightline will try to do by connecting the two cities. Plus they can use it for fleet rotation since ...

Re: The future of Silver Airways

Silver is one of the few Airlines I do hope survives. I've flown them several times, and have been delayed here and there. Weather plays a lot into their delays, aircraft can't fly over the weather here in Florida and turboprops generally can't make up time in their block times. They are also a rel...

Re: The future of Silver Airways

Silver is one of the few Airlines I do hope survives. I've flown them several times, and have been delayed here and there. Weather plays a lot into their delays, aircraft can't fly over the weather here in Florida and turboprops generally can't make up time in their block times. They are also a rela...

Re: De-icing in FL

I've flown through both TPA and MCO during the winter. Not once have I seen de-icing trucks. Not that I'm trying to doubt the users on this thread, but I'd be interested in the logistics on how this is managed. Do the airlines lease out the trucks just for the season, basically driving them in and ...

Re: De-icing in FL

Speaking for TPA, we have one deicing location on the airfield abeam the baggage sort facility between Airside A & C. Southwest is the only one who deices here. The other Airlines will taxi out to the approach end of the active runway and wait for the sun to come up and burn off any frost.

Re: Allegiant (MCO) air service announcement

Maybe they're trying to get a jump on any slots that may open up with the B6/NK merger

Re: British Airways News and Discussion - 2023

BKK would be best served with the LGW leisure 777 fleet rather than a 787 from LHR. Taking your Houston example, from MUC, LH flies the A380 to BKK and nothing to IAH except for a code-share on UA. As I mentioned in my previous post, BA Holidays and the travel industry in general would provide dece...

Re: Spirit Cancels Hundreds of Flights After 25 Planes Out of Svc

It's the entire A319 fleet and a few A320ceos that are affected by this.

Re: Lufthansa "City Airlines"

According to Planespotter.net D-AILX an A-319 is first in the fleet for this new subsidiary. The aircraft is currently under Cityline.

Re: IAG in talks to replace BA 777s

Going to be "that guy" and propose the A330-900NEO, they ran them with Air Belgium. Could Airbus cut them a deal? Really introduce a new aircraft type to the fleet.

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

I’m really surprised they haven’t taken a run at ECP. Follows the mold of the TPA-EYW flight that seems to do well. They could also serve tons of destinations across the southeast given how big of a second home market ECP is. Back when 3M was still Gulfstream International they ran TPA-VPS for year...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

Looks like Silver (3M) is ending CHS all together, so no more TPA and also ending TPA-MSY. CHS was always going to be tough wit Breeze on the route and NK adding it, was probably the death blow. MSY also going up against NK and WN didn't make much sense. Still think 3M could try something like AVL-...

Re: New mexican military managed airline called Mexicana de Aviación announces its first destinations..

The livery, in my take, looks like something you would have seen on Microsoft Flight Sim 98. Hopefully they revisit the look once it gets going.

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

203BZ now sporting a Wi-Fi radome. 203, 204, 206 have all been converted from the 126 Seat to the 137 seat configuration and have had the Wi-Fi installed. 208 was flown to MLB on the 24th and swapped with 204 and is currently in refit. 204 took 10 days to complete based on fly in and fly out dates....

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

203BZ now sporting a Wi-Fi radome.

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2023

Do you think we could see NK offer service to EYW at some point? They could make it through with the A319. Their specific model makes power wise between what Delta's and American's make. However, I'm not sure if there's enough ramp space or the market at the moment. The same could be said with Sout...

Re: United States Essential Air Service (EAS) News and Discussion - 2023

It was Pikeville in 2014, operated with a Contour Jetstream (before it was Contour). I believe it used SCASD money. For Somerset, It was a short-lived 135 out of Ft Lauderdale called “Locair” than ran a SAAB 340 to IAD around 2009. Shoe-string operation that had lots of issues. Here is the DOT bid ...

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

The Edelweiss flight would have to go daily for Swiss to takeover. That was their idea from the get-go, don't know if it still stands today.

Re: Breeze Airways - News and Discussion - 2023

206BZ came through TPA last night sporting a wifi radome.

Re: Hawaiian Air CEO looks for a 717 replacement

I wonder if Airbus would give HA a deal on the slots NK gave up with the A319NEO, go CFM Leap powered frames.

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

Red Way announced today they're "shutting" down. No direct flights to LNK.

Re: West Coast Florida (TPA, PIE, SRQ, PGD, RSW, APF) Aviation - 2023

FLYKTPA wrote:

Appears FRA is going daily from next June on Eurowings!

Copa also extended their December frequency increase to 6x weekly to now be year round.

Re: Global Airlines buys an A380 from Doric for UK - US service