My observation is that MX while chasing incentives, hasn't cut and run to the extent that Avelo has. Station exits on the whole I believe is lower at MX compared to XP. You're right, though instead of cutting and running, MX cuts schedules/seasons at a frustrating level for those offering the incen...
Jump to postSorry if this sounds ignorant, but at Manchester, NH (MHT) there are a couple of daily 763s that operate to/from AFW and CVG. But they’re always Atlas, not ATI. Is it a contractual issue that makes this so?
Jump to postIf LAL works, it will be because of the originating traffic from Lakeland. I just don't see Florida-bound passengers preferring LAL over TPA/PIE or MCO/SFB. Having just passed along Route 4 from Tampa to Orlando last week, I disagree. Anyone heading to either area will not have much in the way of h...
Jump to postThe MUC-BOS flight on the 15th is scheduled as a A380 even though the ‘summer season’ doesn’t start until the 31st?
Jump to postJust drove by the line here in Chucktown and they’re building more pads as seen here. On the line, ANA, Korean, and Lufthansa all winning the popularity contest with several frames each.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/E9TbKQABDL5sfT1e7
Those who have watched the sequence of events for many years are well aware of the withering of MHT and some of the milestone events that precipitated it. It was not suggested that Manchester is slated to roar back to prominence soley on the basis of Breeze starting service or even the initial &quo...
Jump to postI see Breeze and Avelo as the tortoise and the hare, and we know how that turned out. Since I have a fondness for MHT and both will be there, it’ll be interesting to see what happens…not so much this year, but in 2025.
Jump to postHoping QR does well with 11x weekly flights into/out of Boston. Turkish did pretty much the same thing with BOS last year (maybe it was in 2022), but it apparently didn’t do well enough to try again.
Jump to postBreeze has announced ‘BreezeThru’ service later this year between MHT-TPA, on Thursdays and Sundays. But none of the non-stop MHT flights are showing up for Thursdays or Sundays, so how can that occur?
Jump to postLooking at all the long-haul planes in the fleet:
787-8
787-9
787-10
772
773
A351
A380
How many cities see ALL of these throughout the course of a year? I know BOS for sure just because it’s the shortest of the long-haul routes.
Resident of Charleston originally from New Hampshire. I will definitely be on the northbound inaugural. Not familiar with Breeze, so when they say a route is ‘seasonal,’ do they stop MHT-CHS and start MHT-RSW?
Jump to postDo we see Delta adding back cities that were cut from their regional network over the last few years, this coming year? Sun country will start Manchester in New hampshire https://simpleflying.com/sun-country-winter-2024-booking/ so Delta may look at doing MSP-Manchester It’s not daily service, so p...
Jump to postI’m hopeful that Avelo will look at the death of Spirit/MHT as an opportunity to start service between MHT and LAL.
Jump to postFor reasons having to do with tech, education, and Pharma, BOS ‘seems’ like a plausible choice as a destination. The fact that a route to BOS can be done with a small, long-legged plane amplifies that. Now, as a preemptive strike, we see QR going 10x to BOS this summer along with Etihad going 4x…bot...
Jump to postFrom New Hampshire now near Charleston. South Carolina is booming. Sure, I’d love for it to be CHS-MHT, and at some point it may be. But this is welcome news for small cities like ours.
Jump to postThe one thing airlines like Spirit, Frontier, and Breeze have that Avelo doesn’t: Hundreds of new planes to pay for. I’ll back Avelo and their ‘slow-and-steady’ strategy all day long.
Jump to postLong-time observers might recall the days when foreign flag carriers would serve BOS and PHL with the same flight. BA, LH, and maybe one or two others would. For BOS, IAD and DTW were tag-on flights as well, probably more so in the winter low season. so much conjecture. I am retired and really appre...
Jump to postShouldn’t MHT be on this list? Here are the Q2 2023 PDEW's out of ATL to the top contiguous U.S. destinations markets to from ATL that don't currently have any nonstop service out of ATL (Source: https://data.transportation.gov/Aviation/Consumer-Airfare-Report-Table-6-Contiguous-State-C/yj5y-b2ir/ex...
Jump to postIf an airline were truly to discontinue a route (As Norse will probably do with BOS), why go through the rigmarole of sticking a high fare in there? Just announce you’re pulling out, adjust the schedules accordingly, and be done with it.
Jump to postDon’t you think the Boston folks would be more likely to be on the QR flight to Doha or the EK flight to Dubai rather that go down to JFK or EWR? “Among the above routes, I question DEL-BOS. Does it have that yields and even volumes for a dedicated nonstop. Distance wise it is shorter than most Nort...
Jump to post“Among the above routes, I question DEL-BOS. Does it have that yields and even volumes for a dedicated nonstop. Distance wise it is shorter than most North American routes, but is that enough ?” I (and they) think the route would do real well with pharma, students, et al. AI surely knows who’s filli...
Jump to postBOS isn’t a sure thing, I know. But it’s a city that’s nonetheless on the ‘possible’ list of new destinations. I believe I understand that the training and certifications and government approvals for new long haul flights using the A350-900 are happening behind the scenes. So will any route announce...
Jump to postYeah I get that but there’s been talks of a base being at MHT, how realistic is that to happen and when? I think the ‘talk’ has been limited to those of us with hopes of seeing that happen, not by anyone at Avelo itself. This would be nice for MHT, but in truth the airline hasn’t reached a critical...
Jump to postderekh16 wrote:Is there any chance of new service coming to MHT soon? I know it’s been talked about as a base, but even something like a W from MCO-MHT-xxx-MHT-MCO?
After my flight home from Boston to CHS tonight I saw a Hawaiian 787-9 on the line. Very nice-looking plane.
Jump to postI wondered why this one—a photo I took a few weeks ago down here in Charleston—was mostly dark-colored. Mostly white seems to be a better choice for hot and sunny locations.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UmPahjBucPB53z4eA
The Patriots don’t use ‘their’ 767-300 anymore. They took a Virgin A350-1000 from Boston yesterday. I believe Virgin has the ‘contract’ for all the European NFL games.
Jump to postA6-BNF over my house in South Carolina this week, one of two 787-9’s doing loops for Boeing.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/R5bJGVdyFNAmrfeA8
Singapore -10 over my house in Summerville, SC today. RAT deployed, as it often is.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/s3YjvZafnHQh1Snb7
As other carriers start services, the need for A380s to many U.S. cities evaporates. Case in point: BOS. Etihad is coming in 2024, and it’s likely Air India as well. Both will take seats that EK might have needed an A380 for, but not anymore. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if EK reduced gauge at B...
Jump to postHere’s A6-BNF over my house today in Summerville, SC.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/qYNifzpUbYw2XdaV7
JetBlue and Aer Lingus were codeshare partners, and of course next year they won’t be (correct me if wrong). So maybe cutting off flights after the summer ends is a sort of ‘olive branch’ of sorts from JetBlue to EI.
Jump to postA nice-looking one at the CHS-DC the other day.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/f8WFoxomKUYWeRtU8
With EI and JetBlue parking next to each other in Boston at Terminal C, will that cease now that they’re going to be ‘competitors?’ Or is that not even an issue?
Jump to postWith all the capacity between Boston and London, would AA ever ‘downgrade’ to a 788 or 789 to help BA keep yields high? No, Boston doesn’t have any AA 787 routes, but they don’t have any other 772 runs either.
Jump to post32Bit wrote:Etihad Airways 787-10 A6-BMJ MSN60770 LN1064 made a flight (FCF) (CHS - CHS) with callsign BOE070
FlightAware: https://uk.flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE70/history/20230924/1530Z/KCHS/KCHS
Over on the BOS board the chatter is that BOS-NRT is doing ‘very well.’ I don’t see 81% as great, especially with DFW pulling in 90+ % with both their flights.
Jump to postC777ER wrote:Hearing rumors that the BA A380 will continue though the winter season
As a New England aviation enthusiast, BOS definitely punches above its weight. Aside from the somewhat monotonous parade of AA 787s into PHL, they’re coming from a bunch of destinations BOS will probably never have. But since this is a PHL thread, I’ll predict that with the arrival of new ‘smaller’ ...
Jump to postDo any 77Ws have special liveries or did they all go away when Expo 2020 did?
Jump to postWhen BOS gets chosen, what’s the over/under on the number of experts who say, “Wow! Didn’t see THAT coming!”
Jump to postDrove by the Boeing line here in Charleston yesterday. Whose planes did I see the most of? KE and EY with about five each.
Jump to postI just read that MSP now isn’t happening. That’s pretty embarrassing.
Jump to postIs -DAA the only -200 they have? It used to be a regular at Boston but now does a lot of the YYZ runs.
Jump to postEtihad has announced a 4x weekly service to Boston from next summer. How do you think they will do against EK,QR and TK? https://www.etihad.com/en-in/news/say-hello-to-boston-etihad-airways-announces-fourth-destination-in-the-united-states I think all of them will do well. In fact, AI might announc...
Jump to postI counted four or five of their 789s down here in Chucktown last week. Here’s one at the delivery center getting some TLC:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/UvGfricU2WCSsDmB6
A fourth BOS seems, to me at least, altogether unrealistic. Yes, UA is exiting LHR-BOS, but that’s a sign that (perhaps) there’s too much capacity Boston-London as many suggest. Norse to LGW, DL possibly to LGW themselves, and a possible resumption of a morning flight from BOS on Virgin just exacerb...
Jump to postG-XLEK got diverted from Boston to Toronto and spent more than 24 hours there. It’s just about ready to land at BOS as BA 9607. This means an A380 wasn’t where it was supposed to be, and maybe MIA drew the short straw. Today’s BOS flight operated normally (G-XLEH).
Jump to postFrom most U.S. cities EK serves (say, BOS), how much of their traffic is actually headed to/from India? And once AI starts flexing its muscles, will EK drop these cities down to smaller aircraft?
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