Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

You are right on the length - I thought it had been reduced when they installed the runway overrun system. Anyhow found a fantastic technical report that CLE A.netters will love BURKE LAKEFRONT AIRPORT (BKL) Airport Layout Plan (ALP) Update Narrative Report WORKING PAPER #2: FACILITY REQUIREMENTS -...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Feb numbers... pax up 8.4%, cargo up 4.5% https://flypittsburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/February_2024_Summary_Report.pdf " Frontier Airlines is celebrating its upcoming launch of nonstop service between Philadelphia International Airport and Pittsburgh International Airport by offering r...

Re: Windshear on A343 take off scare at Zurich

Looks like the oscillation began when leaving ground effect.

Perhaps a lesser actual flap setting than what was programmed.

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

" Cassotis’ ‘facts’ and PIT’s realities " https://triblive.com/opinion/colin-mcnickle-cassotis-facts-and-pits-realities/ The ACAA spinmeisters certainly put the cart before the horse when declaring PIT recovered from Covid-19. Maybe in June, the first full month of the F9 and FI expansion....

Re: The Rest of Ohio Aviation - 2024

boscmh wrote:

February 2024 was also the busiest February in history with 629,621 passengers flying out of Columbus.

AirportRival wrote:

CVG's February numbers are out.
February Total - 608,478 +11.80%

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

G4 tried PIT-SJU a few years ago as well. Only lasted one season

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

joeman wrote:

flyPIT wrote:

FlyingRocks wrote:

- When asked about problems with their airports Mr. Camacho was like the big elephant in the room is that we need a new ATC tower

Why does CLE need a new ATC tower every 15 years?

I believe Camacho is associated with CAK

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

FlyingRocks wrote:

- When asked about problems with their airports Mr. Camacho was like the big elephant in the room is that we need a new ATC tower

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

AaronPGH wrote:

flyPIT wrote:

Pretty impressive for Columbus to have the same amount of demand to Tokyo as it does London.

I'm assuming this has a lot to do with Honda's presence in CMH?

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

I saw recently that CMH is pushing for flights to Europe and……Asia lol Europe - 241 daily passengers (2019) 41 to LHR 18 to CDG 15 to AMS (all averaged, so they'll be higher in peak season ) Asia - 139 daily passengers (2019) Top market is Tokyo (NRT/HND) with 41 a day. ANA is listed as a potential...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Park at LBE then Uber to PIT. The parking will be free

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

To advertise the alternative option of flying Frontier

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

But now there IS an alternative, at least between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Has there ever been a time when tolls DID NOT increase? It’s a sign of the times; plus I’d expect tolls to increase in perpetuity, not just for the next 30 years. “According to Compton, higher tolls became inevitable afte...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

The March '24 TMP photo update is up on PIT's Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pitairport/albums/72177720315264206/ During the design phase I pointed out that ugly gray cladding on the bottom 2/3 of the building seen in some of the renderings. It really comes out in these pics, and not in ...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

" Pittsburgh International Airport continues to put the pandemic in the rearview mirror, logging more airline seats in February 2023 than the same number in February 2019 before Covid-19 temporarily altered the airline industry's trajectory. There were 864,173 seats available on airliners in an...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

In fact a bid just went out to hook a private investor/developer to develop the Central District to include access between the TMP and the existing parking area; as well as a few other surprises which to my knowledge have not been made public yet so I'll just park it right there. Now that this is p...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Jshank83 wrote:

BA numbers for Feb

Outbound 59.03%
Inbound 53.89%
Total 56.46%

Re: Atlas Air traffic to PDX

ANC is pretty much full these days at certain times, and not just during the snowstorms. Atlas uses the Northwest Cargo Ramp for much of their operation. I believe that is a common user ramp, and UPS has been muscling their way in to that ramp with up to 4 jets at a time, in addition to their own de...

Re: BWI Relocation of Runway 15L 1980s?

^ From the airport in the late 80’s.

Re: BWI Relocation of Runway 15L 1980s?

The current 15L/33R is definitely a relocation. The original was a simple General Aviation VFR runway adaption of an existing air carrier taxiway, which was a fairly common thing at larger US airports at the time. Here is a 1960's aerial (courtesy of BWI's Flickr page) which shows the taxiway before...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Some AA cutbacks for the summer... The competitive response to F9 entering PIT-PHL has been reduced. Now showing 6x daily heading in to the summer as before, but now two of the A319s are reduced to RJs. Later in the summer the frequency is reduced to 5x daily, albiet all A319s for now. PIT-DFW is re...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Jan stats are out; passengers up 5.2% and cargo up 2.3% https://flypittsburgh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/summary_january_2024_stats.pdf UPS is set to resume its daytime PIT-SDF-PIT mail flight later this month, so we can expect the airmail stats to increase significantly. Inside the Airside Core...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

FLYKTPA wrote:

Trying to fill an A320 during the winter on LGA-PIT sounds like a great way to burn money. The capacity will shift back to Florida in the winter.

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Apparently NK's LGA add will be seasonal; kinda surprising for LGA. " According to the Allegheny County Airport Authority, it marks the first flight by an ultra low-cost carrier to connect Pittsburgh and New York. " https://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2024/02/29/spirit-airlin...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

I'm sorry for the long rant. I really want PIT to succeed. But I feel the direction ACAA is taking, (primarily lesuire travel) will do nothing to grow business in this area. In a non-hub city like ours, air service doesn't grow business, businesses and population grows air service. This is a bit of...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Any city that had good load factors and yields on DL to SLC will get it back Exactly. The gate issue at SLC isn’t an issue. https://news.delta.com/delta-completes-concourse-expansion-salt-lake-city-international-airport#:~:text=The%20Concourse%20A%20expansion%20at,peak%2Dday%20departures%20at%20SLC.

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Didn't DL just open 13 new gates at SLC for a total of 50? If they want to serve SLC-PIT, or CLE, or wherever once daily then they can and will do so. As for Provo, ask the average Pittsburgher what they know about Provo and the likely response is something that goes on their Primanti's. Let's not f...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Yet neither DL nor a LCC is interested in PIT-SLC as of yet. Beggars can’t be choosers.

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

Frontier signed a 5 year terminal lease, so hopefully that means good things to come. Also, Cassotis previously mentioned restoring a link to “Continental Europe”, but here FRA is specifically mentioned (no surprise). https://www.post-gazette.com/business/development/2024/02/16/pittsburgh-internatio...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024

A couple screenshots of the future airside core from a new ACAA video. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53531137137_ff03fd4603_o.png https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532347999_d8f59caf70_o.png Too much white; I think the ceiling would look nice with the same bronze tones of the TMP... althou...

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

Don't drink the Kool Aid. Chiquita left Cincinnati because Charlotte offered an overly generous incentive package equating to $22M. New ownership moved Chiquita to Florida, partially because it wasn't going to be generate the job growth necessary to collect the entire $22M package. What Cool Aid mi...

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

Don't drink the Kool Aid. Chiquita left Cincinnati because Charlotte offered an overly generous incentive package equating to $22M. New ownership moved Chiquita to Florida, partially because it wasn't going to be generate the job growth necessary to collect the entire $22M package. What Cool Aid mi...

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

Without getting too deep about the specifics of Cleveland, air service absolutely factors in for site selection. I remember when Cincinnati lost a prominent company (I forget the name), already established there, to Charlotte. Air service was cited as the prime reason. Here in Pittsburgh, we lost H...

Re: Cleveland Aviation - 2024

Without getting too deep about the specifics of Cleveland, air service absolutely factors in for site selection. I remember when Cincinnati lost a prominent company (I forget the name), already established there, to Charlotte. Air service was cited as the prime reason. Here in Pittsburgh, we lost HJ...

Re: Taking off from chevrons

Every take-off is planned where the take-off ends with the plane at 35’. Whether it does so over the runway or the clearway, if available, is the question. If TORA equals TODA, then 35’ must be achieved over the runway. If there’s a clearway, basically, half of the distance can be over the clearway...

Re: Taking off from chevrons

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

The difference between TORA and TODA is the clearway of 200’ which is used for take-off calculations. .

Re: Taking off from chevrons

That is not what it says. Standard displaced thresholds are always usable for takeoff, unless otherwise noted. Notice how they use different terminology? "Pre-threshold area" for the underrun and "displaced threshold" for the displaced threshold. The chart is stating that aircra...

Re: Taking off from chevrons

That’d be it All what that's saying is for an aircraft back taxing west down the runway, you will come to these red runway threshold lights at the threshold bar (should be green on the back side), and you are good to cross them in order to reach the beginning of the displaced threshold for departur...

Re: Taking off from chevrons

Use of the overrun for take-off is authorized according to the Jepp chart, so no issues for the pilots. Is this the note on the Jepp chart you are referring to? " All traffic intending to depart from Rwy 10 and requiring the use of the pre-threshold area are permitted to taxi across the red in...

Re: Pittsburgh Aviation - 2024