Nice, individual type font as well, in a world of boring Helveticas, as the presenter said. Great custom font, though a bit Vivo- or Peugeot-like with the stretching; I like Finnair’s custom font better. However, the Nunito in the body text is not what I’d expect, as it’s far too common and the lik...
Jump to postFWA announced that they will begin rebuilding the East side of the terminal building now that the West side expansion is complete. If I heard correctly, the gates will move upstairs, and the restaurant will move, too. If true, that will mean 10 jetways when they are done. An order of magnitude bett...
Jump to postDelta will Resume SBN-DTW flights on September 11, 2023 Wow, I’m a very surprised by this. I thought once they suspended the route it would be gone for good. I’m guessing it’s for connectability to the northeast (BOS, NYC, PHL) that was a little more difficult and time consuming through ATL. It loo...
Jump to postAA changing to Envoy 175s for FWA-DFW twice daily(0545, 1419 departures), while holding one CR7 for OO (1212) on May schedule. It also seems that ZW will be visiting FWA again for PHL and select ORD AA flights. The two afternoon DFW departures are so close that it makes me wonder if they are testin...
Jump to postBack in the day UA use to fly a B727 into SBN from ORD. It would get into SBN around 10:30 PM or so. They didn't care how many passengers were on it as it was hauling tons of mail and freight which paid for the flight. I do not know if it was a "Stand Up" overnight or not. That flight con...
Jump to postSBN Traffic Figures for this past August. Passengers were balking at the higher airfares this summer over last and there probably was a bunch of leakage to Midway to fly on much cheaper WN. These figures also reflect less flying to DTW on Delta than last summer. https://flysbn.com/wp-content/upload...
Jump to postI could see a scenario where United ordered A359 or B787 planes, and those took over all of the international flying done by the 16 strong 764 fleet, and the 764 fleet rotated to widebody domestic/Hawaii flying replacing the 77As, which were then retired. While I think the 764 is a great domestic w...
Jump to postSXDFC wrote:Although with MAXs soon to enter the fleet, what’s the odds of some Second hand NEOs?
Not too surprising. The fact that they have flights to other hubs means they won't lose DL service entirely. If they cut DTW-SCE/ITH/ELM/BGM flights, they would have no DL service. Starting in Mid October, ABE and FWA are both down to 2x daily RJ as the total DL service offered (both flights to ATL...
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G4 and AA are neck and neck in terms of market share at FWA, and pax were up 12.22% in April. Looks like FWA may break its 2019 record this year.
CEO Scott Kelly mentioned the phase out of 50-seat aircraft. Markets that can’t support two cabin aircraft can expect reductions or loss of service. I think we can expect to see more cities on the chopping block. It's CEO Scott Kirby. I think both SBN and FWA can support two cabin aircraft service....
Jump to postUPS has already brought back the A300 freighter to SBN and FWA for a couple of flights in place of the B757. They will bring it back for the holiday season and what I'm hearing from UPS is that after the holidays this change will be made permanent. We shall see. Probably. An Amazon fulfillment cent...
Jump to postI've heard a rumor there will be an air service announcement for LAF tomorrow during the Purdue football game. I am pretty skeptical, but figured I'd throw it out there to see if anyone else had heard anything? Looks like OSU is using an Alaska 739, they're due in tonight. Probably G4 to somewhere ...
Jump to post. Scuttlebutt was they were basing these crews out of FWA Turns out that it's going to be AFW . That makes a heck of a lot more sense than FWA. Right letters, just the wrong order. Actually, Amazon is building two giant fulfillment centers in Fort Wayne. One near FWA, one on US 30 across from Sweet...
Jump to postAA is adding a third FWA-DFW on the same day SBN gets their third CLT.
65 seat SkyWest CR7.
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jetskipper wrote:No, AA is staying with 2x FWA-CLT, an early morning CR9 and an afternoon CR7.
Does FWA-CLT go 3x daily as well?
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Rumor has it that while digging up part of Taxiway B, several discarded mattresses were found underneath the taxiway. No work has really been done since the initial tear up but that is the talk around the airport right now. I absolutely love FWA. The terminal, ramp, everything was nicely designed a...
Jump to postThe whole Ramp needs a rebuild. Delta had to move their Gate 5 jets over to the former Gate 4 area because the concrete is thicker. When they built the new terminal they should have rebuilt the whole parking ramp with heavy reinforced concrete. That was Shalliol's fault. Musical gates because of th...
Jump to postWhile Covid had traffic down last year iI personally if I was in management would have started on Gate 9 and completely rebuilt the ramp from there one Gate at a time. They could have had Gate 8 and 9 done in no time. Now as traffic is returning and the ramp is falling apart under the weight of the...
Jump to postFWA-MSP is returning from its COViD-19 era hiatus.
Jump to postDon't forget that G4 is already a known quantity in Lafayette. They've served IND for years, and will have instant brand recognition as a result. I've long thought that G4 would be a good fit for LAF, even before they served IND (though there was the MD-80 runway issue before the all-Airbus fleet of...
Jump to postWith what airplanes? Delta has made it clear the 50 seaters are dead for their operation. With Delta going to 76-seaters now on SBN-ATL as they had planned to pre-pandemic and with Delta phasing out 50-seaters do you think that they would also offer the 76-seaters for the 4 DTW flights? DTW-FWA isn...
Jump to postMore good news for SBN on an update. Delta just started offering a 76 seat CRJ900 operated by Endeavor Air for the 12:23 PM flight to ATL. It runs for March and April for now. I would bet this is the start of Delta's original pre-pandemic plan to phase out CRJ200's for the SBN-ATL flights. Just che...
Jump to postPresident Mitch Daniels started by sharing his goal of bringing commercial air service to Tippecanoe County. At about 70 miles away from the Indianapolis International Airport, Purdue is at the bottom of the Big 10 schools list for distance away from a commercial airport, and he wants to change tha...
Jump to postIt will be hard to tell if and when SBN will get back to 2019's record year for enplanements Post-Covid however enplanements were only down 50% in 2020 over 2019. Small airports may still bounce back over larger ones. Yes 50 seaters will be through in a couple of years. As far as Delta goes at SBN,...
Jump to postI don't think so, not anytime soon. But, once they get airborne, Breeze may be a real possibility for both! There are some U.S. markets not served by WN in the contiguous U.S., Alaska, and USVI that carried more domestic passengers in 2019 than SBN or FWA did, and WN is more likely to add service t...
Jump to postWN at SBN or FWA? Maybe both?
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Does this mean that LH will now be the launch operator?
Jump to postWill BMG see any freight charters for the Moderna Covid Vaccine l? Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk BMG is not a distribution hub for COVID-19 vaccines, either Pfizer or Moderna. The Indiana State Department of Health designated IND, FWA, SBN, EVV, and GYY (Merrillville) as the distribution hub...
Jump to postOA also flew ORD-ATH with the 747 and later the A340. Before US-EU Open Skies and the end of OA longhaul, OA swapped ORD-ATH with TK’s YUL-IST route. As a result, TK started ORD-IST and OA started YUL-ATH, both with the A340. Over time, ORD-IST switched to a mix of 77W/789 and became one of TK’s mos...
Jump to postPersonally I’d love an AA connection to PHL more than ORD but I could definitely see myself using an ORD connection especially if the shuttle bus isn’t making a return! AA had plans Pre-Covid to add the SBN-PHL flight but right now who knows when they will even offer it. They did indeed, personally...
Jump to postThe idea was that all North Atlantic flights would move from ORY to CDG, meaning all US airlines would have to move, and that process would take time. It did take time. IIRC, Delta was running CVG-ORY in 1993. Delta moved to CDG in 1999/2000. Early to mid-1990s, they were at ORY. This was after the...
Jump to postThe idea was that all North Atlantic flights would move from ORY to CDG, meaning all US airlines would have to move, and that process would take time. It did take time. IIRC, Delta was running CVG-ORY in 1993. DL consolidated at CDG not long after becoming partners with AF. (Ex-Pan Am routes were a...
Jump to postUA and DL each have 125+ widebodies in international config, plus lie-flat 757s. They have all the capacity they need for premium configs. True, but these 757s were mostly delivered in the 1990's. I'd think that they need to be replaced by newer and more efficient jets with similar capacity sooner ...
Jump to postDL is a huge A321 operator already.
All they would need to do is reconfigure the interior with a Delta One product up front and activate the center fuel tank to do JFK/BOS-LAX/SFO.
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Wow, is this the first scheduled Widebody at SBN? Wow, is this the first scheduled Widebody at SBN? Not sure about SBN, but it isn’t the first scheduled widebody at FWA. The USPS C-Net contract with Kitty Hawk had regularly scheduled 747s and DC-10s every Christmas, and both FedEx and UPS upgauged ...
Jump to postibthebigd wrote:I could see IND-SRQ eventually
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The Journal Gazette reported that Amazon is opening a fulfillment center near FWA in 2021 on airport-owned land, not far from a recently opened delivery station.
Will we see Prime Air 737s or 767s joining the UPS A300s and FedEx 767s at FWA?
Did NW cancel any ordered RC MD-82s ? 12 frames delivered to RC and never more taken up after the merger. Just curious. Seems RC was moving towards a fleet of MDs and 752s at the time. Did NW already have the A320 on Order and not interested in further MDs? Obviously the crash at DTW probably did n...
Jump to postAlso would it be true to say there were never any factory new MD80s delivered in Canada ? Not sure, but we have to remember that the A320 won out over the 737 and MD-80, the A330 won out over more 763ERs, and the A340 won out over more 744s due to what is considered one of the largest bribery scand...
Jump to postAA - 747-400. Wouldn't have been new builds though. They were going to aquire to from Canadian if they had been granted ORD/NRT flights which instead went to UA AA and CP had a very deep partnership at the time - codeshares, oneworld charter members, 24.9% ownership by AMR of CP, and co-building YY...
Jump to postRJNUT wrote:Please correct me if im wrong but here goes
PSA L-1011
TWA Caravelle
Midway Connection DO328n turbo prop
Allegheny A300B2 (CAB denied request one year before EA; said AL needed to “buy American”) Continental A340-300 (aircraft ended up with CX) Hawaiian A330-800neo (carrier chose 787-9 instead) Northwest A340-300 (with IAE SuperFan, no less) Pan Am A320 (order transferred to Braniff II, then America We...
Jump to postAmong US carriers in recent memory, DL was first starting with the A321 and CF6-powered A333s.
WN followed not long afterwards with the introduction of the Heart livery and the new heart logo on the belly.
Here are the top U.S. airports by number of domestic passengers in 2019 in markets not currently served by WN: ANC - 5299125 SAV - 2922050 MYR - 2675558 SYR - 2548695 TYS - 2497971 MSN - 2328717 PSP - 2162887 GSO - 2162887 SRQ - 1909425 XNA - 1784227 COS - 1718713 DAY - 1695915 (WN previously serve...
Jump to postWith the expiration of the CARES Package in October UA is cutting flights at SBN-ORD . On Monday and Friday they will offer 4 flights, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday 2 flights, Thursday and Sunday 3 flights. UA just changed the off-peak day schedule of flights. SBN traffic is recovering. AA and G4...
Jump to postWith the expiration of the CARES Package in October UA is cutting flights at SBN-ORD . On Monday and Friday they will offer 4 flights, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday 2 flights, Thursday and Sunday 3 flights. I’d say this: St. Joseph County is dangerously close to being a 3 on the ISDH COVID-19 sca...
Jump to postDelta flys the 7377 between SNA-ATL also but will soon replace it with the A220. Flyguy DL flying the A220 on SNA-ATL?? That may be just for the pandemic season. Pre-Covid DL was flying 3x daily 757 on SNA-ATL and they always went out full. DL is parking all 10 73Gs and is scheduled to get the firs...
Jump to postAs I recall a new entrant at SNA gets a minimum of three slot so where would NK or who ever it is fly from to SNA. Given the 5700 foot runway is would probably not be anything on the east coast. If it’s NK, I’d expect three of these cities (take your pick): LAS, DEN, ORD, DFW, OAK, or AUS. ORD-SNA ...
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