Except the fact that an airline that puts it on seasonal basis makes it *much* easier to quietly suspend and never restart the route than a market that is not seasonal. Exactly ... At LAN ... room for 2 players to MCO ? https://www.flybreeze.com/shopping/en-us/flights-to-lansing-mi Battle Creek to ...
Jump to postreasonable wrote:Is FI ending DTW?
DAB is now being marketed as Daytona Beach/Orlando when booked as a destination. So now you have Daytona Beach/Orlando, Orlando, and Orlando/Lakeland. Orlando/Sanford ... Melbourne/Orlando .... how far is Gainesville from MCO ? 130 miles, a little too far to be considered Orlando. Gainesville, alon...
Jump to postAVELO put's their service to LAN and AZO service to MCO on hiatus ... airports hoping they will be back https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2024/04/airline-drops-kalamazoo-direct-flights-to-florida.html It's a seasonal route and always has been, this was totally expected and planned. Slow news day.
Jump to postAre the 787-8’s used in any special way or pattern of use these days? They don't fly them to Asia anymore because they are now in a less premium configuration than the other 787s and the 777-200 and -300. They're mostly used on lower yield routes to Europe, Africa, AMM, and South America (although ...
Jump to postGlobalX appears to have taken over all of their Repatriation flights - mhttps://www.flightaware.com/live/airport/KAEX
Jump to postService Updates NK - https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240410-nkjun24 ORD-BOS service commences June 5, 2024 on 32N, 7x ORD-EWR service commences July 10, 2024 on 321, 7x F9 - https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240410-f9jun24 ORD-SLC service commences June 14, 2024 on 32N, 3x Interesting choice to add SLC...
Jump to postSure FI has some cheap fares which DL can match. DL can’t match FI’s connecting network in Europe though which we can assume is the majority of the DTW-KEF traffic on FI. This also makes the volcano impact less relevant. FI’s Europe network is better than what WOW ever offered and they also have mo...
Jump to postSure FI has some cheap fares which DL can match. DL can’t match FI’s connecting network in Europe though which we can assume is the majority of the DTW-KEF traffic on FI. This also makes the volcano impact less relevant. FI’s Europe network is better than what WOW ever offered and they also have mo...
Jump to postJust stumbled across this, current non stop destination from ORD & MDW (as of April 2024); ORD Domestic 900 daily flights to 160 destinations International 111 daily flights to 63 destinations https://www.flychicago.com/ohare/myflight/non-stop/pages/default.aspx. (Route maps for both domestic a...
Jump to postThere would be a decent benefit to connect Terminals 1 and 4 inside security as domestic arrivals on Delta could depart on AF or KE without re-clearing security. That's really the only benefit I see.
Jump to postMaybe they'll get a naming rights sponsorship from Mitchum deodorant
Jump to post2 carriers competing on LAN-MCO is a bit crazy. Avelo flies it to. I wonder if they will operate on the same days or different
Jump to postEvacuation flights are being attempted out of CAP, however it has been a tough go so far. IBC Airways was supposed to do one yesterday and was unable and I believe they ferried the plane back to FLL. They are attempting today again with IBC, Global Jet and Global X.. Hopefully, they can get some pe...
Jump to postAs Skywest, Contour, and DAC recover from the pilot shortage and start taking back EAS contracts, what's the future for carriers like Cape Air and Southern? I'm hoping the decreased schedules help improve 9X's performance, but having a large order of Cessna 208s while losing routes doesn't seem lik...
Jump to postThey probably don't want to add a station just for seasonal regional flights.
Jump to postGlobalX got an A320 in and out of CAP this morning - I suspect that is the operator of the Sunrise Airways flights.
Jump to postTVC has 4 jetways and 2 more parking positions that are served by ground-board gates. Don't know where you got 10 gates. But yes, the hold room is totally inadequate for the summer when UA, G4, and DL will all have mainline aircraft on the ground at the same time and UA is trying to get 3-4 mainlin...
Jump to postTVC has 4 jetways and 2 more parking positions that are served by ground-board gates. Don't know where you got 10 gates. But yes, the hold room is totally inadequate for the summer when UA, G4, and DL will all have mainline aircraft on the ground at the same time and UA is trying to get 3-4 mainline...
Jump to postA few interesting observations: -- Come mid-spring, DL is replacing the 321 with 739 on many flight out West. Yes, trivial, but not good news for those of us who prefer the 321. -- AA has permanently dropped the second DTW/MIA frequency. -- Late spring, UA swapped a sixth flight to EWR with a third...
Jump to postOdd that Southern didn't apply for MKG. Maybe they got wind of who else was applying and decided not to bother.
Jump to postavi8 wrote:Any idea why UA doesn’t schedule a revenue TPA-ORD flight to re-position the aircraft once it’s been inducted?
Will also help them hold on and attract more ULCC service
Jump to post3M is probably only profitable (guessing) due to its EYW flights to/from MCO, TPA, and FLL (Soon to also be RSW). Those flights can get upwards to $400 on weekends. With the ATR and $400 fares - that is sustainable. The problem is they also flew MCO-CAE that you could have for 90 bucks r/t. They sh...
Jump to postUAL doesn't have any 777LRs. There's the original P&W powered 777s, P&W 777ERs, GE powered 777ERs (from Continental) and the GE powered 77Ws. IIRC, DL had some 777LRs but retired them when they parked all of their 777s. I wish United would’ve picked up DL’s 777LRs when they retired them. Th...
Jump to postSaipan wants to reenter the Essential Air Service Program to restore subsidies primarily to Tinian and Rota, that were lost in the 2012 EAS reform. They say that essential air services between the islands has become exorbitantly expensive, also pointing to "Geopolitical changes" in the Pa...
Jump to postTrk1 wrote:What poor location???
Seems like some of the low load factors for Spirit and Frontier are routes in which the legacies fly. Are people nixing the ULCCs when there's a direct flight on a legacy? I would think for ULCCs high load factors are even more critical. There's little to no partner income and they are monetizing a...
Jump to postUA will not return to DAL. UA is clearly not very interested in secondary airports. They don’t serve HOU, OAK, MDW. The only cities I can think of where UA serves multiple airports are NY (EWR, LGA) and LA (LAX, SNA, BUR, ONT). +WAS UA obviously has good service from DCA, but I am somewhat surprise...
Jump to postBeginning Apr 1, OO/UA* will have separate flights for DEN-HYS and DEN-SLN, no more DEN-SLN-HYS-DEN routing. They still have the ORD-HYS-SLN-ORD flight though. Any idea why UA's website says there is a plane change when you look at a one-stop segment? Most of UA's mainline thru flights do change ai...
Jump to postI didn't realize they ever stopped flying this! I took it a few years ago. Packed all-Y A321 redeye from LAS. The F9 operation at LAS seemed to be a zoo sometime around midnight. Clearly a 21st century "night flight" hub... It was moved to MDW. It will now be served from ORD and MDW. A bi...
Jump to postService Updates F9 - https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240123-f92q24las ORD-LAS commences May 16, 2024 on 32N, 7x I didn't realize they ever stopped flying this! I took it a few years ago. Packed all-Y A321 redeye from LAS. The F9 operation at LAS seemed to be a zoo sometime around midnight. Clearly a...
Jump to posthttps://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/240123-uajun24sfo Quite a few reductions later this year for SFO. Is this just demand related or something else? I figured with the new TPAC flights out of SFO, they would be building the domestic operation back up rather than reducing it. I'm guessing it's yield opti...
Jump to postLH lounge serves as the third party lounge as it is in Priority Pass and is used by RJ and presumably TK business passengers, in addition to eligible UA and AC pax. I assume those payments from PP and other airlines are crucial to keeping the lights on for the LH lounge which would otherwise only se...
Jump to postNo. British Airways actually has stopped flying the A380 to O’Hare. It appears they have increased their frequency to three daily flights later this year. Despite this increase, their total seats will actually be a slight reduction on their own metal to ORD. I wonder if there’s ever a chance that e...
Jump to postIn reference to the claims about pricing to London I did a search for a week in Mid-June for Roundtrips: DL DTW-LHR was $2400 Cheapest DL was a connection in JFK for $1800 Cheapest DTW-LON was a connection in Boston on B6 for $1200 (This was for LGW, LHR was about $100 more on B6) Cheapest YQG-LON w...
Jump to postFriday evening is the worst of the storm. Unless it's long haul it will probably be canceled.
Jump to postILikeTrains wrote:What is the experience lately with big snowstorms at ORD? My wife is flying out to LHR in the evening, figuring if it will just be canceled or heavily delayed
Yes, Advanced started out serving LAX via FBO but realized connecting by road between the FBO at Hawthorne and the passenger terminals at LAX was just as fast as the FBO at LAX.
Jump to postdmcreif wrote:When it comes to destinations UA could add or re-add on the TATL front, I think it's more likely we see EWR-HAM flights return with the A321XLRs or 788s.
Flew in and out of ORD to EGE and each flight was out of terminal 2 in Chicago. Vail used to be a pampered flight for United. Is United putting less importance on Vail or more importance on terminal 2? Wow! Does UA fly ORD-EGE nonstop during the winter now? I remember UA offering a summer seasonal ...
Jump to postAdvanced Air also has the 328JET. They could also be interested.
Jump to postNew for 2024: -EWR-FAO/KEF -SFO-BCN -More flights on IAD-FCO, EWR-BRU/AGP What I'd like to see: -More Africa flying (Africa has been strong for DL). IAD-DSS could be a start. -More SFO-Southeast Asia (UA launched SFO-MNL last year). -The launch of EWR-PMO (it was supposed to start in 2020, but was ...
Jump to postThey most certainly do. There are both HNL-IAD and HNL-EWR flights in the air right now with 764s. My bad, I forgot about those very seasonal 767 that we runs. I should have made my point more clear, we do not normally run 767s from west coast (SFO/LAX/DEN) to Hawaii or trans-pac.. Hence why you do...
Jump to postUA has added more CLE flying. Is any more coming in the future? What do ya'll think? don't they always do this during the spring break season? They are flying the exact same destinations from CLE as last year, they're just 2x on FLL and RSW that they weren't last year. PHX and LAS are coming back i...
Jump to postWhich regional carriers are currently limited to just one fleet type on their cert? Commutair and the E145’s? Any others? How much of a process is it to add a new type? It’s a multi year process…he’ll it took United 3 months to get the 321 on the cert and it’s the same type as the 320/319 that they...
Jump to postAnother Oil-related one in Air Astana's service from Amsterdam to Atyrau instead of their larger hubs in Astana or Almaty.
Jump to postAny anticipated west coast domestic adds in tow? SFO and LAX have seen pretty great international growth in the past year, but it's been quite sparse in terms of domestic adds. As an LAX-based UA FF, it's been great to see international growth, but their domestic network ex-LAX is still a bit paltr...
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