Re: Philippine to launch Manila to Seattle

Finally, a route that was supposed to be launched in May 2020. Timetable: Manila - Seattle/Tacoma WA PR124 2240 1915 77P 357 Seattle/Tacoma WA - Manila PR125 2340 0445+1 77P 357 77P stands for the original PR 77W. I believe on the SEA-MNL should be a +2, no?? Regardless, good on SEA to gain another...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Lufthansa load numbers for February (customs) Outbound 57.68% Inbound 60.86% Total 59.27% Last February was by far the worst month in 2023 at 53% Wednesday flights really dragged it down with some under 100 passengers. Certainly not great, but for undoubtedly the worst month of the year for TA not ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

Lufthansa load numbers for February (customs) Outbound 57.68% Inbound 60.86% Total 59.27% Last February was by far the worst month in 2023 at 53% Wednesday flights really dragged it down with some under 100 passengers. Certainly not great, but for undoubtedly the worst month of the year for TA not ...

Re: Icahn Takes 9.9% Stake in JetBlue

Sydscott wrote:

We know that Icahn knows what an LHR slot is worth so just give him those in exchange for his shares.

Re: The Rest of Texas (MAF / LBB / AMA / ELP / ect.) Aviation - 2024

I'll be curious to see if DL or UA expand in smaller TX markets. I haven't done any hard research, but it seemed like every secondary/smaller market had at least two carriers back around the turn of the century, now many -not all, of course- seem to be just AA. I don't see it. When DL had its hub a...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2024

with Southwests' stronghold on the market and their schedule pretty much open through August, i'd be surprised if we see any major additions for the year. would just be nice to see some continued frequencies to major markets and growing STL as a strong east-west funnel, but you never know, could be...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

You have an award-winning, completely unique terminal building which is an architectural landmark in little old St Louis and no, you can't see it as you should, because it's been covered by surrounding structures and here we are adding to taking it away. The land isn't a mountain region - it's not ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

You have an award-winning, completely unique terminal building which is an architectural landmark in little old St Louis and no, you can't see it as you should, because it's been covered by surrounding structures and here we are adding to taking it away. The land isn't a mountain region - it's not ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

Lambert is to get 62 gates, same number as McNamara A. Coincidence? :) Assuming that no gates on the ends makes it easier to extend with less disruption, but 62 still seems like overkill to me.. Mac has 62 gates and the people mover, so I’m assuming the new terminal with 62 gates would be just as l...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

Lambert is to get 62 gates, same number as McNamara A. Coincidence? :) Assuming that no gates on the ends makes it easier to extend with less disruption, but 62 still seems like overkill to me.. West end there is no room for gates on the end, it is going to be tight making it around the turn. East ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

Kind of sort of reminds me of Raleigh/Durham-ish Given the number of gates, it's very similar to DTW's McNamara A-Gates. Similar design/setup as well. They've previously stated the width of the new terminal will be wider than the current C concourse, and a dimension identical to DTW. Interesting no...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

Hadn't seen these before. Updated layout for new terminal. 3 widebody gates. https://www.flystl.com/uploads/documents/airport-layout-plan-prior-studies/05-STL-2020-ALP_05-Terminal-Area-Drawing-reduced.pdf Full airfield layout if you really feel like looking at it. (Doesn't have the new Boeing expan...

Re: Back to the office mandates

Here is what is going to happen. All of this BS about offices, based on boomer memories about their golden days in the 1970s-80s, will die off. Businesses cannot afford to make these sentimental expenditures. The money doesn’t exist. Every cost that can be cut, will be cut. Amen.. The previous comp...

Re: Houston Aviation - 2023

F9 would do well with more access to common use gates in their proximity. They also have a token CUN flight in IAH. Although this begs the question at least for me, what will come of the open gates in A once these moves are done? H ard to see A having to be remodeled. It's been good for a while now...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

Airport Commision meeting today: Parking fee increases passed. Go into effect in August. St. Louis Country School district lease (in D) extended. Special closed session (dealing with real estate) LH outbound on 1 year anniversary flight was oversold by one. Sent the oversold person thru ORD. Summer...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

Based off what some others have said on this thread, it seems STL-FRA is doing decent? Don’t think anyone had that high of expectations for it so is it fair to say it is doing better than expected? Seems like the load is at least decent, anyone have any insight into what the yields are? Last number...

Re: New Kansas City Airport Terminal

In a somewhat concerning surprise, less than a week open, it appears as if the bathrooms and floors haven't been cleaned since opening day... Floors are still waiting. They looked so dirty and scuffed... They look terrible... and I haven't seen single custodian. The dust, dirt, dried up spilled liq...

Re: Houston Aviation - 2023

A little more info on United's plans for IAH. Houston Airports reported to a Houston City Council committee today that they are very close with United on plans for Terminal B, which will be a major overhaul. Very exciting news. I’ve heard United is going to replace both Terminal B North and South, ...

Re: Piedmont Airlines to Portland, OR?

I was told that in or around 1988, I flew on Piedmont from CLT to PDX (probably on a 767-200). However I can't find any route maps or flight schedules that confirms they actually had this route. I think they flew to Seattle, but not sure about PDX. Just curious if anyone has that info. Thanks! Also...

Re: United Airlines Network - 2023

I am only seeing DEN-MCI as 4x UAL.com is showing 4x until June 1 and 5x beginning Friday, June 2. Little odd is that the first flight out of DEN doesn't leave until 0948 arriving MCI at 1240. Going westbound, the first MCI-DEN departure is at 0615. All 738. Also, beginning June 2, MCI-ORD goes to ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation - 2023

From another message board. If the person that posted it wants to claim it on here feel free but I didn’t want to attribute it to you. Jason Hall would likely be in the know so if he did say this stuff I would take it to be pretty true. “ Was at a luncheon a month back and Jason Hall was a guest sp...

Re: United pokes fun at Southwest boarding process in a new ad

I love WN's boarding process - quick, easy and efficient and not time consuming, cumbersome and complicated like most other airlines that have half the plane standing around the gate waiting for their "group" to be called out, which makes boarding by other airlines even more deplorable, t...

Re: Brand loyality

There are food brands I think taste better, but if they are not on sale, I will go with something else. I love Tillamook cheese. I have been to their factory many, many times. But, if Sargento is on sale, I will get Sargento. Shoes, I go for K-Swiss first, but it is hard to find shoes in my size. A...

Re: Kroger in talks with Albertsons regarding a potential merger

Let them merge, Albertsons and Krogers got their butt kicked by HEB in central and South Texas and now that HEB is moving to the Metroplex and Houston watch both companies leave or shrink in those areas too. HEB maybe regional but it has a loyal customer base. They stared down Walmart and won. HEB ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

The airport would need to come up with a solution. They have room, just no motivation to deal with the issue until there’s a need. They can probably also just tell whoever wants to run the umpteenth mexico beach flight that they can't run it between 2-5. I just find it funny that an airport with so...

Re: Kansas City Aviation Thread - 2022

Nice write up on the new terminal by ThePointsGuy from an overall media tour. On time and on budget. https://thepointsguy.com/news/kansas-city-new-terminal/ Well done with the on-time and on-budget! Couple observations from the article, while the hold rooms appear to be adequate in size the walkway...

Re: Dominoes Pizza

I live in STL and the local pizza places DESTROY Domino's, P Hut, Papa J's etc....Hell, I make my own at home that taste better than the chains. I really hope you are not calling Imos pizza ;) But you are spot if you mean somewhere like Racanellis While not bad in a pinch, Imo's is still better tha...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Its 2x3x2 seating instead of 2x4x2 so as Codasco says the seats should be better since econ+ usually is the same seats as econ with just more legroom/recline Yeah, it's definitely a true PE product although on the lower end of offerings/services provided IMO. Used to take 5-6 trips per year with LH...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

[list=][/list] sounds as though it's more of a Main Cabin Extra/+ than it is a true Premium Economy. Its 2x3x2 seating instead of 2x4x2 so as Codasco says the seats should be better since econ+ usually is the same seats as econ with just more legroom/recline Yeah, it's definitely a true PE product a...

Re: Austin Aviation Thread - 2022

AUS broke the 2-million pax mark: https://www.austintexas.gov/news/may-2022-passenger-cargo-traffic-austin-bergstrom 2,021,747 pax in May 2022. WN led with ~788k enplanments , up 118.6% from May 2021 and AA had ~528k, up 97.7%. Correction, per the report the airline totals are not enplanements but ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

I guess I figure its going to be pretty rare they wouldn't be able to use E24 so it wouldn't be a huge deal if they have to push a flight to E34+ once in awhile. And most of the time it would probably be their own international flight using it so they could open 33 to frontier or someone on the rar...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

So since we kind of have a down moment now with LH already started and no new routes on the table, I wanted to ask a question of everyone. What would you like to see added route wise in the next 3 years? Not a prediction, but try to keep it realistic. It has to be something with a chance to happen....

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

The 757 was frequent to DFW, MIA, I think one of the LAX frequencies was a 757 - and the two LAS roundtrips were a 757 which was pretty much dedicated to the route - it'd start in Vegas at 6am, come to STL for a midday- do a turn - come back and do a Vegas turn around 8 at night. The 757s were nice...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

STLflyer wrote:

Seems we’re going to be delayed about an hour, cutting my connection in FRA down to a butt clenching one hour.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Anyone know what the last regularly scheduled pax widebody service to STL was? I'm going to guess HNL or LGW back in 2003 before AA took the first axe swing to the hub? I believe Jshank83 posted this earlier today: https://thepointsguy.com/news/lufthansa-st-louis-reconnect-europe/ So LGW's last fli...

Re: Trans World Flight Center 60 years

As a functioning terminal, however, it was not suited for the jet age at all. It struggled, valiantly, to handle the volumes of traffic inconceivable in its design years, but those two long tubes to the tiny facilities were barely adequate in the best of times. Took my first trip thru there in earl...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/34297393-post7.html Looks like it was pretty uneventful in FRA, which isn't too surprising. This probably isn't a big deal over there. FRA has inaugurals all the time. This is much more important for STL. Happened to pass through FRA several years ago on a flight bac...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Like big brother coveting little brother's biscuit when he already has a full plate. STL frankly shouldn't receive a dime of this. They have their own resources. This incentive sounds like a one-time deal and KC needs to stretch it out as much as possible as Missouri typically provides little to no...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Interesting tidbit on the state money supposedly for MCI. In theory STL could use some of it. While the state specifically set the money aside for KCI, lawmakers say it could go to help another cities’ efforts. “I would love to see Kansas City get a direct flight, but if St. Louis has a fantastic p...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Will be interesting to see how the build-out goes. If I'm standing in front of the terminal now, it makes sense to tear down A and everything to the left and build out there, especially if that side of the terminal will be holding the new customs facility. Then turn around and build out to the righ...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

I have not read anywhere how the 62 gates will be allocated to the airlines. How many will WN need? I would think gate allocation is down the road at this point, and I'm of the opinion that all 62 won't be built at once since per JShank's comments above from the seminar Lambert is forecasted at onl...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Jshank83 wrote:

via airport commish meeting

Open house for new terminal talk is tomorrow. Parking is free in T1.

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

With a properly managed airport, I don't see why that can't be the case. In my opinion, STL has one of, if not the, best geographical location to compete for a transfer hub. I can't remember which AA exec recently said that closing the STL hub was a mistake. I believe that was Raju Vasa.. Sorry, Va...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Flew AA PHX-STL on Tuesday. Lady next to me was flying PHX-STL-BOS. Not a flight I expected connections on but I guess there are some. Might be more this year than usual with all the flight shortages. EDIT: Quick look at connections times they actually aren't too bad on that route and reverse. With...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Some AA notes: CUN back on the schedule for Nov. Obviously could change but at least good to see. For April (I'll get a full April frequency update this week, I am mostly thru it) DFW and CLT both backed way off from March. Losing 2 dailies. BOS gets the 2nd frequency back DCA goes to 5x LGA goes t...

Re: Houston (IAH/HOU) Aviation Thread - 2022

Guessing they extend west, then place gates on the northern side which would not get CBP access. Placing gates on the north side will be a real shame, as the West Concourse is very spacious right now and certainly the least crowded place in all of Hobby.. :( EDIT: bulldogtx , found the diagram in th...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

I would think that after just a year here NK with all A320s and A321s will have more daily seats than UA. Seats on Mondays in March NK 1308 UA 1300 UA might edge them out total for the month based on other days. But it’s really close. Crazy that UA has been at STL at least 50 years (I don't know ex...

Re: St. Louis Aviation Thread - 2022

Ok. I'll admit I had NEVER heard to Lambert-2000 plan that was introduced in 1972. Before reading about it I said "James McDonnell probably blew a gasket when he saw this" https://www.airporthistory.media/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Sample_23-1-950x732.jpg https://www.airporthistory.org/bl...

Re: New airport lisbon

Well Montijo has been ruled out on environmental grounds, so they really need to start building something at the CTA. (Alcochete), as this is the only place in the Lisboa region that allows room for expansion. That is a shame, as Montijo looks to be a good location with enough space to add a parall...

Re: Boston Aviation Thread - 2022

BOSMEMFlyer wrote:

Did I miss this? Was playing around on booking some summer travel, and it shows Turkish going to 2x daily on July 2 (12:50pm and 11:30pm flights)