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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

I believe UA ran some 737-800's and maybe A319 here and there to IAD at the peak of 2019, when we were seeing mainline AC to ATL, DEN, ORD, EWR, IAD, CLT, and PHL Has US/AA really flown mainline BTV-CLT? My impression was that they remained steadfastly RJ even when UA did their mainline 'experiment...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

No, when B6 served BTV-MCO, it was always the 'next' route we all talked about about, but never materialized. Once B6 left the MCO route, FLL was pretty much out. Then we talked about AA adding MIA pre-COVID Not that I can recall. B6 flew to MCO and G4 to SFB. Historically, I don’t think there were...

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Re: AA announces a slew of new leisure routes for summer

DFW-BGR operating with A319, DFW-BTV with E175 Behind a paywall: https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2021/04/14/american-airlines-summer-routes.html Both huge surprises. BTV-DFW might be the longest nonstop route out of BTV (unless UA still operates BTV-DEN?) Nice to see it nonetheless as that ...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

BTV-DFW Schedule. Doesn't leave a lot of opportunities for connections out of DFW Depart DFW: 12:40 p.m. Arrive BTV: 5:25 p.m. Depart BTV: 6:05 p.m. Arrive DFW: 9:14 p.m. Frequency: Saturday Aircraft: Embraer 175 Service Start: July 3, 2021 through November 6, 2021 Seasonal This might be more about...

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Re: Unusual delivery flights - thread

I have seen quite a few long ferries come through BTV over the years. I don't have the full routings but a couple that stood out and I recall are a DC-3 that went to Russia and an SC-7 that came from Saudi Arabia.

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Re: Jetblue's first A220 rolls out/entry into service

any hints? When will it be released publicly? I'm sure the airplane will be out doing proving flights soon. It'll be out there for the public to see. Rob Dewar :confused: . I know who he is but why? So much more creative names out there. When did Jetblue depart from naming their airplanes with blue...

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Re: Jetblue A320 refurbish thread

I've seen them switch equipment literally within 15 mins of boarding. It use to be the aircraft utilization was so high, if something went wrong they had no choice but to grab any plane they could to keep the flight going, swinging widely between a E190 and a 321 (or even a Mint 321). Now I think i...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

I'm interested to see how the Boutique Air service works out. I for one had wanted a BOS flight for international connections. I shouldn't complain about any new service at BTV, but I'm not sure this is that great of an option, even with the UA codeshare and AA interline agreement. My real question...

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Re: UPS agrees to buy electric vertical aircraft

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N250UT

I have seen it...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

https://www.wcax.com/2021/04/07/commute ... onnection/

It might go against the conventional wisdom, but it does seem like there is at least a small group of people who have wanted this.

mjgbtv

Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

SCHATC422 wrote:
Feel like this is the PWM and MHT-only forum

You must have missed the recent discussion about WN at BTV. And there was plenty of talk about the future of HVN a few weeks ago, and PVD also comes up from time to time. It does seem to go in cycles, though.

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Re: 747 Accident at Tenerife (44 Years Ago)

I wonder if anyone survived the KLM flight? It looks like the plane only broke apart in two pieces and I am sure there could been a few survivors after impact but didn't had time to evacuate.? Nobody on board the KLM flight survived. After the impact, the fuel on board ignited. Which reminds me, if...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Traveled PWM-RSW-PWM this past week on Frontier and found the non-stop flights to be quite appealing. About 63 passengers going south and 110 coming north. I did like the COVID testing at PWM and had my results in two days while I 'quarantined' at our Kennebunkport house. I do not think MHT has suc...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Cboyle wrote:
messaged MHT on messenger again and they had this to say:

We would love a new airline to join us! As soon as we know for sure, we will announce what we are planning. Thanks for checking in!

Considering the date I think they could have done better than that...

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Re: SCOOP: Boeing 757NG launch imminent with Delta and Icelandair

Will it need MCAS?

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Just found that UA is flying under the radar with some extra capacity for RI's April vacation. PVD-IAD is all mainline Sat 4/17 and Sun 4/25. The morning flight on 4/17 continues to TPA as same-plane service. Fri 4/16 and Sat 4/24 also see mainline metal where a CRJ would typically be. DL will send...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Mentioned over in the Southwest Network thread, signals perhaps pointing to WN announcing BTV soon. Would be a big get for BTV....finally. Maybe I'm missing something, but I have to wonder how good WN would be for BTV. Right now there is good balance between the three legacies, plenty of hubs being...

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Re: Southwest Fleet/Network Thread - 2021

According to reliable sources WN is adding 45/50 stored aircraft back into service June 1. More new and resumption of service will be announced on April 1. Also some sources are saying BTV,JAC and DAB will be announced as the final 3 additions for 2021. Flyguy Bring on DAB!!! BTV I think was droppe...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Flights on B6 to ORH may resume this summer : https://www.masslive.com/worcester/2021/03/jetblue-flights-to-florida-could-return-to-worcester-regional-airport-by-end-of-summer-city-officials-say.html?fbclid=IwAR0qxAzcKEfhY3GAmzhcg_8vyAAal7_9sytkZjCqysEcVxjUeIzh4lbIMaY I still find this politician q...

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Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

ORH expects JetBlue flights to Florida to come back before the end of the summer. https://www.masslive.com/worcester/2021/03/jetblue-flights-to-florida-could-return-to-worcester-regional-airport-by-end-of-summer-city-officials-say.html I don't think JFK is coming back, but it makes sense for them t...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

MHT Might be the largest airport without a ULCC presence at all, so I think it only makes sense that someone like NK is interested. It would probably just be MCO and FLL, but thats a start for sure. It seems to me, though, that for the long term they need to try to get the market share more balance...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

I read through the document and it says: The dramatic reduction in capacity at MHT over time has caused the Airport’s rates and charges to airlines to increase, leaving MHT at a competitive disadvantage to other airports in the region, and causing MHT to be the only airport in New England without l...

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Re: Breeze - News and Discussion Thread - 2021

Keep this in mind, folks, from Neeleman's own mouth: "“I doubt we will have a single route that has any competition,” he said. So if Breeze is serious about a point to point network, then the city pairs literally have to be unique. This would require some very creative airport pairings if it i...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

https://www.regulations.gov/docket/DOT- ... 1/document

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Re: 2021 Small Community Air Svc Development (SCASD) Program

BLI-DEN will easily be used for WN. Flyguy Does an airport with WN and G4 (plus AS) really need a SCASD grant? Well you can say that about many of the airports over the years that have applied for these grants. I am curious as to what the * after G4 at STL means. Love when there are no explanations...

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Re: Breeze - News and Discussion Thread - 2021

https://paxex.aero/scasdp-grant-applications-new-routes/ Breeze Airways is interested in serving a number of unserved routes from XNA… While we cannot guarantee Breeze will initiate new service should XNA receive SCASD funding in the form of a revenue guarantee, it would greatly enhance the probabi...

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Re: Jetblue Network Thread - 2021

Per a senior executive yesterday all of the ~14 A320s that will remain in storage are 150-seat non-refurbished aircraft with very little green time until expensive maintenance is due. They will likely be stored for quite a while. They also indicated they would not be taking delivery of the pre-owne...

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Re: Breeze - News and Discussion Thread - 2021

BTV Burlington vermont was one of the first JetBlue cities. I wonder if BTV-Florida might be attractive to them to try? The only airline flying it N/S is frontier. The legacies just have everyone connect in a hub on the way which there are many. The problem, I think, is that beyond Orlando there is...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

That's an odd time to launch as it's the time of year when the tourism demand drops off a cliff and the weather gets disgusting. That said It it was inevitable as they fly to every other major Florida airport aside from JAX and SRQ. I used to think that too but there really is no cliff. Traffic is ...

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Re: Taxi and Delay Times

No idea on metrics, but given how much these times can affect passenger experience, operations and fuel cost I would think any low hanging fruit in this area would have been picked long ago.

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

PSM has another poll over on FB seems like B6 or 9K may be coming this time. last time they had a poll, they added G4 to BOTH BNA and PIE. what do you think? We have another poll! Please respond with your preferences! If Portsmouth International Airport could offer another direct route to a regiona...

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Re: F9 Deicing Incident Nashville (BNA)

To this very day, I am still steaming pissed about Frontier outsourcing both ramp and customer service to the cheapest vendor. Unfortunately, Frontier and other airlines will not learn lessons from this. The only time they will wake up is when a tragedy strikes, and people are hurt or killed. This ...

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Re: F9 Deicing Incident Nashville (BNA)

Everyone from Trego Duran involved in making the decision to release the airplane like that should be behind bars. We haven’t had a fatal US mainline crash in nearly 20 years and that record was almost marred because an airline decided to cheap out. If it’s a company culture thing, they shouldn’t b...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

I hope I’m very wrong but I pick B. It's been B for the past 10 years so nothing shocking there. I'm not kidding. That's been their canned statement for as a long as I can remember but then again, every airport is always talking to airlines as mentioned above. The difference this time however is th...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

[I spoke to the Airport Director not long ago, and he said the plan is to eventually knock down the current south concourse and put the gates upstairs in the new security wing and have all gates in a row on the 2nd floor. Pulling the gates back will allow for more mainline aircraft whose tails woul...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

I've only seen the one external rendering that's been in the articles, but I'll be pretty happy with even just a security update. A single checkpoint would likely bring a dedicated pre-check lane and reduce congestion and lines extending down the hall or into the ticketing areas. The north-south co...

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Re: TWA 800 wreckage to be destroyed before 25th anniversary

Per the linked article the NTSB made an agreement with the victims' families that the wreckage would never become an exhibit or public display.

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

MHT lost revenue so felt they had to raise prices to fund the expensive build-out they had done, which made it even easier for airlines to leave or cut services and potential replacements to stay away. The ones that have stayed by necessity are popular services (i.e. WN to Florida) and often sell o...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

BTV receiving a $14.5 million grant for terminal work: https://www.news10.com/news/vt-news/burlington-international-airport-secures-funding-for-large-terminal-expansion/ The way this reads, the expansion is dedicated to the security-screening consolidation and new security lanes, that we've read ab...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Speaking of cargo, I have noticed that Wiggins is no longer flying to BTV. It appears that a Legacy Airways Saab is now the UPS feeder. Does anyone know why the change? It looks like Wiggins is still flying other routes from MHT.

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

BTV has alot of overlap in southern/central vt and New York with ALB. I think BTV competes and loses alot more passengers with ALB and PBG than MHT. Lake Placid is a pretty large traffic generator (in normal times) for example, punches thousands of times above its weight because of all the events a...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

LotsaRunway wrote:
Those in the area of MHT and want to see a rare visitor, UA is sending a 753 military charter. Should be on the ground between 11 and 1 today.

Not quite so rare, but BTV had 3 Sun Country 738s today, also for military charters, and then later this afternoon a JetBlue A320 diversion from BOS.

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

On another topic, it appears from the terms of the B6-AA NEA that B6 will be staying at BTV. I'm not sure how it would apply to PWM. ORH is closed but maybe that was already confirmed.

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

BTV at the time also had a robust collection of UA flights to ORD, largely 727-200s. Some people did drive to MHT in those days to fly WN, but I think CO, UA, NW, and US held their own pretty well at BTV. It was UA that I drove to MHT to fly twice. The problem was not the service but the price. As ...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

BTV at the time also had a robust collection of UA flights to ORD, largely 727-200s. Some people did drive to MHT in those days to fly WN, but I think CO, UA, NW, and US held their own pretty well at BTV. It was UA that I drove to MHT to fly twice. The problem was not the service but the price. As ...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Hello, all. I have been flying out of MHT my entire life, and I remember in the peak in 2005, i flew on a 757 to ORD. What happened to UA at MHT, and will they increase ops in the future? Thank you! Part of it is probably leaking passengers to BTV. 10 or 15 years ago fares at BTV were high enough t...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Hello, all. I have been flying out of MHT my entire life, and I remember in the peak in 2005, i flew on a 757 to ORD. What happened to UA at MHT, and will they increase ops in the future? Thank you! Part of it is probably leaking passengers to BTV. 10 or 15 years ago fares at BTV were high enough t...

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

I'd be worried that the A220 is going to be too much airplane for market like BTV and PWM once the E190 goes away. My guess is that something between 9 seats (Cape Air) and 140 Seats (A220) will emerge to provide good markets like BTV and PWM with a reliable right sized fit to serve the B6 network....

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Re: The Rest of New England (BDL/PVD/MHT/PWM/ORH/BTV/HVN/BGR) Aviation Thread - 2021

Help those people, yes, but at what cost to B6? I think you'd risk cannibalising BTV and to a lesser extent BOS... Obviously BOS is much less at risk, but it might chip away at the margins. BTV, though--different story. B6 has been struggling in BTV since the early 2010s. First it was 4x daily to 3...

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Re: Goggle Maps: No Planes at JFK?

HPRamper wrote:
eightcone wrote:
SDF is the same other than one bird on a taxiway.

Thankfully, MEM has not had the same treatment yet, and all the FedEx planes are visible packing the ramp. I was disappointed today trying to view the SDF UPS hub.

They are gone on Maps in Windows.

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