The past certainly isn't the future. I graduated college in Detroit and decided to put a fintech insurance and logistics business there. I might need to use Willow Run if DTW can't handle the freight traffic. Area has good weather low costs and good location. Detroit may be very different city in th...
Jump to postJust another passenger trying to get her name in the news. Anyone else sick of these stories? I know I am. OK so in 2017 its fine to push a person to the back of the plane because they are black when they have paid for business class. Ironically is the person who paid for the upgrade gets bounced b...
Jump to postTPA-EZE has to be fewer than 20 pax a day. We will see JAX-EZE perhaps by 2050. How do you think a hub sounds in TPA or FLL if the hub carrier in MIA can't sell enough tickets for a flight to FRA? Honestly, I think United pulled out of Miami for a reason. Look at AA's European offerings out of MIA L...
Jump to postNo DTW passengers worth fighting for are driving to ORD or YYZ to catch flight. ORD has a number of Asian carriers competing who often offer rock-bottom promotional fares to Asia. Detroit is a fortress hub run rent-seeking enterprise that sets Pacific fares in the market. Family of four could save ...
Jump to postI can also see msy getting this flight, bna, stl and bwi all come to mind and beat dtw to it in my opinion. The opportunity cost of sending empty airplanes between Iceland and BNA, STL and BWI, passing up on the midwest's second largest market is tremendous. The difference between DTW and these airp...
Jump to postWhat I can't get my head around was that the protesters are all White!!!!!! As it would turn out, there are a growing number of people in the UK and the world with mixed racial backgrounds. I don't think it's fair for you to question their race because if they were mixed race, you would have said t...
Jump to postSimilar to MSP, UA is realistic about its prospects of getting DL frequent fliers to go with a new airline for a tpac ticket that accrues 15,000 miles. Best to start with the lowball. Besides if they only put one flight on the board, DL might not roll up their sleeves.
Jump to postThe same reason there is no DL MCO-HNL nonstop maybe?
Jump to postA few Eastern European markets that I see as capable of sustaining service from a US carrier are BER and VIE
Jump to postRace has fluid definition because it's not real. Therefore, everyone has their own arbitrary definition of race or club. For instance, throughout my life I have found it impossible for any two people to agree on what white is. Everyone seems to have an enjoyable explanation that is also contradictor...
Jump to postJust announced: Delta Airlines announces 4 daily flights from Houston to Los Angeles. According to Delta CEO Edward Bastian: "We wanted to cater to the business traveler by offering another 600 seats on the 3000-seat-a-day route. Our four daily departures are enough to feed our small bank of Pa...
Jump to postKE is ending ICN-LAX-GRU next month. Maybe these forbidden US tags were viable with pricier commodities and once Brazil's economy went into the can, the routes weren't viable any more. This is hardly the first I've heard of a cut to GRU. It seems like GRU is losing service on an ongoing basis. Let's...
Jump to postIt was pretty tough situation for AZ some years back. They cut back their massive operation at MXP. It seemed like they were on the verge of collapse and if memory serves me correct, the government stake in AZ was sold to AF-KLM. My understanding is that the Italian government was behind AZ moving t...
Jump to postI think Houston-New York has a lot of capacity already. Perhaps AA or DL could add capacity but they would have to offer more than just 1 daily so the outlay is not worth it. United has pricing power because of some competitive advantages. I would say Flagship hubs in both markets and a big FF base....
Jump to postMaybe we will see FNT-SFO on UA before SFO-DTW
Can anybody explain why UA decided not to offer service from a metro of 3-5 million to its primary Asian gateway? Not even a single daily 737?
On 7/16 DL has 4x757 1x737 and 1x767 on DTW-SFO. UA has connecting options.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/LAXintl" class="quote" target="_blank">LAXintl</a> (<a href="#40" class="quote">Reply 40</a>):<br/><i>Detroit is actually a rather underwhelming...
Jump to postLooking back over the years since the airport was supposed to be opened (I visited <acronym title="Berlin - Schonefeld (SXF / EDDB), Germany">SXF</acronym> in 2008 when they were still building) something suggests that <acronym title="Berlin - Tegel (TXL / EDDT), Germany">TXL</acronym> really will n...
Jump to postMaybe with a cheap barrel of oil, we're going to see more marginal adds like this one. Now that we have the rather frivilous <acronym title="Boston - General Edward Lawrence Logan International (BOS / KBOS), USA - Massachusetts">BOS</acronym>-<acronym title="Shanghai - Pudong International (PVG / ZS...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/glbltrvlr" class="quote" target="_blank">glbltrvlr</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i> which means that <acronym title="United...
Jump to postHello, I have been reading the forums on this website for about 10 years and this is my first time officially posting. I have a question about fuel surcharges. I was recently on Google's ITA Matrix software looking at a route and I found some pretty attractive fares between <acronym title="Chicago -...
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