"MBS Airport to receive $750K grant" - Midland Daily News State transportation grant earmarked to attract new air service https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/mbs-airport-receive-750k-state-transportation-19388219.php MBS could probably support DL nonstop service to ATL with the facili...
Jump to postRSW-EYW cancelled prior to launch. https://x.com/ishriona/status/1766571603104498019?s=46 What a shame. Then again, most Southwest Floridians heading to the keys will probably just take the Key West Express - IIRC, it's a fun 3 hour boat ride with plenty of seating, a bar, a lot more comfortable th...
Jump to post^ From the airport in the late 80’s. Cool, looking at a lot of the old photos of BWI from historic aerials.com BWI appears to have more wide body traffic in the 1970s through the early 1990s than they do now. Most U.S. airports had more widebody traffic in those days. Until around 1980, only PA, TW...
Jump to postLibertyBlvd wrote:CLEaviation1995 wrote:Does anyone know some of the top unserved international routes from CLE? Since SJO is getting talked about, is it even on the list?
CLE had nonstop service to Montreal at one time, initially by Air Canada, and later by Continental.
[Already-screened pax must be screened again if connecting in the US is a policy change that came out of 9/11. Years ago, well before 9/11, I use to like to go to airport and walk around. Sometimes I'd go to the observation deck at the end of B concourse and watch the planes. Sometimes I'd walk dow...
Jump to post2024: Guesses/Questions: 1) Do you think the F9 deal is enough to bump CLE to PAX level 2 or higher from the start of construction? 2) Heard a ton of people complaining about the Customs lines at CLE last night. Anything that can be done to improve for the next few years? That has to limit internat...
Jump to postUA is bringing MIA, ATL, SLC, RDU, COS back in house right? aren't they also opening up new line maintenance stations? Why are they bringing all of these in-house? Because our vendors are terrible. The ramp in ATL is an embarrassment, as is RIC, MEM, ORF, BNA, and CMH. United needs to continue to f...
Jump to postFNT-BWI had atrocious load factors from what I remember. FNT - anything east has always been terrible. South and west to sun / beach markets direct or connecting flows work. East, not so much. I'm surprised they couldn't make Florida work. Considering the huge Michigan/Florida traffic. Allegiant se...
Jump to postWhat airline used to have a hub at DAY? The original Piedmont Airlines developed a hub in DAY in the early 80s and then became a US Air hub when they merged in 1989. It transitioned to a focus city in the 90s and then dismantled....maybe in the late 90s/early 2000s? I'm not sure exactly when that h...
Jump to postcleair wrote:When we went to Grand Bahama in 2013, FPO had US pre-clearence. I realize that was 10 years ago, lol.
Long time forum reader (and former CLE intern!) but not an active poster. I live in the Tampa Bay area now and saw this posted on the West Coast Florida forum regarding potential Bahamasair expansion, including CLE: "We have placed great emphasis on establishing new international routes, such ...
Jump to postLong time forum reader (and former CLE intern!) but not an active poster. I live in the Tampa Bay area now and saw this posted on the West Coast Florida forum regarding potential Bahamasair expansion, including CLE: "We have placed great emphasis on establishing new international routes, such a...
Jump to postGot to tour a Comair CRJ in 1994 during an internship with the Cleveland airport, the agent took us out to visit the aircraft as it was doing a CVG-CLE-CVG turn. Thought it was really cool, a huge improvement after bouncing around in Metroliners, Shorts 360s and EMB-110/120s back in the 80s/early 90...
Jump to postThere have been multiple posts (on various other threads) that imply the Endeavor CR2s are done at DTW around Spring Break. Sounds like the OO CR2s used for the up-north EAS routes will hang on a bit longer. Michigan routes currently exclusively using Endeavor CR2s include: DTW-AZO. 2x daily DTW-LA...
Jump to postI've always wondered.... Why on earth does someone even want to work as an outsourced Spirit agent? You are making little money with zero benefits. I really wonder why anyone would subject themselves to the constant abuse that must come from representing Spirit with nothing to show in return. If yo...
Jump to postWhat is up with the UAL schedule over the summer at SRQ? Down to one EWR turn? Nothing to ORD. It's never been that low since re-opening in 2017. It's huge drop from all the EWR, ORD, IAD, IAH and DEN flights from this past season and even compared with last summer. Staffing has been a huge issue a...
Jump to postEarly 2000s I was on ORD-DCA and we diverted to IAD due to storms. The plan was to gas & go at IAD and finish the flight to DCA...I was pretty exited about that prospect! Sadly we were about to push and a mechanical issue came up and we all got Washington Flyer taxi vouchers instead. I ferried a...
Jump to postRandom Q - but for B8 at SRQ, does that lead to a separate FIS area on the 'gound' level like at TPA or are they able to 'secure' that gate area for CBP processing if an international flight comes in. Flying AA i never make it too far down the concourse. The FIS is on ground level in a room that ca...
Jump to postSo JetBlue is moving in the terminal at SRQ as per aviationpros.com for Southwest to take their place. Does that mean Southwest is taking gate B5 or ticketing, or both. https://www.aviationpros.com/airlines/news/21163592/allegiant-begins-service-to-boston-from-srq Also could Westjet be returning to...
Jump to postWhich cities were shelved out of EWR? Just curious from what I can see, all still active even after the cuts EWR-LAX is 2 to 3x daily in October EWR-SFO is daily EWR-AUS 4x weekly EWR-CHS 5x weekly EWR-JAX 5x weekly EWR-SRQ 2x weekly EWR-PHX 4x weekly EWR-LAS 2x daily (1 on mint now) EWR-SAN 4x wee...
Jump to postOne can't forget that UA DC-10 diversion to DCA. Originally scheduled ORD-BWI, Baltimore had severe t-storms/low ceilings. Attempts to divert to IAD and ADW were aborted due again to poor weather; diminishing fuel reserves led the flight to land at DCA. https://www.flickr.com/photos/keleivis/427137...
Jump to postCleveland Load Factors January 2020: United Airlines CLE-LGA: 52% CLE-EWR: 73% CLE-DCA: 57% CLE-IAD: 87% CLE-MCO: 94% CLE-FLL: 65% CLE-RSW: 74% CLE-ORD: 80% CLE-DEN: 86% CLE-IAH: 82% CLE-LAX: 90% CLE-SFO: 76% Frontier Airlines CLE-SRQ: 86% CLE-MCO: 88% CLE-MIA: 68% CLE-FLL: 74% CLE-TPA: 78% CLE-RSW...
Jump to postNow SRQ needs a photo with Allegiant, Frontier and the new gates in it! https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20190816/sarasota-bradenton-airport-sees-record-traffic-growth-for-july?fbclid=IwAR13eDbV8i6eY_MWNBvAh7AYFytBtyybgpz2VpJrCy7gBva2jWM_JHAt5OI It's amazing to see this kind of traffic growth at a...
Jump to postI would speculate that all the housing construction going on in the SRQ area combined with plenty of room at SRQ is helping to fuel this expansion. At one point in late 2017 there were lots of empty gates sitting at the end of the concourse, not so much anymore. What's the deal with the sudden explo...
Jump to postThey also, as do other airlines, try to honor a locally-significant number for particular flights. For instance, Delta is one of several airlines at IND that has a flight 500 (IND-CDG) to honor the Indy 500. I believe AS (IND-SEA) UA (IND-SFO) and AA (IND-PHX) also do the same. We have a couple 317...
Jump to postJust saw something I have not seen yet at SRQ. An airliner take off from runway 4. That runway 4-22 is only 5,000 feet long, and I never knew that it was a possibility as SRQ was limited to 14-32 for airline operations. It was an AA flight 4469 to DC, aircraft E75S. Saw that as well today and was r...
Jump to postAnd a placard went up today in front of the check-in counter announcing nonstop service to PHL & CLE!
Jump to postA Frontier sign went up at the SRQ check-in counters today, well ahead of the December start! I took a photo but it looks like I can't upload it.
Jump to postAA adding seasonal DFW-SRQ service starting Dec. 19. This will be the first westbound flight for the airport that has pretty much been a north-south operation for many years now.
https://bit.ly/2xz20ZZ
Thanks for sharing this! I work at SRQ right now and it's amazing how much it has changed...
Jump to postEchoing others, the 757 is by far my favorite and sorry to see them slowly depart. My first ride on the 757 was a NW segment, DTW-PHL in September, 1989. My favorite 757 experiences was flying it on the River Visual to DCA...always a thrill.
Jump to postTechnically, UA is actually resuming SFO-DTW. UA flew the route nonstop from the mid 1960s to 1985. I think UA also flew the route nonstop for a couple of years in the late 1980s, too. In the 1970s, it wasn't uncommon for UA to have 2x DC-10s a day on the route, largely because the GM assembly plan...
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