Re: Rumor: SAT Air Service Announcement

Geez-o-whiz. This is worse than Russian ballet going to Brazil via DFW.

Re: Rumor: SAT Air Service Announcement

Go big or Go home - EK to DXB
Seriously, it will probably be PDX on AS or SMF on WN.

Re: India Aviation - 2024

RMTAviation wrote:

No, the biggest example is COK in yields and load factor on the data that we have. CCU and AMD are even lower yielding cities.

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My 10 year old son is an avid Aviation enthusiast. A few years ago a pilot at AA handed him an American Airlines Junior Aviator flight log book. He's managed to fill up a couple of those books. Those flight logs are no longer available. So, I am now looking around for a replacement. Any suggestions ...

Re: Delta develops AUS focus city with expansion

MFE-AUS thrice a day! If insanity had a definition it HAS to be this one! WTH? Rio Grande Valley is a growing market. It is also geographically distributed. I see some posters here claiming MFE as 'Space X territory'. Hate to break it to them, but MFE is about 80 miles away from the Space X territor...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

CDG is the worst airport that an Indian citizen could connect. Whenever there are IRROPS, an Indian citizen would be far better being in DEL than in CDG. The airport authorities at CDG dont care and during IRROPS, heard of stores where citizens were denied hotel rooms outside the airports (due to v...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

I didn't mean that the lower yields were seasonal. Lower yields are across the board. I meant that the traffic to HYD is seasonal. You can pack planes both ways from May through August, but it it's leaner outside of this timeframe.

Re: India Aviation - 2023

If I'm not wrong, HYD has more pax traffic than BLR , to the US. Ï think that quiet easily indicates BLR having higher corporate traffic than Hyd. :checkmark: :checkmark: HYD almost doubles BLR in O&D from many cities in USA. Example: HYD-DFW is about 70 PDEW where as BLR and MAA are approximat...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

I'm not sure if it was here or another online forum, some had doubts on Lufthansa too with the MUC BLR flight, but it's doing well and serving mainly connections to NA and the UK at MUC. There are BLR doubters everywhere! This is despite the fact that ALL datapoints - market size, load factors, pre...

Re: SAT Courting London/FRA Service

Neither the OP, nor the article he has referenced, mention any airline or the timelines for when this SAT-Europe service will come to fruition. So, why are posters connecting it to Lufthansa's current announcement?

Re: SAT Courting London/FRA Service

The article linked in OP misses a lot of key details from the much larger original article. For instance, this stat: "A report commissioned by Greater: SATX and Visit San Antonio shows that 42 passengers a day go through San Antonio International on their way to or from London, along with 31 h...

Re: SAT Courting London/FRA Service

A company like Oracle or Tesla actually has a strong need to get to Europe (and moreso Asia). I work in Tech and personally haven't traveled for official work much post Covid. I am curious to know why Tesla or particularly Oracle employees have a strong need to travel to Europe? If they were travel...

Re: SAT Courting London/FRA Service

Ok you lost me there, or you clearly don't travel around the state much. San Antonio's downtown is pretty crap outside of about 100 yards on either side of the riverwalk. Dude, I've lived in all 4 major metros of Texas. Like I said, debating this city Vs that city, is just silly, I'd argue that the...

Re: SAT Courting London/FRA Service

Well first, AUS is not SAT that’s a plus, in addition the rising business market (tech) fills most of the front cabin which is one reason for service. SAT, well….domestic military traffic which is highly rate sensitive. Kinda speaks for itself Have you seen the numbers that LAXdude has posted about...

Re: SAT Courting London/FRA Service

Good grief! I go out of town for a weekend and comeback to see absolute contempt towards SAT. Some dude even wants SAT to have a "vibrant downtown"! Seriously? Is this a joke? Being a Texan for 23 years now, I can tell you that SAT downtown is the best downtown in Texas. Not Austin, not Da...

Re: Air India Exploring DFW as its next US Destination?

DFW-HYD does not make much sense due to stage length and traffic. It should be DFW-DEL or EWR/ORD-HYD. As others have said, the A350 doesn’t have the legs for that- that’s why I can see BOS and LAX going first. Right. It really depends if they want to add DFW as a new destination in the US or provi...

Re: Air India Exploring DFW as its next US Destination?

DFW-HYD does not make much sense due to stage length and traffic. It should be DFW-DEL or EWR/ORD-HYD.

Re: India Aviation - 2023

This is what I had written in post # 24 of this thread: AI's move to shift some secondary cities to LGW to LHR may work. But discontinuing BLR-FRA and BLR-LHR are baffling. Numbers don't lie! Both these route pairs can take a second daily. I fully expect some other airline to come and fill this void...

Re: AA first class passenger "dragged" off after being refused a pre departure beverage

How far are we from making FAs wearing body cam, or have a HD cam in the cabin for dispute purpose on who was the wrong? Well, body cams offer the best evidence when such incidents make it to the courts. They are absolutely required when officers use brute force to establish physical control over t...

Re: AA first class passenger "dragged" off after being refused a pre departure beverage

As for discrimination, well you have to part of a protected class for that to come into play. I don’t think “first class passenger wishing to drink” is going to qualify for discrimination in any way. What if the FA said "I don't want to serve you a drink, because of {insert a clause that can b...

Re: AA first class passenger "dragged" off after being refused a pre departure beverage

You know an AA plane is AA property, correct? Your whole post should end at “a passenger requests a pre departure beverage, which is denied” We don't know this as a matter of FACT. So, publish the entire transcript and the reasons that led to this "spectacle". The passenger has paid to be...

Re: AA first class passenger "dragged" off after being refused a pre departure beverage

A passenger requests a pre-departure beverage which is denied and then this atrocity happens! If this had happened in a third world country, the human rights activists would be all over it. The passengers on board have been cleared by the security. They are not carrying any weapons on them. This bru...

Re: Nonstop between LAX and India, still in the works?

That's interesting - I just assumed that HYD traffic slanted toward the business travel side, given the large offshore operations centers there. Parts of North Irving (Royal Ln, McArthur/Walnut Hill blvd, Las Colinas) are hubs for H1 dependent Indian body shopping companies which have lots' of empl...

Re: Nonstop between LAX and India, still in the works?

CaliguyNYC wrote:

Go HYD, who would have thought.

Re: Nonstop between LAX and India, still in the works?

behramjee wrote:

HYD - 66,000 vs 31,000
BOM - 48,000 vs 69,000
DEL - 43,000 vs 46,000
MAA - 42,000 vs 23,000
BLR - 39,000 vs 25,000

Re: Nonstop between LAX and India, still in the works?

Anectodally, I'd guess that DF-HYD is second only to DFW-DEL, or maybe third behind DFW-BOM, when it comes to the Dallas-India market. I have no data on this, however; I just know that business traffic is fairly significant between many DFW-area companies and their offshore centers in Hyderabad. Pr...

Re: Unconfirmed: Spirit Route Shuffle

The banal reference to the Alamo when it comes to anything related to SAT is nauseating. It's been like 6 times in the last week.
Anyway, SAT-LAX is underserved. UA which used to operate prior to the pandemic has not returned. Now that the traffic is coming back, it's a smart add by Spirit.

Re: RUMOR: Copa Airlines to SAT

As an San Antonio-Austinian, I feel the need to correct some basic misconceptions about San Antonio that are very evident in this thread. 1. If CSA is used as a criteria, then why aren't we clubbing Austin and San Antonio as one single CSA? After all, Pennsylvania numbers get clubbed into the NYC CS...

Re: RUMOR: Copa Airlines to SAT

I am not able to see the article or the screenshots. Be that as it may, I don't think SAT-PTY would work at all. Connectivity to secondary markets in Mexico is what SAT needs on a priority basis. Currently, there are way too many people driving down or using a bus for travel. These numbers are not a...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

Bilateral rights to Singapore and Dubai are exhausted. Therefore, the more relevant question is whether Air India should have used the big Indian cities to connect to SIN & DXB rather than waste it on connections from lower yield smaller Indian cities. Further, wouldn't it be better for Air Ind...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

So US-HYD is not a flight - you have to pick a city in the US. The reason why I didn't pick a city is because there are a few cities in US (New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Bay area) that have enough O&D to start a service to Hyderabad. Obviously not all of them can be operated by airlines, ...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

Based on the example, EK have no competition with direct flights to just about all of North America, all of South America as an example. So O&D demand has increased and there is room for an additional carrier since there would be no reduction in LFs. Only 1-stop carriers (EY, QR, TK and EU3) ma...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

1) Why is AA and UA not flying from ORD directly to HYD as well as AA from DFW? (Before the pandemic.) 1. AA and UA did announce SEA/SFO-BLR prior to the pandemic. 2. AA from DFW does not have the aircrafts with range to reach South India. DEL is the best they can possibly do. Even that may require...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

One of my pet peeves is how Indian citizens or lawmakers did not seek responses via RTI or questions in the Parliament regarding P&L data for flights operated by Air India, when they were still a government run airline. The RASM data would have revealed to the whole world how unprofitable some o...

Re: India Aviation - 2023

I hope the Tatas stop running charity service from Kerala to Gulf. For example: Calicut/Kannur to Sharjah/Ras-al-Khaimah/Al Ain among other destinations are around 200$ even during peak or last minute travel. These routes are more than 4 hours long and do come with decent baggage allowance. If you t...

Re: What is AA currently doing in Asia?

Remember ORD-DEL? Comparing SEA/SFO - BLR with ORD-DEL is not a valid comparison simply because the former is a tech industry connector that has a good amount of premium traffic. ORD-DEL was, and to-this-day remains predominantly VFR. Not many companies have offices at both ends. ORD-DEL failed bec...

Re: What is AA currently doing in Asia?

I am aware of the Russian airspace issue which is why I said that it's too bad for AA. Outside of that I am not sure why people are so pessimistic about SEA-BLR. BLR is a true tech city with good premium demand and yields despite of Covid. SEA-BLR would have done head and shoulders better than JFK-D...

Re: What is AA currently doing in Asia?

The SEA-BLR flight would have printed money this Summer. Too bad for AA...

Re: Canada-India expand air service agreement with unlimited flight rights

[Is there significant BLR/YYZ business demand? I don't know of too many companies sending pax between these cities. And with the Canadian transit rules, it can't even be used as a quick way to get to the mid-west US or the West coast US. The post-pandemic data is still a work-in-progress. The deman...

Re: Canada-India expand air service agreement with unlimited flight rights

Very nice to hear! YYZ-HYD or YYZ - BLR would be nice adds for Air Canada.

Re: The fall of Etihad Airways

Etihad is not currently flying to TRV or CCJ. So I stand corrected. I'm confused - are you suggesting that they should or shouldn't try to compete on the US - India market? EY should definitely compete on the US-India market aggressively considering they have the pre-clearance facility. They need to...

Re: The fall of Etihad Airways

In addition to their poor investments they have some glaring weaknesses: 1. Poor network to USA despite getting the pre-clearance facility a long time ago. Lack of a good network to US affects their ability to capture the India - US market, something that QR and EK do very impressively. 2. Despite b...

Re: 12JUL SAT airport announcement

IIRC, Spirit''s SAT-FLL was axed during (or right after) the Great Recession in 2009. Economy wasn't exactly booming back then; oil prices were pretty high as well. IMHO, NK ought to start SAT-FLL again. The market is picking up and is currently unserved. There is very little competition from SAT to...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022

I agree that BOM is NOW a nice airport. But 17-20 years ago (I am talking when Centaur hotel was alive and kicking), the terminals were dungy, stinky and mosquito/roach/rodant infested. Back in the day, there were trip reports on A.net that highlighted these issues. The domestic to International tra...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - 2022

AI domestic at BLR is quite weak too, at least compared to the competition. The merger with AirAsia India should put AI in a good position at BLR. AI has been very weak in BLR for quite sometime, both domestically and Internationally. In the mid 2000s as foreign carriers made a beeline to get into ...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - Q1 2022