February 2024 Passenger, Cargo Traffic at Austin-Bergstrom Passenger Activity: Total passenger traffic for February 2024 was 1,464,979, up 0.10% compared to February 2023. February 2024 enplanements totaled 730,172, up 0.61%. Just keep in mind that the change from Feb 2023 to Feb 2024 works out to ...
Jump to post> A major reason American’s operating margins trailed “around 3 points below Delta’s and United’s,” explains Syth, is a hangover from the U.S. Airways union. “The merger involved dis-synergies,” she says. “It didn’t result in cost improvements. American had to raise the legacy U.S. costs to the hig...
Jump to postExcept there's one big difference which I already mentioned but didn't elaborate on. They abandoned their Frequent Flyer base for no good reason. These respective carriers still have a large FF base in these dehubbed cities. Everyone in Atlanta has left for Delta. How exactly do you define "ab...
Jump to postMy point is that they had a large base of loyalists in Atlanta and completely let go of it. I cannot think of any comparable circumstance where an airline voluntarily gives away valuable customers. BNA, whilst on paper is the much better hub to grow at, lacks gates and apart of optimising and utili...
Jump to postOff topic question - I believe charters fly into Meacham (say college football team flying in to play TCU). Does Meacham have permanently staffed TSA people to work those flights or do DFW/LOVE Field employees work those flights? Always wondered how those charters work esp. since the airport doesn'...
Jump to postHow much traffic do those companies actually send between Scandinavia and the US on a daily basis though? Probably sending more pax to other destinations from their US HQ so they might not even have a deal with SAS. And if the option is SAS to JFK or nothing (as UA basically offers very little to S...
Jump to postI often wonder why the NYC airports don’t make it easier to transfer from terminal to terminal. The JFK AirTrain is awful and is often “down”. Does LGA have any plans to connect B & C? I love how Logan connects all terminals (aside from A) post security. Heck, even LAX is completely connected v...
Jump to postRemember Maersk’s (Denmark’s largest company) US HQ is in NJ which will probably keep a SAS presence at EWR. You sure that isn't Novo Nordisk these days? They've got a big presence in NJ as well, and they plan to buy Catalent, which is based in NJ. I'm pretty sure pharma traffic would be another go...
Jump to postI know Boston gets a number of cruises that depart from the Seaport during the summer and fall. Are the Saturday flights targeting Nova Scotia customers looking to do cruises out of BOS, or why only Saturday flights? Saturday tends to be a popular vacation travel day since most white collar workers...
Jump to postAA maintains a Saturday only summer route between BOS and YHZ. I always found it very odd that they continue to operate that and not any other Canadian destination instead. That might be subsidized. Nova Scotia markets pretty heavily for tourism from the Boston area (the annual Christmas tree gift ...
Jump to postIt does seem ironic that so many on this board criticize Boeing for prioritizing finance over technical performance, when to me, GE and Jack Welch were/are the poster children for that behavior. That the appliance operation in KY that was state of the art in the 50s and 60s now belongs to the Chine...
Jump to postI I also would combine T4 and T5 because once AA completes renovation, it will functionally be one terminal with two concourse. Exactly the same as Delta's current T2/3 and UA's T7/8. Why are they combining terminal number 2/3 and 7/8 and not 4/5? I think they're not doing that because while Delta ...
Jump to postgmcc wrote:It also seems that capital i ( I ) was skipped to avoid confusion with lower case L ( I )
How did they go from this to that monstrosity????!???!?!!?! This feels like government bureaucracy at its finest. There is now at least two terminal/gate naming conventions! This is far from simple and passengers are going to be genuinely confused. It's not that abnormal. ORD uses a similar convent...
Jump to postI could have sworn LAX was 125+ daily departures, but hasn’t come close since COVID. I think you are right. It was that high at one time. Pretty sure I saw numbers in the 120s. LAX was a top 10 station for many, many years. And keep in mind that they were hitting those numbers around 120 while shar...
Jump to postI would like to think that DFW would demand to maintain service standards, meaning any construction at the airport has to meet the general specs for the airport in order to serve all carrier ops, not let some specific carrier build a bus station (pun intended). That's really the only way to enforce...
Jump to postI remember those pipe-dream ideas of building one big super-hub airport in San Marcos/New Braunfels for both metro areas to rival DFW and IAH to replace both AUS and SAT. Like that will ever happen. AUS is just more business-heavy than SAT. Probably could have called that the Megalo-port. But for m...
Jump to postYet it was the agreement they signed and are obligated to comply with. DAL was to shuttered with DFW opening because the airlines that were forced to move from DAL to DFW worried that some type of operation like SWA would do exactly what they did. To get the use of the airport they had to touch one...
Jump to postBut 1x daily CUN and <1x daily SJD? Good luck competing against AA there. Even SY has more DFW-CUN flights than that. If they really wanted a competitive schedule against AA, then CUN should be 2x daily and SJD 1x daily during peak season. CUN and SJD, like most Mexican/Caribbean beach markets, rea...
Jump to postI think in 20-30 years just level the airport and start from scratch, like SLC or LGA. By then for sure you'd need to do something about terminal C, etc. New design and concept. I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with Terminal C, apart from needing to renovate/enlarge the concourses...
Jump to postHow does repairing that bird work with Russian sanctions? Could EK even get parts into Russia without violating a host of Western sanctions? It's doable, just extremely costly and probably even more time consuming I don't think it's that expensive, tbh. There are just a lot of procedural hoops to j...
Jump to postNothing can replace the 717 with the same frequency. WN has shown that the 737 can so inter-Island if it is also doing trips to the mainland, dropped HI's yields on the 717. This is contributing to the situation HI is in now. Once of the things that may make this work in the long run is the combine...
Jump to postAt some point the question must be raised of just how many tenants are willing to be inconvenienced for the sake of delta. I understand it’s all a business and Delta expanding is good for the airport, but at some point the balance shifts. JetBlue will love losing hangar spots for Delta. And I’m sur...
Jump to postThe north cargo apron is only wide enough for one taxiway. Suppose you build an E satellite over there, you’ve now got e9-16 and all the “new” E gates stuck at the mercy of a single entrance/exit. Throw in a broken towbar, pushback, delayed startup or anything, and suddenly 3/4 of terminal E is gro...
Jump to postHas there ever been discussion of having a Delta A to E connector that operates behind security so pax don’t have to re clear TSA? That would sure be a more pleasant experience for passengers. If this has been tried in past forgive me haven’t been to BOS in many years. I think there's a real proble...
Jump to postMartin was mum on where Delta plans to fly to next from Austin. The main focus, she indicated, will continue to be catering to local travelers and where they want to go If Delta is "catering to local travelers," adding MAF and MFE from AUS doesn't really achieve this goal. There are dozen...
Jump to postHas there ever been discussion of having a Delta A to E connector that operates behind security so pax don’t have to re clear TSA? That would sure be a more pleasant experience for passengers. If this has been tried in past forgive me haven’t been to BOS in many years. I think there's a real proble...
Jump to postIs there a reason why LH wants BRU to be an Africa hub? Is that because of the amount of traffic generated in Western Europe, and the fact that FRA is probably near-capacity? SABENA historically specialized in African markets, largely due to the colonial holdings Belgium once had in Africa. Germany...
Jump to postIAH-Zurich or Rome is a possibility. Houston isn't really a financial center so there's not much business traffic to ZRH. For LH Group connections ZRH doesn't really offer much that's not covered by FRA/MUC. I'd see BRU as being more useful from a network standpoint. I'd agree on FCO if ENI had a l...
Jump to postAnyways, what gave? Why all those interesting flights from San Juan on those two airlines at the time? I mean these were non hub flights! For Iberia, performance was probably a consideration. BOG and MEX are both high-altitude, so they might have needed a tech stop somewhere along the way. For SJO ...
Jump to postIt would still be eliminating ULCC competition. The current administration would still try to block it. Agreed on the first, but not necessarily on the second. They might try to block it, but it'd be a more difficult case to win (compared to B6/NK) and DOJ doesn't bring cases like this unless they'...
Jump to postWhere are you seeing BDL domestic travel was down 350K? In 2023 BDL saw an increase of 452,000 passengers over 2022 of which 107,686 were international. Source: https://bradleyairport.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Calendar-Year-2023-Passenger-Numbers-FINAL.pdf My apologies, I left out an important...
Jump to postConsidering BDL and HVN compete against each other and WN has a rather decent sized operation at BDL, I'd consider that substantial overlap. WN is also large in BUR. The point is eliminating low fare competition is part of why the B6 NK merger didn't go through, it's just a larger scale. WN and XP ...
Jump to postThere's a reason why there isn't a McDonalds in Nantucket, it's not where opulent people eat. A McDonald's on Nantucket would make bank. There are plenty of not-so-opulent people there to serve the "opulent" ones. They'd just never get permission from the Town to build/open because it's n...
Jump to postNot in the current climate where mergers/acquisitions are being challenged and denied. WN is larger than B6, no way they'd be allowed to swallow a ULCC competitor. That's not really how the law works. It would ultimately come down to how much overlap exists between WN and any particular acquisition...
Jump to postWhat’s the plan with WN and IAH? What a mess that operation is. I flew out of there the day United took the MAX8 off-roading. But boy that little ground level terminal add-on they are in sure can’t handle more than one flight at a time. It’s an absolute madhouse and the boarding process an absolute...
Jump to postI would expect that they will lose a gate in the near future with BOS's use it or lose rules BOS famously doesn't act on the clause despite having it. The easier target would be Southwest's gates on the other side of B, which sit empty for most of the day. Until they connect B with A, AC isn't goin...
Jump to postLAXdude1023 wrote:UA could fly IAH-CDG and make money IMO. That said, they probably could make more money flying other routes.
Good Morning, I was wondering why UA doesn't fly more Europe from IAH? They only serve LHR, AMS, FRA & MUC, I would think CDG, FCO, DUB or MAD would at least summer seasonal. I know IAH shouldn't compare to DFW, but DFW-Europe service is well served. IAH-CDG is a tough market for UA because AF ...
Jump to postThe newer part of terminal C at LGA really did not have to go IMO. It was in a different league than any of the other terminals at LGA, even D (though as you point out D was also beyond compare to the CTB). The newer part of C was bright, airy and spacious, and it also wasn't that old being built i...
Jump to postI acknowledged that while ATL is extremely profitable and efficient from an airline perspective, passengers don’t care, particularly if they don’t have a good experience using it and have other options. Atlanta-area passengers don't have other options. And for many connecting markets the other opti...
Jump to postI've never heard the running joke that on your way to hell you have to change planes in DFW or DEN. That line has been around since before airplanes, and it dates back to the 19th century when Atlanta was a railroad hub. "Whether you're going to Heaven or Hell, you'll have to change trains in ...
Jump to postThere are numerous tourist-heavy destinations throughout the Caribbean and Central America, and even northern South America, within reach. And they fly to 15 tourist-heavy destinations in the Caribbean and Central America. They're tied with AA for largest number of non-stop destinations from CUN by...
Jump to postThere is revenue potential that exists right now, for WN to take. Redeyes, for example, is an easy way to increase revenue. But they can't do it because they don't know how. There are countless international markets within range that would increase revenue over sending a MAX to LBB for the 4th time...
Jump to postAA 121 DOH-PHL diverted to BOS just about half an hour ago. While I was just finished boarding. I know it happens from time to time. Can the 789 deal with the winter westbound winds? I would figured it has no problem flying that route fully loaded. DOH-BOS(6518 mi) DOH-PHL(6797 mi) Anyone knows why...
Jump to postYou gotta wonder how badly Boeing has to f up before WN starts flying something other than a 737. Worse than they have already, since the alternatives with PW GTF engines are presenting their own issues. NK expects to have 41 practically new A321s parked at year end! The problem of not getting new ...
Jump to postTaking off from BOS on Sunday I noticed that it looks like they are adding a second jet bridge on some of the new E gates. I know this was the original plan for all the new gates but I thought it got shelved. Definitely saw them on E14 and E15 at least. Does anyone know if they are going to be adde...
Jump to postOk, off onto a tangent... I have a feeling a lot of second-tier (for lack of a better word) Asian destinations could have been easily served by DL through their Tokyo mini-hub.. including Taipei. Not sure the closure was such a good idea as they could funnel pax through an established Asian hub rel...
Jump to postCan someone explain to us non-Germans the significance of “Air Flo”? It sounds like „Air Flea“ in German… better check the seats first when boarding. :? It's still better than in English, where "Air Flo" sounds a lot like "Aunt Flo" -- a euphemism for something most people with ...
Jump to postThis reminds me of Hawaiian a few years back. From what I've heard by those closer than I, they were sold on the 787 vs the 330neo due to its speed advantage (after all other considerations). Something to the effect of the extra speed means that the decreased block times over a year is equivalent t...
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