MKE-PIT did run substantially higher load factors than the rest of the system, but nothing was exactly great. Contour ran 1 daily flight on each city pair (some weekend reduction) with one plane doing the a PIT-IND-MKE-PIT triangle and some spare capacity from their Nashville EAS operation running ...
Jump to postSpirit has canceled the IND-MYR resumption They didn't cancel the resumption (at least not yet), they just cancelled it for July. Still slated to return early next month. What's more interesting is they are cancelling IND-MCO for most of July and Early August. WN ran that briefly right around the s...
Jump to postTrk1 wrote:FL drops Cle to MBJ after June 29. With the big dart board approach how many more failures from Cle in the next year from FL?
Spirit has canceled the IND-MYR resumption They didn't cancel the resumption (at least not yet), they just cancelled it for July. Still slated to return early next month. What's more interesting is they are cancelling IND-MCO for most of July and Early August. I still think IND-STL would be a good ...
Jump to postWell...every single flight to PHX is sold out from IND on Friday and Saturday Morning (7 flights sold out already)... 5/9 of the MDW-PHX flights are sold out for Friday Surprised no one has added extra flights like DL did for RDU-PHX https://i.imgur.com/uYqrntG.png https://i.imgur.com/PjNdWCH.png T...
Jump to postI wonder with Purdue making the Final Four in Phoenix if IND will see any affects. I have a feeling their will be a lot of leakage to Chicago with Purdue's location. Well...every single flight to PHX is sold out from IND on Friday and Saturday Morning (7 flights sold out already)... 5/9 of the MDW-...
Jump to postLooks like DL is adding 2x RDU-PHX flights this Friday for the final four
Jump to postI wonder with Purdue making the Final Four in Phoenix if IND will see any affects. I have a feeling their will be a lot of leakage to Chicago with Purdue's location. Well...every single flight to PHX is sold out from IND on Friday and Saturday Morning (7 flights sold out already)... 5/9 of the MDW-...
Jump to postFollowing up on the SEA / BOS profitability discussion earlier this year, the DOT released its Origin and Destination Survey for Q4 and I was curious to see how DL's hubs performed. One way to view hub performance is through yield, PRASM is the better way to do it - but that analysis takes more tim...
Jump to postFollowing up on the SEA / BOS profitability discussion earlier this year, the DOT released its Origin and Destination Survey for Q4 and I was curious to see how DL's hubs performed. One way to view hub performance is through yield, PRASM is the better way to do it - but that analysis takes more time...
Jump to postAny chance Sun Country looks at IND as a possible focus city? With the exception of Cancun, Mexico and the entire Caribbean is unserved from IND. They could take on any of those routes free from competition. Not to mention the incentives they'd get from IND and the city/state. Too much seasonality ...
Jump to postSouthwest's schedule extension is quite interesting: Looks like IND-SAN will basically be daily for the holidays. In December (non-holiday) it will operate Fri/Sun In November (non-holiday) it will operate Mon/Thu/Fri/Sun Which is odd because they aren't even flying it that much in the Summer, and t...
Jump to postLooks like some capacity is returning to DTW this summer: DTW-FWA is returning DTW-CLE/CMH/GRR/IND/MKE/SFO moving from 4x > 5x DTW-GSP/MEM/PWM moving from 2x >3x (Pre-Covid frequency) etc RIP to LAX-OAK, ending in May (adding frequency to LAX-SJC to 7x, LAX-PHX to 5x, & LAX-BOI to 2x in its pla...
Jump to postSome nice frequency increases this summer for LAX/IAD, UA July flights up 17% YoY at IAD. IAD-SEA up to 4 a day (3x in S23) IAD-PVD up to 4 a day (2x in S23) IAD-ROC up to 4 a day (3x in S23) IAD-ROA up to 4 a day (3x in S23) IAD-TYS up to 4 a day (2x in S23) IAD-SYR up to 4 a day (2x in S23) IAD-AL...
Jump to postgreat news Routes like DTW-CHS/GSP/LEX/MEM/ORF/PWM moving up to 3x is pretty big IMO. It basically covers morning, midday, & evening and removes a lot of the need to backtrack to ATL. People were really flying DTW-PWM via ATL just to be on DL? Do they not know DTW-LGA/JFK-PWM on DL has always b...
Jump to postLooks like some capacity is returning to DTW this summer: DTW-FWA is returning DTW-CLE/CMH/GRR/IND/MKE/SFO moving from 4x > 5x DTW-GSP/MEM/PWM moving from 2x >3x (Pre-Covid frequency) etc DTW-MEM was 3x through much of the pandemic (or at least the tail end of it. I want to say it was at one point ...
Jump to postLooks like some capacity is returning to DTW this summer: DTW-FWA is returning DTW-CLE/CMH/GRR/IND/MKE/SFO moving from 4x > 5x DTW-GSP/MEM/PWM moving from 2x >3x (Pre-Covid frequency) etc great news Routes like DTW-CHS/GSP/LEX/MEM/ORF/PWM moving up to 3x is pretty big IMO. It basically covers morni...
Jump to postDL is adding back FWA-DTW, and returning some short-haul frequencies
Jump to postLooks like some capacity is returning to DTW this summer:
DTW-FWA is returning
DTW-CLE/CMH/GRR/IND/MKE/SFO moving from 4x > 5x
DTW-GSP/MEM/PWM moving from 2x >3x (Pre-Covid frequency)
etc
I am in TPA today, and while not a small city tons of AA flights to way more destinations than DL or UA. It's the same effect as ELP or CID. If I lived here AA wins my business without a doubt. AA has had this supposed network advantage for more than a decade, and it's not translating to higher rev...
Jump to postLooking at tomorrow: AA BNA 2 E75 CLT 11 321 DCA 3 319 1 738 DFW 6 738 2 321 LAX 1 321 MIA 4 738 2 319 1 E75 ORD 3 738 PHL 2 321 2 738 1 320 PHX 2 321 Total: 43 departures (7,187 seats) DL ATL 12 752 BOS 2 739 1 738 CVG 1 738 DTW 5 739 1 753 JFK 3 739 LAX 2 321 LGA 4 739 MSP 2 753 2 739 RDU 2 320 S...
Jump to postI am in TPA today, and while not a small city tons of AA flights to way more destinations than DL or UA. It's the same effect as ELP or CID. If I lived here AA wins my business without a doubt. All 3 legacy US airlines serve all their hubs from TPA. Outside of that, it looks like DL also serves RDU...
Jump to postSome nice AA adds for August: CLE/CMH/IND-ORD up to 6x CID/DSM/MSN-ORD up to 4x CMI-ORD up to 3x BGR/ILM-ORD up to 2x And maintaining summer frequencies on many routes through Labor Day Great to see the additions. I wonder how much of this might be due to the use-it-or-lose-it provisions coming up?...
Jump to postInteresting numbers for MCI - anyone know if that is an alignment with "normal" or a bump thanks to NFL play offs? MCI had 11.5M pax in 2023, compared to INDs <10M. In other words, MCI is sizably larger than IND and the rest, pax wise. Therefore, MCI had the largest passenger numbers for ...
Jump to postIND off to a hot start:
IND up 9.0% YoY for January
WN up 21% and AA up 12.5%....not bad.
Comps:
MCI - 764,203 (+1.2%)
IND - 715,454 (+9.0%)
CLE - 670,633 (+5.7%)
PIT - 624,522 (+5.2%)
CVG - 599,049 (+9.1%)
CMH - N/A
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Looks like Delta is dropping HPN-MCO and HPN-PBI. https://twitter.com/AdrianWaltz/status/1763836585638862925 Ah damn it these flights were quite convenient for me so was hoping they'd stay but was just looking at seat maps last week and it seemed iffy. They were much, much better than the ill-fated...
Jump to postSome nice AA adds for August:
CLE/CMH/IND-ORD up to 6x
CID/DSM/MSN-ORD up to 4x
CMI-ORD up to 3x
BGR/ILM-ORD up to 2x
And maintaining summer frequencies on many routes through Labor Day
AA making a push in August to restore ORD capacity:
CLE/CMH/IND-ORD up to 6x (CMH-PHL also up to 6x in Aug)
CID/DSM/MSN-ORD up to 4x
CMI-ORD up to 3x
BGR/ILM-ORD up to 2x
In addition, they are maintaining ORD summer frequencies on many routes through Labor Day
Looks like CMH-PHL
The airline with the least daily average of long haul flights among the Big 3 at LAX is the global airline at LAX? Odd take. "Global airline" probably isn't the correct phrase, but I believe DL is currently number 1 in domestic flights at LAX (# of seats and # of flights per day). I could...
Jump to postNK is adding an extra IND-LAS flight for the eclipse. Lots of other flights sold out on April 9th as well ------------ DL going all B757 on IND-ATL for the Indy 500, and adding an additional frequency (8x) -------------- As the dust begins to settle on the summer schedules, looks like some pretty im...
Jump to postAA burned cash in AUS while DL sat back and warmed their hands and feet at the fire. I guess AA has cash to burn! Now DL is going to roast marsh mellows and thank AA for starting the fire! I hope delta does well in aus, but your comment makes no sense. The reason for low AA Aus yields was a very st...
Jump to postAnd at AUS in particular, there's an entrenched competitor with comparable resources which will not give up without a long and expensive fight. Here’s what’s unique about AUS for DL: - That entrenched competitor has already been in a long and expensive fight for over two years. Delta has already gr...
Jump to postNK is bringing back IND-MYR 3x weekly, hasn't operated since 2022 (really since 2019, since they only ran 7 flights in 2022). Not new, but will add some depth behind G4's 1x weekly flight Interesting that IND hasn't acknowledged this route, or F9's PHL, MSY, or DFW, and took a while to acknowledge D...
Jump to postF9 adding MSY Love getting MSY back and having a new destination added to the airport! https://x.com/ishriona/status/1762632379137454084?s=46 Is that destination #50? ....48? The airport director said this weekend that IND was at 49 destinations. He either misspoke, because before MSY was announced...
Jump to postIt is a small city - not a bad city, but fairly insignificant to anyone outside the US. 34th largest city in the US, maybe blah blah blah, but compared to the rest of the world, after the top 10-20 biggest US cities the population sizes drop off pretty quickly. I hadn't thought about the Indy resid...
Jump to postWhat's the story behind CMH's sluggish growth relative to peers? Q1 looks alright, and ahead of PIT, but Q2 seems more rough (albeit Q2 schedules aren't fully updated yet) https://i.imgur.com/F2hsi0Q.png https://i.imgur.com/QfI6h1U.png https://www.airlines.org/dataset/state-of-us-aviation/ As far a...
Jump to postWhat's the story behind CMH's sluggish growth relative to peers? Q1 looks alright, and ahead of PIT, but Q2 seems more rough (albeit Q2 schedules aren't fully updated yet) https://i.imgur.com/F2hsi0Q.png https://i.imgur.com/QfI6h1U.png https://www.airlines.org/dataset/state-of-us-aviation/
Jump to postFYI, on the Europe front: Rodriguez said the airport had 50 nonstop flights before the pandemic and currently has 49. And efforts continue to bring transatlantic flights to Europe back to the airport. “We’re concentrating, looking at different airlines, and we’re talking to them, us and the governor...
Jump to postWith F9 dropping IND-LAS, do we think NK or WN will jump on it with additional flights? It’s already going 4x on peak days this October. ^ In addition, F9 only served IND-LAS 2-3x weekly, so the equivalent of 50-80 seats/day. Not enough to move the needle, given NK alone is operating 230 seats/day ...
Jump to postSome Indy 500 increases: May 23rd: UA EWR-IND 2 E70 > A319 upguages -> 6x total UA SFO-IND +2 B738 -> 3x total UA IAH-IND +1 B738 -> 5x total UA ORD-IND +1 E75 & E75>B738 upguage -> 8x total UA DEN-IND A319>B739 upguage ->3x total AA PHX-IND +1 A319 ->3x total (10pm redeye arriving at 4:20 am :w...
Jump to postWhy is schedule change data so secretive now in today’s world? I used to love to just be able to keep track of stuff on my own with the downloadable electronic timetable. Now it’s hard to do that and the only people who seem to have access to easy route and fleet changes are people who pay for serv...
Jump to postI think the notion midsize markets need Europe service has become quite inflated after the pandemic. And most of the markets that have it had to pay for it. For Indy, with a good amount of legacy coverage, with relatively short flights to major connecting complexes like ORD, NYC, BOS, DTW, CLT, PHL...
Jump to postAvianca ceo has said they will be launching 15 new routes within the local and international market, I wonder if this is the potential SJO route? It almost makes sense if the rumor is in fact true? Perhaps, but the original quote said it was a US airline. Dumb question here, why would Avianca add C...
Jump to postI’m more surprised at the lack of international service especially to Europe. How the heck does Raleigh have airlines like Air France but not Indianapolis? IND TATL is about 1/2 that of RDU TATL (at least pre-COVID), although that doesn't explain SAT having Euro service or CVG having nearly 2x dail...
Jump to postIt's still surprising to me that breeze hasn't opened up IND. It serves basically every other market similar to IND - CMH, CVG, PIT, SDF, and CLE(kinda through CAK), plus served SAT as well. Outside of Florida, there would be very little p2p competition from IND: G4 flies IND-MYR/SAV once a week, a...
Jump to postFrom what I’ve seen, the Europe demand was at 791,000 in 2014. RDU’s capacity to Europe right now is 564,000. No it is nowhere near that. 791,000 is almost 1,100 PDEW. Philadelphia doesn’t even have that and it’s a major trans-Atlantic hub. Even if the trans-Atlantic capacity was 80% of demand that...
Jump to postIt's still surprising to me that breeze hasn't opened up IND. It serves basically every other market similar to IND - CMH, CVG, PIT, SDF, and CLE(kinda through CAK), plus served SAT as well. Outside of Florida, there would be very little p2p competition from IND: G4 flies IND-MYR/SAV once a week, an...
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