According to enilria's weekly OAG post, Delta's RDU-MSY will be increasing to 4 times per week in December, and 3 times in January.
"DL MSY-RDU DEC 0.2>0.6[0] JAN 0.2>0.4[0]"
Who cares about Brazil's economy going well or bad if the domestic aviation market has always been around 90 million domestic pax per year in recent years? Anyone who offers a good service will be successful. There's space for many! Good reading here: https://www.statista.com/statistics/877551/numb...
Jump to postJust throwing this out there, but could Air Canada have had any pull in getting the lounge here? They did just ramp up here considerably, and those Toronto flights now have J. The United Club is still a head scratcher for me.
Jump to postUnited will soon open one at RDU. So it will soon be on the list.
Jump to postIn Y, I seek out 767s and A330s whenever I can. It’s a no brainer, especially if you are traveling with another person.
Jump to postAC is very competitive with pricing to Europe, and I assume a significant chunk of their traffic originating from RDU takes advantage of this to connect to Europe. This won’t be a possibility for West Jet. My amateur and uninformed opinion is that West Jet would be crazy to go up against AC now afte...
Jump to postasuflyer wrote:A good example of a routes with a revenue guarantee are AA's RDU-LHR.
According to Enrilia’s OAG, RDU has finally been caught up in AA’s domestic dehubbing. Down to 2x daily from 4x daily. That will hurt a lot of AA’s connecting traffic to India/Amman who don’t want to use LHR. To JFK? It’s probably better for everyone involved (American and the passengers) to avoid ...
Jump to postLooking ahead at Delta probably adding ATL-BOM in the future, how much of a negative effect will this have on the RDU-CDG flight? If terminating in India, I’d much rather connect in ATL than the nightmare that is CDG. Though Air France does fly to DEL also. I’m just not sure if the impact would be m...
Jump to postAccording to Enrilia’s OAG, RDU has finally been caught up in AA’s domestic dehubbing. Down to 2x daily from 4x daily. That will hurt a lot of AA’s connecting traffic to India/Amman who don’t want to use LHR. To JFK? It’s probably better for everyone involved (American and the passengers) to avoid ...
Jump to postAlthough Rio gets the tourism focus, The state of Sao Paulo carries the Brazilian economy with 33% of the countries PIB (GDP), compared to Rio's 10%. That's where the business traffic goes to and that's where the airlines make the routes economically feasible. As the Brazilian economy rebounds, Rio ...
Jump to postThis (and the Crenshaw Line) can’t open soon enough and hopefully bring an end to the abysmal task of getting into/out of LAX via World Way. Thrilled that a 1/2 mile Uber ride, or 15 min walk to my closest metro stop will soon get me to LAX relatively quickly and traffic free. Still cannot believe ...
Jump to postFor the same reason, I always chuckle a bit when I hear of people speak about the potential for nonstop passenger service from RDU to Asia. The local cities and airport authority wanting it is one thing. The demand and the economics are something else altogether. I just do not see it happening anyt...
Jump to postAnd it shouldn’t. The only thing I can see happening in that direction in MEX and that is probably a stretch right now. RDU punches above its weight because it has a lot of business travel to and from. None of this business travel is going South. It’s Domestic, European, and the emerging Asian and S...
Jump to postI think AAB's card to play here if he really wants to leave is to convince B6/AS to become partners with QR and use that to convince other investors in the QR investment airlines to form their own alliance. It would completely gut the existing oneworld alliance and have a new alliance starting with...
Jump to postI think AAB's card to play here if he really wants to leave is to convince B6/AS to become partners with QR and use that to convince other investors in the QR investment airlines to form their own alliance. It would completely gut the existing oneworld alliance and have a new alliance starting with...
Jump to postAl Baker is the Trump of the aviation world. All talk, threats, and tantrums. Most of the business moves that Qatar has made have been simply foolish. His days of fooling people are wearing thin.
Jump to postI see large benefits for the airlines, but what is the real benefit for the consumer than what we had before? My perspective is a Delta ff.
Jump to postThe CLT fanboys mistakenly equate the traffic at the airport (due to American's hub), as being an indicator to support international flights. They don't realize they punch well below their weight for O&D numbers and revenue for their population numbers.
Jump to postI was very surprised to find out that they already have 6 daily, equaling DL. According to the RDU wiki, BOS has 4th most traffic from RDU.
Jump to postDoes anyone know how many dailies does B6, DL, and AA fly BOS-RDU right now?
Jump to postAside from CTL not being feasible for TATL connections on a country-wide basis do to location, it has no where near the required O&D.
Jump to postMore than likely something like daily SAN or PDX on a legit airline. Outside chance Mexico City? Longshot, but not out of the realm of possibility would be another TATL from a Star Alliance member. The proposed lounge at RDU is a head scratcher for me.
Jump to postWhat subsidy? I’ve never seen a legit reference to a subsidy for this flight for 5+ years that I’ve lived here. But it continually pops up on this forum without any citations or background info on its legitimacy.
Jump to postIt would be very unfortunate if Tarom left Skyteam. I'd miss them and what they bring to the alliance.
- Said no one. Ever.
particularly because it even further expands one-stop TATL options to areas not covered by the likes of JFK, such as non-Paris parts of France or North Africa. Air Canada usually is pretty aggressive with their pricing for International connections through Toronto from RDU. I'd expect the same thro...
Jump to postDelta is very risk-averse when it comes to new routes. I got laughed at and criticized when I stated my opinion that Delta’s next move at RDU was going to be to Chicago. That said, DFW-RDU is a far reach at this point in time. I can’t see Delta starting this route without an overwhelming success wit...
Jump to postI saw the below post in the MBJ thread. I'm pleasantly surprised by this as it works perfectly for a long weekend. I will definitely be booking this. Frontier has provided more details on the recently announced RDU-MBJ service. Frontier Airlines will be the only carrier offering four out of six of t...
Jump to postGood for the airport, and I'm glad for the people that will make use out of this, but the scheduling is horrible. A Wed to Sat or Sat to Wed trip to SD for leisure is out of the question for me. It's not time efficient at all for PTO from work. If it was more friendly to the regular work schedule, t...
Jump to postIt's a short train ride from Rome. Even adding in the Fiumicino-Termini leg, it's not that bad of a commute, as the frequencies of departures are great. There's not a lot of incentive for a US airline to add it.
Jump to postGiven Delta's track record on being very methodical, not taking risks, and putting profits above all else, why is every body assuming that Delta is bullshitting here? Does anybody actually think that Delta would restart a route(s) which they know will lose money just to save face to the very small p...
Jump to postDoes anyone have an educated guess at what Frontier wants to do at RDU? Are they expecting to use RDU for connections? From RDU: Austin, Denver, Las Vegas, Orlando Seasonal from RDU: Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Harrisburg, Detroit, Houston–Intercontinental, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St...
Jump to postYes, these discussions and approaches are extremely complex and hard to simplify. There are some in the camp of "Hubs make money, and airlines should strictly focus there". In a general numbers and data analysis, this is completely true and hard to argue against. However, at some point the...
Jump to postHmmmm.. So I checked, and according to The Tennesseean , Nashville has 14.5Mil visitors in 2016.... Now, just looking at Durham, NC... according to their site , they had 15.4Mil visitors by themselves... Raleigh and Wake County, according to this site , had another 15.6Mil visitors.. and Chapel Hil...
Jump to postAccording to a recent TBJ article, the top unserved markets with PDEW:
1) San Diego - 144
2) Portland - 86
3) San Jose - 82
San Juan and San Antonio each had over 80 PDEW per day, but were included in Frontier's RDU expansion.
Allegiant recently announced non-stop to Destin, Flroda, which begins June 8. And Southwest just announced RDU-MCI, which will beat Frontier's recently announced service by 1 day, April 8. So, we've had a bunch of activity in the last week, but nothing sexy. The recent MCI add is the most significan...
Jump to postERJ170 wrote:So with F9 now having 15 destinations, is there a need for them to get another gate? if so, where will they go? Is the time now for them to go to T1?
Oh honey, $10,000 per year is the reason why she was told to wait 13 hours. She's likely on the lower end of Platinums. Some passengers spend at least that much on a single round trip. Are you saying Delta ranks their second highest status level based on how much money they spend per year? He's say...
Jump to postOh honey, $10,000 per year is the reason why she was told to wait 13 hours. She's likely on the lower end of Platinums. Some passengers spend at least that much on a single round trip. $10k? Someone who buys two first class US-Europe tickets a year will spend more than that. Definitely not enough t...
Jump to postNice ! I’m not familiar with RDU at all. Is there a lot to do there ? Think that will be a good route for them?! To do? No. But the area is exploding in terms of population and quality job growth, which is driving the airline growth. It's a great place to live, but not really to visit. The beaches ...
Jump to postWhat entitlement? She was given no options at RDU, when there were clear options available. Again, what's the point of status, if you can't even receive the minimal amount of help in rerouting?
Jump to postAccording to the rumors in the following thread, it actually does look significant.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1385947&p=20155907&hilit=rdu#p20155907
The gall they have to make a Platinum wait until 1730. I can't believe it. Remind her that shes one of thousands of Platinums, nothing special. Especially at ATL. Is that what you guys think of your most loyal customers? That is not a very good move in my opinion. If they sent a Gulfstream to shutt...
Jump to post[twoid][/twoid] My wife's flight from RDU-ATL at 07:xx in the morning, boarded then deplaned. She is now scheduled to leave at 17:30, which is ridiculous for a Platinum. Her rescheduled flight from ATL-PHX at night is now delayed even further. oh, the horrors. hopefully Netflix picks up on this stor...
Jump to postMy wife's flight from RDU-ATL at 07:xx in the morning, boarded then deplaned. She is now scheduled to leave at 17:30, which is ridiculous for a Platinum. Her rescheduled flight from ATL-PHX at night is now delayed even further.
Jump to postJax isnt like RDU where companies in the city help pay AA to fly to London for direct access. I dont know an companies in jax other than banks than would use the service 3 day/wk to daily. I'm not sure why this gets propagated so much on this forum, but it's been a very long time since GSK has paid...
Jump to post144 PDEW from RDU-SAN. That should be good enough for a new flight, so I think it’s a matter of who pulls the trigger and finding the right plane that’s available. Do the cities have Pharma links? I’d start to question Delta’s “Focus City” marketing, if Alaska pulls the tigger first. Southwest would...
Jump to postI also agree that RDU is no where near ready for a china flight but other people in the thread do, and I respect their opinion I don't think anybody has said RDU is ready for a China flight. We are talking about it because the airport has stated it's the #1 goal within the next 5-6 years. This is a...
Jump to postNoise wrote:I wonder if AS would try RDU-SJC.