Re: Air India News and Discussion 2024

Generally speaking you find that most of the negative commentary on social media comes from Indian Americans. They tend to believe that American cultural norms are inherently superior to Indian cultural norms, and when the two clash they inevitably believe that India should subsume to American cult...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

Midwestindy wrote:

2024 predictions:
TATL announcement
3x daily IND-SEA
IND-SAN daily

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

IND Stats thourgh September 2023 Passengers: 7,235,432 (+12.3%) This number should be close to 8.5 Million after October Cargo: 725,483 (-21.4%) I have a Question about this when I look at the numbers it seems like they only Include Cargolux and MSC in there it seems like FedEx is not included in t...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

Q2 PDEWs were released and given G4, WN, NK, & F9 haven't opened up summer schedules yet, here are some PDEWs of note: Thank you for posting these! When you get the chance could you post the rest of the list that's above 75 pdew? Yep, including submarket breakdown below as well: Rationale for s...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

Midwestindy wrote:

Q2 PDEWs were released and given G4, WN, NK, & F9 haven't opened up summer schedules yet, here are some PDEWs of note:

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

Losing all Hope for IND Based on??? YTD July 2023 IND - 5,634,496 CLE - 5,585,240 PIT - 5,239,655 CVG - 4,997,156 CMH - 4,793,370 https://d1j6zi7czwjuok.cloudfront.net/iaa-images/reports/FINAL-July-2023-Airline-Activity-Report.pdf?mtime=20230911214301 July '23 % of. July 2019 in IND: AS 196% NK 160...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

Ask and you shall receive, so going back to topic both CLE & CVG offered (CLE being the most outrageous for a 4 weekly flight) insane incentive packed, I would say without these extremely high packages, neither CLE or CVG would of landed these flights just based off merit. CLE offered $12 milli...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

Saw that AF is taking over the RDU-CDG route. Wishful thinking, but maybe that frees up a plane to bring back the IND flight?

Re: Delta Air Lines Network - 2023

rjbesikof wrote:

According to a now deleted post by Ishrion, DL will be announcing new TATL routes this week. Can anyone confirm/deny?

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

IND-SLC was added back daily on a B738 starting March 2024. Great to see this. Hopefully they bring SEA back next year as well. Need to focus on getting LAX back to 3+ daily flights before more SEA service. I picked a random date in August and Delta didn't even have a Nonstop 1 of dates (August 1st...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

With the demise of the NEA, I wonder if that increases the chances of B6 adding flights to JFK and/or BOS?

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

Midwestindy wrote:

IND-SLC was added back daily on a B738 starting March 2024.

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

WWads wrote:

CVG has 3, STL has 2, PIT has 2.

Re: Indianapolis Aviation - 2023

Indiana adding an add'l $5M yearly for the direct flight fund for '23 & '24 https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1001#digest-heading From what I'm hearing BA adding CVG has kicked IND into the very long grass unfortunately. Certainly a direct flight to LHR from IND won't be happening...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

Does anyone know what the BNA PDEW is?

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2022

What was the expansion plan laid out in the original terminal designs? Would hope more than 2-4 gates will be needed in 30 years..... The biggest change I desire is moving security before concessions I can't find it, but I recall seeing a plan that allowed for 5 additional gates each at the end of ...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2021

Lots of chatter today about $100 a barrel oil coming very soon. Gas prices hit a seven year high. We were an energy independent nation just ten months ago. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/06/americans-are-paying-the-most-for-gas-in-seven-years.html If oil prices skyrocket, all of these new routes will...

Re: Indiana State Aviation Thread - 2020

Just a month ago we were all expressing our opinions on what new and exciting services we could expect in Indiana. What are the weakest links at IND, FWA, SBN and EVV that could get cut once the dust settles from all of this and the airlines are reduced in size? I'm thinking there's a high probabil...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2020

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Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2020

Why on earth are any of you trying to downplay COVID right now? Error on the side of caution, for the sake of your family and neighbors. Error on the side of caution? Absolutely. I do that every flu season. Error on the side of panic like what you see today? Noooooo I don't know what your agenda is...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2020

I'm curious how Contour turns a profit given the fares they charge and the limited number of seats they can sell. Just because they've been around for a long time doesn't mean THIS model works. I mean Midwest Express was around for a long time until they became unsustainable. Looking at their wikip...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2020

Indianapolis to St. Louis: Flights leave Indianapolis at 9:55 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. on weekdays, 4:45 p.m. on weekends. Return flights are 8:15 a.m. and 6:05 p.m. on weekdays, 10:30 a.m. on weekends. Indianapolis to Nashville: Flights leave Indianapolis at 8:45 a.m. and 7:25 p.m. on weekdays, 11:45 a....

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2020

Trying to compare Contour to OneJet is just simply not accurate. Contour is well established while OneJet was a start up that didn't even have their own crews flying the aircraft (Contour's parent CFM operated the OneJet flights at one point). Saying that STL is to easy to drive to and flying won't...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2019

stlgph wrote:

IND-CDG is "over performing?"

Sure. It's not even 7 days a week year around and it sucked its subsidies down more than a half a year ahead of the funding period.

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2019

Governor Holcomb's 2020 Next Level Agenda is out and can be viewed on the in.gov website. Eric Holcomb says the goal is to have 2 to 3 more nonstop international flights up and running by the end of 2021. Specific routes were not mentioned. The state still has 25 million dollars to use to attract t...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2019

The original master plan stated that IND could have up to 50 gates (they currently have IIRC ~40-44ish). In addition to A1, A2, B1, and B2, there is also the potential to add missing gates on both concourses (A9, A18, A19, B11, B18, and B19). Yeah, I remember seeing a master plan drawing for the te...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2019

Looks like no frequency changes on IND-CDG for Jan-May, I was hoping for daily service throughout all of May, but it looks like that isn't going to happen August-September IND-CDG flights have been going out much better than the year prior, so potentially daily IND-CDG could be extended to Septembe...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2019

FWIW, I took IND-CDG yesterday which had a 100% LF, guessing some people taking long weekends for the holiday Gate agent said that the flight was supposed to go to daily in April, but I think they were just following the tentative schedule which will more than likely change. 5/8 FAs were IND based,...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2019

I'm flying an IND-CDG leg next week, currently the DL app is showing a LF of 66% and 21/26 seats filled in Delta One, which is pretty decent for late August I'm also flying IND-CDG next week. Unfortunately for me flying in economy, the flight is pretty full. Only 43 open seats and all seats filled ...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2019

Absolutely baffling that the state would shut down the one highway going directly from the airport to downtown Indy........at the exact same time 65,000 people are coming into the city.... Hard to see how shutting down the entire interstate for a whole week was the only option they thought was feas...

Re: U.S. TSA to visit Pakistan

Adipocere wrote:

Would be fantastic if CBP setup pre-clearance at ISB in anticipation of more flights - maybe the US3 will jump in..

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2019

Midwestindy wrote:

I think there is a pretty good chance of a route announcement this week

Re: Will LAX pass ATL to become the world's busiest airport?

Well, we are already the worlds busiest O&D airport in the world. A much better metric than counting all those connecting pax that don't help the local economy that much! Does anyone have a list of the busiest O&D airports. Interested to see the other airports in the top 10. For the US http...

Re: Will LAX pass ATL to become the world's busiest airport?

B747forever wrote:

Well, we are already the worlds busiest O&D airport in the world. A much better metric than counting all those connecting pax that don't help the local economy that much!

Re: UA suspends EWR-DEL for two weeks from 4/5

xxcr wrote:

Would it help if UA added a SFO-BOM/DEL flight?

Re: UA suspends EWR-DEL for two weeks from 4/5

I actually don't think BOM will last much longer, especially without DEL. Now BOM is at least 5-6 hrs from the nearest UA destination (SIN), may be risky in case of an emergency. (From personal experience BOM flights would sometimes reroute to DEL if there was an emergency at BOM.) Not to mention f...

Re: Indian Aviation Thread - March 2019

WORLDS FASTEST-GROWING AIRPORTS REVEALED . BLR at 4th LKO at 5th HYD at 10th & AMD at 11th JAI at 17th LINK:- https://www.routesonline.com/news/29/breaking-news/283239/asia-dominates-list-of-fastest-growing-airports/ Interesting, BLR is by far the largest of the lot in terms of absolute numbers...

Re: Georgia lawmaker lobs legislation for state takeover of Atlanta airport

Would love to see the state takeover and promote competition instead of catering to the hometown business. Not only would a 2nd airport be more convenient for many people, but it would likely increase ATL's capacity as well as DL would be compelled to answer the threat. The winners would be the com...

Re: CAPA: Top 20 Asian LCCs by capacity

Very interesting. Thanks for posting!

Re: Indianapolis airport announcement 9am 01/17

This is my best guess. https://www.ibj.com/articles/70657-20m-in-state-incentives-targeted-to-help-airport-lure-international-flights "In another effort, she said, Indianapolis has submitted a bid to host the Routes Americas airline conference in February 2020. The annual three-day event typic...

Re: PIT Update Discussion Thread - 2018

Taxes are not optional. The decision to gamble is optional. The decision to buy a candy bar is optional. That doesn't make the sales tax you pay on it not a tax. In any case, it's money collected by the government aka the people aka the public meant to be spent accordingly. Exactly. This is really ...

Re: Airports with service to all 6 LON airports?

DUB & BUD have service to all 6.

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2018

So close, Outbound LF of 79.6%, and Inbound of 43.4%, definitely not good! But considering Delta said the flight was doing successful the June LFs are probably much better, also the flights were carrying a decent amount of cargo relative to other DL flights. IND-YYZ had decent LFs for the first tim...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2018

Does anyone know when we'll get the first numbers about how the IND-CDG flight is doing?

Re: BrewDog launching one tine London to Columbus flight.

It doesn't matter if you recognize the Columbus breweries or not, but traveling to cities to check out their breweries, is becoming a thing, particularly in the U.S., bringing many people to Charlotte, St. Louis, Indianapolis, and beyond. Glad to hear that it's attracting interest overseas. That's ...

Re: BrewDog launching one tine London to Columbus flight.

I can assure you people aren't flying transatlantic to St. Louis, Indianapolis, or Charlotte to check out their craft breweries. . Im flying transpacific to Indianapolis next year in 2020 to do it. America is renowned for their craft beer in both Europe and Australia. And little breweries that no o...

Re: BrewDog launching one tine London to Columbus flight.

Sure, it's entirely a stupid idea and not even remotely viable....which is why someone is doing it. https://www.10tv.com/article/brewdog-launch-craft-beer-airline-round-trip-between-london-and-columbus I have investments in 4 microbreweries, and of those 4, 1 is in Indianapolis and another in St. L...

Re: BA to Start Charleston, SC

Wow, really surprising. There are dozens of cities I would have guessed before CHS.

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2018

On the AMS option, interestingly, what such a setup could allow is for a bit more differentiation in timing by where people are headed. For instance, many East Africa/South African connections leave AMS by 11a/12p latest. So that flight could leave earlier in the day out of IND while CDG could be a...

Re: Indianapolis Aviation Thread - 2018

Midwestindy wrote:

...WN has joined UA on my no fly list