Question for those who might know better. I am a little surprised Delta and United keep their lounges open at PHL when looking at frequencies. Does anyone know if they fly a lot of premium traffic? I assumed in and out of PHL they fly mainly premium traffic from their hubs. Just curious background ...
Jump to postHow was your flight experience on Discover My experience was good though, it was crewed by finnair. So I don't think I got the true Discover experience. So it's an airline that is not full service? I flew in economy and a meal was included but everything else you need to pay for like blankets and h...
Jump to postI saw some rumors that AA is cancelling the landline service to LNS service June 5th on a reddit thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/americanairlines/s/eIAPYSSdHk Sadly, I'm not surprised. Especially with the TSA situation. I wonder if the Breeze announcement played a role as well. Doubt it's because ...
Jump to postPHLspecial wrote:I saw some rumors that AA is cancelling the landline service to LNS service June 5th on a reddit thread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/americanairlines/s/eIAPYSSdHk
aerace wrote:Just saw Ishrion tweet that LH filed S25 extensions and PHL is upped to daily vs 5x. Clearly this can change, but good to see mainline sticking at least.
"If F9 continues to expand at PHL (although not sure how much more expansion they can do here without TATL to enable a large amount of connection opportunities)..." Talk about speaking too soon... F9 just announced PHL-BUF/ORF is coming in early June at 3x weekly apiece. Not sure if it is...
Jump to postIn the FY25 Budget testimony there's a quote that was posted earlier in this thread that says "The Asia market from PHL is rebounding and carriers are expressing interest in serving the Philadelphia market". I was thinking on what part of Asia they could be referring to. India, China, both...
Jump to postPHL has lots of leakage + a large Amtrak mode share for travel. The Philly metro has plenty of O&D, it's just impacted by those two factors. I am kind of tired of arguing these points. quite frankly. We don't need to keep having these circular debates on PHL's performance. There's nothing uniqu...
Jump to postThey just started flying to PHL on March 31st swapping the 777
Jump to posthttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/edgarves ... member_ios
American and landline are expanding service to ABE and ACY
I know not the most exciting news but according to Sun Country website, during June and July there will be a couple of weeks where they will fly 7 days a week and outside of that most weeks look to be approximately 5 days a week during the summer months. I know they have a small token presence but s...
Jump to postSome interesting tidbits from Mayor Parker's FY2025-30 budget (the city funds the Department of Aviation, which operates PHL). Under FY25 strategic vision: ▶ Expansion of New Nonstop Destinations to Mexico, Caribbean, Central America and Asia. PHL currently services 28 international destinations, w...
Jump to postMy point is, whether it is a direct flight to India from PHL or a connection, that is irrelevant. On either scenario, people are avoiding PHL to leakage for more choices or lower fares. Agreed on this. I remember I went to Greece few years ago and flew out of JFK because AA out of Philly was asking...
Jump to postMy point is, whether it is a direct flight to India from PHL or a connection, that is irrelevant. On either scenario, people are avoiding PHL to leakage for more choices or lower fares. Agreed on this. I remember I went to Greece few years ago and flew out of JFK because AA out of Philly was asking...
Jump to postThis articles headline is "Philadelphia Airport Plans to Introduce Direct Flights to India" The article mentions there are 66,422 annual travelers between Philadelphia and India. Mentions you can fly to India via DOH, FRA, LHR. Personally I don't think there is any weight to this article ...
Jump to postThis articles headline is "Philadelphia Airport Plans to Introduce Direct Flights to India" The article mentions there are 66,422 annual travelers between Philadelphia and India. Mentions you can fly to India via DOH, FRA, LHR. Personally I don't think there is any weight to this article ...
Jump to postThere seems to be strong speculation that Southwest is going to set up a codeshare with Icelandair and funnel passengers to Europe through BWI. Not great for chances of getting Icelandair back to PHL and another airport to absorb Europe pax from the PHL market, which loses a ton to EWR already. I f...
Jump to postThis articles headline is "Philadelphia Airport Plans to Introduce Direct Flights to India" The article mentions there are 66,422 annual travelers between Philadelphia and India. Mentions you can fly to India via DOH, FRA, LHR. Personally I don't think there is any weight to this article ...
Jump to postAnother thought about F9, because they just cut a bunch of routes, I wonder if F9 is willing to try some West coast routes like LAS, SLC, PHX, LAX. A lot of those routes have high priced fares and I think some people are willing to fly F9 for the lower fares and can definitely sell bag fees on thos...
Jump to postRandom Thought: With F9 basically ramping up with a plethora of routes and potentially starting European routes in 2-3 years, I wonder if Frontier would offer connections or would be more focus on O&D? My thought on this was that for European routes (excluding Ireland possibly) I'm curious how ...
Jump to postRandom Thought: With F9 basically ramping up with a plethora of routes and potentially starting European routes in 2-3 years, I wonder if Frontier would offer connections or would be more focus on O&D? My thought on this was that for European routes (excluding Ireland possibly) I'm curious how t...
Jump to postUnless something changes whether in their business model or the scheduling of their banks (for the 24-hour system), the only thing I can personally see is EWR/JFK (in that order of likelihood) whether in moving over SWF or doubling them up in the manner that they do BWI/IAD. Most other places in th...
Jump to postAccording to Ishrion, AA has filed to fly to PQI among other airlines.
“American Airlines has also applied for the PQI contract with 12x weekly to PHL on a 50-seater. Boutique Air proposes BOS-PQI”
Also United and JetBlue has submitted request
PHLspecial wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkpczwZkWjs
Thought I share a video about a Discover pilot doing a flight from PHL-FRA in the cockpit
American will be starting a brand new route to Barbados on Nov 9th in conjunction to to JFK service as well "Effective November 05, 2024, American Airlines will be launching their daily nonstop service from New York, John F Kennedy Airport with a 737 aircraft with a capacity of 172 seats. Also,...
Jump to postAmerican really is defending their territory at PHL. Frontier has seen some steady organic growth at the airport, it will be interesting to see how this plays out. I found this article from a website mentioned earlier in this thread gives a pretty good overview with some data. https://www.allthings...
Jump to postWas at the airport today for volunteering and I see Connect Airlines still has 2 aircraft parked. I know they laid off a bunch of an employees not to long ago so at this point I have low expectations they will get off the ground with their operations. Hopefully their appeal works in there favor. Si...
Jump to postI'm not sure what Discover is supposed to serve? Like I get the direct connection to Frankfurt and Germany overall. Like there are some good EU markets it serves, like Scandinavia/Nordic east EU like Poland. I see some good connections to the Middle East and the big cities in India. I appreciate th...
Jump to postWas at the airport today for volunteering and I see Connect Airlines still has 2 aircraft parked. I know they laid off a bunch of an employees not to long ago so at this point I have low expectations they will get off the ground with their operations. Hopefully their appeal works in there favor. Sid...
Jump to postThe Frontier event at Craft Hall was insane. I wound up winning a $25 flight voucher that expires in May lol after waiting 2 hours in line to get inside. It was way more people than I expected. I heard some people won Wild Passes and free flights, ect. They should have tried to find a larger venue t...
Jump to postHow many gates does Frontier use right now? I know they currently use the 2 common use gates in D in the morning. Great adds overall Currently F9 uses E1, E2, E4, E6, E8, E9, E10, D1, D2. So 9 gates. D1 and D2 are overnight gates, though maybe in the peak season they more of the D gates I can see t...
Jump to postHow many gates does Frontier use right now? I know they currently use the 2 common use gates in D in the morning. Great adds overall
Jump to postFor those who may have seen on social, F9 is holding a big event tomorrow night at Craft Hall from 5-8pm giving away free flights, miles, status, swag, etc. I thought this press push was kind of odd since PHL didn't benefit from the most recent route news. However, I just heard they are announcing ...
Jump to postKinda public news around ORD is that American will be accommodating Contour on AA gates effective this month some time. They will not be using the Stinger gates as planned. It will be really interesting to see how AA handles Contours irrops. I don't think it should be a problem. Over at PHL AA acco...
Jump to postThe thing is there is still lots of areas available for development for both residential and office space. With a few changes to the housing codes Philadelphia can grow back to 2 million population. I'm curious to see if there are any other airlines interested in growing here besides AA and F9. F9 ...
Jump to postI think it's worth pointing out that the PHL metro is coming out of the pandemic strong with more employment growth than Boston, Washington, Houston, or New York (per capita). We're on par with growth in Austin and Atlanta. Things are heading in the right direction. I live in the city and the numbe...
Jump to postSpeaking of BOS, it was mentioned to compare PHL to a similar size market like BOS rather than NYC (I don’t think anyone here measures against NYC). BOS has 21 foreign TATL carriers serving 25 cities (some cities overlapping) compared to PHL 3 foreign TATL carriers serving 3 destinations. BOS has 4...
Jump to postMy guess on this one will be BermudAir. They've been on the prowl lately adding Orlando and Baltimore to their network starting in March. Ft Lauderdale scales back from 6 a week to 3 a week for the summer putting some slack in the schedule for a turn leaving BDA in the mornings and back in time for...
Jump to postThere is no reason why EK or EY would fly to PHL. There's a reason Qatar left (it juts doesn't do well O/D) and American can make it work because they can connect passengers from all over the US through PHL rather than JFK as it's less congested. There's a reason why LH left, even though they serve...
Jump to postA little article pointing out that PHL lacks TATL service and very dominant by AA. Noting too interesting that the article pointing out AA prefers airports not to invest in there terminals. https://www.allthingsairline.com/aa-phl-transatlantic Thanks for sharing this. I'm not surprised on the numbe...
Jump to postA little article pointing out that PHL lacks TATL service and very dominant by AA. Noting too interesting that the article pointing out AA prefers airports not to invest in there terminals. https://www.allthingsairline.com/aa-phl-transatlantic Thanks for sharing this. I'm not surprised on the numbe...
Jump to postIt looks like Sun Country is starting service way earlier than it normally has, starting in February. Granted it's only a few flights per week still a great sign as they normally have began service in May.
Jump to postMy home base airport is PHL and I know LH had switched service to Discover Airlines since late 2022 due to aircraft and staffing shortages. At this point does anyone know if 4Y is now permanent switch for the route or is this still a longer delay before the return to LH mainline?
Jump to postCOPA currently serves BWI, so I'm not sure if there is enough demand to get copa to start service here. Plus they are facing competition from AA MIA to serve the South American market. It's possible? But Philly would need way more o&d passengers to fly here. I think copa can compete with AA wit...
Jump to postSo I came across this document on regulation.gov as TAR Aerolineas is looking to expand to the USA and Philly was mentioned https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOT-OST-2016-0036-0008 I don't know much about this airline so will be interesting to see if any of this comes to real life for service In...
Jump to postSo I came across this document on regulation.gov as TAR Aerolineas is looking to expand to the USA and Philly was mentioned
https://www.regulations.gov/document/DO ... -0036-0008
I don't know much about this airline so will be interesting to see if any of this comes to real life for service
Any idea if servicing Western Canada and Western United States is in the 10 year plan for Play? Places maybe like Edmonton, Seattle and Denver. With their current fleet I would so say no as the planes don't have enough range IMO to make to make it out to the west. The CEO did mention the possibilit...
Jump to postDoes anyone do the volunteer program? I was curious about it. Not sure how to gain more information besides what is on the website, or if its pretty straight forward? I take it your referring to the Traveler's Aid program for volunteering. If so I've been in the program since late 2021 and it's pre...
Jump to postBOS and IAD already have endless capacity to London and if they didn't turn a profit in peak summer then good on Norse for being nimble and cutting them. LGW-LAS should be interesting and do well with London point of sale. It also helps that London - LAS isn't grossly overserved like some markets i...
Jump to postOne last post for the day as I'm probably posting to much lol. Saw notification on my airport volunteer post about the Chase lounge as follows "Chase Sapphire Lounge - D/E Connector (Opening at the end of 2024)" I know that's not saying much as anything can happen with delays but wanted to...
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