For FEDEX to walk away it must have been low margin business. UPS will no doubt move most of the Priority on the ground where they have a more robust system and lower costs. So it's worth it for UPS. I am curious how this will affect the FEDEX day flights that carry a lot of this USPS freight. As f...
Jump to postI honestly don’t know why people connect to Florida from places like GRR or similar sized cities in the Midwest with several nonstop options. There are so many nonstop options from GRR already. Sure you can’t rack up SkyMiles/Status but that is such a low return on investment for the amount of time...
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Details are few, but there is video on Twitter (or X…whatever) of ejection seats being launched shortly before the accident. Hoping the pilots are ok.
N979AN is still on the ground at AZO, now looking like it will advance to JFK as AA9792 today.
Jump to postBoth the Boeing Fuel Leak and Smoke/Fire/Fumes procedures tell you to land at the nearest suitable airport. If AZO has sufficient runway length and weather to handle a 738 and it was closer than GRR then the crew made the correct decision. A couple of contacts on the ground there say it was a fuel ...
Jump to postAA408 (ORD-LGA) diverted to AZO this morning due to unconfirmed reports of fire and smoke as well as a possible fuel leak over Michigan. AA did confirm the flight had a suspected mechanical issue and taxied to the gate at AZO where they were working on re-accommodating passengers. Another aircraft i...
Jump to postThere’s allegedly an ALPA newsletter floating around about Endeavor and Delta pilots signing a joint resolution supporting the incorporation of Endeavor’s operations into mainline DL. This was posted on the AeroCrew News Facebook page. Is there anything official out there? If this does happen, I can...
Jump to postWe’re finally seeing the brunt of the corporate incompetence with the Wall Street hedgefund guys at the controls of the railroad, and it honestly upsets me. I get so much hate for this opinion I’m about to share, but the FRA (Federal Railroad Administration) needs to shut NS down, and keep them shu...
Jump to postUpdate: 1 dead, was the only person on board. Fox 21 Duluth identified the casualty as David Rathbun, design engineer from Cirrus that apparently had a major hand in developing their single engine jet. https://www.fox21online.com/2023/02/24/pilot-who-crashed-into-st-louis-river-was-cirrus-design-eng...
Jump to postWDIO reporting a “small two seater” has crashed into the Duluth/Superior harbor. No word on survivors. There is a lot of ice in that area and the article indicates the plane may have “clipped the bridge”. It’s not clear if they are referring to the Bong Bridge (US-2) or the Grassy Point Drawbridge o...
Jump to postDLH is still a shell of its former schedules. Don't even get me started on the rest of north Minnesota and the token service DL has left that they now charge unjustifiable premiums, used to be $250-$400 or so to do a beyond flight from MSP-BJI/DLH and looking at S23 its now closer to a $700-800 pre...
Jump to postIt'd be nice if someone in Network Planning remembered that the upper Midwest exists. It'd be nice if someone in Network Planning remembered that the upper Midwest exists. they certainly didn’t forget DLH….mainline flights starting in March. Looks like 320s. DLH is still a shell of its former sched...
Jump to postBest of all: a Western Indian Head-liveried 763! I have a drawing done by an artist known for "fantasy liveries" saved on my hard drive but no way to post it here sadly...it's gorgeous. But yeah, a NE Yellowbird...wow! And being a fan of NC (my first flight was on them) I'd really love to...
Jump to postNWAESC wrote:It'd be nice if someone in Network Planning remembered that the upper Midwest exists.
Delta Informed SBN and FWA that the DTW flights are projected to return toward the later half of 2023 pending crew availability at Endeavor and Skywest. The noon SBN-ATL CRJ900 flight resumes in April. That’s a step in the right direction Agreed. It will be interesting to see what frequency is used...
Jump to postNot sure if it was mentioned, didn’t see it when I looked. Starting 3/8, the RON flight in DLH is mainline. DL1051 is a 717 for approximately a month before switching to an A320 in April. Checking random dates via the DL app shows it lasting thru June. I believe NWA had a maintenance base for the A3...
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Mile and a half south of DLH. Reports indicate it was a Cessna 172, unsure of persons on board but there are 3 dead at this time. The pictures look pretty gnarly.
I do not believe the AZO service will stick for long unless they can pull passengers from the northern Indiana across the state line using the service ... LAN will likely survive as they can pull from mid and upper mid Michigan areas with ease via the 4 lane highway US 27. part of the reason you do...
Jump to postIt's great to see AZO get a shot at proper ULCC service. Their previous one was sho rt-lived service on Direct Air which was already well into the fraud portion of their business plan by the time they started AZO. LAN did have G4 for a brief period but it was well before G4 really had their strateg...
Jump to postGross. I really hate to see this; was so nice having the option of a US3 carrier without the need to worry about being placed on a -MAX. Then again, we've done the " Delta about to place a massive MAX order! " dance nearly every quarter of the last 3yrs, so there's that.... I remember the...
Jump to postI bet you can make it to GRR from most of Lansing, Kalamazoo, and Muskegon in 45 minutes or so. It can easily take me that long to get to O’hare and I live 12 miles away! No. Just no. Minimum one hour with traffic from all those cities. Used to fly out of either AZO or GRR and I used to regularly t...
Jump to postI was connecting in MSP yesterday after departing DLH. From what we were told my flight was one of the last to get out, almost everything behind us was canceled. De-icing took quite some time as did the taxi to the runway. I think we were somewhere between an hour to two hours late. It was already v...
Jump to postIs UA upgauging certain UAX routes out of ORD for the summer? Noticing that AZO-ORD is an OO 175 starting 7/1, only one flight per day.
Jump to postSure it is. It ranked 74th for arrival and departing domestic passengers in 2019, 1/9th the traffic of DTW, according to RITA BTS data. And it also has service from Allegiant, Frontier, and Southwest in addition to the three legacies. For an airline that is looking to fly unserved routes from secon...
Jump to postI could see GRR for sure. Maybe TVC during the summer. Maybe. GRR isn’t a secondary city for air travel. Sure it is. It ranked 74th for arrival and departing domestic passengers in 2019, 1/9th the traffic of DTW, according to RITA BTS data. And it also has service from Allegiant, Frontier, and Sout...
Jump to postAZO-MSP is not on the schedule and from what I’ve been told it will not be back on their schedule for quite some time. AZO-MSP is currently scheduled to return June 5th. Although June 5th and beyond is still placeholder, so restart could get pushed back further. But is has not been pulled through e...
Jump to postDL will resume MSP-XWA (Williston ND) on June 5. Not very surprising since oil prices have rebounded and that's generally what drives the economy in that area. Flights have been loaded are bookable now. Looks like the schedule is daily on a CRJ2. MSP-XWA 1025A-1209P CR2 daily XWA-MSP 1250P-245P CR2...
Jump to postDL will resume MSP-XWA (Williston ND) on June 5. Not very surprising since oil prices have rebounded and that's generally what drives the economy in that area. Flights have been loaded are bookable now. Looks like the schedule is daily on a CRJ2. MSP-XWA 1025A-1209P CR2 daily XWA-MSP 1250P-245P CR2...
Jump to postDelta just announced they will stop blocking middle seats in May. Thanks for correcting me on AZO-MSP. Situation’s fluid. Supposedly they’re getting a fourth flight back but there’s nothing on any schedule about it. It might come back for the summer. DL still seems to be the primary carrier in AZO ...
Jump to postDelta is doing what it always does. It is restricting capacity to drive up fares as high as it can in it's captive markets to pay for it's follies in other markets where they just want to show presences. It is keeping it's Atlanta hub up to force as much traffic as it can over that hub directing tr...
Jump to postFood for thought:
Airline Geeks has an article out talking about Breeze routes and in the article there is a list of small city airport grant requests. One of them is from AZO, a request for $1 million for AZO-CLT.
From Airline Geeks:
“Kalamazoo, Michigan is looking for $1 million for flights to Charlotte on American Airlines”
https://airlinegeeks.com/2021/03/21/sma ... -strategy/
$1m seems to be quite a pretty penny for a flight to CLT...
What cities could we see Breeze at in Michigan ? I could see GRR for sure. Maybe TVC during the summer. Maybe. GRR isn’t a secondary city for air travel. They have direct FL flights to tourist destinations already AND they’re gate-constrained (last I heard, and it was pre-pandemic). The Project Ele...
Jump to postThey only have largely fixed the schedule through June 4th. June 5th and beyond will likely see significant bumps on this route when they get around to updating June schedule some time next month. You can't really read much into the placeholder schedules. On many routes, they have overly optimistic...
Jump to postTVC doesn't really get rocking until after Memorial Day. May is still mud season and cold up there. Mainline will probably show-up on DTW-TVC in June-July-August. DL just updated May schedule over the weekend. June is still default/placeholder except for any of the new added flights they just loade...
Jump to postOfficial DL press release: Not yet loaded yet so I can't pull any equipment types but I'll speculate DTW highlights: DTW-BZN resuming, seasonal, Saturday-only (flight had operated previously for a few weeks in March and 1 summer); probably going to be A319 or A320 DTW-JAC new, seasonal, Saturday-on...
Jump to postI wonder what the stance is on MIA though. If they want to run a fluid operation with LATAM, they'll need to insource ramp workers. Delta’s current ground handler at MIA is being kicked out of the airport so now would be the perfect time to insource. Unless DL has big plans for MIA I would bet the ...
Jump to postWow! That’s a lot of ice. 9 times out 10, this would have been a horrible ending. Kudos to the FA for catching that. I will be honest, I don’t have faith that any of my FA’s would have saw that on any of my flights where we have de-iced. Contamination checks are only required at my old and new shop...
Jump to postThis is beyond gross negligence; this is almost criminal. Those agents could’ve killed everyone on the flight. Swallow your pride and say you can’t do it. Everyone from Trego Duran involved in making the decision to release the airplane like that should be behind bars. We haven’t had a fatal US main...
Jump to postI had a FDX priority package from Japan. Sat in Japan for 5 days. I called customer service and I was told they were about 4 days behind and since it was weather there are no refunds and that they “ were going to just let it sort out”. Their smart post has sucked lately. Of my last 26 packages 24 h...
Jump to postWith regard to the Delta Network does anyone know if Delta will reconsider service to FNT. It is known that Delta cut service at the height of the Covid situation which is fully understandable. At that time it was thought that service to ATL might return last October. That did not happen and that a...
Jump to postPresident Biden will be at AZO next week to tour the Pfizer facility. No set date for arrival yet or if he’s even flying directly to AZO. Last time an administration official flew in, it was Mike Pence in 2019 and they did fly a 757 in before leaving in a motorcade. The last time AZO had a President...
Jump to postIt’s Allegiant. GRR-PDX and GRR-RAP.
PDX I get. But RAP?
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Here https://mobile.twitter.com/FlyGRFord/status/1358882058140082185 Probably going to be some sort of Allegiant expansion tomorrow. Probably... the biggest hole in the GRR network is JFK. Followed by (in no particular order) Salt Lake City, San Francisco, and Seattle. But like you said, it’s proba...
Jump to postReally? I haven’t seen them tease this anywhere Here https://mobile.twitter.com/FlyGRFord/status/1358882058140082185 Probably going to be some sort of Allegiant expansion tomorrow. Probably... the biggest hole in the GRR network is JFK. Followed by (in no particular order) Salt Lake City, San Franc...
Jump to postTVC isn’t the only one. GRR is saying two new direct routes announced tomorrow. It’s one of the current airlines.
As much as I’d like it to be DL, I’m pretty sure it’s one of the LCCs.
Midwest candidates (other than obvious): CAK, TOL, DAY, MBS, GRB, LAN, AZO, FNT, FWA, GRR, SBN, PEO, EVV, CMI, MSN, ATW, MLI, LNK, ICT Southeastern candidates (other than obvious): CRW, HTS, ROA, GSO, GSP, AVL, TRI, LEX, TYS, CHA, CAE, HSV, SAV, DAB, MGM, TLH, MLB, ECP, BTR, MOB, JAN, LIR, CHO, OWB...
Jump to postWhile the CR2s CPA flying will end, I’d fully expect to still see 200s on the EAS flying Skywest does. It wouldn’t surprise me to see 15-20 in the system even after the 2025 retirement date. Yes, OO is still flying the CRJ-200 on pro-rate/EAS routes for DL. 9E is handling all other 200 flying, most...
Jump to postThey do have 172 narrowbodies on order - 7 221s, 45 223s, 20 321, 100 321 neo. That covers the -88/90/717s leaving the fleet more or less; depending on how many 757s leave, it's a slight decrease in overall narrowbody seats. You math doesn't work, because before all of those on-order narrowbodies a...
Jump to postMess. Thanksgiving meltdown. Now Christmas meltdown. Aren' t we blessed to be in Michigan??? All we got was a thin layer of snow and nothing else... (don' t get accustomed to this though). Don’t know what part of Michigan you live in but we got 4” of powder in two days and the UP had it worse. DL c...
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