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jplatts wrote:WN had also said in Thursday's earning call that its top market priorities are Hawaii, DEN, BWI, and HOU.
WN also has its next schedule extension tomorrow, which extends its flight schedule to June 6th. I expect WN to announce a few new nonstop routes out of DEN and HOU in tomorrow's schedule extension as both DEN and HOU are top market priorities for WN.
LotsaRunway wrote:5 new gates at BWI are scheduled to open in the spring. Maybe they plan to add something there?
LotsaRunway wrote:jplatts wrote:WN had also said in Thursday's earning call that its top market priorities are Hawaii, DEN, BWI, and HOU.
WN also has its next schedule extension tomorrow, which extends its flight schedule to June 6th. I expect WN to announce a few new nonstop routes out of DEN and HOU in tomorrow's schedule extension as both DEN and HOU are top market priorities for WN.
5 new gates at BWI are scheduled to open in the spring. Maybe they plan to add something there?
czek6 wrote:LotsaRunway wrote:jplatts wrote:WN had also said in Thursday's earning call that its top market priorities are Hawaii, DEN, BWI, and HOU.
WN also has its next schedule extension tomorrow, which extends its flight schedule to June 6th. I expect WN to announce a few new nonstop routes out of DEN and HOU in tomorrow's schedule extension as both DEN and HOU are top market priorities for WN.
5 new gates at BWI are scheduled to open in the spring. Maybe they plan to add something there?
BWI is adding five gates to the A concourse, but when these new gates open Southwest will close five gates to finally fix their overloaded baggage system. It will be a while before Southwest will see the benefit of the new capacity from the five gates.
Jshank83 wrote:Do we know where WN is getting the extra slot for a 4th daily STL-LGA starting in April? or did they take a flight off somewhere else?
jplatts wrote:Jshank83 wrote:Do we know where WN is getting the extra slot for a 4th daily STL-LGA starting in April? or did they take a flight off somewhere else?
WN is going to be dropping LGA-MCI from 2 daily nonstops down to 1 daily nonstop starting on April 14th.
jplatts wrote:Here is the announcement of the new WN SAN to Hawaii nonstop routes and the WN seasonal nonstop routes that will be resuming in April 2020:
https://www.swamedia.com/releases/release-f44ea89534cf441c116bebd6141e368b-southwest-airlines-extends-flight-schedule-through-june-6-2020-with-nonstop-service-to-link-hawaii-and-san-diego-now-on-sale-purchase-today-one-way-for-as-low-as-129
jplatts wrote:Here is the announcement of the new WN SAN to Hawaii nonstop routes and the WN seasonal nonstop routes that will be resuming in April 2020:
https://www.swamedia.com/releases/release-f44ea89534cf441c116bebd6141e368b-southwest-airlines-extends-flight-schedule-through-june-6-2020-with-nonstop-service-to-link-hawaii-and-san-diego-now-on-sale-purchase-today-one-way-for-as-low-as-129
AirFiero wrote:jplatts wrote:Here is the announcement of the new WN SAN to Hawaii nonstop routes and the WN seasonal nonstop routes that will be resuming in April 2020:
https://www.swamedia.com/releases/release-f44ea89534cf441c116bebd6141e368b-southwest-airlines-extends-flight-schedule-through-june-6-2020-with-nonstop-service-to-link-hawaii-and-san-diego-now-on-sale-purchase-today-one-way-for-as-low-as-129
Ok SANFan, you can breath now
SANFan wrote:AirFiero wrote:jplatts wrote:Here is the announcement of the new WN SAN to Hawaii nonstop routes and the WN seasonal nonstop routes that will be resuming in April 2020:
https://www.swamedia.com/releases/release-f44ea89534cf441c116bebd6141e368b-southwest-airlines-extends-flight-schedule-through-june-6-2020-with-nonstop-service-to-link-hawaii-and-san-diego-now-on-sale-purchase-today-one-way-for-as-low-as-129
Ok SANFan, you can breath now
Hehe, yup! Just got online and saw this news. I hope it will happen as planned!
It seems that AS might have anticipated (or more?) that this timing might happen with their already-announced increases in their HA service from SAN.
Thanks for the shout-out, 'Fiero.
bb
wnflyguy wrote:Looking at The Bookings it [SAN] is scheduled for a 7378NG not a MAX8. Seems to be Capped at 150 seats.
I'm gonna guess with AS recently announced Reshuffle and build up of SAN Hawaii flying. WN no longer could hold on waiting for MAX return.
Flyguy
SANFan wrote:wnflyguy wrote:Looking at The Bookings it [SAN] is scheduled for a 7378NG not a MAX8. Seems to be Capped at 150 seats.
I'm gonna guess with AS recently announced Reshuffle and build up of SAN Hawaii flying. WN no longer could hold on waiting for MAX return.
Flyguy
Ahhhhh... That is very interesting to hear. That actually impresses me more that just the announcing of the service, and something I've been hoping to see -- WN acting serious about serving HI from SAN and figuring out a way to make it happen!
Seems like I'll have to wait and see how this all plays out.
bb
wnflyguy wrote:SANFan wrote:wnflyguy wrote:Looking at The Bookings it [SAN] is scheduled for a 7378NG not a MAX8. Seems to be Capped at 150 seats.
I'm gonna guess with AS recently announced Reshuffle and build up of SAN Hawaii flying. WN no longer could hold on waiting for MAX return.
Flyguy
Ahhhhh... That is very interesting to hear. That actually impresses me more that just the announcing of the service, and something I've been hoping to see -- WN acting serious about serving HI from SAN and figuring out a way to make it happen!
Seems like I'll have to wait and see how this all plays out.
bb
With it Capped at 150 has a few people thinking maybe it will eventually be replaced with the 737MAX7. It's been speculated that the MAX7 will all be ETOPS. But until certification can happen WN needs keep up with it's California Strong battle against AS. This way it can temporarily run the NG8Etops until if and when that day ever arrives.
Flyguy
wnflyguy wrote:LGA upgrades to mostly 800 in the new schedule.
HAV has been downgraded to 4 Daily 700 vs 4 Daily 800 NOV-JUN.
Seems to be a completely reshuffled Schedule Vs 2018 schedule.
A lot of departures time shifts in this schedule.
A lot of Rumbling that COS will be the only next new city after CZM.
Flyguy
SWADawg wrote:wnflyguy wrote:LGA upgrades to mostly 800 in the new schedule.
HAV has been downgraded to 4 Daily 700 vs 4 Daily 800 NOV-JUN.
Seems to be a completely reshuffled Schedule Vs 2018 schedule.
A lot of departures time shifts in this schedule.
A lot of Rumbling that COS will be the only next new city after CZM.
Flyguy
Please God yes. An online divert option for DEN please!
wnflyguy wrote:A lot of Rumbling that COS will be the only next new city after CZM.
wnflyguy wrote:LGA upgrades to mostly 800 in the new schedule.
HAV has been downgraded to 4 Daily 700 vs 4 Daily 800 NOV-JUN.
Seems to be a completely reshuffled Schedule Vs 2018 schedule.
A lot of departures time shifts in this schedule.
A lot of Rumbling that COS will be the only next new city after CZM.
Flyguy
heretothere wrote:[twoid][/twoid]jplatts wrote:Jshank83 wrote:Do we know where WN is getting the extra slot for a 4th daily STL-LGA starting in April? or did they take a flight off somewhere else?
WN is going to be dropping LGA-MCI from 2 daily nonstops down to 1 daily nonstop starting on April 14th.
Also LGA-MKE is ending, and those two slots are moved to MDW.
SANFan wrote:AirFiero wrote:jplatts wrote:Here is the announcement of the new WN SAN to Hawaii nonstop routes and the WN seasonal nonstop routes that will be resuming in April 2020:
https://www.swamedia.com/releases/release-f44ea89534cf441c116bebd6141e368b-southwest-airlines-extends-flight-schedule-through-june-6-2020-with-nonstop-service-to-link-hawaii-and-san-diego-now-on-sale-purchase-today-one-way-for-as-low-as-129
Ok SANFan, you can breath now
Hehe, yup! Just got online and saw this news. I hope it will happen as planned!
It seems that AS might have anticipated (or more?) that this timing might happen with their already-announced increases in their HA service from SAN.
Thanks for the shout-out, 'Fiero.
bb
SWADawg wrote:wnflyguy wrote:LGA upgrades to mostly 800 in the new schedule.
HAV has been downgraded to 4 Daily 700 vs 4 Daily 800 NOV-JUN.
Seems to be a completely reshuffled Schedule Vs 2018 schedule.
A lot of departures time shifts in this schedule.
A lot of Rumbling that COS will be the only next new city after CZM.
Flyguy
Please God yes. An online divert option for DEN please!
bob75013 wrote:Interesting tidbit from the Barrons aricle talks about the return of WN's "106 MAXs. " That is the ony interesting thing in the article, but here's the link in case you want to read it anyway.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-re ... yptr=yahoo
I presume 106 MAXs is the number that are expected to be on board by EOY 2020 -- over 14% of a 700 plane fleet (assumes no fleet growth).
The MAX grounding will start casuing WN real pain if it extends too far into 2020.
wnflyguy wrote:Just saw the news WN is pulling the MAX8 off the schedule until March 6, 2020.
Like every Schedule release they add all this new inventory with the MAX8 back in the schedule. Then seems like a week later start the cancellations and rebooking.
The MAX8 has been grounded long enough Maybe they should leave it off the schedule completely until it's UNgrounded.
Flyguy
WN732 wrote:Amazing that we could go an entire year without any new deliveries.
KDAL wrote:
As a sidenote, it also appears as though all three aircraft that were in Victorville for pickle fork repairs have been repaired and returned. Granted one went directly to PAE for a scheduled heavy check.
Western727 wrote:KDAL wrote:
As a sidenote, it also appears as though all three aircraft that were in Victorville for pickle fork repairs have been repaired and returned. Granted one went directly to PAE for a scheduled heavy check.
That seems a bit odd. Why not do that at the same time and shop as the heavy check, if you're gonna do the check anyway?
KDAL wrote:Western727 wrote:KDAL wrote:
As a sidenote, it also appears as though all three aircraft that were in Victorville for pickle fork repairs have been repaired and returned. Granted one went directly to PAE for a scheduled heavy check.
That seems a bit odd. Why not do that at the same time and shop as the heavy check, if you're gonna do the check anyway?
Boeing themselves are handling the pickle fork repairs, while ATS at PAE is the MRO contracted for the heavy check. I would assume that once Boeing finds the root cause for the pickle fork issue they will establish a repair and/or replacement procedure that can be taken on by MROs. Until then, we just have to deal with a few inefficiencies, unfortunately.
LotsaRunway wrote:The Baltimore Business Journal interviewed Steve Goldberg of WN who expects a record number of flights at BWI next summer. In specific, they are anticipating that WN will have 248 daily flights during summer 2020, which is up from 220 the average of past summers. They seem to think that there will be several new cities since summer 2019 and 17 additional frequencies to existing cities. They cite the 5 new gates as being an enabler and there was no mention of if, or how, the baggage handling needs might affect gate availability and flight frequencies.
BNAMealer wrote:LotsaRunway wrote:The Baltimore Business Journal interviewed Steve Goldberg of WN who expects a record number of flights at BWI next summer. In specific, they are anticipating that WN will have 248 daily flights during summer 2020, which is up from 220 the average of past summers. They seem to think that there will be several new cities since summer 2019 and 17 additional frequencies to existing cities. They cite the 5 new gates as being an enabler and there was no mention of if, or how, the baggage handling needs might affect gate availability and flight frequencies.
How many gates will WN have at BWI after the 5 gates come online?
BNAMealer wrote:LotsaRunway wrote:The Baltimore Business Journal interviewed Steve Goldberg of WN who expects a record number of flights at BWI next summer. In specific, they are anticipating that WN will have 248 daily flights during summer 2020, which is up from 220 the average of past summers. They seem to think that there will be several new cities since summer 2019 and 17 additional frequencies to existing cities. They cite the 5 new gates as being an enabler and there was no mention of if, or how, the baggage handling needs might affect gate availability and flight frequencies.
How many gates will WN have at BWI after the 5 gates come online?
LotsaRunway wrote:BNAMealer wrote:LotsaRunway wrote:The Baltimore Business Journal interviewed Steve Goldberg of WN who expects a record number of flights at BWI next summer. In specific, they are anticipating that WN will have 248 daily flights during summer 2020, which is up from 220 the average of past summers. They seem to think that there will be several new cities since summer 2019 and 17 additional frequencies to existing cities. They cite the 5 new gates as being an enabler and there was no mention of if, or how, the baggage handling needs might affect gate availability and flight frequencies.
How many gates will WN have at BWI after the 5 gates come online?
I think the count is 31, but someone might know better what is actually being used.
A-11
B-14
C-6
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31
jplatts wrote:WN had also said in Thursday's earning call that its top market priorities are Hawaii, DEN, BWI, and HOU.
WN also has its next schedule extension tomorrow, which extends its flight schedule to June 6th. I expect WN to announce a few new nonstop routes out of DEN and HOU in tomorrow's schedule extension as both DEN and HOU are top market priorities for WN.
bob75013 wrote:jplatts wrote:WN had also said in Thursday's earning call that its top market priorities are Hawaii, DEN, BWI, and HOU.
WN also has its next schedule extension tomorrow, which extends its flight schedule to June 6th. I expect WN to announce a few new nonstop routes out of DEN and HOU in tomorrow's schedule extension as both DEN and HOU are top market priorities for WN.
It looks like WN is making good on it's committment to grow DEN.
"Confirmed: Southwest Airlines to add more than 1,000 jobs at DIA ...
Southwest, which is the second-largest passenger carrier at DIA, has requested that it receive all of the 16 new gates that DIA is currently adding to Concourse C.
“We’ve requested all 16 gates and we hope that we get all of those,” Van Eaton said.
The $75 million capital expenditure project is associated with the gate expansion. It will include expanding ticket areas, among other construction, Van Eaton said. It's not the only construction project Southwest is involved in at DIA.
Southwest announced in May at a shareholders meeting held in Denver that it planned to build a roughly $100 million hangar at DIA with space for three Boeing 737 planes inside and parking for eight more planes outside the hangar.
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news ... yptr=yahoo
bob75013 wrote:jplatts wrote:WN had also said in Thursday's earning call that its top market priorities are Hawaii, DEN, BWI, and HOU.
WN also has its next schedule extension tomorrow, which extends its flight schedule to June 6th. I expect WN to announce a few new nonstop routes out of DEN and HOU in tomorrow's schedule extension as both DEN and HOU are top market priorities for WN.
It looks like WN is making good on it's committment to grow DEN.
"Confirmed: Southwest Airlines to add more than 1,000 jobs at DIA ...
Southwest, which is the second-largest passenger carrier at DIA, has requested that it receive all of the 16 new gates that DIA is currently adding to Concourse C.
“We’ve requested all 16 gates and we hope that we get all of those,” Van Eaton said.
The $75 million capital expenditure project is associated with the gate expansion. It will include expanding ticket areas, among other construction, Van Eaton said. It's not the only construction project Southwest is involved in at DIA.
Southwest announced in May at a shareholders meeting held in Denver that it planned to build a roughly $100 million hangar at DIA with space for three Boeing 737 planes inside and parking for eight more planes outside the hangar.
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news ... yptr=yahoo
caflyboy wrote:WN Route Changes November, 2019
Here are the amount of routes per station based on the latest schedule. They are group by region used in the Southwest ONE report.
SAN: 34 - ABQ, ATL, AUS, BNA, BOI, BWI, DAL, DEN, ELP, GEG, HNL, HOU, LAS, MCI, MCO, MDW, MSY, OAK, OGG, OMA, PDX, PHX, PVR, RNO, SAT, SEA, SFO, SJC, SJD, SLC, SMF, STL, TPA, TUS
SANFan wrote:caflyboy wrote:WN Route Changes November, 2019
Here are the amount of routes per station based on the latest schedule. They are group by region used in the Southwest ONE report.
SAN: 34 - ABQ, ATL, AUS, BNA, BOI, BWI, DAL, DEN, ELP, GEG, HNL, HOU, LAS, MCI, MCO, MDW, MSY, OAK, OGG, OMA, PDX, PHX, PVR, RNO, SAT, SEA, SFO, SJC, SJD, SLC, SMF, STL, TPA, TUS
Thanks for your efforts on this information cafly'. I have a question, specifically re: SAN.
Are these supposed to be the routes op'ing in November or are these the routes op'ing as of next April's skeds -- the latest release? (Which would explain why HNL & OGG are included and our summer seasonal routes, IND, MKE, & ORF are not.)
If the latter is the case however, I find a discrepancy: I do not see any TPA service on next April's sked and you have it included on your list. (SAN-TPA seems to operate most of the year but is axed for a month or 2 at various times of the year.)
I'm just trying to make sure I know what I'm looking at on your lists.
I do hope there will be a similar list covering the June 7, 2020 sked due to be released on Dec 11, if you get the chance. Thanks again for sharing this info.
bb