PVD Breeze Airways Summer adjustment.
PIT stays the same at 4x week, ORF, CHS go daily.
BDL trims from 4-3 weeklys to PIT CHS & ORF for the season.

lat41 wrote:

PVD Breeze Airways Summer adjustment.
PIT stays the same at 4x week, ORF, CHS go daily.
BDL trims from 4-3 weeklys to PIT CHS & ORF for the season.

From BDL, is that from 4 to 3 weekly flights?

lat41 wrote:

PVD Breeze Airways Summer adjustment.
PIT stays the same at 4x week, ORF, CHS go daily.
BDL trims from 4-3 weeklys to PIT CHS & ORF for the season.

I believe PIT gets bumped up to the E195.

airlineworker wrote:

lat41 wrote:

PVD Breeze Airways Summer adjustment.
PIT stays the same at 4x week, ORF, CHS go daily.
BDL trims from 4-3 weeklys to PIT CHS & ORF for the season.

From BDL, is that from 4 to 3 weekly flights?

BDL loses a weekly frequency to CMH/PIT/ORF but gets the A220 for all flights to all cities, PVD stays E-Jet but CHS and ORF increase to daily, and I believe some days of the week CHS is an A220

I didnt go through to get into the seat count detail but I think the increase/levels for BDL and PVD is comparable, though I suspect BDL may see some new things with the A220 before PVD (markets like MSY, SAN, PHX, SEA, AUS 3-4x weekly are prime examples of good A220 markets from BDL)

Interesting visitor to PVD. Polish Air Force 737-800 in yesterday from Warsaw on a diplomatic ETOPS training flight.

I'm curious - has anyone seen stats about performance on Cape Air's BOS-PWM route? I was pleasantly surprised to see the route come back after it got the axe in 2020, but it looks like the flights are zeroed-out again for February through June this year. I was under the impression that Cape Air was filling in the gap in jetBlue's network when B6 takes their winter hiatus. However with Cape Air going seasonal as well, I guess that's not the case.

I've used the service a handful of times. It doesn't make a ton of financial sense (fares start at $99 on Cape Air, vs. $30 on Concord Coach or $20 on the Downeaster), but I guess I'm a sucker for riding an interesting aircraft type and saving 2-3 hours of travel time. Flew the service in November as the only passenger onboard for a gorgeous sunset flight down the coast; almost felt like flying private!

Certainly nothing like the "good 'ol days" of Delta 757s plying the BOS-PWM route, but I've been enjoying having Cape Air as an option, especially when it's getting harder and harder to find seats to fly standby directly into PWM.

Temporary Suspension of Portland-Boston Service
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Allegiant Air will be announcing PVD to BNA tomorrow

jvlmd81 wrote:

Allegiant Air will be announcing PVD to BNA tomorrow

Flights are loaded at this time. Service begins Thursday April 21. Will run 2x weekly (Sundays and Thursdays) and, as currently loaded, runs through November 13.

It's about time someone picked this route up again.

WN did well, as I recall on the PVD BNA route. That was before the big service haircut attempt done to bolster the BOS station.

I heard BNA-PVD did fairly well with Sun Country as well.

Interestingly in the investor presentation for the NK/F9 merger. ORH was called out as a specific place they want to try to fly from in the future. Slide 7…or thereabouts

https://ir.flyfrontier.com/static-files ... b2a1cb05a7

VS4ever wrote:

Interestingly in the investor presentation for the NK/F9 merger. ORH was called out as a specific place they want to try to fly from in the future. Slide 7…or thereabouts

https://ir.flyfrontier.com/static-files ... b2a1cb05a7

Interesting. Maybe they could gain a small favor or two from Massport if they tossed a few weekly ORH-MCO flights in there, since B6 no longer flies it.

VS4ever wrote:

Interestingly in the investor presentation for the NK/F9 merger. ORH was called out as a specific place they want to try to fly from in the future. Slide 7…or thereabouts

https://ir.flyfrontier.com/static-files ... b2a1cb05a7

I read the release. It said "opportunities to add additional small cities such as Eugene OR, Ithica NY, Worcester MA" That is a bit different and not specific.

The combined carrier is already in BOS, MHT, PVD, BDL, and PWM. Not sure what adding ORH does other than cannibalize these other stations unless they drop BOS and head to lower cost airports?

lat41 wrote:

VS4ever wrote:

Interestingly in the investor presentation for the NK/F9 merger. ORH was called out as a specific place they want to try to fly from in the future. Slide 7…or thereabouts

https://ir.flyfrontier.com/static-files ... b2a1cb05a7

I read the release. It said "opportunities to add additional small cities such as Eugene OR, Ithica NY, Worcester MA" That is a bit different and not specific.

So quoting Worcester MA, is not specifically quoting Worcester MA. Got it.

Nothing is set in stone, never is, but why even mention it if you aren’t interested. There are literally hundreds of other places they could have noted and yet there it is.

Looks like first day of UA flying mainline to all 3 airports, EWR, ORD and IAD.

No idea how they are going to park them at the terminal, they are all 739's.

Will be 5 mainline AC on the ground in total, including DL 717 and B6 E190.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL ... /KORD/KBTV
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL ... /KEWR/KBTV
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL ... /KIAD/KBTV

Nice little op-ed regarding little talked about HFD.

https://generalaviationnews.com/2022/02/08/calls-to-close-khfd-ignore-the-true-value-of-the-airport/

BTVB6Flyer wrote:

Looks like first day of UA flying mainline to all 3 airports, EWR, ORD and IAD.

No idea how they are going to park them at the terminal, they are all 739's.

Will be 5 mainline AC on the ground in total, including DL 717 and B6 E190.

That’s like murderers’ row. Impressive, especially for February, and it’s not even winter-break time yet. Here’s hoping someone gets a picture of the morning lineup.

My guess is they’ll remote park the 739 going to IAD on the pad at the south end of the terminal. That’s where they often used to put the overflow, but maybe things have changed with the construction of the security hall.

B595 wrote:

BTVB6Flyer wrote:

Looks like first day of UA flying mainline to all 3 airports, EWR, ORD and IAD.

No idea how they are going to park them at the terminal, they are all 739's.

Will be 5 mainline AC on the ground in total, including DL 717 and B6 E190.

That’s like murderers’ row. Impressive, especially for February, and it’s not even winter-break time yet. Here’s hoping someone gets a picture of the morning lineup.

My guess is they’ll remote park the 739 going to IAD on the pad at the south end of the terminal. That’s where they often used to put the overflow, but maybe things have changed with the construction of the security hall.

Is the EWR a one-off? I don't see that flight number coming back to BTV today or tomorrow...

PVD523 wrote:

Nice little op-ed regarding little talked about HFD.

https://generalaviationnews.com/2022/02/08/calls-to-close-khfd-ignore-the-true-value-of-the-airport/

Closing HFD would be a true mistake…if anything for the displacement of the large amount of corporate and GA traffic it plays host to. The airport is busy…the most takeoffs and landings per day in the state. Sending it all to BDL will bog that operation down and place small private single engine props head to head with jetliners. All that traffic could operate out of 4B9 (Simsbury), but a longer runway would be required and the NIMBY’s would balk at the idea of Gulfstreams flying in and out multiple times daily. Same with Robertson in Plainville. The aircraft could move up the road to Westfield/Barnes…excellent facility…but Connecticut would end up loosing out in revenue. Why trade that for low income housing where nothing is made? There is plenty of available housing, or buildings that can be converted to such already.
Keep the airport, develop it like they did in Florida.

Avelo growing at HVN. Starting in June:two daily flights to Orlando every day, PBI, FLL and RSW all get increased to daily flights.TPA increases to 6 weekly flights (daily except Saturday) and Sarasota goes from 3 to 4 weekly flights. Fantastic growth in such a short time. Hoping for UA and or DL to commit to HVN, it's very much needed.

mjgbtv wrote:

B595 wrote:

BTVB6Flyer wrote:

Looks like first day of UA flying mainline to all 3 airports, EWR, ORD and IAD.

No idea how they are going to park them at the terminal, they are all 739's.

Will be 5 mainline AC on the ground in total, including DL 717 and B6 E190.

That’s like murderers’ row. Impressive, especially for February, and it’s not even winter-break time yet. Here’s hoping someone gets a picture of the morning lineup.

My guess is they’ll remote park the 739 going to IAD on the pad at the south end of the terminal. That’s where they often used to put the overflow, but maybe things have changed with the construction of the security hall.

Is the EWR a one-off? I don't see that flight number coming back to BTV today or tomorrow...

Nope, looks like 1x daily; https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL ... /KEWR/KBTV

Breeze Airways announced its plans to make BDL its fifth base of operations. Eight new nonstop destinations from BDL will be announced in a matter of weeks.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticu ... story.html

bdlflyer wrote:

Breeze Airways announced its plans to make BDL its fifth base of operations. Eight new nonstop destinations from BDL will be announced in a matter of weeks.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticu ... story.html

Wow, congratulations to Breeze and BDL. Wishing them sustained success.

My guesses PBI TPA MSY SAV JAX PHX SEA and a California Airport (SAN or OAK)

bdlflyer wrote:

Breeze Airways announced its plans to make BDL its fifth base of operations. Eight new nonstop destinations from BDL will be announced in a matter of weeks.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticu ... story.html

I think it's a good location for this and the brand seems to take well in the market. They are probably eyeing some long-hauls to the west coast. I can't help but to wonder if this is a little bit of a slap at Avelo's success at HVN. No overlap of routes, yet.

bdlflyer wrote:

Breeze Airways announced its plans to make BDL its fifth base of operations. Eight new nonstop destinations from BDL will be announced in a matter of weeks.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticu ... story.html

Is it too early for Europe speculation? BDL seems nicely situated.

ajsljet45 wrote:

bdlflyer wrote:

Breeze Airways announced its plans to make BDL its fifth base of operations. Eight new nonstop destinations from BDL will be announced in a matter of weeks.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticu ... story.html

Is it too early for Europe speculation? BDL seems nicely situated.

They don't think they have ETOPS certification yet, I think Europe is at least 5 years off for MX but DUB and STN would do well for sure when the time comes assuming the pilot shortage still makes it worth it crew wise for 150 people across the pond.

LotsaRunway wrote:

bdlflyer wrote:

Breeze Airways announced its plans to make BDL its fifth base of operations. Eight new nonstop destinations from BDL will be announced in a matter of weeks.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticu ... story.html

I think it's a good location for this and the brand seems to take well in the market. They are probably eyeing some long-hauls to the west coast. I can't help but to wonder if this is a little bit of a slap at Avelo's success at HVN. No overlap of routes, yet.

With the new routes announced by Avelo, CHS will be served from both BDL and HVN by Breeze and Avelo. Great news for BDL, but I don't believe this has anything to do with Avelo down in New Haven. I doubt many passengers in the BDL catchment area will be traveling down 91 to catch an Avelo flight as all but 2 routes from HVN are served from BDL. New Haven itself isnt in the core BDL catchment area and most of the passenger leakage in the past from HVN was to NYC airports.

LotsaRunway wrote:

bdlflyer wrote:

Breeze Airways announced its plans to make BDL its fifth base of operations. Eight new nonstop destinations from BDL will be announced in a matter of weeks.

https://www.courant.com/news/connecticu ... story.html

I think it's a good location for this and the brand seems to take well in the market. They are probably eyeing some long-hauls to the west coast. I can't help but to wonder if this is a little bit of a slap at Avelo's success at HVN. No overlap of routes, yet.

Right now Avelo is the doing the "slapping". It has taken hold in HVN to a greater degree than I ever expected with more growth and destinations to come. Surely some vacation and budget travel is beginning to be siphoned to the South. Does the timing of the Breeze announcement mean anything in particular?

RL757PVD wrote:

My guesses PBI TPA MSY SAV JAX PHX SEA and a California Airport (SAN or OAK)

I agree with PBI, TPA, MSY, SAV, JAX, and PHX as they seem highly likely. As to the West Coast, it will be interesting to see what cities they try. I'm also going to throw AUS into the mix.

As a native to the BDL area, I’m going to say that JAX, AUS, and SEA are a given. (Routes that have been on BDL’s wish list for years.) I’m also thinking outside of the box with BDA, (hugely popular destination from here), MKE, SAN, and a couple of shorter stage flights such as BUF and CLE. I do also believe that eventually the BDL base will host transatlantic flights. It is geographically set within the range of Western Europe and can be fed via incoming flights from Breeze’s other cities. Timing is perfect for this expansion with the new concourse being built at BDL.

CairnterriAIR wrote:

As a native to the BDL area, I’m going to say that JAX, AUS, and SEA are a given. (Routes that have been on BDL’s wish list for years.) I’m also thinking outside of the box with BDA, (hugely popular destination from here), MKE, SAN, and a couple of shorter stage flights such as BUF and CLE.

I had previously mentioned the possibility of AS adding BDL-SEA nonstop service with BDL being one of the top remaining destinations (by PDEW's out of SEA) without AS service.

I think Breeze is predicting an eventual return to normal higher-ed travel, which is strong in that region. I am not sure we are going to see that. JetBlue's Boston focus really was about serving the educational sector, which was just the market that JetBlue was looking for.

CairnterriAIR wrote:

As a native to the BDL area, I’m going to say that JAX, AUS, and SEA are a given. (Routes that have been on BDL’s wish list for years.) I’m also thinking outside of the box with BDA, (hugely popular destination from here), MKE, SAN, and a couple of shorter stage flights such as BUF and CLE. I do also believe that eventually the BDL base will host transatlantic flights. It is geographically set within the range of Western Europe and can be fed via incoming flights from Breeze’s other cities. Timing is perfect for this expansion with the new concourse being built at BDL.

The new terminal is years away, I doubt we see anything built within 10 years and there really isn't a need for a new terminal as the current facility should be able to handle 10 million passengers. Unitl passenger levels get back to pre-covid and surpace the 2005 record year, I don't believe the CAA will start design work on the new terminal.

Depending on how many flights Breeze plans to fly in the future, they certainly will need at least one more gate. United currently has 4 gates but should be able to get by with 2 leaving another to Breeze. I believe United has access to 4 gates (20-23) but may sublease 22 to Breeze as that gate has Breeze signage and was previously used by Onejet. I am not sure how gate assignments work at BDL, I believe airlines individually control them through leases and it looks like AA is subleasing gates 24 and 26 to Spirit and Frontier.

Also, it appears Air Canada resumes service to YYZ in May, it would make sense for them to use one of the UA gates and let jetBlue take over gate 1 permanently as they have been using it since AC stopped flying.

Concourse A-

United- 20-23 (sublease gate 22 to Breeze)
Breeze- 22
Frontier- 24 (Leased from AA?)
Spirit- 26 (Leased from AA?)
American- 25, 27-30

East Concourse-

Air Canada- 1
Southwest- 2, 4, 6
jetBlue- 3, 5 (With their recent expansion they also use gate 1 and 7 quite a bit)
Delta- 7, 9-12
Sun Country- 8 (If Allegiant ever starts service I would think this would be a shared gate with Sun Country)
Aer Lingus- 7 (hoping they come back in 2023)

cloudboy wrote:

I think Breeze is predicting an eventual return to normal higher-ed travel, which is strong in that region. I am not sure we are going to see that. JetBlue's Boston focus really was about serving the educational sector, which was just the market that JetBlue was looking for.

There is quite a bit of higher ed. in the I-91 corridor (it is named the Knowledge corridor after all) but I am not sure how much of an impact that has on BDL overall. Before the pandemic BDL had more business travel than leisure, I believe it was around 52-53% of overall passenger volume. Breeze is likely hoping business travel comes back more than higher ed. travel IMO. Overall BDL is doing pretty well getting back to pre-covid volume and a lot of it without the business travel. If we ever see business travel return to normal BDL may very well begin to break record passenger numbers again (2005 record 7.3 million) with the help of jetBlue and Breeze expansion.

AA has loaded its summer updated schedules.

After a somewhat conservative spring capacity-wise, AA appears to be taking a more aggressive approach at PVD. PVD-PHL remains 3x daily but mainline returns for the morning flight. PVD-CLT is back to 5x daily with four of the five flights on mainline aircraft. And PVD-ORD is upped from 2x CR7s to 2x A319s. If this schedule holds I believe this will be the first time AA has had scheduled mainline aircraft on PVD-ORD since Q1 2006. PVD-DCA remains the same 6x daily on regional partners.

Hopefully they add DFW PHX would be a long long shot

PVD-MIA Saturday only was also loaded. E75 starting 6/11.

I noticed this morning in BDL, B6 was using gate 8 in addition to its normal gates of 1,3,5, and 7 for fleet launch today. I think this is the first I’ve seen them use another gate outside of what they typically use.

finally found some data from the T-100's for Breeze and Avelo at BDL and HVN respectively, only 1 month for Avelo, but...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Link to my file, but the original data source for it was from the BTS system. Only have July to Nov available at the moment.

BDL-PIT got off to a bad start as did CMH, but picked up a bit in Oct/Nov, CHS seems to be the best performing in terms of butts on seats.

As for Avelo, 75% plus on all 4 routes in Nov, is pretty darn good. It's a slightly easier play for NE-FLA, but I am sure they are not complaining about that for sure.

FARmd90 wrote:

I noticed this morning in BDL, B6 was using gate 8 in addition to its normal gates of 1,3,5, and 7 for fleet launch today. I think this is the first I’ve seen them use another gate outside of what they typically use.

B6 usually has 4-5 RON planes plus the morning arrivals from the west coast and SJU makes it a bit packed in the morning some days. I have seen multiple times B6 planes waiting for gates but I also have not seen them use 8 which is the Sun Country gate and gets little use.

VS4ever wrote:

finally found some data from the T-100's for Breeze and Avelo at BDL and HVN respectively, only 1 month for Avelo, but...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Link to my file, but the original data source for it was from the BTS system. Only have July to Nov available at the moment.

BDL-PIT got off to a bad start as did CMH, but picked up a bit in Oct/Nov, CHS seems to be the best performing in terms of butts on seats.

As for Avelo, 75% plus on all 4 routes in Nov, is pretty darn good. It's a slightly easier play for NE-FLA, but I am sure they are not complaining about that for sure.

Thanks for compiling this! Doesn't surprise me that CHS is doing that best from BDL as that is the most leisure oriented route out of the 4. If business travel picks up again soon I believe the other 3 will improve quite a bit.

Definitely good numbers for Avelo into Florida but I am sure that is expected. Will be curious how their new routes outside of Florida work out for them.

uconn99 wrote:

VS4ever wrote:

finally found some data from the T-100's for Breeze and Avelo at BDL and HVN respectively, only 1 month for Avelo, but...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... sp=sharing

Link to my file, but the original data source for it was from the BTS system. Only have July to Nov available at the moment.

BDL-PIT got off to a bad start as did CMH, but picked up a bit in Oct/Nov, CHS seems to be the best performing in terms of butts on seats.

As for Avelo, 75% plus on all 4 routes in Nov, is pretty darn good. It's a slightly easier play for NE-FLA, but I am sure they are not complaining about that for sure.

Thanks for compiling this! Doesn't surprise me that CHS is doing that best from BDL as that is the most leisure oriented route out of the 4. If business travel picks up again soon I believe the other 3 will improve quite a bit.

Definitely good numbers for Avelo into Florida but I am sure that is expected. Will be curious how their new routes outside of Florida work out for them.

MYR and CHS should do well for Avelo. They plan to announce more cities some time in the future.

airlineworker wrote:

They plan to announce more cities some time in the future.

This statement is true about every expanding airline, ever.

I mean, this is APC, some detail and/or sources are the standard if you know something.

IdlewildJFK wrote:

airlineworker wrote:

They plan to announce more cities some time in the future.

This statement is true about every expanding airline, ever.

I mean, this is APC, some detail and/or sources are the standard if you know something.

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article ... 930979.php

Partial quote, " Last week, Avelo announced plans to add flights beginning in May to four more other destinations: Nashville, Tenn.; Savannah, Ga.-Hilton Head, S.C.; Charleston, S.C.; and Myrtle Beach, S.C.
All of the flights are on full-size Boeing Next-Generation 737-700 jets.
Avelo Chairman and CEO Andrew Levy has said that three additional 737-700s will be delivered to be based at Tweed over the coming months, and more destinations soon will be added. He would not say which destinations the airline plans to announce."

Air Canada relaunching service between Hartford (BDL) and Toronto (YYZ) starting June 1 with daily flights operated by Air Canada Express Jazz on a CRJ900. No word yet on Air Canada relaunching service between Hartford (BDL) and Montreal (YUL). Really good to see Air Canada coming back to BDL.
https://bradleyairport.com/2022/02/22/b ... ir-canada/

airlineworker wrote:

IdlewildJFK wrote:

airlineworker wrote:

They plan to announce more cities some time in the future.

This statement is true about every expanding airline, ever.

I mean, this is APC, some detail and/or sources are the standard if you know something.

https://www.nhregister.com/news/article ... 930979.php

Partial quote, " Last week, Avelo announced plans to add flights beginning in May to four more other destinations: Nashville, Tenn.; Savannah, Ga.-Hilton Head, S.C.; Charleston, S.C.; and Myrtle Beach, S.C.
All of the flights are on full-size Boeing Next-Generation 737-700 jets.
Avelo Chairman and CEO Andrew Levy has said that three additional 737-700s will be delivered to be based at Tweed over the coming months, and more destinations soon will be added. He would not say which destinations the airline plans to announce."

The success of Avelo at HVN is fantastic. Where do they park all the cars for people using these flights? Are they going to upgrade food options anytime soon?

bdlflyer wrote:

Air Canada relaunching service between Hartford (BDL) and Toronto (YYZ) starting June 1 with daily flights operated by Air Canada Express Jazz on a CRJ900. No word yet on Air Canada relaunching service between Hartford (BDL) and Montreal (YUL). Really good to see Air Canada coming back to BDL.
https://bradleyairport.com/2022/02/22/b ... ir-canada/

This will be the first time jets will be used by AC into BDL as well as the first time first class is offered. A bit surprised they didn't start with the CRJ200 like was previously planned before COVID but I believe the 200's will be retired soon IIRC.