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On 3/15/2024 at 6:44 PM, TCLT said:
Huh? CLT has way more service than RDU
RDU-KEF is seasonal (and not daily) on a narrow body and Icelandair serves connections over its KEF hub onward to Europe. DL flies to CDG and connects to its partner Air France for onward connections. AA has their long standing flight to LHR. LH has the yet to start flight to its FRA hub (not daily). And that’s all the service they have to Europe. All of these carriers are relying on onward connections to other destinations in Europe or elsewhere
From CLT, AA operates daily service to 3x LHR (2x year round) and MAD with a partner on the other end for connections beyond plus MUC (year round), FRA, DUB, CDG, and FCO all on 777s. Plus LH serves their MUC hub. There is essentially zero untapped local demand for another carrier to go after. And there’s no reason for BA or IB to take over flights from AA because it’s more efficient to route AA’s planes over the massive hub and base than for the European partners to send a single plane that could be used on a different spoke.
I know all of this. My point was that RDU actually seeks out new airlines to service the airport. And exactly where is the demand from the Triangle to KEF and how would CLT be any different?
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23 hours ago, TCLT said:
Because it’s an AA megahub with little to no local demand and AA already serves all the hubs of the European flag carriers.
Is it? RDU has Icelandair to KEF and Delta to CDG? CLT has seasonal service to CDG and AA offers no service to Iceland at all.
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39 minutes ago, go_vertical said:
This one is pretty annoying, but in my opinion McDowell between Brooklyn Village and Morehead is an absolute joke.
You can blame Charlotte Water (formerly CMUD) for that cluster.
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18 hours ago, stw52 said:
RDU has way more international arrivals. I arrived from Iceland and was stuck at customs for 1.5 hours because a LHR flight had just arrived before us and they only had two people processing. Now have my Global Entry card, yay!
I said "were." That's why I asked the question as to why RDU has gotten so much new service from foreign flag carriers, but CLT hasn't.
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13 minutes ago, LKN704 said:
For years I have been saying that CLT lacks any sort of air service development program - but based on this PDF, I am happy to say I am wrong.
The document is relatively new and is really well written. I am hoping this means the City will start being more aggressive into marketing itself to new entrants.
I often wonder if the reason CLT has failed to attract additional international carriers is the fact our CBP processing is already so constrained? It's a pretty miserable arrival experience. I've never entered RDU from outside the USA, but I can only assume their customs area was under-utilized, seeing as that its only international arrivals were LHR and CDG.
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13 hours ago, uptownliving said:
CLT is now taking bids for Concourse A Phase 3...this will be a 7 gate add on to Concourse A Phase 2 which will open up in about 6 months. Any speculation on who will go in here?
Oh good lord! Just go ahead and build a new headhouse and rename all this Terminal 1!
If Mary Shelley were alive today, she could easily write a book about CLT and call it "Frankenport."
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On 2/26/2024 at 11:51 AM, ArchiCLT said:
I believe that was/is a proposal at 2101 Randolph, right beside their 2109 Randolph office building. You can see it grayed-out in the background on the last rendering. Not sure if accurate, but Google shows the existing building as an AT&T substation, temporarily closed (135 N Chase St).
https://www.bbm-arch.com/project/charlotte-pipe-and-foundry-mews/
I'm unsure if CP&F plans to retain 2109 Randolph, with their new 520 Providence project. Probably not.
They're not leaving Randolph. The new building is for R&D, as well as a showroom for their products.
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20 hours ago, Matthew.Brendan said:
Providence and Fairview - a short story.
not sure when this aerial is from, but gives a good overview of these two developments.
Every time I drive past that site, I think to myself, "That'd make a great park. Wonder who owns it."
At least now I know it'll probably not be redeveloped in my lifetime.
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On 12/12/2023 at 2:05 PM, Windsurfer said:
When pigs fly...
And it's now a shopping mall (no blue font).
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Just walked past it this afternoon. Sheesh, this is one fugly building at ground level. Distance is its friend.
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4 minutes ago, Crucial_Infra said:
Real missed opportunity to emulate the style, grace and subtlety of Truist. Should have been this.
Just wait till Wells Fargo does its bidding across the street...
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16 minutes ago, CLT2014 said:The Hourly Parking garage was completed in 2014 (and thus in planning before that). Uber didn't even enter the Charlotte market until late 2013 when the garage was well on its way to completion. Suburban markets in the Charlotte metro didn't have Uber access until 2015 or later (Concord, Davidson, Huntersville, et.). The airport will need to remodel the garage or they could just implement a parking stall model with numbered signs and a partnership with Uber to update their app for CLT.
But ground transporation has existed since the advent of the airplane. MSP has had such an area since 2004. SFO added striping to the parking garage for rideshare in 2015. This isn't rocket science.
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On 12/4/2023 at 9:33 AM, csweet said:Interesting read on congestion relief ideas.
I bet the airport is regretting not adding counters to the new A terminal.
Steve is right: move ride shares to the hourly garage. Even SFO does this (they use the top level of the garage). Why CLT didn't include a large ground transportation area in the hourly garage is beyond stupid.
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27 minutes ago, LKN704 said:
In other aviation news, the Alaska Air Group (AAG) announced today that it would acquire Hawaiian Airlines (HA). It's a somewhat sad day for the people of Hawaii, as HA is essentially public transportation there. While the AAG said it would keep the HA brand and its services separate (much like how Lufthansa owns Swiss and Austrian Airlines, or how Air France and KLM are owned by the same parent company), there will no doubt be BOH layoffs at HA HQ in Honolulu due to acquisition-related synergies. I expect the Hawaii AG to file a lawsuit blocking the acquisition shortly and attempt to get a promise by the AAG to maintain inter-island service.
I bring this up as someone had texted me about an hour ago on whether this increases CLT's chances to regain service to Honolulu, especially now as HNL will be a oneworld hub. The answer IMO is no. AA/DL/UA largely operate their U.S. mainland-Hawaii networks at a loss - the fact that flights are expensive to operate, Hawaii is low-yielding, and profit margins are low. Right now all carriers are selling walk-up tickets for LAX-HNL tomorrow for only $120.
AA simply has better, more profitable places to use a 777 on from CLT than a route that would be low-yielding and largely filled by folks redeeming miles.
You're missing one important detail, though: Hawaiian operates a hub at HNL and offers connecting service to Japan, Polynesia, Micronesia, Korea, New Zealand, and Australia. From the merger website:
• Strategic Honolulu hub: Honolulu will become a key Alaska Airlines hub, enabling greater international connectivity for West Coast travelers throughout the Asia-Pacific region with onestop service through Hawai‘i.
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Nothing like being welcomed back to Charlotte and the United States by the filthiest airport in the world.
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6 hours ago, KJHburg said:
thats good to know as our skyline uptown is the Banking Vegas skyline.
Is the new furtherest gates on A under construction is that for Delta?
The new concourse under construction will house seven gates for Delta and three general purpose gates.
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4 hours ago, tozmervo said:There's a lot I really like about the design here, but I am in a nit-picky mood: I just don't like the lighting on the ceiling or the columns. I don't understand why they didn't do an indirect light source instead. (the column lights may just need better aiming)
The column lighting will be tweaked. Like every LED fixture in Charlotte, they change color.
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Somebody posted something they weren't supposed to. The above rendering and text regarding the terminal are now gone from the RS&H website.
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43 minutes ago, 49er said:
The midfield expansion also looks like it could be done in phases as needed.
I agree. With the closure and demo of the crosswind runway, the land will br readily available for a mid-field gate complex, while keeping the current concourses operational until construction is complete..
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8 hours ago, Blue_Devil said:
Our own 550 Brevard uses red letters…
Which one is Wells Fargo main? We might be talking the same building. The 12 story annex attached to 2 Wells?
WF Main is the original 12-story First Union HQ on Tryon. It opened in 1954. Although it's connected to Two Wells Fargo, it's considered a separate structure and (was) entirely occupied by the bank.
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Honestly, for me it's simply the fact--like Truist--the building wasn't designed to have a logo (the east-facing side of the handle has a substantial slant). Add the fact WF doesn't have a logo, but instead a rather uninspiring wordmark with colors best seen on an Advance Auto Parts store.
There's a reason there's no signage on the Minneapolis, San Francisco, New York, Denver, Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Seattle, and San Diego Wells buildings: they weren't designed to have them. What's next? Bof A throws a giant Flagscape on top of the Corporate Center?-
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2 hours ago, Blue_Devil said:
Three towers, that’s news to me, since I work for that company in uptown with them…
they exited 1 Wells and 2 wells, and went into their new 600,000 sqft in Duke Energy. They still have 3 wells which they have spent a bunch to renovate the interior, and 550 brevard, which is very nice.
Well Fargo Main is also being emptied. The department I support is there. Only the branch remains.
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5 hours ago, Blue_Devil said:
This is a company that is trying to bring its employees back into uptown to fill vacancies, and working to transform one of its old buildings into residential rather than leave it empty. The employee 30k people with high wages in Charlotte, and are first thought is immediately no? To a building they have owned for close to 20 years?
this is some NIMBY crap in a different form. I love you all but you should do some self reflection
The same company that’s exiting three towers to push everyone to University City?
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Progress. Checkpoint B is now scheduled to open 10/29.
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Charlotte-Douglas Airport (CLT) Expansion
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Fresh renderings: 10 proposals envision new "front door" for Charlotte's airport
Maybe I was expecting too much? Not one of these proposals sounds all that exciting. And still CLT remains one of the largest airports in the country without a sizable on-property hotel .