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Apparently the airport has purchased the tail section of an old AA md80 for display somewhere in the new terminal. Should be interesting

If anyone thinks that AA wouldn't abandon CLT I would like to show you PIT. To a lesser extent the shell of what we do in PHL these days. ALSO if you think CLT bathrooms are gross....go check out the bathrooms in PHL. Was there yesterday, literally graffiti carved into the toilet seats and they have painted the stalls walls doors everything in this taupe color that reminds me of what a prison looks like on TV. CLT is definitely over crowded, no doubt, but it's a balancing act for the city and the airline.

As an AA employee, I would love to see AA gain more market share back in new york and boston. Heck, even LAX. But the slot/gate situation everywhere puts a damper on that.

American is severely gate constrained. D concourse is a disaster and severely limits international flying. Perhaps AA using some of a north for intl departure gates frees up space for domestic flights?

You are right. I misread that. It says that it lays the groundwork for it essentially. Guessing we will see construction on that fairly soon after the expansion though. AA desperately needs the gates. And we need customs to be expanded.

https://www.axios.com/local/charlotte/2024/02/14/charlotte-airport-construction?fbclid=IwAR1vq5pv5VOGMtQOyRjlrnAV_iRw1qHrpmZFrOgPGZXMNu49omDHAmxRXew Came across this on my feed today

https://cltairport.mediaroom.com/destination-clt under south ramp expansion

looks like the south ramp expansion project finally has a date assigned to it. And, included in that project is the b and c concourse expansion. sept. 2025 construction to begin.

it says winter 2024 for the latest update, so this is good newer info.

Thanks for volunteering. Always amazed in the Airport during this week. Separate I'm pretty sure there's a non-stop to PHL from ric

On CLT news the east side of the terminal front opened.

Could put the trains on the first floor. And a hotel above it. No reason why not. Might even be interesting.

I would rather it be torn down, and a walkway between e and A put in. Or, a nice large hotel. Marriott or Hilton.

I'm clearly in the minority here. For reference I spend 100s maybe 1000s of hours a year dead heading around the system on our fleet and have only had issues at most 3 times. Sony noise cancelling earbuds for a few years (lost one). Now pixel buds pro. They will almost always last a CLT to lax flight with no recharge. But I get it. People like the fancy looking screen. Typically i watch on an iPad or my surface pro. Seems to last the entire flight or close to it. As an employee, I do wish we did more to stay competitive with dal and ual. I did notice recently that we have updated the in-flight snacks in coach. Not sure if that's only on certain flights.

I still don't understand why everyone is upset about not having IFE in the headrest. I can't stand in seat IFE. It's usually slow. Unreliable. Plus every single announcement made on the airplane pauses whatever I'm watching and I get to listen to the announcement and not my show. When it's on my device that doesn't happen. Are people really insisting that they don't have a device to watch something on?

The beginning of the A North concourse did not have moving sidewalks. That will be an addition that wasn't there when it opened. A welcomed one.

10 gates with the new a north addition. Up to 22 gates with the b and c concourse extensions of they happen

Well. There's also. Pns. And klit.

It seems to me that the South cargo area is becoming quite crowded. When the new taxiway opens connecting the south end of the airport it looks like to me that Amazon loses its place to park. Anybody know if there is a new cargo facility in the works? Seems to me that on the Northwest side of the airport between what will be the new runway and the current 36L there could be some space in that area that would be near the Amazon warehouses on Wilkinson?

Bizarre. If they need the length I get it, but that airport isn't busy enough to justify an additional runway. Not sure how we get boned on the length here in Charlotte.

For what reason would Raleigh ever need a third parallel??????

You must have just missed my pushback from d8. Was great to see the 340 again. It was pretty post near miss with the thunderstorm north of the airport.

https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/plane-lands-charlotte-airport-without-landing-gear-delta-says/GKB7GO5NAFGRVLJFATDTHNCJNM/?fbclid=IwAR1qwF3li_9dHg45d3ZFdk5LG5w48iYuaphz5WeScHFVzeFrrTeyXMyrtcA

All of this was in the destination CLT website but it seems it's all gone sadly.

The amex lounge required a 3 story many million dollar addition. Took years. The old ba lounge is a food area, maybe it could be converted back, but you would be reducing food options down in d by like half. I agree on the mezzanine area, but if they're going to build a huge addition upstairs with what is reported to be an enormous lounge, why waste the money on building a short term (temporary) lounge. I would argue for dropping a few gates in e con and building a smaller lounge there. Or something near A with the international departures down there and the soon to be additional AA gates in that area. Who knows what the future holds here, but frankly if you were running an airline that's practically printing money in Charlotte would you disrupt that so you can offer a lounge to a very small contingent of passengers?(most pax are group 9 non business passengers) I wouldn't. I would just wait for the additions that are planned and keep improving slowly. Speaking of additions the new taxiways and runway construction seems to be full speed ahead recently.