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I can’t see why the city thinks this is a priority over City Center. I’m seeing movement on this (which don’t get me wrong, would be great), while the City Center project remains stalled despite the article on its status yesterday (which just emphasized that the project is stalled and the City is basically inept to get it moving again). With all the other developers beginning their big projects now (really, I mean, even The Admiral has now started), there’s no reason for the City Center to be stalled - no reason at all! The article yesterday on it was just excuses. Just my 2 cents.

Automaker interested in Hopewell: https://www.progress-index.com/story/business/manufacturing/2025/07/04/old-ethanol-plant-in-hopewell-under-consideration-for-car-customization/84464059007/?tbref=hp

Well, we know RIC can handle A330-300s! This was a diversion from IAD this afternoon. Bring on the REAL international flights! Photos courtesy of Dereck Tingfah:

May statistics are out and like March, passenger counts were statistically flat again. Not much time now to do any analysis, but posting here for you all to see:

A friend sent me this from JetBlue’s Instagram page…not sure if it’s true or not - haven’t been successful in finding anything to corroborate it yet. maybe it’s just a connecting flight through FLL? Thoughts?

Sadly, you’re right…it IS that same aircraft manufacturer and Richmond missed out again. However, they were also looking for a nearby airport that wasn’t too busy and Greensboro fits that way better than Richmond. Sucks to lose out on the possibility of so many jobs, but who knows…maybe their concept won’t work? It’s all developmental, so there’s no guarantee that they would be able to produce that many jobs anyway. We’ll keep watch and see how they’ll do.

If you have Facebook, you can see how the new Pulse articulated buses work: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1HJiAfGh3S/?mibextid=UalRPS

Thanks for posting this! Wonder where ORF would fall on this chart compared to RIC? Somehow ORF is not listed here. Definitely some good news though! We need the “lift” considering that last year was flat (I think?) for RIC.

Apparently the new articulated buses are out testing. I think they’re supposed to be active in July if memory serves. Here a photo from r/rva:

So, as we already know, ORF surges in the number of flights during the summer months (usually between Memorial Day and Labor Day) and out-paces RIC, driving their usual higher passenger counts per month during this timeframe. The bad news is that is still the case this year; however, for both ORF and RIC, I’ve never seen such high flight counts as tracked by FlightRadar24, per airport, ever! Here’s what I mean: take a look at the screenshots below from FlightRadar24. I’ve circled the number of flights scheduled for the next 7 days for each airport. Clearly, ORF has more flights scheduled than RIC at over 600 flights (616). Crazy thing is, I have never seen ORF break 600 before, ever! During the winter months, this number hovers around 450 flights for ORF (I’ve noticed that ORF has broken the 600-flight glass ceiling over the past several weeks). For RIC, so far it has not broken the 600-flight mark (ever), but we’re close. This week, RIC is reporting the highest flight counts I’ve ever seen for a 7-day period at 591 flights. By comparison, during the winter months, RIC hovers at around 500 flights. Also interesting is that RIC’s most frequented route is NY’s LGA (not ATL as it has been). I just wanted to share my observations as I think they are fairly significant. Also notice 2 countries served with RIC’s additional Bermuda route.

It’s a pretty nice website…gotta keep it updated though. I’m sure it’s time consuming and a lot of work, but it looks very professional! Congrats on that. Here’s hoping it works out for you. I’ve already saved it as one of my favorites!

Interesting. I never knew that it went off the market since news released that it went on the market some time ago (was it a year or so ago?). Wonder what happened? $4M though!? Yikes! Nevermind…just re-read the post above. Sorry, got too hasty.

Not sure. Perry Miller said in the briefing above that the airport is in the throes of updating the Master Plan and all the previous versions of it have shown a Terminal 2 on the southern (opposite) end of the main terminal. Perhaps that might change in the upcoming version of the Master Plan. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what they plan to do now.

That’s the way I read it too. This whole enclosed 2-story corridor to the rental car garage project slipped under the radar (to us). It’s going to be super nice (according to the renderings) and will open up a lot of space for more amenities! BTW, @Niccckk - are you the owner of this website? https://www.804aviation.com

Perry Miller did a Lunch and Learn with the VCU Wilder school and the link below is his presentation. It’s about an hour long. He speaks fairly slow, but you can fast forward to the meat of the briefing: Yes! This is the desire of the airport. I reached out to Troy Bell last year and he mentioned that a lounge for the airport is one of their goals.