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2 hours ago, tozmervo said:
By Q3 or Q4 of 2024 seems reasonable for a project this size.
I assume the taxiway stuff is just converting some grass islands into a plane lane.
First expansion did take 24 months, but just seems like more work needs to be done here.
The grass islands are not that big, based on a quick map view:
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Amazing news! Will it really be completed by 2024? I find that hard to believe.
The dual taxiway is an under rated approval. Do we know what it will look like around D&E?
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2 hours ago, LKN704 said:
Very slow day at the office, so I took the liberty of compiling the roster of all other airline (OAL) flights at CLT this summer. On the day I selected (11 July) there are currently scheduled to be 74 daily flights. Thanks to industry up-gauging, mainline flights now consist of 54% of all OAL flights from CLT.
I can't recall the exact number of OAL flights in Summer 2019, but IIRC it was much closer to 100. I feel like United is roughly at the same frequency with their service as they were pre-pandemic, although I don't ever recall there being so much United mainline in Charlotte, so that is definite upgrade.
I feel like Delta used to be at maybe 35-37 flights daily, and there seems to be some frequencies lost on both Detroit and Twin Cities services. CLT lost nonstop service on Delta to Cincinnati during the pandemic, so that was a drop in 3 flights daily. While I don't directly connect it with yield, it is interesting to note that for all mainline flights (with the exception of Salt Lake), Delta uses their worst mainline product to CLT (the 717) which lacks the bells and whistles that people expect when flying Delta and has the smallest First class cabin.
Southwest has (temporarily?) dropped service to both Houston and Denver from CLT, but it does look like CLT gained a frequency to Chicago and Nashville so there doesn't seem to be a net decrease in flights. With their labor/aircraft shortage, I wouldn't be surprised to see their summer schedule from CLT further reduced in the coming weeks.
Air Canada no longer flies larger aircraft to CLT (they went from E175s back to CRJs), although it looks like larger aircraft will resume in November. It makes sense, as the flight was heavily dependent on onward connections ex-Toronto (especially to Asia) rather than just Toronto traffic, and international long-haul traffic is still down. AA is flying CLT-YYZ with a whopping 4x daily mainline frequency, which I think is the most capacity the route has ever seen.
United: 20 daily flights (6 mainline)
DEN: 1x A319, 1x E175
IAD: 3x E175, 1x A320
IAH: 3x E175
EWR: 1x 7M8, 1x 739, 5x E175
ORD: 2X CRJ-550, 1x A319, 1x A320
Air Canada: 2 daily flights
YYZ: 2x CRJ-200
Delta: 30 daily flights (16 mainline)
ATL: 8x 717
BOS: 3x E175
DTW: 4x 717
MSP: 3x 717
JFK: 4x CRJ-900, 1x E175
LGA: 6x CRJ-900
SLC: 1x 738 (They had scheduled two daily flights for this summer but just pulled it this weekend from the schedule it seems)
Southwest: 9 daily flights
BWI: 1x 73G, 1x 738
MDW: 2x 738, 1x 73G
DAL: 1x 738
BNA: 2x 73G
STL: 1x 738
Spirit: 4 daily flights
FLL: 1x A320
LAS: 1x A320
MCO: 1x A321, 1x A319
JetBlue: 2 daily flights
BOS: 2x E190
Lufthansa: 1 daily flight
MUC: 1x A350
Frontier: 16 flights weekly (on average roughly 2 flights a day)
MCO: 2x weekly A320
DEN: 1x A320
TTN: 3x weekly A320
PHL: 10x weekly A320
Contour: 4 daily flights
BKW: 2x ERJ
MSL: 2x ERJ
Thanks for pulling this! No Volaris this summer?
Also hate to see no PHX,DEN, or HOU for WN. Can't help but think things are to come for WN and F9 at CLT.
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11 hours ago, CarolinaDaydreamin said:
It will be a Chase Lounge, more upscale than The Club and separate products. I would doubt they would give airline or competitive cardholder access.
Where in A is this going?
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13 hours ago, KJHburg said:
this is great news for UNC Charlotte and since Amazon has more employees in the Charlotte metro than any other area in the state.
https://wraltechwire.com/2022/03/03/unc-charlotte-tuition-soon-free-for-amazon-employees-in-nc/
this is a great recruitment tool for Amazon too and provides upward mobility.
My top of the head count of local Amazon facilities are as follows: Mecklenburg County 7 Cabarrus County 3 Gaston County new one. Plus Prime Air which has a local base at CLT.
Could we expect the Prime Air base to grow at CLT? Given its proximity to the facility across the street from the airport, I feel like they could expand.
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On 2/26/2022 at 9:25 AM, LKN704 said:
Indeed, the original design with the exposed trusses looked cheap and messy.
Of course, architectural style is all relative but I am glad we are somewhat over that phase. I think D/E look worse than most because they interlace a mess of HVAC piping along the trusses...it just looks like a huge interconnected spiderweb on the ceiling.
Here's a before/after picture of the Concourse D lighting project for those who haven't seen it:
Between the pendant lights, the HVAC equipment, and the interlaced network of trusses...it's a dizzying mess IMO.
Regarding the blue, the only thing I can think of is that it's a NC-inspired civic thing. I've noticed that a lot of NC civic and government buildings (schools, for example) also have blue roofs.
The lighting truly changes the dynamic of Terminal D. As for the renovations, they are currently in the bid phase to renovate D as they expand customs/ connections to the new baggage claim.
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26 minutes ago, JeanClt said:I’m pretty sure northend taxiway will start soon though, probably in preparation for the A phase two expansion starting soon too.
Would make sense, that is a massive taxiway extension. Linking to that northend taxiway, the pad for A phase II seems to be almost complete.
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48 minutes ago, HopHead said:
I flew CLT to Burlington last year at the end of summer. Beautiful area of the country (not far from where my profile pic is brewed too lol). We were there probably a few weeks too early for the fall foliage. Definitely plan to head up there again.
I used to live in Montreal and would fly out of BTV or Plattsburgh quite frequently. With everything going on now, driving across the border has been much easier than flying!
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10 minutes ago, HopHead said:
Yes, you can... I actually did it yesterday. You have to cut through the new hourly/rental deck.
For those that don't speak airline, that's daily nonstop service to Montreal on Air Canada 2x daily returning on May 1st
It is actually Toronto
AC just added new routes from YUL (Montreal) today, wish CLT made the cut.
New US routes are Montreal to Atlanta and Detroit, Toronto to Salt Lake City, and Vancouver to Austin.
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Looks like AC is bringing back YYZ 2x daily on May 1!
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Anyone buy PSL's with others?
Some buddies and I bought 4 seats next to each other and can not figure out how to resell as a package. We tried to get CLT FC to help out, but they just said that we cant.Thanks!
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3 minutes ago, Rufus said:
Complete pie-in-the-sky thought, but what are the chances that the new entity is HQ'd outside of Denver or Florida? The fact that they haven't determined caught my eye. I doubt Charlotte would be a major player, and AA would not be happy, but maybe just a fun thought.
No way, Spirit just built a new $250 million HQ in Dania Beach.
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Does anyone know when the FIS/ Concourse D Renovations are going to start? They are supposed to be putting out the bid packages soon.
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1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:
Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. My point is that many flights from Charlotte aren't originating with people from the local area but rather from connections from other metros in the region like Raleigh.
Based on your posts here, and under other topics, you are either 14 or a bot.
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21 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:
Since Charlotte is rapidly growing in population and as an international business center, the airport might start to have a lot more flights originating internally.
Where do you think flights out of CLT are originating? LOL
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3 hours ago, CLT2014 said:
Agree.
A large hub airport like CLT is not as appealing as PTI for aircraft manufacturing. Take HondaJet for example... they roll the plane off the assembly line and the customer is ready to do their acceptance flight. They taxi out to a nearly empty runway with no delays and are in the air within minutes, enter uncrowded airspace to do the test flight, and return to PTI to sign the paperwork to accept the plane.
If that was at CLT and you roll the plane out at 12PM for the acceptance flight.... you end up in a taxi line of 20 American Airlines planes awaiting takeoff and you are constantly de-prioritized in the taxi lineup cause you don't have a schedule to maintain, getting put behind more and more AA flights. 30 valuable minutes roll by that you would have been in the air at PTI.... you then takeoff and are in extremely crowded airspace during hub operations so have to burn more fuel during the acceptance flight following the highways in the sky that come out of CLT and do a huge loop to line up in the arrivals path for CLT in crowded airspace, again behind 20 AA flights. Weather then turns bad, so HondaJet gets put in a holding pattern so AA flights can land and try to make up time so passengers don't miss connections... Your test flight ends up being 3 hours instead of 1 hour, et....
In addition, being at a big hub makes pressure testing the aircraft much more challenging. At PTI, they can run different tests easily and hold up the runway because there aren't many flights behind them. At CLT, you can't mess around because right behind you are 40 others planes.
PTI is much easier logistically for the manufacturer and their customers to not compete with the commercial airlines.
Thanks for this, you make great points.
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14 hours ago, KJHburg said:
a huge aviation expansion or new company near the PTI airport. (near the existing HondaJet plant)
Great news for PTI, but I wish CLT could land some airside manufacturing growth.
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4 minutes ago, KJHburg said:
This office tower keeps getting bigger and bigger. In the intial press release it was at least 800,000 sq ft then I heard 1 M sq ft now I am hearing 1.2 M sq ft which would put it as the 2nd or so biggest office tower in the city. DEC is 1.3 M sq ft and BofCC is 1.2 M sq ft. All this leads me to almost certainty there is an anchor tenant for this building and I have a few ideas whom it is.
Awesome insight! Any hints as to whom it may be?
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2 hours ago, DMann said:
Brings to mind a story from last year that NewEra Energy was trying to buy Duke. Anyone have any idea as to whether that could happen, and if the combined company would be headquartered here instead of Juno Beach Fl? It would seem that with the tech resources here that would make great sense.
Not sure about this one, FPL is building a massive HQ in Juno right now.
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17 hours ago, CharlotteWkndBuzz said:
Okay, now I balled my eyes out.
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I may have cried when I saw this
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When do we think this will be announced?
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4 hours ago, LKN704 said:
CLT is gaining an additional 2x daily flights on 777s for November, both to DFW.
Is CLT losing any 777 flights this winter?
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Is now a bad time to ask how everyone feels about Deshaun possibly joining? Lol
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Charlotte-Douglas Airport (CLT) Expansion
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Contour flies to Muscle Shoals, AL , Beckley & Parkersburg WV. They definitely survive on EAS subsidies lol.
Interesting enough, Contour did just bid a couple CLT routes this week. All of these are EAS proposals:
PAH to CLT
CKB to CLT
LWB to CLT
JST to CLT
SHD to CLT