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11 hours ago, LKN704 said:
Delta put out a press release today highlighting their planned NYC growth (likely to counter the rise of the AA + JetBlue partnership) and specifically called out Charlotte as a key-market from the region that was due to see an increase in frequency starting next month. Today, Delta flies to JFK thrice daily on Embraer E-Jets, and to LGA five times daily, also on E-Jets.
While mainline is still off (I believe CLT-JFK was all mainline on Delta pre-COVID), JFK jumps to five daily flights next month, and LGA goes to seven flights daily, for a total of 12 daily flights to the city's airports.
Sadly, CLT-SLC loses the second daily flight starting next month.
Great news for CLT, any chance we see larger aircraft?
I find it so strange that they are removing the second daily right before ski season....
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I would love to see AM add a MEX flight to CLT. The Volaris flight has been extremely successful, which led to AA adding GDL flights a couple years back.
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Isn't the Terminal A Phase II expansion supposed to come with curbside drop off/ check in counters?
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On 7/20/2021 at 10:30 PM, CltFlyer said:
CLT-YUL is actually currently flying once daily. So it will definitely still be there in September.
This flight went mainline pre covid right?
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7 minutes ago, atlrvr said:
It's JetBlue to CLT-Boston, transferring to a Dash-8 best I can tell for service to Toronto.
CLT is mentioned a possible destination for their new E195's once they arrive next year, but non-stop to Charlotte would be to one of four other airports (Toronto Pearson, which is the main airport, Montreal, Ottawa or Halifax)
As a Canadian I hope they add all 4, but NE hubs can barely support service to Ottawa and Halifax. Added competition to Toronto would be great for CLT. Hopefully AA keeps mainline on those YUL & YYZ flights.
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7 minutes ago, KJHburg said:
More good news on the tourism front. Projected opening date for the new Carolinas Aviation Museum. I went 2x to the old one before it closed and glad to see Honeywell stepping up to be a sponsor. The Miracle on the Hudson shall rise again!
Carolinas Aviation Museum likely to reopen in 2023 - Charlotte Business Journal (bizjournals.com)
""According to recently filed plans with the city, the museum will encompass a 10,500-square-foot existing hangar, a new 5,000-square-foot welcome center and a 45,000-square-foot main gallery with exhibit and education areas. An airport spokesperson said federal regulations require hangars be prioritized for aviation use. The museum moved out when CLT landed a private aviation tenant for the space. That tenant turned out to be Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON), which has since become a sponsor of the aviation museum. According to previous CBJ reporting, aviation museum executives had already begun planning for a new home. Honeywell’s arrival accelerated that process.""
Too cool! Any idea where this might be located? Weren't there talks of hangars by the new de-icing pad?
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53 minutes ago, cltcane said:
Rocking chairs removed because that area is being turned into The Club CLT? Obvious spot for a lounge (although I assume restrooms would be outside), and the rendering of the exterior wall matches.
A hot take! Perfect spot for a lounge, especially once A Phase II is complete.
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1 hour ago, CltFlyer said:
Lufthansa uses "The Club ATL" as their business class lounge in Atlanta, so I assume this will be there lounge in CLT as well. I wonder what space they are looking into. I believe there may be space for a lounge in A North Part I.
This would be awesome to have. If they are catering to Lufthansa and Int'l travel, A North does not make sense. Maybe this is in the plan for the lobby expansion?
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22 hours ago, CarolinaDaydreamin said:
While there is higher variety in Sky Lounges, there are many Sky Clubs nicer than Centurion Lounges. I think Delta should get more aggressive at CLT with more gates.
They will have more gates when they move into the A Phase II terminal.
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56 minutes ago, CltFlyer said:
I would suspect they mean that it will be 22-gates between both the B and C expansion.
Also, note that they will be removing 4 gates from the end of D and 8 gates from E as part of the taxiway expansion. The 8 gates from E will include the "dog leg" extension of gates 14 and 16 they added just under 2 years ago. It's interesting to as how quick that will be demo'ed.
Definitely 11 additional gates for B and C.
That is very interesting, is D still going to be the international entry point after this?
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So... Team Sam?
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52 minutes ago, Rufus said:
What's the story for Rome-FCO, Paris-CDG, and Barcelona-BCN? Do we think they come back? And is there potential for Amsterdam-AMS and Manchester-MAN to maybe pop up?
Those were permanent cuts. I could see them coming back when AA gets the 321XLR's. MAN did terribly from PHL, so I find that add unlikely.
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19 hours ago, BarrenLucidity said:
They're doing cargo runs right now but they also have a habit of changing cargo routes into full service routes. Lots of the Fortune 500 companies have operations in India and end up on Qatar anyway via ATL/BOS/PHL, would make sense to have a route.
One can dream, that 773 is a thing of beauty.
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13 hours ago, BarrenLucidity said:
Would love a direct doha flight from CLT. Opens up a lot of possibilities. Would love it even more if they were third freedom flights.
The 773 is such a beautiful plane too, I would guess that they would send a 35x if this were to happen.
Another personal request, seeing some 77W/773 come through CLT on AA
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17 hours ago, KJHburg said:
$36 million worth of new expansion in 3 manufacturing plants in Mooresville.
Iredell County Manufacturers Announce Expansions | Iredell EDC
and Brad Keselowski's 3 D printing company doing great business as a Space contractor.
Brad Keselowski Says His Manufacturing Startup Booming Through the Space Industry | Iredell EDC
This is great news for Mooresville, IMO it has crazy opportunity to grow in the next 5 years. Unfortunately, I do not feel as though the town has done enough to win business. We continue to see Concord, Kannapolis, Ballantyne, etc to flourish, but a lack in the immediate LKN area.
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6 minutes ago, TCLT said:
That's possible, but domestic travel is going to recover faster than international and the PHL domestic hub is way larger, more efficient, and more profitable than LGA/JFK. And the JetBlue partnership is not like the ones with BA or JAL where revenue is fully shared. JetBlue will probably keep most of the revenue from the codeshares on their planes. I'll also say that the international adds out of NYC are routes that are heavily NYC centric (Tel Aviv and Athens) so won't be as reliant on connecting passengers. JetBlue frequent flyers who will now be open to choosing AA international service for the reciprocal benefits and mileage earning are what should tilt these flights into being sustainable. European destinations relying on leisure passengers connecting from all over the country (like Prague, Budapest, Dubrovnik, etc) I just can't see moving to JFK. But I could be wrong.
I definitely agree with you, I don't think PHL is going anywhere. Just curious what it's domestic future looks like. The 787 base at PHL proves that these leisure destinations are not going anywhere, but the MUC shift to CLT goes to show that these business routes could switch. Thanks for your insight!
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10 minutes ago, TCLT said:
AA is gate/slot constrained at JFK. That combined with the split nature of the NYC airports makes operating a true domestic and international hub there basically impossible. And NYC and BOS are not great geographically for flowing domestic traffic in and out of the northeast. AA will always operate to the major markets from NYC (things like LAX and LHR along with their other hubs) since it's too important to ignore, but I would guess the JetBlue partnership has a more negative impact on AA's NYC operation than on PHL. AA will still always prefer sending passengers through it's own PHL hub than putting them on a JetBlue flight through NY. The JetBlue partnership really is for NY customers who otherwise wouldn't choose AA at all since they have so many options for nonstop flights on other airlines. It's not about a customer in Albany trying to get to Louisville. Those people AA wants to see in PHL so they can keep all the revenue.
Pre COVID I would agree with is. However, AA has added multiple new intl routes out of JFK, and axed others at PHL. The fact that domestic travel out of PHL is currently non existent seems to go against the idea that they will funnel pax through PHL vs accepting a cut and utilizing JFK/ B6.
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Will FNB be lighting up their tower?
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5 minutes ago, TCLT said:
Consolidation was the driving factor around the reduction in the number of hubs, but geography and market dynamics really decided which ones closed. Bigger hubs will always be more efficient and more profitable because the more passengers you can drive through a single hub, the lower your unit costs will be. It will also allow you to increase service levels AND connectivity which will help improve revenues. Hubs are very expensive to operate, so when possible an airline will always look to push more traffic through one hub rather than split it over multiple. And for the most part, passengers don't mind slightly inefficient routings (backtracking) as long as the schedule and price meets their needs. Another thing that has helped has been improvements in the aircraft. Today's narrowbodies can fly as far as older widebodies and with almost as many passengers. For example, a modern A321 can fly non-stop JFK-LAX and carry up to nearly 200 people. 20 years ago airlines were flying a 767-200 or similar widebodies on transcontinental routes and that plane carried around 200 people. A narrowbody is waaaaaay cheaper to operate than a widebody. Similarly, modern regional jets like the E175 can reach any point in the continental US from centrally located hubs like DFW or ORD and most of the country from the coasts. So there's less need for intermediate hubs like MEM or CLE when you can easily and efficiently serve the markets from ATL or EWR or SFO. And to LKN704's point about regional jets being more expensive than mainline jets, funneling more traffic through a single hub makes mainline service more viable since you're concentrating more passengers in one place. Similarly to hubs, larger planes have lower unit costs so if you can fill a bigger plane you almost always prefer it to a smaller plane.
And it also doesn't make sense to duplicate a hub's purpose in the network. Take MEM or CLE for example. In the Delta and United networks, those were primarily serving east/west flows (MEM mostly from/to the southeast and CLE mostly from/to the northeast). Those same flows can be served by ATL and ORD almost as efficiently, but with the benefit of funneling traffic through a bigger hub in a metro area with significantly more local demand. Same reason why LAS and PIT were canned by US in favor of PHX and PHL. CLT and SLC got lucky because there are no other reasonable metros from which to serve their traffic flows. For the southeast, the only other major metro with favorable geography is ATL and no one can hope to compete with Delta there (RDU and GSO could've been competitors before Charlotte's massive growth so we got extra lucky things shook out the way they did). For SLC, the only other option for the mountain west is DEN and United has that locked up. You can intuitively tell from the maps why the hubs that were cut were chosen. Too close to other hubs that are in more desirable places. The exceptions are hubs that serve a unique or necessary purpose. AA's current hub system has a couple of these. In their network, JFK and DCA seem pretty redundant when you have much larger and more capable hubs in PHL and CLT so close. But those local markets are so massive on their own that it makes sense to run smaller operations focused there in tandem with the more efficient connecting hubs close by. This is the reason United keeps such a large operation in LAX despite having a spectacular hub close by in SFO. The market is too important to not be in.
This is an amazing post, along with the others in regards to this topic. Thank you all for your time in explaining why the airline industry is the way it is today.
Question- With the significant decrease in business travel, can we expect to see even more consolidation with other hubs? As many have mentioned, there is overlap and many hubs have seen 60-70% cuts in weekday traffic. For example, PHL is "only a hub" 2 days a week. PIT's slash made sense, along with every other rust belt hub. But apart from being an alternate to NYC, what does PHL have to offer in the AA network? If this AA partnership with B6 works, won't traffic be funneled through JFK and BOS more than ever?
Sorry, off topic questions. Thanks again everyone!
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So if the ACC were to move their HQ to Charlotte, guesses on where it would be?
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https://www.airportprojects.net/clt-capacity-ea/
Well great news, the terminal(s) and runway expansions are going through the EA phase with new renderings in the attached link. Interesting notes:
-Satellite Terminal
-Wrap around taxiways
-Illuminates the construction of the next A terminal and hardstands
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15 minutes ago, Miesian Corners said:
D will be the last concourse to be refurbished. And I agree; the old D gates look rough (and have for about a decade).
I wish that they would expand D to be a much more attractive international terminal. I understand that there really is not anywhere to expand, but there has to be a way to allow for more widebodies in the future.
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12 hours ago, AirNostrumMAD said:
lol Going from larger cities and traveling to Charlotte and Atlanta is crazy. It’s not even night and day. It’s like being in different dimensions.
DCA, Dulles, Raleigh and Boston are apocalyptic still. Fly to Charlotte and it’s probably busier than Dulles or DCA has ever been.
Does anyone have experiences of other airports??
FLL has been pretty busy, especially at peak hours. PBI, VPS, and MIA were all empty when I was there. I flew into STL and LGA last month and both were ghost towns. CLT is definitely the busiest that I have seen.
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Does anyone know when the season ticket pre order ends and the seat picking begins?
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Interesting to note that Marshall and Southern Miss are also leaving CUSA for the SunBelt. This leave 6 teams in CUSA, wonder what will happen.