BarrenLucidity

Good question. I would guess United but they barely use their existing gates and they aren't even fighting AA on fares to ORD at the moment. LCCs maybe?

They should really identify a method to eliminate that light in favor of continuous traffic flow from the interstates like ORD or PHL.

Ahh, yeah, fair point.

AA runs 4 non-stops daily to SFO so there's a decent amount of traffic due to banking and technology. United could probably pull enough business traffic to justify the route once SF recovers but I don't know if they'd really want to dedicate a narrow body out of their fleet for the route.

Airport could take 50% of the valet area in the deck and charge Uber a fee per pickup. Everybody wins.

Hyatt regency would be good to see, they generally pair with convention centers. We might get Conrad to compete with the JW. We'll probably never see a Four Seasons... but then again Baltimore has one.

Seattle metro area is 9th in terms of GDP in the US too. Compared to CLT at 21st.

XLRs and more international because of their range even if it recently got clipped a tad. It'll be a while before we see 787s.

AA said they didn't need it so the FAA didn't grant it.

International expansion has to be part of this... I wonder if they move most of the Caribbean flights to MIA and pull transatlantic to CLT, away from PHL. They were basically ready to kill PHL according to the NEA JetBlue court filling.

Yeah, technically possible but probably not as profitable. Not to mention that AA doesn't seem to understand how it wants to to run APAC services.

Charlotte likely won't have direct flights to Asia without a longer runway. Technically it would be possible but probably not profitable due to less cargo capacity. ATL by comparison has as 12.3k ft runway.

50% of them may even be operational.

Hoping this is a sign IAG and AA have decided to increase routing through MAD vs LHR.

These weren't flights they were actually going to fly. They were filed and in the most likely scenario would have been cancelled

Hope the next add from one of the other carriers is a SFO add. AA is basically gouging that route at the moment.

AA debt load and employee costs prevent it from competing in many international markets.

It's probable that most things are usable in 2024 but fit and finish isn't complete until 2025.

Most people still have a pre-2019 view of Charlotte but since then CLT has posted more tech jobs than RTP, every year, and it's considered a technology hub that flies below the radar. https://www.charlottestories.com/charlotte-ranked-as-the-1-tech-town-in-america/ https://www.zdnet.com/education/computers-tech/tech-jobs-in-charlotte/ By and large you find mostly "web 2.0" jobs in RTP and you're gonna find corporate, fintech, and startup/"web 3.0" jobs in CLT. At the end of the day CLT is growing too quickly across the board for RTP to keep up.

Charlotte has more tech jobs, both in terms of current and openings, than Raleigh and has since 2019.

Somebody better tell Charlotte that they're wrong because 27k is directly from their website. https://www.charlottemeetings.com/charlotte-hotel-development How many 3-star and above hotel rooms exist today within walking distance or short bus ride of the convention center? It's definitely below 10k and you need at least 50% more than that to account for normal activities. I don't see how this isn't about hotel rooms. At 600k sq feet it's right there for hosting 5000+ attendee conventions but everything else isn't ready.

I think part of the issue is the hotel room availability. My company just had a convention and with 4500 attendees we booked north of 11000 rooms. The entire city only has ~27000 rooms but I'd argue we probably have less than 10000 "convention ready" hotel rooms.

With the closure of AAs crew base at SFO I wonder if we will see Alaska at CLT in the future for West coast flying. If AA concentrates on LAX/SAN and concedes SFO/PDX/SEA (domestic) to its OneWorld partner I think we just might. Hell, with ASAs 737 Max buy we may just get direct flights to ANC.

One of the interesting things my company has been doing is shifting to smaller, more high end, 10,000 sqft regional offices for the occasional in person event or sales meeting. We bit the bullet and moved all 2500+ employees to remote this year. It's working well enough that I can see it as a future for many small and midcap companies.

While I would welcome Finnair to CLT I can't see a OneWorld partner joining AA at CLT vs PHL or JFK until B/C expansion is complete and even then I have my doubts that AA even attempts to position CLT as a TATL hub. Finnair would need to dedicate two wide-bodies into a market that isn't historically strong for O/D. Their smallest widebody is the A332 so you're needing to fill ~550 seats a day between CLT-HEL. Not impossible but not easy either. Maybe if SAS really tanks hard they can be the Nordic hub. At the end of the day CLT is a domestic hub for better or worse but I would welcome AA minimizing LHR.