Oneida County Airport in Utica, NY has closed. The county airport will now be operated out of the former Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, which closed as a military base in 1993. Griffiss is now a business and technology park. As part of the move, the airport has been refurbished. Empire Aero Center, which…
Jetblue Airways announced in a press release today that effective May 3, 2007, it would inaugurate service to San Francisco International Airport, complimenting its service to Oakland and San Jose. Jetblue offers service from San Jose to Boston and New York City and from Oakland to Boston, New York City, Long Beach, Washington-Dulles, and Ft.…
USA Today reported that United has won the China bid, beating out Continental, American, and Northwest. The service will begin March 25, from Washington-Dulles to Beijing, China, operated with a three-class Boeing 747 aircraft. Next year, US carriers will be able to apply for another set of flights of China. This new bid will not…
USA Today reports that the FAA has issued a 296-page regulation update which will allow the newest generation of airplanes to fly virtually any route. Currently, airplanes must often fly indirect routes as part of safety measures that require them to be a certain distance from an emergency diversion airport at all times. Over the…
The holiday season is always full of craziness. We thought we’d update you on the security insanity of the holiday season. A US Airways passenger was charged with interfering with a flight crew after he unknowingly slapped a federal air marshal on a flight from Washington to Ft. Myers. The man threw a temper tantrum…
United is considering reducing service once more at Miami International Airport. United was once the second-largest carrier there after American Airlines, the current dominant carrier, and even competed to Latin America, with flights as far south as Brazil and Argentina. At the height of service in 1993, they had 45 daily flights from Miami. United…
USAToday reported the other day on the loss of service in St. Louis. Over the last decade, commercial airline departures have dropped nearly fifty percent. St. Louis has two airports: St. Louis – Lambert International Airport, the main airport, a former TWA hub and a focus city for American Airlines, and MidAmerica Airport, opened in…
Visual representations being perhaps the best…the most efficient way to show what might go on is USAToday’s Merger Analysis, summarizing the pros and cons. US Airways has upped its offer for Delta by nearly twenty percent, and Delta continues to oppose takeover. However, although it has pushed ahead with its reorganization plan as a standalone…
Yesterday was the 25th anniversary of the day Air Florida Flight 90 crashed into the Fourteenth Street bridge on takeoff from Washington’s National Airport. On January 13, 1982, seventy-eight passengers, motorists, and crew members died with only a Air Florida itself didn’t survive the disaster, which was attributed failures in safety protocols associated with deicing.…
American Airlines, having fought with Southwest over the issues of flight freedom from Love Field, offering all manner of incentive on its flights out of that airport, will be pulling its MD-80 mainline service out of the airport. Effective April 10th, American Eagle will take over all service, and American insists, while they are terminating…
Two New Startup Airlines Seek to Capitalize on the Myrtle Beach vacation market Myrtle Beach Direct Air will start flying March 7 with non-stop flights from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Pittsburgh, Newark, and Niagara Falls. It will not be daily service, but two to five flights per week on its routes, operated with Boeing…
Bay Area Rapid Transit(BART) reported record ridership during Christmas week. Currently, the extension and airport station operates at a loss. We don’t understand why…with moderately convenient public transportation to the airport, why people would not take advantage of it to avoid the hassles of driving to the airport. Cities have invested money in these buses…
Hundreds of travelers today at Orlando’s McCoy International Airport were screened by machines designed to let passengers keep their shoes on their airport checkpoints. We are very much in favor of this…as no TSA agent has ever been able to tell us the last time anyone cleaned the floors. Of fifty travellers, however, who used…
United announced today new service from its Denver hub to Dayton, Ohio(effective April 24); Kalispell, Montana(effective June 7); Huntsville, Alabama(February 14) and resumption of service to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina(effective April 24). Dayton service will be operated by 70-seater CRJ7s, twice-daily service to Kalispell will be with 50-seater CRJs. Starting April 1, Frontier Airlines will offer…
As KFWB radio reports, a FedEx MD-10 cargo jet equipped with Northrup Grumman’s Guardian anti-missile defense system took off from LAX on Tuesday. During this test phase, which will be until March of 2008, nine MD-10s equipped with the system will be in commercial operation. While these systems are being tested on cargo planes, the…
Click the following link, enter in the promotional password SEVENTEEN, and you’ll be able to get a seventeen dollar each way discount on Jetblue. The offer is available until February 14, 2007 at 11:59PM MST for travel to be completed by Feburary 14. Standard fare rules will apply and discount will not be applied if…
Jetblue is delaying an announcement on whether it plans to fly from Westchester County Airport in White Plains. Jetblue and Airtran both serve nearby Stewart Airport in Newburgh, and Airtran inaugurated service from White Plains to Atlanta and its usual Floridean destinations last year. The airport told executives at Jetblue as long as they begin…
A Delta spokesman said today that Delta is seriously considering resuming its New York-Tel Aviv route as part of its international expansion at its JFK hub. Delta has tried this before, most recently in 2001, but suspended it along with a number of other routes after 9/11. We were in the Delta terminal a great…
Up until last year, Airbus had outsold Boeing in commercial airplanes for five straight years. However, in 2006, Airbus received 790 airplane orders, compared to Boeing’s 1044. Airbus’s problems are blamed on the delays with the Airbus 380, which is two years behind schedule. The redesign of the A350, which failed to compete with Boeing’s…
Today, Boeing unveiled a life-size display of the interior for the new 747-8 Intercontinental. The 747 has transported passengers for decades. The 747-8 is stretched 18.3 feet from the 747-400 to provide 467 seats in a typical three-class configuration. The new interior configuration offers updates from the designs of later passenger aircraft, like the 787…
The United Parcel Service(UPS), is expected to cancel the only remaining order for the cargo version of the A380 superjumbo jet. As the Washington Post reports, rumors are that they will cancel the ten plane order sometime next week. In October, UPS began to review its purchase in light of the third delivery delay on…
As USAToday reminded us, new government regulations will take effect this week, requiring all individuals, including US citizens, to have a passport in order to enter the United States. Previously, a birth certificate or driver’s license was acceptable. Next year, passports will also be required at land and sea crossings, although for regular travellers of…
Delta Airlines filed an application, the Associated Press reports, with the US Department of Transportation today to get government approval during the next round of China bids for service from its hub at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International AIrport to Shanghai daily, beginning March 28, 2008. We have no doubt Continental, Northwest, and American…the losers in the…
United announced today that it will amend its mileage policies for its frequent flyer program. Miles that are in accounts that are inactive for eighteen months will expire. United does this in the hope that their “most loyal customers will compete with fewer people for award seats, making it easier for them to redeem.” However,…
Virgin America is taking its case to the public. The carrier, which shares a brand name with Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, not only has revised its ownership application…hoping to reverse the decision of U.S regulators to deny its bid, but it has established letVAfly.com, a website that allows citizens to automatically email their representative and…