AUSTIN | ABIA Updates - Page 341

ATCZERO · #**6801** Posted **Nov 3, 2019, 7:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by freerover

Is there a reason why they use 36 instead of 0?

I'm sure there's some historical context but it would sound really weird to say "runway zero zero left, cleared to land".

DoubleC · #**6802** Posted **Nov 3, 2019, 11:43 PM**

Won’t be a good time flying out of the FBOs once 17L is shut. Make Alpha a temp runway!

StoOgE · #**6803** Posted **Nov 4, 2019, 4:03 PM**

Saw a lot of private jets take off about 2 hours after the race on Sunday while stuck in traffic. Must be nice to helicopter out 60 minutes after the race and be on your private jet back to wherever the heck before I am out of the parking lot

freerover · #**6804** Posted **Nov 4, 2019, 4:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by DoubleC

Won’t be a good time flying out of the FBOs once 17L is shut. Make Alpha a temp runway!

San diego has a 1 runway, a FBO and more passengers than AUS and they seem to do fine.

hookem · #**6805** Posted **Nov 4, 2019, 5:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by StoOgE

Saw a lot of private jets take off about 2 hours after the race on Sunday while stuck in traffic. Must be nice to helicopter out 60 minutes after the race and be on your private jet back to wherever the heck before I am out of the parking lot

ABIA is probably setting a new record today. Attendance and traffic at the race seemed way up, and probably not from local attendees.

GoldenBoot · #**6806** Posted **Nov 4, 2019, 5:29 PM**

Didn't see any charters to Brazil scheduled (like in the past). Did I miss it (them)?

Austin1971 · #**6807** Posted **Nov 4, 2019, 5:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by goldenboot

didn't see any charters to brazil scheduled (like in the past). Did i miss it (them)?

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KevinFromTexas · #**6808** Posted **Nov 4, 2019, 6:04 PM**

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Originally Posted by hookem

ABIA is probably setting a new record today. Attendance and traffic at the race seemed way up, and probably not from local attendees.

There were a lot of jets flying over our neighborhood this morning. 2 of them sounded huge. I thought maybe they were military because of the jet roar, but I couldn't find anything on flightaware. There was one 744 that flew out at 8:30 this morning to South Yorkshire.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI8086

masonh2479 · #**6809** Posted **Nov 4, 2019, 8:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by KevinFromTexas

There were a lot of jets flying over our neighborhood this morning. 2 of them sounded huge. I thought maybe they were military because of the jet roar, but I couldn't find anything on flightaware. There was one 744 that flew out at 8:30 this morning to South Yorkshire.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/GTI8086

Well they could of been military, military traffic can’t be tracked by civilian tracking sights.

ILUVSAT · #**6810** Posted **Nov 5, 2019, 12:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by aschwab

I think I read somewhere that Norwegian was trying to get their Argentina subsidiary (basically, Norwegian Airlines) to start flying to the US.

If Norwegian goes down that route, and starts expanding the Austin - Europe routes, I could see there being a Buenos Aires to Austin flight on them.

Interesting...not sure it will happen. But, an interesting idea nonetheless.

austlar1 · #**6811** Posted **Nov 5, 2019, 4:45 AM**

Hmmm? Paris or bust maybe.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/04/budg...ry-claims.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/02/busin...ure/index.html

masonh2479 · #**6812** Posted **Nov 5, 2019, 5:59 AM**

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Originally Posted by austlar1

Hmmm? Paris or bust maybe.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/04/budg...ry-claims.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/02/busin...ure/index.html

Hopefully their quarterly profit keeps going up, as the article states the 787 engine issues and MAX groundings hurt the airline very bad. I would of rather had AF or DL add CDG seeing as they are much more stable and have better connections but I will take what I can get.

masonh2479 · #**6813** Posted **Nov 6, 2019, 1:22 AM**

New single day passenger record for the port, 31,934.
https://twitter.com/AUStinAirport/st...58680871960576

DoubleC · #**6814** Posted **Nov 6, 2019, 8:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by freerover

San diego has a 1 runway, a FBO and more passengers than AUS and they seem to do fine.

It’s not the traffic I’m concerned about; that’s a long way for a C172 to taxi all the way to either end of 17R/35L from Atlantic.

masonh2479 · #**6815** Posted **Nov 6, 2019, 8:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by DoubleC

It’s not the traffic I’m concerned about; that’s a long way for a C172 to taxi all the way to either end of 17R/35L from Atlantic.

True, sweating bullets by the time they get to the runway, maybe the controllers will allow intersection departures for GA.

Austin1971 · #**6816** Posted **Nov 6, 2019, 11:41 PM**

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masonh2479 · #**6817** Posted **Nov 7, 2019, 12:06 AM**

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Originally Posted by Austin1971

With more than 1.4 million passengers traveling through Austin-Bergstrom International Airport during the month, the airport experienced its busiest September ever – up 13.1% over 2018. Overall for 2019, passenger traffic at AUS continues to grow, increasing by 9.2% for the year when compared to 2018.

http://www.austintexas.gov/news/sept...stin-bergstrom

Great to see this continued growth, 13.1% growth is pretty rare to see at an airport. Allegiant and Frontier had sharp declines but I would assume that is due to axing routes, every international airline was either stable or had a sharp incline except for Lufthansa, a 73% load factor for them. That aside I'd say we are on pace to smash 2018s yearly passenger record of 15,819,912.

freerover · #**6818** Posted **Nov 7, 2019, 4:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by masonh2479

Great to see this continued growth, 13.1% growth is pretty rare to see at an airport. Allegiant and Frontier had sharp declines but I would assume that is due to axing routes, every international airline was either stable or had a sharp incline except for Lufthansa, a 73% load factor for them. That aside I'd say we are on pace to smash 2018s yearly passenger record of 15,819,912.

Probably pass it by the end of the month.

ILUVSAT · #**6819** Posted **Nov 7, 2019, 4:02 PM**

When was AUS' master plan submitted to the FAA? It was more than 6 months ago, correct?

freerover · #**6820** Posted **Nov 7, 2019, 4:15 PM**

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Originally Posted by ILUVSAT

When was AUS' master plan submitted to the FAA? It was more than 6 months ago, correct?

It was about a year ago I believe.