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Old Posted Feb 11, 2020, 6:23 PM
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Norwegian begins 3x weekly flights to CDG beginning on May 6th. It's currently planned as a seasonal route through September 20. Hopefully Norwegian will upgrade this route (and their LGW route) to year-round soon.
Sorry, talking about Skyteam not going with CDG. Norwegian is fine for vacation travel or a work trip to Paris, but without being part of a real Alliance it's a bit dodgy for connections.
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Old Posted Feb 11, 2020, 9:20 PM
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Sorry, talking about Skyteam not going with CDG. Norwegian is fine for vacation travel or a work trip to Paris, but without being part of a real Alliance it's a bit dodgy for connections.
Ah. Gotcha. Don't be surprised if Air France (and or Delta mainline) is watching how Norwegian does on the CDG route. Similar to how Lufthansa was watching Condors numbers while they flew seasonal service to FRA from AUS.
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Ugh, was trying to rotate a PDF and ended up refreshing this page wiping out my post when I was almost done.


-Virtually all aspects of phase 1 of 2040 master plan in progress to studies/design phase despite master plan still not approved by FAA
-New Taxiway Foxtrot parallel to the west runway with rapid exit taxiways
-New Braided entrance/exit to Airport at 71 eliminating the traffic light
-Midfield Taxiway Realignment of Hotel and Juliet to make room for new center concourse
-Landside Roadway and Curbside Study which is 1st step of new terminal triple level Pres. Blvd curbside roadway.


-ABIA looking to hire 2 films to help with on call planning services for general planning and implementation of 2040 master plan. The proposals from interested firms are due Feb 27th

-ABIA trying to purchase the Lynxs Caro buildings to allow port control of the cargo warehouse to provide future cargo expansion and concessions storage

-Demo permits finally going out for 4 old airforce buildings that were suppose to go down in 2019. 9 more airforce buildings suppose to be demolished this year

-consolidated maintenance facility construction underway. Piers are complete and foundations should begin later this month.

-Admin building almost done. Getting punch items.

-Old IT building set for demolition in April to make way for new IT building

-Should now have executed contract for new centralized baggage handling system

-Checkpoint One remodel issues being worked out with TSA and architects

-Last phase of East Terminal project is the 2nd phase of Apron expansion and should be finished in March
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+1 on your update. Good to hear they're finessing the 2040 expansion, which clearly needed to get started yesterday.
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+1 on your update. Good to hear they're finessing the 2040 expansion, which clearly needed to get started yesterday.
It definitely seems like they know that. Still, we have not seen a proposal for the 1st CIP.
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-Airport hit 17.3 million passengers in 2019 which is a 9.3% jump from 2018.

-International Traffic was up 21%

-Domestic Cargo was up 0.35%

-International Cargo was down 3.62%
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Interesting. December's PAX was higher than November's for the first time in at least the past 5 years.
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Interesting. December's PAX was higher than November's for the first time in at least the past 5 years.
Southwest had a relatively bad November compared to 18. Maybe their December was better.
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Southwest had a relatively bad November compared to 18. Maybe their December was better.
Was that due to 737MAX groundings and related cancellations?
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Was that due to 737MAX groundings and related cancellations?
No. MAX's were grounded sometime during last spring, if I'm not mistaken.

In fact, I do not believe the MAX situation really affected AUS as much as it did other airports. If it did, one would have seen steeper fluctuations in passengers in the previous months (when comparing Y-O-Y numbers). Even with the groundings, AUS gained more than 9% more passengers in 2019 over 2018!
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No. MAX's were grounded sometime during the summer, if I'm not mistaken.
World wide grounding of the MAX was in March 2019. The optimistic ungrounding is this summer pending FAA approval.
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In fact, I do not believe the MAX situation really affected AUS as much as it did other airports. If it did, one would have seen steeper fluctuations in passengers in the previous months (when comparing Y-O-Y numbers).

Obviously it did not affect AUS like HOU or DAL but It clearly did affect it. Southwest annual growth drops from 8% to 4.6% in a year.
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Obviously it did not affect AUS like HOU or DAL but It clearly did affect it. Southwest annual growth drops from 8% to 4.6% in a year.
The MAX situation may have had some affect on WN's numbers, I would concede.

However, people flying AUS have more options than ever before. Additionally, I don't remember too many new WN routes being implemented in 2019. If that is the case, and their load factors were high, one will not realize too much "growth" if at all under that scenario.
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The MAX situation may have had some affect on WN's numbers, I would concede.

However, people flying AUS have more options than ever before. Additionally, I don't remember too many new WN routes being implemented in 2019. If that is the case, and their load factors were high, one will not realize too much "growth" if at all under that scenario.
The MAX issue would have likely affected their ability to add either new routes or increase frequency on routes though. Even if the hardware wasn't intended to be used at ABIA it would have had knock-on effects as they were stretched thin nationwide.

They also did leave EWR IIRC and that likely would have impacted their numbers to AUS.
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I feel like this fits right in with the culture of Austin:
https://www.slashgear.com/delta-will...line-14609917/
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With the bombshell news of Alaska joining oneworld this week and ramping up codesharing with American, I have to think it will be even harder for Delta to do anything here now. All the major business markets will now be served by oneworld.
Is it really a bombshell? This has been in the works for a while. Additionally, it doesn't become official until next Spring (2021).

I believe this move will have little impact on AUS & its future plans. Nonetheless, it may affect places like SEA, LAX, JFK, & MIA more than in Austin. Also, one must remember the conditions in which the government approved Alaska's merger with Virgin America. Clauses which could make it quite difficult to implement any new domestic route or expansions.

This will be a wait and see situation. But, I definitely would not be sounding any alarm bells. Simply look at AUS' 2040 plan. AUS would not be planning to double in size in the coming 20 years (most of that planned to come online in the next 5-8 years) if there wasn't something already moving behind the scenes.

Just think...How many times in the last 20-30 years has the FAA approved a 20-year plan to double the size of a mid-market airport?

I'm not saying anything IS going to happen...but, where there is smoke, there's at least a flame.
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Assuming AUS was near (within a year or so from) making an announcement regarding a new Asian route...How long do y'all think the coronavirus outbreak is going to delay such an announcement? Considering most airlines are concentrating more on how to re-establish current routes which have been temporarily cancelled.
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Assuming AUS was near (within a year or so from) making an announcement regarding a new Asian route...How long do y'all think the coronavirus outbreak is going to delay such an announcement? Considering most airlines are concentrating more on how to re-establish current routes which have been temporarily cancelled.
Probably won't have much of an effect on an Asian route coming unless the airline(s) thinking about adding the Asian flight(s) are from China. I think I read somewhere that China Eastern and Korean Air were in talks with the port. If I may speak my own mind, I would much rather prefer a flight to Japan than South Korea or China. Japan is such a beautiful country to visit.
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