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[Austin1971]

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[the Genral]

Originally Posted by Austin1971

http://www.austintexas.gov/news/reta...80%99s-airport

This is good news for travelers returning rental cars who have to top off their gas tanks or pay the insane premium for not doing so. Its a pain in the ass at Newark or LaGuardia.

[Mikey711MN]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...urgh/89569998/

Allegiant’s expanded San Juan service is part of a seven-route expansion that also brings two new routes to Austin, Pittsburgh and St. Petersburg, Fla.

No news yet regarding frequency or timing, but good news for the airport!

[Jdawgboy]

Originally Posted by Mikey711MN

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...urgh/89569998/



No news yet regarding frequency or timing, but good news for the airport!

Damn! San Juan would have been nice to have a direct flight to.

[clubtokyo]

Originally Posted by Mikey711MN

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel...urgh/89569998/



No news yet regarding frequency or timing, but good news for the airport!

Says flights start in February! The Pittsburgh option is a great addition!

[LoneStarMike]

Originally Posted by Mikey711MN

No news yet regarding frequency or timing, but good news for the airport!

Frequency (according to the article) is twice weekly to both Pittsburgh and St. Petersburg.

Austin-Pittsburgh: Begins Dec. 16 (2 weekly flights)

Austin-St. Petersburg, Fla.: Begins Feb. 17 (2 weekly flights)

[Austin1971]

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[Jdawgboy]

An important take away from the KXAN story is that a trans-Pacific flight is actively being pursued. At least that's how I interpreted the statement by the airport spokesperson when he made mention of an increasing demand for one.

There is probably a route in the works already but it may not be announced until the east terminal expansion is either completed or nearing completion.

[GoldenBoot]

Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

An important take away from the KXAN story is that a trans-Pacific flight is actively being pursued. At least that's how I interpreted the statement by the airport spokesperson when he made mention of an increasing demand for one.

It is my understanding that "they" have been working on it for a few years. It takes quite a long time to initiate international (especially trans-oceanic) routes.

I believe demand has been there for Asian and Latin/South American routes. However, those requesting these routes are becoming louder.

[drummer]

Originally Posted by Jdawgboy

An important take away from the KXAN story is that a trans-Pacific flight is actively being pursued. At least that's how I interpreted the statement by the airport spokesperson when he made mention of an increasing demand for one.

There is probably a route in the works already but it may not be announced until the east terminal expansion is either completed or nearing completion.

Obviously I'm excited about this potential. Hope it turns into something in the near future...

[Digatisdi]

AeroMéxico announces Austin–Mexico City nonstop

[AUS]

Who do you all think/know will be the next international carrier at AUS?

[GoldenBoot]

If anyone knew...it would have been posted already. Austin1971 has been a great source and since he has been silent as of late regarding new international carriers, I do not think there is any "new" news on that front.

However, he did, a few weeks back, make note that WOW (of Iceland) might have been poking it's nose around.

I would expect new announcements to happen over the coming years - as we get closer to the completion of the east concourse expansion.

Just keep checking back.

[LoneStarMike]

I went back to August 1st and worked my way forward to the present and it looks like no one has posted the June traffic statistics which were released August 5.

June 2016 Passenger, Cargo traffic at Austin-Bergstrom

Total passenger traffic for June 2016 was 1,135,796 up 4%* compared to June 2015. ... Total passenger traffic for January – June YTD was 6,024,502, up 8%*, compared to January – June 2015.

* Press release always rounds the percentage differences up or down to the nearest whole number, but the Aviation Activity Report does not rounded the percentage differences up or down and is always the true accurate number.

June traffic was actually up 4.35% (rather than 4% as stated in the press release) and Y-T-D traffic was actually up 7.71% (rather than 8% as stated in the press release.)

June Aviation Activity Report (pdf file)

Total international for June - 28,043
Total international Y-T-D - 134.006

[AUS]

Originally Posted by LoneStarMike

I went back to August 1st and worked my way forward to the present and it looks like no one has posted the June traffic statistics which were released August 5.

June 2016 Passenger, Cargo traffic at Austin-Bergstrom

Total passenger traffic for June 2016 was 1,135,796 up 4%* compared to June 2015. ... Total passenger traffic for January – June YTD was 6,024,502, up 8%*, compared to January – June 2015.

* Press release always rounds the percentage differences up or down to the nearest whole number, but the Aviation Activity Report does not rounded the percentage differences up or down and is always the true accurate number.

June traffic was actually up 4.35% (rather than 4% as stated in the press release) and Y-T-D traffic was actually up 7.71% (rather than 8% as stated in the press release.)

June Aviation Activity Report (pdf file)

Total international for June - 28,043
Total international Y-T-D - 134.006

Interesting how Condor's statistics were not included. They only flew to Austin twice in June, but still would have been cool to see their numbers!

[Austin1971]

Originally Posted by aus

interesting how condor's statistics were not included. They only flew to austin twice in june, but still would have been cool to see their numbers!

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[LoneStarMike]

Originally Posted by AUS

Interesting how Condor's statistics were not included. They only flew to Austin twice in June, but still would have been cool to see their numbers!

Hmm. I guess the press release didn't break out Condor's numbers, but if you go to the other report (the pdf file one) scroll down to page 14 and it breaks out all the airlines. In June they are showing 902 total Condor passengers.

So if they flew into Austin twice in June, that would be a total of four flights - 2 inbound and 2 outbound. The average comes out to 225.5 passengers per flight.

[Digatisdi]

July figures have been released

"Total passenger traffic for July 2016 was 1,133,641 down 3% compared to July 2015."

It still seems like they're still not including Condor in statistics

[GoldenBoot]

Originally Posted by Digatisdi

July figures have been released

"Total passenger traffic for July 2016 was 1,133,641 down 3% compared to July 2015."

It still seems like they're still not including Condor in statistics

WOW! It's been years since we've seen a Y-O-Y decrease! I wonder why? Was there something going on in July 2015 which warranted and additional ~35,000 passengers to fly into and out of ABIA over July 2016?

January-July 2016 is now only up 6% over the same period in 2015.

[hookem]

Jetblue down 40% was probably due to the short-lived high frequency Dallas Love flights. United and Frontier were the other big declines, don't know why.

Still, growth should have offset those. Perhaps we are nearing a saturation level that will stick around until new gates are opened.