AUSTIN | ABIA Updates - Page 233

ATCZERO · #**4641** Posted **Aug 8, 2018, 5:59 PM**

Pretty cool if you ask me:

https://travelprnews.com/air-line-pi...se/2018/08/07/

GoldenBoot · #**4642** Posted **Aug 8, 2018, 9:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by eskimo33

If you look at page 234 of the FY 19 budget, it mentions "initial planning for another ten-gate expansion to accommodate passenger growth over the next decade." Unfortunately, it does not say where the expansion will be located.

https://assets.austintexas.gov/budge...osedBudget.pdf

There was talk prior to the new masterplan process of two five-gate concourses extending out from the current terminal.

But, that does not look like it will happen now since the preferred option seems to be a satellite concourse.

the Genral · #**4643** Posted **Aug 8, 2018, 9:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATCZERO

Pretty cool if you ask me:

https://travelprnews.com/air-line-pi...se/2018/08/07/

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khowaga · #**4644** Posted **Aug 8, 2018, 10:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by eskimo33

If you look at page 234 of the FY 19 budget, it mentions "initial planning for another ten-gate expansion to accommodate passenger growth over the next decade." Unfortunately, it does not say where the expansion will be located.

https://assets.austintexas.gov/budge...osedBudget.pdf

I’m impressed you made it that far; it’s like 900 pages, isn’t it?

Location is one of the things they’ll have to plan out, most likely. As Golden Boot mentions, it seemed like the next extension would involve extending piers, but it does seem like the master plan is moving toward a satellite to minimize the disruption to operations. That makes sense, given that the terminal already needs all of its gates in operation, and it seems like, from a practical perspective, trying to build out temporary gates like they did during the current expansion would be a lot more difficult to do in the middle of the concourse...

Austin1971 · #**4645** Posted **Aug 16, 2018, 6:32 PM**

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GoldenBoot · #**4646** Posted **Aug 16, 2018, 11:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by Adrum23

What will happen with the current terminal building when the new satellite concourse is built and the central terminal building is built where Garage A is? What I mean is what modifications could we see to the existing building as a result of moving ticketing/baggage claim/security to the new terminal area? Will they reconfigure the interior and install moving sidewalks?

Also, how many gates will be on the new satellite?

Interior will obviously change. How...we don't know. The satellite concourse will have at least 30 gates when completely built out. There is room for more satellite concourses to be built further down the road.

lzppjb · #**4647** Posted **Aug 17, 2018, 12:45 AM**

Ah, my domino buddy is speaking. Can anyone attend?

khowaga · #**4648** Posted **Aug 17, 2018, 12:53 AM**

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Originally Posted by lzppjb

Ah, my domino buddy is speaking. Can anyone attend?

I’m down in Guanajuato til Wednesday (where the airport renovations due for completion last Christmas are still about six months from being done), otherwise I’d have gone. Curious to see how it’s all been narrowed down.

Also, are you going to make us guess who it is??

khowaga · #**4649** Posted **Aug 17, 2018, 12:54 AM**

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Originally Posted by GoldenBoot

Interior will obviously change. How...we don't know. The satellite concourse will have at least 30 gates when completely built out. There is room for more satellite concourses to be built further down the road.

Yeah, details at this level won’t be available until the plan has been approved and passed off to an architect. We’re probably at least two years (realistically) from seeing the preliminary renderings with details about the interior.

lzppjb · #**4650** Posted **Aug 17, 2018, 1:32 AM**

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Originally Posted by khowaga

I’m down in Guanajuato til Wednesday (where the airport renovations due for completion last Christmas are still about six months from being done), otherwise I’d have gone. Curious to see how it’s all been narrowed down.

Also, are you going to make us guess who it is??

Hint: He's an architect.

Austin1971 · #**4651** Posted **Aug 18, 2018, 4:44 PM**

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austlar1 · #**4652** Posted **Aug 18, 2018, 9:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by Adrum23

I believe IND-CDG was announced in September of last year, so I venture we'll hear something within the next month. I think a lot will depend on when the new gates will be coming online, but I imagine we'll also hear a new domestic destination or two by the end of the year.

Why is there an IND to CDG flight? I checked online and it exists, but why? Is there some kind of strong business connection between Indianapolis and Paris?

masonh2479 · #**4653** Posted **Aug 18, 2018, 10:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by austlar1

Why is there an IND to CDG flight? I checked online and it exists, but why? Is there some kind of strong business connection between Indianapolis and Paris?

From what I heard freight keeps it alive. GE transports engine cores for assembly in Paris from Indianapolis, for example.

Austin1971 · #**4654** Posted **Aug 20, 2018, 3:29 PM**

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masonh2479 · #**4655** Posted **Aug 20, 2018, 4:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by Austin1971

http://www.austintexas.gov/blogs/con...ruction-update

The upper-level mezzanine Oculus will be part of the new Delta Sky Club.

This seems to be looking like a nice sky club! With this new maintence facility planned I wonder if that rumored Delta tech op facility is going to happen.

In terms of announcements recently, ABIA is getting pretty stale. I hope this is just due to lack of gate space more than anything.

Jdawgboy · #**4656** Posted **Aug 20, 2018, 5:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by masonh2479

This seems to be looking like a nice sky club! With this new maintence facility planned I wonder if that rumored Delta tech op facility is going to happen.

In terms of announcements recently, ABIA is getting pretty stale. I hope this is just due to lack of gate space more than anything.

Yes I think we are in a stagnant limbo state at the moment. We are close to the east terminal opening but not quite there yet. I expect that we will hear back to back announcements and other news once the opening is imminent but for now, things are laying in wait behind the scenes.

ATCZERO · #**4657** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 11:38 AM**

Quick rumor update: supposedly Southwest wants 2 gates, Delta wants 2 gates and Frontier wants one. This would put Southwest at 8, Delta at 5 and Frontier at one gate total. Some airport personnel visited the tower a while back and dropped this tidbit.

ILUVSAT · #**4658** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 1:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATCZERO

Quick rumor update: supposedly Southwest wants 2 gates, Delta wants 2 gates and Frontier wants one. This would put Southwest at 8, Delta at 5 and Frontier at one gate total. Some airport personnel visited the tower a while back and dropped this tidbit.

Who's taking the other 5 new gates?

If DL is really only taking only 2 new gates, then all the focus city rumors were just that...rumors - and nothing more. Yuk!

StoOgE · #**4659** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 2:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by ATCZERO

Quick rumor update: supposedly Southwest wants 2 gates, Delta wants 2 gates and Frontier wants one. This would put Southwest at 8, Delta at 5 and Frontier at one gate total. Some airport personnel visited the tower a while back and dropped this tidbit.

If this is accurate we're only going to pick up maybe 10 flights a day from Delta max. This means no focus city at all and probably limited international flight expansion and far fewer than we were all hoping for.

StoOgE · #**4660** Posted **Aug 21, 2018, 2:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by Adrum23

I have a hard time believing DL wants only 5 gates. They know hey need to build up AUS as they need a Texas presence and 5 gates won’t cut it. Plus, this contradicts earlier info we have heard.

Right. Unless there was a shift in strategy none of this lines up with what we have been hearing.

5 gates doesn't make a ton of sense with their new sky lounge either, but perhaps they are intending to delay and wait for additional expansion of the port to take more gates?