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[Tyrone Shoes]

Originally Posted by Austin1971

We'll finally see how serious DL is about AUS.

Just wondering on my part...but...besides a mention in an interview has there ever been anything official from Delta stating that Austin is a 'focus city' ?

[Austin1971]

Originally Posted by tyrone shoes

just wondering on my part...but...besides a mention in an interview has there ever been anything official from delta stating that austin is a 'focus city' ?

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[tysgs]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoes

Just wondering on my part...but...besides a mention in an interview has there ever been anything official from Delta stating that Austin is a 'focus city' ?

They mentioned Austin as a focus city at their investor day last week.

[GoldenBoot]

Quite excited about the A350-1000 coming to AUS! Austin is INCREDIBLY blessed to be assigned the A350-1000. It shows how highly BA thinks of Austin and that they want to establish a strong customer-base prior to additional London competition coming online in the future (Norwegian to LGW is a completely different product).

Austin was one of BA's first destinations utilizing the B787 product and now they are one of the first to receive their A350-1000.

The summer B744 that was flying to AUS will now be flying to SJC instead.



Here's a closer look at the product coming to Austin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grmBzVz_uSU

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_iY0qTF3eA

[Tyrone Shoes]

Frontier adds Miami to Austin next year.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/fronti...25-new-routes/

[mumu]

Originally Posted by Tyrone Shoes

Frontier adds Miami to Austin next year.

https://thepointsguy.com/news/fronti...25-new-routes/

Always good to see another monopoly busting route, AA in this case, even if from a somewhat unreliable carrier.

Frontier is growing rapidly in Newark. I would expect them to add a flight to Austin. Spirit has one starting, but high priced UA continues to overcharge on this route for now.

[tysgs]

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...ost-money.html
Which flights out of Austin make the most money?

1) Los Angeles International Airport: $58.5 million

Airlines serving the route: American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines, Spirit Airlines and United Airlines

2) San Francisco International Airport: $56.8 million

Airlines serving the route: Alaska Airlines, Frontier Airlines and United Airlines

3) Denver International Airport: $53.9 million

Airlines serving the route: Frontier, Southwest, Spirit and United

4) Newark-Liberty International Airport: $53.5 million

Airlines serving the route: United and Southwest, although Southwest ended its Austin-Newark service in November. Spirit Airlines will begin operating flights to Newark in March.

5) New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport: $51.9 million

Airlines serving the route: American, Delta and JetBlue Airways

6) Chicago O'Hare International Airport: $42.4 million

Airlines serving the route: American, Frontier, Spirit and United

7) Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: $41.3 million

Airlines serving the route: Delta, Frontier, Southwest and Spirit

8) London Heathrow Airport: $41.1 million

Airlines serving the route: British Airways

9) Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport: $40.7 million

Airlines serving the route: American and Southwest

10) Boston Logan International Airport: $38.9 million

Airlines serving the route: Delta, JetBlue and Southwest


*For reference here is RDU
RDU-DFW-$47.9M AA
RDU-LHR-$50.1M AA
RDU-SFO-$51.6M AS/UA
RDU-ORD-$54.1M AA/UA/DL/NK
RDU-DEN-$59.1M F9/WN/UA
RDU-MCO-$59.4M DL/F9/WN/NK
RDU-EWR-$62.1M DL/UA/F9
RDU-LGA-$65.3M AA/DL
RDU-ATL-$78.7M DL/WN/F9
RDU-BOS-$80.6M DL/F9/B6/NK

[Austin1971]

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[We vs us]

Originally Posted by Austin1971

Posted this in the metro thread but could definitely impact ABIA....

Amazon in line to build massive distribution center outside Austin

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...tribution.html

--The proposed project is a four-and-a-half-story logistics/distribution center on about 94 acres at 2000 E. Pecan St. less than a mile from State Highway 130 in Pflugerville and Travis County, according to plans submitted to the city of Pflugerville.

--The single-building facility will have 43,000 square feet of office space, 780,552 square feet of warehouse space and 3 million square feet designated for robotics on a "mezzanine level," according to the public filings. There will be 1,706 parking spaces.

--To put the proposed project size of 3.8 million square feet into perspective, that would be more than four times larger than Amazon's San Marcos warehouse, which is 855,000 square feet.

--If Project Charm is Amazon, it appears it would be the company's largest distribution facility in Texas. The e-commerce giant seems to be moving forward with these kinds of enormous projects all around the country, proposing a handful of nearly identical facilities across the United States

I've always pictured these facilities as ways to sort ground freight -- tons of trucks coming and going night and day. But would this also impact air freight?

[Austin1971]

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[ILUVSAT]

Originally Posted by Austin1971

Posted this in the metro thread but could definitely impact ABIA....

Amazon in line to build massive distribution center outside Austin

https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/n...tribution.html

--The proposed project is a four-and-a-half-story logistics/distribution center on about 94 acres at 2000 E. Pecan St. less than a mile from State Highway 130 in Pflugerville and Travis County, according to plans submitted to the city of Pflugerville.

--The single-building facility will have 43,000 square feet of office space, 780,552 square feet of warehouse space and 3 million square feet designated for robotics on a "mezzanine level," according to the public filings. There will be 1,706 parking spaces.

--To put the proposed project size of 3.8 million square feet into perspective, that would be more than four times larger than Amazon's San Marcos warehouse, which is 855,000 square feet.

--If Project Charm is Amazon, it appears it would be the company's largest distribution facility in Texas. The e-commerce giant seems to be moving forward with these kinds of enormous projects all around the country, proposing a handful of nearly identical facilities across the United States

Great news for Austin! However, I don't believe this center will impact ABIA greatly.

[Austin1971]

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[mumu]

Originally Posted by ILUVSAT

Great news for Austin! However, I don't believe this center will impact ABIA greatly.

I disagree. This may indicate that Prime Air may seek eventually to have major operations at ABIA since the road connection from there to the proposed warehouse is excellent.

[tysgs]

Originally Posted by mumu

I disagree. This may indicate that Prime Air may seek eventually to have major operations at ABIA since the road connection from there to the proposed warehouse is excellent.

Prime Air would be coming anyway

[Austin1971]

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[We vs us]

Originally Posted by mumu

I disagree. This may indicate that Prime Air may seek eventually to have major operations at ABIA since the road connection from there to the proposed warehouse is excellent.

Hoo boy -- I just properly looked up Prime Air and realized belatedly we're talking about the fabled drone delivery service rather than full fledged air cargo.

Having a fleet of these things zipping across Austin airspace would be, frankly, kinda creepy. When I picture this, I think I constantly underestimate the potential volume of individual drones. There would be a LOT of them, all of them taking smaller, more numerous trips than the delivery vans.

[sammyk]

Originally Posted by We vs us

Hoo boy -- I just properly looked up Prime Air and realized belatedly we're talking about the fabled drone delivery service rather than full fledged air cargo.

Having a fleet of these things zipping across Austin airspace would be, frankly, kinda creepy. When I picture this, I think I constantly underestimate the potential volume of individual drones. There would be a LOT of them, all of them taking smaller, more numerous trips than the delivery vans.

I think we're talking about the cargo airline as it was called Prime Air initially. Seems they've recently renamed it Amazon Air.

[masonh2479]

Originally Posted by sammyk

I think we're talking about the cargo airline as it was called Prime Air initially. Seems they've recently renamed it Amazon Air.

Correct, here is a link to their wiki with fleet info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Air

[Austin1971]

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[mumu]

This video gives a good sense of the link between Amazon Air and its distribution centers. I think this strongly suggests they'll set up a major operation at the airport on the west side in time to transport goods to/from this massive facility and the one in San Marcos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efs3PyR8iBw