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Way to really go out on a limb there, "Josh."

Considering we've already seen an article discussing the cutting of several "CLT based employees," I'm pretty sure no one'll need to wait too long to see if you're right or not.

Nevertheless, I'll play too: I predict at least one plane will either take off or land at CLT today.
 
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AirwAr said:
The only thing new for me was that there were plans for an international terminal that are now on hold in favor of domestic growth.
Express aka American Eagle
 
Don't care what happens to CLT either way. Other than an occasional meeting, a few okay restaurants and cheap Ritz-Carlton there really isn't much for me there. People flying to Brazil or Europe can go through MIA and enjoy the nicer facilities.

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If clt is so bad they would be shutting the hub there is no reason someone from RIC, ODF, gSP, etc is going to fly to Mia to go to Europe
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laughable a couple armchair aviation "experts" making predictions without a company financial statement of any kind. nothing to see here.
 
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cltrat said:
laughable a couple armchair aviation "experts" making predictions without a company financial statement of any kind. nothing to see here.
Yep were all guessing what this merger will bring. The seasoned employees of pass mergers can’t help but be nervous. How many did they walk out?
 
If they do things the way most companies do it, they will walk them out a few at a time; so, that no one notices a sharp reduction in the number of familiar faces, and start worrying that they might be next.  One of the unintended consequences of staff reductions is that invariably the organization loses some really capable people that they planned to keep.  These people see what is happening and go out and get another job rather than wait for the axe to fall.
 
I saw the rail construction between the runways. It looks like all the expansion will be Norfolk Southern. Have a pleasant trip out of CLT via shipping container. Int'l First Class will be out of Miami. ;)

Rail yard at Charlotte Douglas to move 200,000 containers a year

By Ely Portillo
[email protected]
Posted: Thursday, Jan. 09, 2014
Norfolk Southern on Wednesday showed off its new rail yard at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, a 200-acre cargo transfer facility that officials hope will lead to a building boom.
The rail yard can move containers from trucks to trains and vice versa, adding to shipping capacity in Charlotte. It replaces Norfolk Southerns current rail yard just north of uptown.
The $92 million rail yard was built with almost $16 million worth of federal grants. Norfolk Southern is also eligible for tax credits over the coming years that could be worth millions of dollars, spokesman Robin Chapman said.
The company is paying Charlotte Douglas $1 million a year in rent for the facility, which can move 200,000 cargo containers a year and has parking for 1,331 trucks.

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/01/08/4596686/rail-yard-at-charlotte-douglas.html#.VDWHQWPwvIU#storylink=cpy
 
Over on Flyertalk, the same CLT-based US Airways flight attendant who predicted that both Brazil flights would remain because "they were full" and "CLT is huge and growing" (just days before the GRU flight was axed) is back again saying that CLT-FRA will be double-daily in the summer because "we fly a lot of cargo on that route." Uh-huh. Tell us another one.

WT is right: CLT is going to shrink, both international and domestic.

Before the shrill voices make their straw-man argument, I didn't say that CLT would be closed or "de-hubbed." CLT will have a long, bright future connecting passengers up and down the east coast and flying to LHR, MAD, FRA and CDG. But CLT can do all of that at about half its present size. Won't happen right away, as Parker doesn't want to break the promises made to the various hub governments. But within five years - CLT will be a lot smaller.
 
laughable a couple armchair aviation "experts" making predictions without a company financial statement of any kind. nothing to see here.
uh, the company financial statement came out today... just like it did a month ago, and the month before that.

it's called AAL's traffic report.

It clearly shows that AA isn't coming anywhere near close to filling the int'l capacity it is putting in the market, esp. across the Atlantic where US had most of its int'l capacity.

You can blame the transition to oneworld and a host of other reasons but ultimately, the real reason is that AA is pricing its product at industry standard levels instead of industry discounted levels. A lot of capacity that US operated doesn't work at industry standard prices which is precisely why there will be major parts of US' TATL network that will be cut.
 
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laughable a couple armchair aviation "experts" making predictions without a company financial statement of any kind. nothing to see here.
Even “IF” they had all the available traffic data, both current and projected, along with all of the future financial cost projections, AND a crystal ball... they would have absolutely no idea what Parker has in mind for CLT. It’s obvious that some the pseudonyms here have a political axe to grind with CLT, even though they say they (he is) neutral.
 
Could it be the bitterness of elections lost, and a desire to instill fear and discord into the active CLT employees? I’ll let you be the judge...
 
roabilly said:
Even “IF” they had all the available traffic data, both current and projected, along with all of the future financial cost projections, AND a crystal ball... they would have absolutely no idea what Parker has in mind for CLT. It’s obvious that some the pseudonyms here have a political axe to grind with CLT, even though they say they (he is) neutral.
 
Could it be the bitterness of elections lost, and a desire to instill fear and discord into the active CLT employees? I’ll let you be the judge...
You still think I am Tim?

Josh
 
roabilly said:
Even “IF” they had all the available traffic data, both current and projected, along with all of the future financial cost projections, AND a crystal ball... they would have absolutely no idea what Parker has in mind for CLT. It’s obvious that some the pseudonyms here have a political axe to grind with CLT, even though they say they (he is) neutral.
 
Could it be the bitterness of elections lost, and a desire to instill fear and discord into the active CLT employees? I’ll let you be the judge...
leave the conspiracy theories to the side. it's purely a matter of economics and AA/US' overhubbed east coast network.
 
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