Low-cost Carriers Unlikely To Take Flight

[BoeingBoy]

Low-cost carriers unlikely to take flight
By David Mildenberg
The Business Journals
Updated: 7:00 p.m. ET Feb. 08, 2004

While US Airways Group's dominance of other East Coast airports is weakening as the airline struggles to solidify its shaky finances, local leaders are in no hurry to recruit new carriers to compete at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport.

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Jim

 

[shaka]

Charolette would turn into the exact same thing Pitt is turning into if US Air were to leave. The politicial leaders have no clue if they think people would be knocking down their door to begin service at CLT. The hub that will be least effected by US Air's demise is PHL, CLT and PIT will get rocked.

 

[delldude]

Charolette would turn into the exact same thing Pitt is turning into if US Air were to leave. The politicial leaders have no clue if they think people would be knocking down their door to begin service at CLT. The hub that will be least effected by US Air's demise is PHL, CLT and PIT will get rocked.

ROCK ME BABY....

 

[ClueByFour]

Charolette would turn into the exact same thing Pitt is turning into if US Air were to leave. The politicial leaders have no clue if they think people would be knocking down their door to begin service at CLT. The hub that will be least effected by US Air's demise is PHL, CLT and PIT will get rocked.

I'm sure the people of CLT and PIT would be more than happy to get "rocked" in the same was as BNA or RDU when those hubs closed.

 

[700UW]

Charlotte is now the second largest gateway to the Carribean, lots of revenue is being made from those flights, CLT is not going anywhere soon.

 

[AOG-N-IT]

Lufthansa (LH) isn't re-entering the CLT market from MUC with an A340 for grins and giggles ...it's because of all the businesses with ties to Germany that CLT has..and it's avoiding the congestion of dealing with ATL according to LH's Spin Docs.

I'll agree..CLT would be in a real world hurt without the U hub..it's an economic engine from hell for the area...and it greatly contributed to CLT growth over the last 20 years...but it would not be the end of the world either.

CLT has lived through the days with Eastern controlling CLT's market..and with DL close behind...and the saying in CLT was...if you died and were going to either heaven or hell ? You would still have to connect through Atlanta (ATL)

 

[robbedagain]

does the lawsuit that CLT filed against usairways have anything to do with it?
i was in CLT for the week for flight ops training. and happen to see it on the 6p news while at my hotel thursday night

 

[N628AU]

The lawsuit has nothing to do with US in CLT. The airport is run by the City, while the County has filed for backtaxes in the bankruptcy court. The airport and the airline settled all outstanding debts already, as Airport Director Jerry Orr put it, "They owed us some money and we owed them some money, so we were able to come to an agreement that worked out very well for us."

The airline has paid all property taxes due since emerging from bankruptcy. The taxes owed will be decided by the bankruptcy court.

For a little lesson on how CLT works, in the mid 90s the City and County got together and decided that some would run some services and the other would run other services to avoid them stepping on each other's toes as Mecklenburg County itself is primarily composed of CLT, and then just a handful of small towns. Interesting enough, the services run by the City (Police, the airport, economic development), all run very smoothly and have few issues. The County services (schools, libraries, parks and recreation), all seem to run in a constant state of chaos, with problems never being fixed no matter how much cash is thrown at them.