New International destinations for 2009-2010 ?

[USCREW]

DCA/IAD to Asia

It could happen.

 

[phllax]

LAX
PHL 18:30p
LAX 21:30p

RON

LAX 6:00a
PHL 14:00p

LY already flies to LAX 3x a week, and one of Continental's TLV flights originates in LAX

 

[gaucho99]

I know this has been rumored for a while but what about CLT to CDG? Also, anyone think that South America is something US is looking at out of CLT? Places like LIM, EZE, SCL, GIG, GRU, CCS???

I'm not sure why we have ignored South America. We did file to begin service to Bogota but were turned down. The company was going to file an appeal but I never heard what happened. Most other cities in South America are restricted markets but I heard EZE may be getting more slots next year.

 

[gaucho99]

According to this article, the U.S. and Brazil just signed an open skies agreement and several carriers have applied for some of the routes. US is not one of them.

http://www.beautifulhorizons.net/weblog/20...open-skies.html

 

[usairways85]

LY already flies to LAX 3x a week, and one of Continental's TLV flights originates in LAX

I think it was just an example of another segment the aircraft could be used for so its not sitting for long hours.

One of CO's flts orriginates in LAX but by flight number only. It's a 753 LAX-EWR and a 772 EWR-TLV

 

[SS255]

And for whatever reason, those two groups are pretty price insensitive...

The reason is because those two groups are made up of people with very high income levels.

Let's just say that US-TLV is not your typical leisure travel crowd. There are probably more Hadassah Ladies flying to TLV than any route other than PBI!

 

[usairways85]

How about naples,no non stop service exists and many from naples settled in the northeast.Also nice in france,service to the french riviera,and prague.Just some future places I would like to non rev to!

I think this is pretty well covered

Delta flies

JFK-Rome
JFK-Pisa
JFK-Milan
JFK-Nice

Eurofly flies
JFK-Naples

 

[Royal Ambassador]

I thought that red-eyes only work from West to East?

The Tel Aviv departure will be at 9:15 p.m., with arrival at 3:15 p.m., Tel Aviv time, the following day. The return flight will leave Tel Aviv at 11:50 p.m. and arrive in Philadelphia at 5:10 a.m. (Philadelphia time) the following day. Return service is scheduled to begin July 3.

Philly.com

 

[aredeeyou22]

Just FYI, the 330 RT to SJU returns in either Sept or Oct, daily.

 

[ussnark]

Just FYI, the 330 RT to SJU returns in either Sept or Oct, daily.

Is that an alert or a warning?

 

[28L_or_10R?]

The reason is because those two groups are made up of people with very high income levels.

Let's just say that US-TLV is not your typical leisure travel crowd. There are probably more Hadassah Ladies flying to TLV than any route other than PBI!

Perhaps the flights to TLV will be made up of American Jews making Aliyah so they can escape unfair stereotypes they find here in the States. :unsure:

 

[Hello Newman]

Copenhagen and Budapest would be my choices as a customer. Don't know if you could make any money on those routes?

LOTS OF REVENUE FROM CARGO

 

[drrstrav]

Copenhagen and Budapest would be my choices as a customer. Don't know if you could make any money on those routes?

DL makes tone of $$$ on JFK BUD run.....Pax are flocking to BUD.

 

[whlinder]

I don't know everything about flight scheduling, but wouldn't it make sense to schedule it like this:

Depart PHL 3:15 pm..........Arrive TLV 9:15 am

Depart TLV 11:15 am........Arrive PHL 4:35 pm

That schedule would allow the returning A330 to fly a shorter overnight flight like London, Dublin or Paris, returning to PHL in time the next day to fly TLV. That would keep the A330s working more and would obviate the need to find a short daytime flight to fill the few hours during the day.

I don't know everything about flight scheduling either, but it appears that US might be copying some of the things UA does with their IAD hub (Maybe CO does this at EWR too but I haven't looked). Which is having major intercontinental connections flowing through every hub bank. US has that in the afternoon and evening but the morning is all domestic. This arrival allows for international connections to flow over departing PHL flights that previously did not have such traffic, and also thus won't displace connecting flow from Europe in the afternoon. I *think* this schedule also allows for TLV-PHL-Caribbean connections fairly easily, which the late afternoon does not. I'm guessing US decided to go with trying to diversify their revenue across multiple PHL banks over ideal flight scheduling.

 

[BuffaloJoe]

I don't know everything about flight scheduling either, but it appears that US might be copying some of the things UA does with their IAD hub (Maybe CO does this at EWR too but I haven't looked). Which is having major intercontinental connections flowing through every hub bank. US has that in the afternoon and evening but the morning is all domestic. This arrival allows for international connections to flow over departing PHL flights that previously did not have such traffic, and also thus won't displace connecting flow from Europe in the afternoon. I *think* this schedule also allows for TLV-PHL-Caribbean connections fairly easily, which the late afternoon does not. I'm guessing US decided to go with trying to diversify their revenue across multiple PHL banks over ideal flight scheduling.

Doesn't CO have several banks for their flights to Europe and beyond? Next time I fly out of there I'll look the board over. If US expects just to use the gates for 1 flight a day, the city ought to be upset about that and give them to airlines that can utilize them a lot better. Having multiple banks makes sense even more than just have one big bank.

Also side question, can Carribbean flights depart from a domestic gate or are they precleared as Canada Flights?