Concur. This is my thoughts only; SWA could very well offer to pay for the new international facilities, as they did in Houston, to get free rent and leases for a period of time as well as reduced or free landing fees for a period of time to get what they want. Sort of copy what they did in Houston. But I also think BWI will almost bend over backwards to get the international flights from SWA as they all too well what it has the possibility of turning into for their airport. Keep us posted what you hear from up there and I will do the same from down here...
USair moves it operation next to AA in LAS
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After this merger, it is in my opinion that since LAS is now a IAM station that it will be cut back just like what happened to America West.
I do not see LAS supporting the combined flights of both AA and UsAir.
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Pretty close? Takes five hours to drive between LAX and either LAS or PHX and a good four hours to drive PHX-LAS. LAX is the nation's top O&D airport and the home of more Asian O&D than any other airport, so LAX isn't going to shrink.
LAS is the nation's second or third biggest domestic O&D airport (neck and neck with MCO), so I don't see LAS shrinking all that much.
PHX has the eighth largest domestic O&D market, so it will continue to have lots of service by new AA. Dunno if the hub will remain as large, however, what with the DFW hub offering some better connections (and more of them mainline) for long hauls to the east than flowing everyone over PHX.
Neither AA nor US has all that much service at LAS, so I expect to see some growth.
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swamt i will do that. i do know bwi has bent over backwards for swa time and time again. more so than any other airline at bwi.
as for phx i think phx will be a large focus type city i dont foresee the new aa just givin away phx may be phx probably be most of mexico and possible latin america services plus some canadian and alaska flights but i think lax n dfw as well as clt will be the way they are if not add more flights
as for phx i think phx will be a large focus type city i dont foresee the new aa just givin away phx may be phx probably be most of mexico and possible latin america services plus some canadian and alaska flights but i think lax n dfw as well as clt will be the way they are if not add more flights
I agree with your first para completely. If you have not already caught this article, it is a timing reading as we are discussing this very issue:
State officials push for $125 million BWI expansion project
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i did not catch that is there a link to that article or what newspaper? its been an ongoing mess for the past yr or soo
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THANKS interesting article.
No problem. It's amazing how little you get for $125 million these days; in this case, a secured connector between E and D so that two D gates can be used for international arrivals, remodel the D gates plus a revamped security checkpoint.
I think it would be more "near shore" international destinations, like the Caribbean, Mexico/Central America, Canada and northern South America. I don't see WN flying to Europe or deep South America in the foreseeable future, given their desire to maintain a fleet of 737s.
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But this is the kind of development that may change the calculus of market domination in metro dc.
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id imagine bda would be anthr dest given that fl already flies there from bwi but im not sure if its a 717 or 737 700
I disagree.
The market domination in the DC metro area is irrelevant. For antitrust analysis of the US-AA merger, BWI is irrelevant. The only DC-area airport the feds are going to care about (and perhaps order slot divestment) is the one airport of the three that's slot-restricted, and that's DCA.
BWI? Any airline that wants to add flights at BWI is free to do so, just like WN has done. IAD? Same story.
DCA? Announce that you want to add a dozen or six or even one new flight in and out of DCA and you cannot do so until you obtain a pair of slots. B6 paid $40 million for eight slot pairs at DCA in late 2011. DCA slots are scarce and valuable, which makes me skeptical that new AA will be permitted to keep 2/3 of the DCA slot inventory.
