By the time I have my trip to Portland in August, the security lines will be back to their ignorantly stupid length for an airport OKC's size...goody!
By the time I have my trip to Portland in August, the security lines will be back to their ignorantly stupid length for an airport OKC's size...goody!
As the airline industry changes, is it possible that small commercial airports near bigger airports, like Stillwater or Lawton ,close ?
Stillwater probably, Lawton probably not. Military traffic is pretty big there, can't see AA walking away from it.
Adding to that thought, the big 3 have all signaled that if it can't be sustained with 76 seats it has a slim chance of surviving this one. They are all planning on keeping some level of 50 seaters around but nothing to the degree that they have on property right now.
Stillwater has good business from OSU's flight school there. Many muni airports survive right now as general aviation airports.
I took his question as the commercial terminal staying open or closed - correct shouldn't be any airport closures, just ends of commercial service at some smaller airports. Hopefully SWO can survive this, though.
My apologies for not being clear. I meant stations closed (i.e. AA). Yes, GA will slill live on.
Looks like Delta will be adding flights this summer in an effort to keep planes only 60% full. So, more flights but less full.
Maybe catch knows but I wonder if the an airline like WN considers, refitting all planes to 2 seats per row and raising prices to offset loss of capacity.
I can't imagine any airline removing seats. The cost to take out a seat may be far higher than to just leave the seat empty and charge a higher place as is. My wife flew United last week and while United has said that they will make sure there's an empty seat next to you, that's only if it's possible. She had a fairly empty flight from OKC-DEN but DEN-SLC was full (EMB-175)
Easier to block seats off than pay to test and recertify the aircraft to a lower seating capacity. The airlines are only going to be performing social distancing as long as people are thinking about it, the moment they can get away with going back to normal they will. It's PR fluff at this point to return confidence back to the general public in regards to flying.
Could happen. United is pulling seats out of all 76 seaters and converting to 70 now to prepare for pilot furloughs in October. The pilot's union contract requires that the company cannot operate an aircraft with more than 70 seats if any pilot on the seniority list hired before 12/8/2012 is furloughed. I could see some kind of PR spin to say it's about creating more space or comfort onboard
1-C-1-h Effect of Furlough
If a Pilot on the Seniority List with an employment date prior to the date of signing of this
Agreement is placed on furlough, the Company shall convert all 76-Seat Aircraft for
operation as 70-Seat Aircraft. The number of such aircraft shall continue to be limited as
though they were being operated as 76-Seat Aircraft. The Company may again commence
operating such Aircraft as 76-Seat Aircraft effective on the date that the most junior Pilot
protected by the first sentence of this Section 1-C-1-h is recalled from furlough.
Catch, back in the 90s, AA campaigned on "more leg space in coach". Sounds like what is old may be new again .
How many planes are parked at the airport, and which airlines?
Right imagine one of the airlines, probably SW, saying well this is a permanent shift. We’re raising prices but the entire aircraft now has domestic first class seats. It would require a cultural shift among Americans who must always have the cheapest flight possible, but maybe.
Didn't we have direct non stop flights to/from LAX? If so, are those now gone?
Thanks
AA's flights to LAX are currently suspended. As well as most destinations. I think AA is only flying to DFW PHX and CLT. I havent looked at the schedules in a while as my personal life has been surprisingly busy and I'm trying to not focus too much on aviation at the moment as it is incredibly depressing for me
ua and aa had okc-lax
Oklahoma City, the RENAISSANCE CITY!
united dropped okc-lax a few years ago. 2018?
Southwest going after Delta.
3x daily OKC-ATL begins December.
Wow, even in these times. I'm not the biggest fan of either airline (I don't like not having a seat assignment, and I seem to have a consistently bad experience on Delta), but despite Delta being the airline du jour in the US right now they seem to have phoned it in with their OKC operation for a long time.
Looking at Southwest Airlines schedule update, does it appear that they are going back to pre-COVID operations out of OKC by November?
Also, United Airlines going 4 flights to ORD starting this fall.
Is this one of those " we can scale back if necessary" sort of things?
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