trvlr64
Nov 22, 04, 4:42 pm
Very interesting! Guess US thought that no one would want to pick up this airport.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041122/cgm030_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041122/cgm030_1.html
US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - NW to start flying to Latrobe, PA
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HPTunco
Nov 22, 04, 6:52 pm
Now they can shuttle ARNIE to his endorsement gigs.
It's a nice little airport for people east of PIT. :)
It's a nice little airport for people east of PIT. :)
PIT_Flyer
Nov 22, 04, 6:59 pm
Now they can shuttle ARNIE to his endorsement gigs.
It's a nice little airport for people east of PIT. :)
Might be a good airport for people FROM Pittsburgh as well, given the extortion fares some carriers (esp US AIR) charge for flights out of PIT. Last year, I had to fly PIT-LGA, and US Air had a wonderful $800 fare. However, when I checked CAK-LGA, it was $227 :mad: Icing on the cake? I had to connect in PIT.
Needless to say, I rented a car one way to CAK, flew to LGA and got off at PIT on the way back.
It's a nice little airport for people east of PIT. :)
Might be a good airport for people FROM Pittsburgh as well, given the extortion fares some carriers (esp US AIR) charge for flights out of PIT. Last year, I had to fly PIT-LGA, and US Air had a wonderful $800 fare. However, when I checked CAK-LGA, it was $227 :mad: Icing on the cake? I had to connect in PIT.
Needless to say, I rented a car one way to CAK, flew to LGA and got off at PIT on the way back.
jcooke
Nov 22, 04, 9:06 pm
I'm not surprised to see it. Someone's gotta pick up the service in the northeast that US has dropped.
NeoOfTheCRS
Nov 23, 04, 9:22 am
Thats a bit of a haul on a Saab340. Don't think that there is that much O/D traffic to make it a profitable route unless they can command a premium for connecting traffic out of LBE.
wahooflyer
Nov 23, 04, 9:35 am
Thats a bit of a haul on a Saab340.
NW still flies Saabs to some farther-out smaller markets from DTW, such as Roanoke, Virginia.
NW still flies Saabs to some farther-out smaller markets from DTW, such as Roanoke, Virginia.
Jumpgate
Nov 23, 04, 12:28 pm
Thats a bit of a haul on a Saab340. Don't think that there is that much O/D traffic to make it a profitable route unless they can command a premium for connecting traffic out of LBE.
It'll be profitable. The only reason they're moving in is because Latrobe was able to secure a $600,000 grant from the government as incentive to NW.
It'll be profitable. The only reason they're moving in is because Latrobe was able to secure a $600,000 grant from the government as incentive to NW.
jcooke
Nov 23, 04, 12:33 pm
It'll be profitable. The only reason they're moving in is because Latrobe was able to secure a $600,000 grant from the government as incentive to NW.
Is this considered an EAS station?
-JC
Is this considered an EAS station?
-JC
N674UW
Nov 23, 04, 12:42 pm
Now they can shuttle ARNIE to his endorsement gigs.
It's a nice little airport for people east of PIT. :)
Not sure why Arnie would want to sit in the back of a Saab when he's got a beautiful Mach .92 Citation X waiting for him there that he can fly himself...
N674UW
It's a nice little airport for people east of PIT. :)
Not sure why Arnie would want to sit in the back of a Saab when he's got a beautiful Mach .92 Citation X waiting for him there that he can fly himself...
N674UW
HPTunco
Nov 23, 04, 2:36 pm
Not sure why Arnie would want to sit in the back of a Saab when he's got a beautiful Mach .92 Citation X waiting for him there that he can fly himself...
N674UW
Arnie has an ARMY that he needs to shuttle in and out of town too! :D :D
N674UW
Arnie has an ARMY that he needs to shuttle in and out of town too! :D :D
ClueByFour
Nov 23, 04, 10:15 pm
Is this considered an EAS station?
-JC
No. If it was, US (well, Mesa) would have not been allowed to cease service--they would have been subsidized.
So far as I remember, the only EAS stations in Pennsylvania are (well, were, because I'm not sure how many of these US might have talked the feds into letting them bail on):
Altoona
Bradford
Johnstown
Oil City
I think Reading and/or Lancaster was rejected by the feds after US pulled up shop and pulled a hissy, but I've not been keeping on central PA developments. I don't know that Latrobe has ever been EAS--it's probably too close to PIT to qualify.
Latrobe did get some kind of grant from the feds in the event they don't hit the pax/revenue numbers that Northwest wants to see, but their airport authority is claiming that if they have anything like the same kind of paid travel that they had on the US flights (bearing in mind that a slew of people commuted to work at PIT on those flights and paid nothing) that they should not need the subsidy. I'd be tempted to agree--Kennametal (Fortune 1000) and Timken-Latrobe Steel (fortune 500) are both headquartered in Latrobe, you have Latrobe Brewing (Rolling Rock), and the giant American Video Glass/Sony JV just down the road (run and partially staffed by Japanese who like to head home often).
-JC
No. If it was, US (well, Mesa) would have not been allowed to cease service--they would have been subsidized.
So far as I remember, the only EAS stations in Pennsylvania are (well, were, because I'm not sure how many of these US might have talked the feds into letting them bail on):
Altoona
Bradford
Johnstown
Oil City
I think Reading and/or Lancaster was rejected by the feds after US pulled up shop and pulled a hissy, but I've not been keeping on central PA developments. I don't know that Latrobe has ever been EAS--it's probably too close to PIT to qualify.
Latrobe did get some kind of grant from the feds in the event they don't hit the pax/revenue numbers that Northwest wants to see, but their airport authority is claiming that if they have anything like the same kind of paid travel that they had on the US flights (bearing in mind that a slew of people commuted to work at PIT on those flights and paid nothing) that they should not need the subsidy. I'd be tempted to agree--Kennametal (Fortune 1000) and Timken-Latrobe Steel (fortune 500) are both headquartered in Latrobe, you have Latrobe Brewing (Rolling Rock), and the giant American Video Glass/Sony JV just down the road (run and partially staffed by Japanese who like to head home often).