traveller001

I'd guess at least TSA is pretty serious about it. They could cut at least a third of the machines and workforce. And probably be able to double the throughput at heavy times.

Scrap every leased space East of the elevators as far as shops and it's done. The Museum is an oddity and pays no rent, Starbucks well I prefer Alterra (and I bet their sales are not all that great vs rent) The MSNBC store essentially is a duplicate of the the larger one across the way.

Toss them out and see if things suddenly get competitive again? Northpoint might even staff 24-7...

jrsweet

http://www.aviationpros.com/news/114...ckets-required

traveller001

They've been on the market for over two years... I think it's the old Midwest Hangar in the cargo ramp area and Skyway Hangar off Layton. Frontier to my knowledge still has some call center people working in the Midwest building since they sold the YX HDQ/campus.

A 40 ft high door will accept a MD-80/717.. but not a 737.

Both would be more viable for business jet/charter/general aviation operation and support if landing fees weren't so high at MKE compared to Crites or Timmerman.

FlyYXMKE

[QUOTE=WIRunner;22728371]Where'd ya hear this?

Not that it doesn't make sense, E has been desolate since DL moved. Also being able to use the SkyClub when flying UA will be nice.

Any thoughts which gates they'll get? I have this strange feeling they'll be in the ground level gates. Which would be strange.[/QU

Got it from airport ops. I think UA is going to the hammerhead next to USThe lease for F9 is ending and they dont use the gates at E anyway so not that big of a deal

FlyYXMKE

The 737 can fit with the gear dropped it is not something you want to to do all the time but it will get in the hangar I have a pic of a WN 737 in the west hangar I will have to try to find it. It was a pita to get in.

knope2001

UA + AC+ US + AA are too much for the south hammerhead on D. Do you know what US / AA are planning to do? If they vacate D in favor C the hammerhead would be fine for UA + AC. But if they consolidate on D there isn't room for UA + AC there. The only place for United really would be the 30's.

FlyYXMKE

next time I talk to ops I will ask just know they said they were moving to D I know the other side of the D concourse the jetway are hard stands and don't move down so small a/c can not use them. I know a lot of people are starting to look for new jobs talks of cutbacks but don't know when. with frontier moving the rest of the stuff from the hanger We Wil be gone sometime after June. I think the article in t paper was just propaganda from the realtor..And supposedly the Skyway hanger is rented now

FlyYXMKE

On the south hammerhead on d back in the day wn was on the top and zk had the bottom it was a fun having to wait on the turboprops driving on the ramp

traveller001

How may I ask did they do that?

All I can think of is maybe extending the nose strut fully with more oil and maybe bleeding off N2 on the main struts to lower the tail a couple feet... That all has to be reversed after getting it back out of the hangar. That would qualify as a pita.

traveller001

US/AA are going to combine.. I'd guess until schedules are reduced maybe using D53 in the interim. I hear Eagle flying is going to be cut in the long run. PHL, CLT, PHX, and DFW all mainline likely no RJs.

UA/AC? there are already bases for for several jetways on the South side of D. Moving a few jetways and mothballing E for costs recovered in the long run seems financially responsible for the airport. If UA accepts ground boarding in the interim the lower level of D isn't bad at all.

FlyYXMKE

That sounds right it was a few years ago. We could not work on the a/c not certified on a 737 and not a employee of WN.Only wing walked it in the hangar.

mke9499

From BizTimes:

http://www.biztimes.com/article/2014...NEWS/140429775

http://www.mitchellairport.com/parking/

jrsweet

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee...-in-march.html

mke9499

If it's Spring, it must be road reconstruction time.

This year, it's Howell Ave, starting at Grange and working southward. Reconstruction begins 05/19/2014 and is scheduled to complete in about six months.

http://www.biztimes.com/section/dail...+Monday#Howell

knope2001

Milwaukee traffic appears to have finally started to rebound after descending from the uber-inflated levels of the YX/FL/F9/WN flight a few years back. April 2014 total traffic was up 6.4% on top of March's 5.1%. The position of Easter in a given year can push spring break travel more into April or into March, so sometimes year-over-year for either month can be a little misleading. But combined March+April was up 5.7% over last year. Even better, when you just look at local traffic (not connections) that was up 6.8% over last year.

Here's the March+April breakdown for 2014 over 2013 at MKE

Southwest (likely much strong load factors)
592,592 up 7.5% (+41,545 passengers)

Delta (loss of MEM flight)
301,170 down 1.3% (-3,826 passengers)

United (more ORD flights)
115,053 up 9.8% (+10,272 passengers)

USAirways (3rd PHX flight in March)
85,114 up 12.0% (+9,116 passengers)

American (flat)
57,855 up 0.2% (+94 passengers)

Frontier (more A320's and 2nd weekly CUN flight)
46,612 up 16.7% (+6,969 passengers)

Air Canada (operated 2x/day more days per week than last year)
4,380 up 33.8% (+1,106 passengers)

There's plenty more growth needed before total passengers being to approach previous records, but a lot of the lost volume was from connecting traffic which no longer flows through MKE. Looking at MKE local traffic only (no connections) for March+April, it's up 32% from 2002.

Local MKE traffic (no connections) for March+April where 2002 = 100
2002=100
2003=106
2004=126
2005=128
2006=130
2007=129
2008=133
2009=117
2010=155
2011=157
2012=139
2013=124
2014=132

2002 is as far back as the airport online monthly stats go, and that was a relatively depressed starting point in the post-9/11 slump. But excluding the artificially-inflated dogfight years 2010-2012 local traffic is back to near peak.

It's good to see numbers back on the rise again, hopefully leading to service stability and growth again. A lot of peer airports have had flat traffic levels in recent years so MKE posting increases is encouraging.