Feb 24, 2015, 12:18 pm
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CLE - Impact of other airlines (gates, routes, equipment, & etc) after UA De-Hubbing
Mar 23, 2017, 2:36 pm
#1337
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: CLE
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That little Chick-Fil-A pop-up was an odd thing; I wonder what motivated that?
Mar 23, 2017, 2:52 pm
#1338
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA, UA Silver, Hilton Gold
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Mar 30, 2017, 12:18 pm
#1339
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: CLE
Programs: UA, AA Plat Pro, DL, Marriott Platinum
Posts: 477
Here's a picture from Friday of the construction at A5/A7. Are they only doing three gates over there, or perhaps the construction is being done in stages? I won't be back until late April to see what the progress is...
Mar 30, 2017, 1:55 pm
#1340
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: CLE (mostly)
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Posts: 823
I'll be there Wednesday and will take some more photos.
Apr 5, 2017, 4:42 pm
#1342
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Construction has spread- C4, C5, C8, C9 and C11 all cordoned off, and in varying states of demo.
Looks like they're all getting new GA desks, possibly new seating areas (can't tell if they're replacing or just re-arranging today).
The old "blue pyramid" GA stations are being removed, in favor of these shiny things.
Chick-Fil-A popup seems to be gone already, and the Bar Symon construction zone also has a sign up- "Opening April 2017"
Looks like they're all getting new GA desks, possibly new seating areas (can't tell if they're replacing or just re-arranging today).
The old "blue pyramid" GA stations are being removed, in favor of these shiny things.
Chick-Fil-A popup seems to be gone already, and the Bar Symon construction zone also has a sign up- "Opening April 2017"
Apr 5, 2017, 7:37 pm
#1343
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA, UA Silver, Hilton Gold
Posts: 772
Wow! That's interesting. I wonder how many gates AA will eventually occupy. Remember, a jetway was recently re-attached to C2, although the seating area there is still very small. So it looks like if they also take C3, C4, C5, C7, C8, C9, and C11, that would make 8 gates. C10 and C14 were recently vacated by UA, so I wonder if AA will take those 2 gates as well. Or maybe CLE will retain those as common-use gates for UA, AA or B6 to use as needed?
Apr 6, 2017, 6:38 am
#1344
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: CLE
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Wow! That's interesting. I wonder how many gates AA will eventually occupy. Remember, a jetway was recently re-attached to C2, although the seating area there is still very small. So it looks like if they also take C3, C4, C5, C7, C8, C9, and C11, that would make 8 gates. C10 and C14 were recently vacated by UA, so I wonder if AA will take those 2 gates as well. Or maybe CLE will retain those as common-use gates for UA, AA or B6 to use as needed?
Apr 9, 2017, 6:04 pm
#1345
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA, UA Silver, Hilton Gold
Posts: 772
Interesting development I saw this afternoon. A number of old UA ticket counters (minus the kiosks) replaced the unused AA ticket counters right next to the current AA ticket counters on the north end of the ticketing level. One of them still had the UA globe, while another had a CLE sign covering the globe. The area at the south end of the ticketing level from which they were removed, is the temporary TSA screening area right next to AC. Wonder if this was just to get them out of the way to give TSA a bit more space. Wonder what happened to the (nicer) AA counters.
Apr 9, 2017, 7:42 pm
#1346
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: CLE
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American has been on the A concourse since the 1960's when it was the North Concourse. They operate mostly regional jets except DFW might have been a good fit for D. They need to build a connector to the main terminal to make it usable. I can't believe they will let it sit forever. A needs to be leveled and rebuilt.
Apr 12, 2017, 11:48 am
#1347
Join Date: Aug 2012
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Was at CLE early this morning, went through the precheck B screening area, and then walked the full airport before departing on AA. A couple of thoughts/notes:
- The B precheck screening area is a depressing area, and the line took about 10 minutes.
- It is sad to see the C terminal with basically all gates before the UC being torn up - although I like what JetBlue has done with its gates.
- There was a DL 757 parked at the jetway-less C3.
- Having rarely walked through the central food court area, I was generally impressed with the operation there.
- Otherwise, the gate areas definitely feels like it's from the 90s.
Apr 12, 2017, 2:20 pm
#1348
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Apr 20, 2017, 9:30 am
#1349
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA, UA Silver, Hilton Gold
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Update on AA's move to C. It looks like they should be there by May 15, and they're only taking 5 gates (C3, 5, 7, 9, 11). Ticket counter and baggage area will remain at the north end of the terminal for the time being.
Also, security checkpoints will be renamed South, Central and North by the end of April to avoid passenger confusion between concourse names/gates and the TSA checkpoints. Anyone else see the new checkpoint wait time monitors? They should help with directing passengers to the fastest available checkpoint.
Also, security checkpoints will be renamed South, Central and North by the end of April to avoid passenger confusion between concourse names/gates and the TSA checkpoints. Anyone else see the new checkpoint wait time monitors? They should help with directing passengers to the fastest available checkpoint.
Apr 20, 2017, 9:41 am
#1350
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The checkpoint wait time monitor seems kinda useless to me at this point. Checkpoint B is TSA only so general pax can't use it, and A is so narrow with only 1 scanner. Are they ever going to open up the A checkpoint space to what it used to be? That used to be my secret weapon before all the budget airlines moved into A.