SEA-CMH (Columbus) Starting March 7, 2019
Aug 29, 2018, 7:42 pm
#17
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I figured either DL or AS would start this at some point. I also thought F9 or NK would've been longshots. Glad to see the new carrier AND route!
Aug 31, 2018, 6:17 pm
#18
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The Seattle-based tech news site GeekWire points to Columbus' importance in tech with connections to Seattle as a "why" for the new route:
"Microsoft has a corporate sales office and retail operation in Columbus. Boeing has a Columbus outpost and Amazon has more than 4,000 employees in the city at its cloud data centers and warehouses."
"Microsoft has a corporate sales office and retail operation in Columbus. Boeing has a Columbus outpost and Amazon has more than 4,000 employees in the city at its cloud data centers and warehouses."
Aug 31, 2018, 8:18 pm
#19
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I would love AS to begin service to CLE (my home town and family are nearby) and CVG (where I went to college and lived for 10 years) but I'll be glad to have CMH as an alternate roughly midpoint between the two. Still, I think PIT is closer to CLE than CMH...I'll check that out.
Aug 31, 2018, 8:48 pm
#20
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Location: East Coast, USA
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So AS has decided to try both PIT and CMH. It’s an interesting discussion on CLE and CVG above as well. I know this is not apples to apples comparison, but out of LAX, they have the following airlines serving each destinations
CMH: AA, DL
CVG: DL, G4, F9
CLE: UA, NK
PIT: NK, WN on the way out
These give you some ideas about the dynamics out of west coast to OH/Western PA. CVG and CLE have some semblance of legacy service I guess because they used to be hubs. CMH is interesting with still having legacy services and no ULCC, yet. I really feel for PIT...
CMH: AA, DL
CVG: DL, G4, F9
CLE: UA, NK
PIT: NK, WN on the way out
These give you some ideas about the dynamics out of west coast to OH/Western PA. CVG and CLE have some semblance of legacy service I guess because they used to be hubs. CMH is interesting with still having legacy services and no ULCC, yet. I really feel for PIT...
Sep 1, 2018, 11:32 am
#21
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: SEA
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Posts: 153
Didn’t realize that AA dropped the LAX-PIT flight. Bummer.
But on the face of it, SEA-CMH and SEA-PIT make sense, as they’re both second or third tier (depending on how you want to classify those tiers) tech cities which would get a lot of SEA traffic. The incentives these airports are offering to lure new service aren’t bad either.
But on the face of it, SEA-CMH and SEA-PIT make sense, as they’re both second or third tier (depending on how you want to classify those tiers) tech cities which would get a lot of SEA traffic. The incentives these airports are offering to lure new service aren’t bad either.
Sep 2, 2018, 3:13 pm
#22
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 87
If CMH is chosen for HQ2, we can expect a lot more flights there! 🤗
As an AMZN employee from CVG, I'm really pulling for the ORD-IND-CMH-PIT band of Midwest candidates, though the internal poll I'm running points to ATL and WAS. (NB: All idle speculation; I have no insight into that process.)
As an AMZN employee from CVG, I'm really pulling for the ORD-IND-CMH-PIT band of Midwest candidates, though the internal poll I'm running points to ATL and WAS. (NB: All idle speculation; I have no insight into that process.)
Sep 2, 2018, 9:16 pm
#23
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Sep 2, 2018, 10:16 pm
#24
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: CMH
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The Seattle-based tech news site GeekWire points to Columbus' importance in tech with connections to Seattle as a "why" for the new route:
"Microsoft has a corporate sales office and retail operation in Columbus. Boeing has a Columbus outpost and Amazon has more than 4,000 employees in the city at its cloud data centers and warehouses."
"Microsoft has a corporate sales office and retail operation in Columbus. Boeing has a Columbus outpost and Amazon has more than 4,000 employees in the city at its cloud data centers and warehouses."
So AS has decided to try both PIT and CMH. It’s an interesting discussion on CLE and CVG above as well. I know this is not apples to apples comparison, but out of LAX, they have the following airlines serving each destinations
CMH: AA, DL
CVG: DL, G4, F9
CLE: UA, NK
PIT: NK, WN on the way out
These give you some ideas about the dynamics out of west coast to OH/Western PA. CVG and CLE have some semblance of legacy service I guess because they used to be hubs. CMH is interesting with still having legacy services and no ULCC, yet. I really feel for PIT...
CMH: AA, DL
CVG: DL, G4, F9
CLE: UA, NK
PIT: NK, WN on the way out
These give you some ideas about the dynamics out of west coast to OH/Western PA. CVG and CLE have some semblance of legacy service I guess because they used to be hubs. CMH is interesting with still having legacy services and no ULCC, yet. I really feel for PIT...
Sep 4, 2018, 5:39 pm
#26
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Mar 4, 2019, 2:36 pm
#28
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Mar 5, 2019, 11:26 am
#30
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Wow....two days from the inaugural flight and seats are still bookable....although flying to the middle of Ohio during an arctic freeze doesn't sound too exciting unless we're talking about an immediate return to SEA...lol.
