Columbus CMH - no SkyClub
Mar 24, 2019, 6:57 pm
#16
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My biggest complaint about CMH and Delta is they make you walk past all these unused gates to get to the farthest gate (C56) to get your flight. I think they do it so you have to walk past all the stores and the airport gets more rent. They are the biggest airline in the C concourse and they should have gates closest to security.
Mar 24, 2019, 7:29 pm
#18
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edit: now it works.
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Mar 24, 2019, 7:52 pm
#19
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Not every Delta location has a Skyclub. CMH happens to be one that doesn't. Apparently DL has not determined that it is in their best interest to put one there, at least for now. Maybe some of the earlier posters know something about the market that Delta doesn't. Or maybe they just have superior business judgement..
Fear not. Columbus is in America. Anyone is allowed to acquire sufficient capital and open an airline club in an underserved market, thereby earning a ton of money. That's how the system works.
Fear not. Columbus is in America. Anyone is allowed to acquire sufficient capital and open an airline club in an underserved market, thereby earning a ton of money. That's how the system works.
Mar 24, 2019, 8:11 pm
#22
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Both DTW and MSP are metropolitan areas over twice as big as Columbus, and neither have an American Airlines lounge either. Point being, you can be in a much more populous area than CMH, and still not have a lounge.
Mar 24, 2019, 8:26 pm
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Mar 24, 2019, 8:35 pm
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Mar 24, 2019, 8:49 pm
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DL's decision where to place SCs is all about premium and elite passenger volumes and not total passenger counts. From DL's POV there must not be enough volume for the numbers to work. Not only do the number not work for DL, but they seem to not work for AA or UA either, and AA has more traffic in and out of CMH than DL does.
No SC aside, the DL terminal in CMH, and the CMH airport as a whole is so bland and uninspired. Limited food options post-security worsened by the fact that the three concourses are not connected post-security. A major fail for an airport this size. Not an airport on the top half of my favorite airports list.
No SC aside, the DL terminal in CMH, and the CMH airport as a whole is so bland and uninspired. Limited food options post-security worsened by the fact that the three concourses are not connected post-security. A major fail for an airport this size. Not an airport on the top half of my favorite airports list.
Mar 24, 2019, 11:13 pm
#29
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CMH doesn't serve a huge amount of passengers. Full stop. That's a massively more important metric for an airline and whether they make capital investments at an airport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._United_States
Delta has ~32 domestic SkyClubs and CMH is the 50th busiest airport in the USA.
CMH is a mid-size airport and DL isn't even the airline serving it with the most flights. There are other factors besides airport size, like premium traffic and international routes. CMH must not rank high enough in these to make it. Hardly a surprise.
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Mar 25, 2019, 5:37 am
#30
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You are the one splitting hairs by using an arbitrary metric to justify the existence of this thread. City population is 100% irrelevant. It's based on city zoning which is largely arbitrary. If you use metro area you would at least be halfway logical.
CMH doesn't serve a huge amount of passengers. Full stop. That's a massively more important metric for an airline and whether they make capital investments at an airport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._United_States
Delta has ~32 domestic SkyClubs and CMH is the 50th busiest airport in the USA.
CMH is a mid-size airport and DL isn't even the airline serving it with the most flights. There are other factors besides airport size, like premium traffic and international routes. CMH must not rank high enough in these to make it. Hardly a surprise.
CMH doesn't serve a huge amount of passengers. Full stop. That's a massively more important metric for an airline and whether they make capital investments at an airport.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._United_States
Delta has ~32 domestic SkyClubs and CMH is the 50th busiest airport in the USA.
CMH is a mid-size airport and DL isn't even the airline serving it with the most flights. There are other factors besides airport size, like premium traffic and international routes. CMH must not rank high enough in these to make it. Hardly a surprise.
