DL MIA Expansion: New MCO, TPA, SLC, RDU
Jan 17, 2020, 8:26 am
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DL MIA Expansion: New MCO, TPA, SLC, RDU
Delta Air Lines will add 13 new daily nonstop flights to Miami International Airport (MIA) from hubs and top corporate travel destinations around the U.S., including new service from Orlando, Raleigh-Durham, Salt Lake City and Tampa.
Jan 17, 2020, 8:51 am
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Nice adds will be curious how they perform.
At least 1x RDU - MIA and MIA - RDU frequency seem designed for continuing on to South America via LATAM while the other RDU - MIA and v.v. frequency looks more aimed at O&D. I'll be interested to see how these do, especially the RDU - MIA.
RDU in particular is an interesting one because the difference between RDU - MIA - South America vs. RDU - ATL - South America is marginal but the ATL option still provides DL metal the whole way which I bet is going to be the preferred option for most medallions (including me).
At least 1x RDU - MIA and MIA - RDU frequency seem designed for continuing on to South America via LATAM while the other RDU - MIA and v.v. frequency looks more aimed at O&D. I'll be interested to see how these do, especially the RDU - MIA.
RDU in particular is an interesting one because the difference between RDU - MIA - South America vs. RDU - ATL - South America is marginal but the ATL option still provides DL metal the whole way which I bet is going to be the preferred option for most medallions (including me).
Jan 17, 2020, 11:12 am
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MCO-MIA again, what is this the third time it’s been tried over the past 10 years? Hopefully it will work out much better with 2x daily on RJs rather than 1x mainline and the LATAM feed in MIA will help as well. Sadly I won’t probably use this flight very much now that I live south of Orlando in St. Cloud, it’s just as fast to drive to MIA from my house. I also wonder how this will go over once Virgin Trains starts operating in 2022 from Miami to Orlando?
Jan 17, 2020, 11:43 am
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MCO-MIA again, what is this the third time it’s been tried over the past 10 years? Hopefully it will work out much better with 2x daily on RJs rather than 1x mainline and the LATAM feed in MIA will help as well. Sadly I won’t probably use this flight very much now that I live south of Orlando in St. Cloud, it’s just as fast to drive to MIA from my house. I also wonder how this will go over once Virgin Trains starts operating in 2022 from Miami to Orlando?
Jan 17, 2020, 11:52 am
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Was it TPA or MCO where DL used to do quite a bit of the more significant scheduled maintenance on wide body planes? I recall a lot of large aircraft between ATL and both TPA and MCO between say 2000 and 2010.
Jan 17, 2020, 12:41 pm
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AA will have a hard time maintaining their MIA schedule with the loss of LATAM, so they can not counter there. I guess they could discount at ATL, but that would be token given their size there. As by far the worst off financially of the big 3 they can not do much.
Jan 17, 2020, 12:49 pm
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I do. I started doing my DL flying right about the time this ended which I believe was 2007-08. I remember flying on a 777 from MCO-ATL as recently as 2014.
Jan 17, 2020, 12:56 pm
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Pretty robust schedule to MCO with 5 x daily 175s. Certainly more than they've ever had in the past to my knowledge
Wouldn't be surprised to see that equipment size increase as AA begins to fail more and more in Miami.
Wouldn't be surprised to see that equipment size increase as AA begins to fail more and more in Miami.
Jan 17, 2020, 1:18 pm
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Jan 17, 2020, 1:20 pm
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I wonder what the plan is going to be for MCO growth and DL. When Terminal C opens up at the beginning of next year, I assume that BA, LH, EK and possibly AC and DY will move from Airside 4 to Terminal C. If that happens, there would potentially be more room for more LATAM and DL feeder flights.
Jan 17, 2020, 2:02 pm
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I don't know about the maintenance but MCO had a lot of widebodies. Two reasons were cited here, the capacity was needed and pilots in training needed volume on takeoffs and landing on newer widebody aircraft. It had a lot of 764s when they were new. But they flew about every widebody they had down there then. I think some of it was squeezing just a little more usage out of them between international flights. If it was going to sit on the ground in ATL for four hours, it might as well run down to Orlando and back.
Jan 17, 2020, 2:05 pm
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I don't know about the maintenance but MCO had a lot of widebodies. Two reasons were cited here, the capacity was needed and pilots in training needed volume on takeoffs and landing on newer widebody aircraft. It had a lot of 764s when they were new. But they flew about every widebody they had down there then. I think some of it was squeezing just a little more usage out of them between international flights. If it was going to sit on the ground in ATL for four hours, it might as well run down to Orlando and back.