coold this be true?
Apr 2, 2007, 11:37 pm
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Apr 3, 2007, 11:06 am
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However, I doubt we'll see anything at those three airports any time in the near future.
Apr 5, 2007, 2:13 pm
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There is enough competition from both BTV and PWM to the NYC area that forced en route stops in ALB or BDL would hurt B6 badly.
I was in PWM this week (did not fly B6 to get there) and saw a local newspaper article quoting B6 execs as saying the PWM service was doing very well and exceeding projections.
I'm sure B6's presence was a major reason why I flew SEA-JFK-PWM-CVG-SEA on Delta for just $243 all in. Usually I have to fly into MHT to get fares like that while PWM is twice the price.
I was in PWM this week (did not fly B6 to get there) and saw a local newspaper article quoting B6 execs as saying the PWM service was doing very well and exceeding projections.
I'm sure B6's presence was a major reason why I flew SEA-JFK-PWM-CVG-SEA on Delta for just $243 all in. Usually I have to fly into MHT to get fares like that while PWM is twice the price.
Apr 5, 2007, 2:36 pm
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There is enough competition from both BTV and PWM to the NYC area that forced en route stops in ALB or BDL would hurt B6 badly.
I was in PWM this week (did not fly B6 to get there) and saw a local newspaper article quoting B6 execs as saying the PWM service was doing very well and exceeding projections.
I'm sure B6's presence was a major reason why I flew SEA-JFK-PWM-CVG-SEA on Delta for just $243 all in. Usually I have to fly into MHT to get fares like that while PWM is twice the price.
I was in PWM this week (did not fly B6 to get there) and saw a local newspaper article quoting B6 execs as saying the PWM service was doing very well and exceeding projections.
I'm sure B6's presence was a major reason why I flew SEA-JFK-PWM-CVG-SEA on Delta for just $243 all in. Usually I have to fly into MHT to get fares like that while PWM is twice the price.
Apr 5, 2007, 3:06 pm
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PWM has been starved for service recently -- especially since MHT took off. PWM has NO mainline legacy flights anymore; the closest thing to full-size aircraft that call in are the B6 E190s (and I believe US Express puts one or two E190s in there too). Everything else is Dash-8s and Barbie jets to EWR, LGA, JFK, PHL, CVG, IAH and ORD. Nobody wants to do the 800+ mile run to/from CVG in a 2+1 EMB145, as I did last night... you're in that tin can for three hours, block to block, and it's awful. It's depressing when I think about all the 737s that used to call from ORD, PIT, etc. I think PWM is ripe for expansion.
Apr 5, 2007, 7:29 pm
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There is enough competition from both BTV and PWM to the NYC area that forced en route stops in ALB or BDL would hurt B6 badly.
I was in PWM this week (did not fly B6 to get there) and saw a local newspaper article quoting B6 execs as saying the PWM service was doing very well and exceeding projections.
I'm sure B6's presence was a major reason why I flew SEA-JFK-PWM-CVG-SEA on Delta for just $243 all in. Usually I have to fly into MHT to get fares like that while PWM is twice the price.
I was in PWM this week (did not fly B6 to get there) and saw a local newspaper article quoting B6 execs as saying the PWM service was doing very well and exceeding projections.
I'm sure B6's presence was a major reason why I flew SEA-JFK-PWM-CVG-SEA on Delta for just $243 all in. Usually I have to fly into MHT to get fares like that while PWM is twice the price.
My former coworker use to fly hartford portland i think it was on twa.
Apr 5, 2007, 10:58 pm
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Well over 20 years ago, Piedmont had a nifty little hub operation at SYR. They had a gang of little F28 jets going to BTV, ALB, ROC, BUF, BDL, etc. and also down to DCA, PHL I guess, and so forth. Connecting at SYR was extremely fast and efficient and I guess they wanted to nail down the northeast US shorthaul business. But it didn't work out because driving in that part of the world is almost as fast and (at the time) a whole lot cheaper.
Apr 18, 2007, 7:44 am
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That makes a lot more sense than doing JFK-BDL-PWM. Out of JFK, you're changing a flight that's normally a little more than an hour or so into a 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 trip (pending how long you sit at BLD). You'll lose JFK's PWM crowd if you do it through BDL, especially when's there is other carriers that do NYC-PWM.