Guide to the Milwaukee Airport
#811
Join Date: Oct 2004
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I wonder if any of the escalators or moving walkways shut off during off-hours?
Well we know at least some passengers use them, and I assume more than a few airline employees as well. The moving walkway was intended to get people to/from the hammerhead more quickly without adding to the congestion in the stem -- they were there for quite a few years before D27/28/29 were built and aren't there for those gates. What's different is that the upper level of the stem doesn't have activity of its own, so congestion on the stem isn't a big issue.
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#812
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Delta has monkeyed with the schedule a bit -- there are a handful of days mid-month with only 4x MKE-LGA, but it's not consistent. On at least one of those days they have an A319, a 717 and two large RJ's. But other than those handful of oddball dates, the rest of the month is 5x with one 717.
#814
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Nice to hear. We get more than our share of 50-seat RJ's with ZW and OO bases in MKE, so it's good to see larger RJ's getting rotated in during the day.
#815
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I wouldn't mind avoiding delta, they've been no fun lately.
#816
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MKE-CLT commonly gets some larger RJ's mixed in...at the moment I think only the two MKE originators are CR2 and the other three nonstops are CR9. On the AA* side MKE-DFW gets a CR9 mixed in with the mainline, but MKE-ORD is all CR2.
#818
Join Date: Oct 2004
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That being said, I've kept a close eye on things myself, both seeing if they fly and also checking Expedia to see how many seats appear to be open. Here's a summary of what I've been seeing:
1. I've not seen any days where they appear to have not flow a segment due to no bookings. There was one day in April where they didn't fly but that was a stormy day. Then in May there were a couple flights canceled when one of the two planes was out of service, mostly IND-PIT-IND. But I haven't seen anything apparently cancel due to no passengers.
2. With the way the network has developed, I don't think there are/will be many no-fly days due to no passengers. For example one aircraft does IND-MKE-PIT-MKE-IND. If one or two of those legs are booked to zero they still have to fly them to get the aircraft where it needs to be.
3. From what I find when I look at Expedia searches (which I do daily) most flights have 0, 1 or 2 open seats on the day before they operate. It seems they are selling five seats per flight based on what I've seen and what I've heard from a couple of flights.
So...I think they are doing okay so far. I have no way to know about revenues, profits, etc. of course. But their fares continue to be generally competitive with other airlines for business travel -- I haven't seen them push fares a lot higher at this point, so if they are indeed filling planes reasonably well they are either okay with the revenue or are holding fares to "introductory" levels for now.
#819
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I think they specifically mean MKE-PHL being all CR2 normally.
MKE-CLT commonly gets some larger RJ's mixed in...at the moment I think only the two MKE originators are CR2 and the other three nonstops are CR9. On the AA* side MKE-DFW gets a CR9 mixed in with the mainline, but MKE-ORD is all CR2.
MKE-CLT commonly gets some larger RJ's mixed in...at the moment I think only the two MKE originators are CR2 and the other three nonstops are CR9. On the AA* side MKE-DFW gets a CR9 mixed in with the mainline, but MKE-ORD is all CR2.
#820
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MKE, formerly the closest FT-er to LAX
Programs: Marriott Gold. Usually WN or DL if in the air.
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That has actually been pushed up to 9/1 now. Starting 9/1 each weekday the 9:00am MKE-LGA flight has the 717, with the other four flights being large RJ.
Delta has monkeyed with the schedule a bit -- there are a handful of days mid-month with only 4x MKE-LGA, but it's not consistent. On at least one of those days they have an A319, a 717 and two large RJ's. But other than those handful of oddball dates, the rest of the month is 5x with one 717.
Delta has monkeyed with the schedule a bit -- there are a handful of days mid-month with only 4x MKE-LGA, but it's not consistent. On at least one of those days they have an A319, a 717 and two large RJ's. But other than those handful of oddball dates, the rest of the month is 5x with one 717.
#821
Join Date: Oct 2010
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#822
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And continued painted them the next day.
Today they had the County crew removing them and painting a new J line. That's going to be an expensive mistake.
Aircraft arrived about 30 mins after paint crew left.
Last edited by traveller001; Jul 1, 2015 at 11:59 pm
#823
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: MKE, formerly the closest FT-er to LAX
Programs: Marriott Gold. Usually WN or DL if in the air.
Posts: 704
Per MKE's facebook page, the baggage claim area is now fully open, at least on the inside. The post says that the baggage roadway is open only to shuttles and buses (I presume still on the outer roadway?) and the drive will open to all traffic "at the end of July."
#824
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Dunno why.. Buses were seen today using the inner roadway. Everything seems complete other than construction equipment blocking one lane on the outer side.
Last edited by traveller001; Jul 1, 2015 at 10:07 pm
#825
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Cookie? Wasn't anything compared to the upgrade.
Last edited by traveller001; Jul 2, 2015 at 12:15 am