Feb 24, 2015, 12:18 pm
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CLE - Impact of other airlines (gates, routes, equipment, & etc) after UA De-Hubbing
May 19, 2023, 8:26 pm
#2896
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA, UA Silver, Hilton Gold
Posts: 772
I was at CLE for the Aer Lingus festivities. Check-in was at the common use counters to the right of Alaska Airlines ticket counters. TSA Pre-check was not available. Baggage claim is carousel 3 and business class passengers use the United Club. Gate was C8. Inbound flight was a few minutes late and was greeted with a water cannon salute. Ground handling was painfully slow on both flights, resulting in a one hour nine minute delay on the departing flight. The new contracted staff were very, very careful and that slowed things down greatly. There were speeches by all the dignitaries, Irish, step dancers, and a harpist, plus a delicious cake.
May 20, 2023, 8:31 am
#2897
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: JZRO
Posts: 9,169
I was at CLE for the Aer Lingus festivities. Check-in was at the common use counters to the right of Alaska Airlines ticket counters. TSA Pre-check was not available. Baggage claim is carousel 3 and business class passengers use the United Club. Gate was C8. Inbound flight was a few minutes late and was greeted with a water cannon salute. Ground handling was painfully slow on both flights, resulting in a one hour nine minute delay on the departing flight. The new contracted staff were very, very careful and that slowed things down greatly. There were speeches by all the dignitaries, Irish, step dancers, and a harpist, plus a delicious cake.
May 26, 2023, 8:44 pm
#2899
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: CLE
Programs: UA
Posts: 289
It’s been a week and still CLE airport website has NO reference to the CLE-DUB nonstop flight. The flight arrival/departures section doesn’t even list the flight, nor does the airport terminal map have the airline listed for the C Concourse. What to make of this?
May 26, 2023, 9:44 pm
#2900
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: TOA
Programs: HH Diamond, Marriott LTPP/Platinum Premier, Hyatt Lame-ist, UA !K
Posts: 20,061
David
May 27, 2023, 5:00 am
#2901
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Cleveland, OH, USA, UA Silver, Hilton Gold
Posts: 772
I actually emailed the airport about this, and they stated they would forward the concerns to IT. Aer Lingus does now appear as one of the airlines servicing CLE and DUB is listed as one of CLE‘s destinations served. There is also now a news release about the service, but the flight still does not appear on the flight tracker or flight status pages. Frustrating to say the least. Maybe things will change with the new airport Director who started this week.
May 27, 2023, 5:41 am
#2902
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: CLE
Programs: UA
Posts: 289
I actually emailed the airport about this, and they stated they would forward the concerns to IT. Aer Lingus does now appear as one of the airlines servicing CLE and DUB is listed as one of CLE‘s destinations served. There is also now a news release about the service, but the flight still does not appear on the flight tracker or flight status pages. Frustrating to say the least. Maybe things will change with the new airport Director who started this week.
Last edited by FreqFlyerCLE; May 27, 2023 at 7:48 am
May 27, 2023, 12:10 pm
#2904
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CLE, DCA, and 30k feet
Programs: Honors LT Diamond; United 1K; Hertz PC
Posts: 4,165
Well the website is pretty useless... Every time I visit it the check on the one thing I think the website might be more useful than other sources for (e.g real-time. parking status/availability) I leave sorely disappointed ... And when I google it the closest I find is a press release announcing that parkinginfo is on the airports website... From ~2017
May 29, 2023, 8:26 am
#2905
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: JZRO
Posts: 9,169
May 29, 2023, 6:45 pm
#2906
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Chicago, IL., U.S.A.
Programs: Global Entry · WN, UA, AS, DL, NH; IHG, Wyndham, Hilton, Best Value Inn, Marriott, Starwood, Ramada
Posts: 513
An Americanism forgotten
Could | Should it have chosen a different number for the flight?
"Being 86'd" has a certain negative connoitation to which Aer Lingus might not want to provide any substance.
"Being 86'd" has a certain negative connoitation to which Aer Lingus might not want to provide any substance.
May 29, 2023, 8:13 pm
#2907
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CLE, DCA, and 30k feet
Programs: Honors LT Diamond; United 1K; Hertz PC
Posts: 4,165
Jun 1, 2023, 2:18 pm
#2909
Join Date: Jun 2014
Programs: UA MM
Posts: 4,127
Jun 1, 2023, 5:17 pm
#2910
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: CLE, DCA, and 30k feet
Programs: Honors LT Diamond; United 1K; Hertz PC
Posts: 4,165
Or it could be any number of benign temporary reasons like jetway issues, etc. -- though if (since?) UA is providing handling why not use one of the closer UA gates -- it's not like utilization is anywhere near 100% most of the time most days.