buckeyefanflyer

Looks like United will continue to operate nonstops to FLL and RSW this winter despite all the low fare competition. 4 airlines will have FLL direct flights.

coplatua1k

http://www.cleveland.com/travel/inde...art_river_home


There is an effort to re-start Midwest Express in MKE, so WN added MKE flights to crush the upstart before its first flight.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/trave...ess/564940001/

guy44134

Interesting notion. I would hope they would concentrate on adding frequencies as opposed to just adding destinations. There are certainly additional gates on A available for Frontier to use. Let's hope they focus on reliability, as mentioned in the article. I finally tried F9 in June and, I must admit, was very pleasantly surprised. Both flights (CLE-PDX/PDX-CLE) were early, service was fine, and bags delivered promptly.

plinth857

In the most recent announcement from the airport director, there are supposed to be new service announcements from Frontier and Southwest. Interestingly, I got an e-mail from United advertising low fares for CLE-->MCI; makes me wonder if that is a pre-emptive due to WN commencing nonstop service. I'm also curious where F9 would start (or increase) service to, since they say they are planning on connecting passengers in CLE now. It may be that some of their non-daily service will become daily to accommodate these connecting passengers. I love wildly speculating!

guy44134

Traffic this summer continues to surge at CLE. Year-over-year, over 100,000 more passengers passed through CLE in July 2017 than in July 2016, the month of the Republican National Convention. I hope the airport passes the 9 million passenger mark again this year.

http://clevelandairport.com/clevelan...arch-july-2017

737MAX

Confused by the wording as MKE service on WN was previously announced but is "new" service starting in the fall. Tbh the next schedule extension coming up would only take the schedule until very early June and wouldn't be the typical "summer" schedule extension when usually new service for WN starts.

coplatua1k

Email from UA about my Wed flight...

Beginning August 21, 2017, through August 25, 2017, United® will be piloting new boarding processes at Cleveland International Airport. We are continuously working to enhance and improve the customer experience and we are excited to gather new insights next week.

Only a few gates will be a part of the boarding process test and if your gate is selected you may notice that the boarding process is slightly different than what you’re used to. There is no action to take on your part. We'll have United representatives onsite so please feel free to ask a question or share your thoughts with us.

Thank you for choosing to fly United. We look forward to seeing you on your upcoming flight.*

FreqFlyerCLE

Interesting...wonder what it will be like. Perhaps you can cross-post this onto UA board to get feedback. Thanks!

737MAX

Hearing through the grapvine a possible "big announcement" will be made within the next week or so. What it is entails i have no idea but it apparently isn't an F9 announcement.

FreqFlyerCLE

UA 2537 EWR-CLE is a B767-400. Looks like it arrives in CLE and then turns around and heads back to EWR. Anyone know why?

737MAX

NY Giants charter I believe

They bounced the landing pretty good, ended up going around to try again. Try number 2 was a success!

guy44134

Looks like F9 is using the former AA gates (A8, A10) as is G4 (at gate A12).

MIDWESTERNFLYER

Do you have any details on who you heard this from? WN does have a schedule extension on August 28th...

FreqFlyerCLE

ok. thanks

737MAX

One of our guys was checking out the new TSA room for the new inline bag system (pretty badass setup btw) when one of the airport higher ups was walking through and saw them and gave them a bit of a tour. They got to talking about the airport growing and how CLE was up 100,000 people this July over last year during the RNC. Said there was going to be a "big announcement " at the end of the week. Co worker mentioned Frontier and they said not Frontier but couldn't tell him what it was about. Take it for what it's worth.