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I wonder what this means for air freight traffic at Hopkins. I remember 10 or so years ago, Lufthansa looked at CLE for that purpose but was told there was no room

Not at all. Especially when there is public funds involved.

SW will have their way; we can count on that. Is there any mitigating factor here though? Its been a while since ive been back to Cleveland and im trying to remember the geography

Do you have an inkling as to who?

True...but, in a downtown setting, it shouldnt hinder public access to some degree either. This is not some stand alone building in a wheatfield. This is an important piece of of the city's fabric

I would think if 70 per cent was average and the rates were good a new hotel on the scale of the Hilton would be in the pipeline somewhere.

Good to hear. I havent been back to cleveland in a while

First off, i hope this email finds everyone safe and healthy. This is my first post since the Pandemic hit......as for retail and TC, with downtown population growing and the daytime workforce recovering, shouldnt there be a need for drugstore/pharmacy at least? Maybe a convenience store?

I fly alot of transatlantic and my pax numbers are pretty healthy...people take reasonable precautions. I remember SARS or whatever it was called. Flying and riding public transport in NYC and other places means ive already been exposed

Second Tower?? Did i miss something?

But see my reply above. Apparently the business community in CLE is fine with such service.

Then thats part of the problem. Then they must be satisfied with lower fares that include connections. If european service matters so little to those global companies, you will not see it happen

Theres enough room for another legacy but UA will defend its turf.

The critical mass is a substantial number of premium seats at good yields to one particular destination. As ive written before, CLE has alot of Star loyalty. UA and LH codeshare. They are both Star. Four or Five times a week to FRA or MUC should be doable. But business must commit with revenue gurantees while route develops

United, at the time, was in cost cutting mode. Shrink your way to profitability. I beleive Smisek wanted Cleveland gone by any method possible. Once the hub was dismantled and whatever write-downs and accounting associated with that are completed, i dont know how easy it is to build that back-up. Certainly, the retention of a mothballed terminal building is a method to ensure no competition arrives in Cleveland in a substantial way.

Quite the opposite. The weather can be similat but not really the same.

I cant imagine at this stage that if SW were moving out of Cleveland someone wouldnt have spilled the beans already.

No. The A321 order compensates Airbus for the delay and most likely eventual cancellation of the A350 order

United bought those A321's because they want to defer deliveries of the A350's until 2027 which means they'll probably never take delivery. The A321 order is to make that reasonable to Airbus

And very importantly winds aloft. 150kts on the nose westbound in winter will take an enourmous toll on range making fuel stops necessary. It was 6hrs westbound to SFO today

But thats just it. They wont be downtown. Itll be on the fringe in a sterile compound full of stores and restaurants. The visitors of which will have scant incentive to get out and walk downtown

Ok, but they will drive to a big box full of stores and never once set foot on downtown streets. This will be a sterile shopping area with no interaction . Its kind of like a sold out browns game with 80,000 people in a stadium downtown but nobody on the street

How true...that was my initial thought as well. Wouldn't it be marvelous if these stores could be integrated on say Euclid Ave or another street? As you say, they dont have to be connected or in the same building. Imagine the foot traffic!

Speaking of Southwest, they initially thought of using Burke as their Cleveland airport. In fact it was very close to being done

Whats coming to Fairfax??