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WOW I didn't know it had gotten that bad. I was there soon after it opened in 1990 and it was so impressive. That is very sad. I had hoped that the Casino would help, but people must just not venture out into the mall, or maybe the mall has sunk to the point that it cannot induce people to leave their slots etc.

Well there is much more to life than catching the rapid, lol. Stopping the 9 at the LI station would make connections to the Health Line with all its access to Midtown and CSU related destinations much harder, not to mention Cleveland Clinic. From the Heights/Hillcrest area, the rapid is relatively useless, unless your destination is downtown relatively near the Square or further west like OC/WSM or the airport. It's bad enough that RTA decimated through bus services to/from Heights/Hillcrest to downtown (even as westsiders have access to such services). Don't snip my bus line any further! Don't sacrifice rider convenience to prop up underutilized rail services.

Check out the 7/1 interview with Ricky Smith at www.airportrevenuenews.com/cles-smith-ponders-service-recovery-airport-outlook They are targeting LH to FRA for a TATL nonstop via business guarantee and a few other items.

^ I hope it foretells AA expansion, however I have also wondered if it represents replacing US jobs with Envoy jobs (lower wages), or an outsource for an existing carrier or a potential new entrant.

Freethink, This is so cool. I love it! It gave me a big smile. A humorous, imaginative nod to our rock and roll image. Don't know how "timeless" it would be though.

They are hiring multiple people for each position......time will tell. CLE can easily support two "focus city" carriers. I would expect to see UA stabilize around 50-55 flights/day. AA/US might be in for 40-50 Of course, all of this depends whether these new jobs represent: 1. Expansion for AA/US at CLE (most desirable) 2. Envoy contracting to perform ground functions for other airlines at CLE who are outsourcing (e.g. UA announced it is outsourcing at 12 stations earlier in 2014) 3. Existing US employees forced to reapply in competition with external candidates for their "old jobs" in the merged company. (Sucky, but all too common) I have no idea which if any of the three apply. Anyone?

It would be great if AA did a focus city at CLE, especially after all that time we had not long ago with no mainline service at all from them. It would be especially satisfying if they could make LHR work, and essentially show Smisek and company how connections are done. :wink:

Yes, I saw this mentioned at airliners.net , so I checked the AA/US and Envoy career listings. The latter did have a supervisor position and a csr position while USAIR had a csr position listed. Airliners.net also had a reference to "large ticket counter space". The combined ticket space of US and AA however rearranged, would be significant. What ARE they up to?

I had high hopes that this project would correct, or at least mask the esthetic blunders of the original Federal Building construction. Is it possible that it will make the building look even worse? Incredible!

The Frontier announcement, as opposed to the AC extra YYZ frequency announcement, is at least a little champagne worthy. Not Dom Perignon, but some bubbly is in order. What intrigues me is that the CLE-SEA and CLE-PHX flights are the only routes on the Frontier map going from the eastern US to the western US that "bypass" the Denver hub. Mean anything in terms of future expansion? We'll see. What does surprise me a little is the less than five days a week frequency on all these routes. Stay tuned.

MD88PILOT posted the cle-bdl flight on 3/1, two days before cleveland.com posted it.. Bet they are seeing it here first. :wink2:

Looks like the CR7s go back where they came from. I don't see much of a pattern forming yet. The CR7 range is around 1650 mi. and the CR9 range is around 1760 mi. SLC to CLE is 1568 mi. I am pretty sure DL operated a CR9 on that route in the past seasonally, and an MD90 the rest of the year.

Cleveland.com reported the new Delta Connection flights to IND and RDU today. I wonder if they got it from UO. :clap: :lol:

Cleveland.com today reported on Delta's new RDU and IND flights from CLE. I wonder if they got the news from UO. :clap: :lol:

All I was getting at was: The airport management said that CLE had a better shot at getting other airlines to replace some lost service from the de-hubbing, than other de-hubbed mid-size cities, because CLE has better OD numbers, but the numbers were expressed as percents. What I am asking is since PIT, CVG, and STL had much larger connecting hubs, they could all have identical OD volumes, and Cleveland's percent OD would be higher, because it had relatively few connecting passengers. BOTTOM LINE does Ricky Smith's statement have any merit?

One confusion I have, after assimilating the overdose of Executive Speak we were subjected to by both local officials and United executives, is Cleveland's origin - destination traffic relative to CVG, PIT, STL, etc. CLE is touted as having much higher OD percentages, however, the hubs at those cities were much, much larger than anything CLE ever had, such that an equal number of OD passengers at those other cities would yield a much lower OD percentage. As this is an alleged condition that would make CLE more attractive to other carriers than the other cities mentioned, I am wondering, what is the "reality" of the situation?

^ Yes, and there was an article in an Erie Pa publication stating that United is shifting Erie's connecting flights from Hopkins to O'hare. There will be two daily ERJ flights to ORD. I imagine many other former CLE feeder cities will see that shifts or capacity increases to other UA hubs. Another article said that dropping CLE as a hub will help UA with its financial and debt positions.

What does this flyover actually fly over? I don't see a bridge section.

Question, how, as some have posted above, does losing the UA connecting feed IMPROVE CLE's chances of securing international flights?

^Hopefully, those companies will not all pack up and leave, lol. I feel bad for those interests that stuck their necks out telling local companies to pay a premium to fly United (remember United for the United Hub?). Betrayed and abandoned, :), and WTF, they've now done it to us twice. It is as hard to imagine other airlines replacing most of these destinations, as it is to contemplate the tragic loss of nonstops to Flint. Maybe, a few new flights to their hubs, but nothing exciting, and international is now a dream.

Looks like the East Ohio Gas building separated at birth twin

I kinda miss the old Higbee's mezzanine. It would have made an interesting bar or cafe space overlooking the action on the ground floor.Is there ananything up there now? It appears to have been walled off, looking up from below.

Today, I drove by something similar under construction in downtown Akron. Depot Akron, to be ready for next fall. It is within walking distance of the university and has a similar long, low, full block shape.

Looks like a bland, institutional box. It's the long flat roof line, like Uptown phase 1, with less flair, and a squared off corner instead of a curve. I agree that it would be better to have less, but taller frontage on Euclid, and more building on E 18th, thereby creating more variety and saving the PHS building.