December 12, 2024Dec 12 1 hour ago, savadams13 said: WCPO ran a piece on the Escape Lounge relocating to the old DL Business Elite lounge that used to sit above 5/3 bank in Concourse B. I wonder if the lounge in A then is going to relocate to the old crown room on the second floor... Yes, the new lounge in A is going to be in the old Crown Room. It is mentioned in the Business Courier article.
December 13, 2024Dec 13 L2 Aviation will add hundreds of jobs at CVG airport By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Dec 12, 2024 Updated Dec 12, 2024 2:10pm EST A growing Texas-based avionics company will add 250 jobs at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in an existing facility it will renovate for its needs. The new jobs will significantly increase the size of Dripping Springs, Texas-based L2 Aviation, which has about 100 employees in central Texas. L2 Aviation provides design, consulting, engineering, manufacturing and remote modification services on planes across the globe. It’s also a key part of CVG’s Hangar Row strategy of building a group of businesses centered around repairing, modifying and maintaining aircraft. MORE
December 17, 2024Dec 17 More details on the now 575 Million Dollar renovation plans. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/12/15/elevate-cvg-cincinnati-airport-to-undergo-major-multi-year-renovation/76972784007/
December 18, 2024Dec 18 Frontier Airlines axes multiple nonstop flights from CVG airport By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Dec 17, 2024 Updated Dec 17, 2024 2:53pm EST Frontier Airlines has cut seven nonstop destinations at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport for the time being, including five that it launched with much fanfare as a part of a major expansion at CVG. By January 2025, Frontier will no longer fly from CVG to Boston; Charlotte, N.C.; Philadelphia; Minneapolis; Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport; Raleigh-Durham; and New York’s LaGuardia International Airport, large markets in which it hoped to make inroads. CVG said it believes Frontier's moves are about passenger demand. The airline will serve 14 destinations, with increasing capacity to Orlando, Tampa, Fort Myers, Phoenix, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, Palm Beach and Cancun. MORE
December 23, 2024Dec 23 Frontier says CVG airport routes to Boston, Houston will be back By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Dec 23, 2024 Frontier Airlines plans to bring back two of the seven nonstop destinations it has cut from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport for the first four months of 2025, saying flights to those two cities represent a seasonal suspension. Frontier Airlines will reestablish service from CVG to Boston and Houston sometime next year. The future of five other routes to New York-LaGuardia, Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte, N.C., are more up in the air, according to a Frontier spokeswoman. MORE
December 24, 2024Dec 24 CVG airport's newest Florida nonstop takes flight Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport's newest direct flight to Florida has launched just in time for the holiday season. Frontier’s inaugural flight from CVG to Palm Beach International Airport (PBI) took off Saturday, Dec. 21. The new direct route will operate once weekly on Saturdays. “We are thrilled to welcome winter in Cincinnati with the launch of our new seasonal service to Palm Beach,” Josh Flyr, vice president of network and operations design for Frontier Airlines, said in a news release. “This new route caps a year of exciting growth and investment for Frontier at CVG, and we are pleased to thank area consumers for their support.” More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/12/23/cvg-airport-new-flight-frontier-palm-beach-florida.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 23Jan 23 CVG airport set to add new sandwich restaurant to food court A new restaurant is coming to Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport’s food court in 2025. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/01/22/cvg-airport-add-jimmy-johns-food-court-concourse-b.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 24Jan 24 Alaska Airlines plans expansion of West Coast flight from CVG airport By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Jan 24, 2025 Alaska Airlines is expanding its service to Seattle from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Alaska, which recently merged with Hawaiian Airlines, will fly twice a day to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport starting this summer. The additional flight starts June 12 and continues through Aug. 19. “We’re really proud to see Alaska expand their service,” said Bobby Spann, CVG’s vice president for air service development. MORE
January 27Jan 27 CVG airport sets new all-time passenger record By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Jan 27, 2025 More passengers came through the front doors of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 2024 than at any other time in its history. About 9.2 million people came through the airport last year, a 5.7% increase from the 8.7 million logged in 2023. It’s also more than CVG’s all-time high of 9.1 million in 2019, the year before the pandemic started. “2024 was another positive year for air service at CVG,” said Kevin Canafax, a CVG board member and vice president for public affairs at Fidelity Investments. MORE
January 27Jan 27 Quote The number of people coming through CVG’s front door also exceeds the volume seen during the days in which CVG had a hub from Delta Air Lines, said Bobby Spann, CVG’s vice president for air service development. I never flew through CVG during its Delta hub era, but it's weird to think that the airport handles more passengers today. Especially considering that there would have been more Delta passengers connecting through CVG back then, and we have now added more arriving/departing passengers than connecting passengers we lost.
January 27Jan 27 I think they are referring to O&D traffic when they say it is the most that have used the airport. Total traffic in the hub days exceeded 22M per year.
January 28Jan 28 Delta and Comair exceeded over 550 daily flights at their peak.I believe Delta has around 75 daily flights today.Also had 3 terminals. Edited January 28Jan 28 by ucnum1
January 28Jan 28 On the topic of CVG annual traffic, they finally released the monthly breakdowns from October-December. I'll show Oct-Dec as 2024 only with variance to LY in addition to the full 2024 vs. 2023 passenger totals. October 2024: 800,531 Variance: -2.38% November 2024: 693,509 Variance: -5.37% December 2024: 730,158 Variance: +2.17% YTD 2023: 8,738,239 2024: 9,212,348 Variance: +5.43% YTD Cargo (Tons) 2023: 2,095,117 2024: 1,869,694 Variance: -10.76% A great year for CVG as a whole. I don't have insider information, but I'd guess some economic softening (inflation, jobs, interest rates etc.) in Q4 drove these passenger numbers down. I'm curious to see overall travel trends in Q4, but it will take some time for all that data to surface. I'd expect Q1 to also be pretty slow. We've had some brutal weather in January, and the economy is arguably treading water. Not to get political, but if corporate tax rates and interest rates drop this year, expect these macroeconomic trends to pick up as companies hire more aggressively. That lift would undoubtedly affect travel. Edited for clarity Edited January 28Jan 28 by LtCheese
January 28Jan 28 21 minutes ago, LtCheese said: I don't have insider information, but I'd guess some economic softening (inflation, jobs, interest rates etc.) in Q4 drove these passenger numbers down. I'm curious to see overall travel trends in Q4, but it will take some time for all that data to surface. I noticed something similar in the CMH numbers that were released here: https://flycolumbus.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Dec-2024-Monthly-Stats-Report.pdf Most months this past year, we (CMH) were up around 8% to LY, but randomly in October and November numbers fell in line with last year. October was only up 2.1% and November was down .8%. Numbers rebounded in December though, finishing up 8.2% to LY. The dips weren't as low as CVG, but it's interesting that both suddenly trended downward at the same time. Regardless, it's great to see steady passenger growth in the 3Cs!
February 3Feb 3 Frontier Airlines adds international service at CVG airport Frontier Airlines is adding a new Caribbean destination to its flight lineup from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The ultra-low-cost carrier will start weekly flights to the Dominican Republic starting Saturday, May 17. “Punta Cana is a beautiful and highly popular Caribbean vacation destination, and nonstop service from Cincinnati will make it easy, convenient and affordable for area residents to enjoy everything this tropical paradise has to offer,” Josh Flyr, Frontier’s vice president of network and operations design, said. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/02/03/frontier-air-adds-punta-cana-dominican-cvg-airport.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 10Feb 10 CVG airport plans $30 million project, second phase of its car rental facilities overhaul By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Feb 10, 2025 Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has begun planning the second, $30 million phase of the overhaul of its rental car facilities. The second phase will construct a new rental car maintenance facility to replace one built in the 1970s. It has signed Houston-based Pierce Goodwin Alexander & Linville to start designing the facility. CVG awarded the $720,000 contract in January. “We’d like to get the design done … so we can take it out to bid,” CVG CEO Candace McGraw said. MORE
February 13Feb 13 Delta Air Lines inks hangar lease extension at CVG airport, will invest millions By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Feb 13, 2025 Delta Air Lines has extended its lease for the aircraft maintenance hangar it operates at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport for another 10 years. Under the new lease terms, Delta will operate the hangar at 3318 Lincoln Road in Hebron through at least 2036, with two, five-year extension options upon the agreement of both the airport and the airline. MORE
February 14Feb 14 January numbers for CVG: January 2024: 599,049 2025: 586,227 Variance: -2.14% January Cargo (Tons) 2024: 151,258 2025: 132,350 Variance: -12.5% As expected, this was a slow start to 2025 for the airport. The weather in January was awful, not just in Cincinnati, but across the country. With that being said, a ~2% dip in passenger volume vs. LY isn't bad at all. This was about as bad of a month as we could reasonably expect, and things are still close to even compared to 2024. Cargo volume continues to struggle, but that is a trend we are seeing across the aviation industry.
March 4Mar 4 Bengals-themed bar to open at CVG airport By Christian LeDuc – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier Mar 4, 2025 Updated Mar 4, 2025 7:04am EST Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport is getting a new Bengals-themed sports bar. Bengals Bar & Kitchen is opening soon in the former Outback Steakhouse restaurant space in Concourse B. The more than 6,000-square-foot concept is being designed to showcase innovative interactivity inspired by the culture surrounding football in the United States, according to Mindy Kershner, CVG’s director of communications. It's meant to give travelers who may not be familiar with American football culture a glimpse of the excitement as the enter or leave the Tri-State region. MORE
March 4Mar 4 The Outback Steakhouse that it replaced has been a staple at CVG. I think it may have been original to the opening of Concourse B and the longest lasting restaurant there. The new space was still under complete plastic wrap when I came through last week.
March 8Mar 8 Frontier Airlines starts new nonstop flight from CVG airport March 7 Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport's newest direct flight has launched just in time for the busy spring break and summer travel season. Frontier Airlines started its new nonstop service from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to Austin, Texas, Friday, March 7. The new flight to the central Texas city, first announced in November 2024, is the latest expansion by the ultra-low-cost carrier at CVG, where it has opened a new crew base. With the twice-weekly flight, Frontier will serve 18 destinations from CVG. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/03/07/frontier-starts-nonstop-cvg-airport-flight-austin.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 18Mar 18 CVG airport awards initial contract for project that could cost upwards of $10 million By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Mar 18, 2025 Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has hired a Kentucky-based engineering company to start work on rehabilitating a major piece of its infrastructure. Winchester, Ky.-based Palmer Engineering will receive an $821,387 contract to start designing and engineering an overhaul of CVG’s south airfield tunnel, a project that eventually could cost $10 million or more, according to new airport CEO Larry Krauter. The airport did an assessment of the tunnel in 2023 that revealed critical repairs are needed to the life/safety, structural/drainage, lighting and electrical systems. MORE
March 20Mar 20 National Weather Service reports that a tornado touched down on the grounds of CVG: https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/tornado-touched-down-at-cvg-during-wednesday-evening-storms-nws-says
March 21Mar 21 After 700,000 surveys, here’s how passengers rank CVG airport's customer service Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky has been ranked as the No. 1 medium-sized North American airport for customer service by the Airports Council International. CVG was at the top of the list for airports between 5 million and 15 million passengers in North America. Indianapolis and New Orleans finished second. More than 400 airports in 110 countries participate in the organization’s airport service quality program. The program surveys customers at those airports to generate the rankings. The council bills them as “the benchmark for excellence.” More than 700,000 surveys were filled out. Airports Council International is the trade association of the world’s airports. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/03/20/cvg-rank-airports-council-international.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 26Mar 26 CVG airport sees passenger, seat slowdown Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has seen a decline in passengers and fewer seats for some months in 2025, something airline executives warned markets about earlier this month, but CVG officials said other factors also are at play. During the first eight months of 2025, the number of available seats at the airport were or are projected to be less than 2024 in January, February, April, May and June. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/03/26/cvg-airport-decline-passenger-seat-travel-slowdown.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 9Apr 9 CVG airport embarks on multimillion-dollar project to advance its Hangar Row vision By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Apr 9, 2025 Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has hired a design firm to advance its planned Hangar Row development, which will build an ecosystem around repairing aircraft. CVG’s board awarded a $4 million contract in March to Woolpert Inc. for preliminary design services. The company will work on designing a new maintenance, repair and overhaul facility, multiple aircraft hangars, a new airport rescue and firefighter training center and a new police training center. MORE
April 17Apr 17 Growing aviation firm opens new hangar at CVG airport, plans to add 250 jobs by end of 2025 By Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business Courier Apr 17, 2025 L2 Aviation, a Texas-based avionics company, opened a new hangar at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and will add 250 jobs by the end of 2025. The new jobs will significantly increase the size of the Dripping Springs, Texas-based company. L2 Aviation provides design, consulting, engineering, manufacturing and remote modification services on planes across the globe. The opening is a key element of CVG’s Hangar Row strategy of building a group of businesses centered around repairing, modifying and maintaining aircraft. MORE
April 20Apr 20 TRUMP: DHL to suspend global shipments of over $800 to US consumers https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/dhl-suspend-global-shipments-over-800-us-consumers-2025-04-20/ Edited April 20Apr 20 by 646empire
April 25Apr 25 Starbucks has officially closed at CVG airport; here's when Dunkin' opens in its place Just more than a year after it was first announced, Starbucks' two locations inside the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport have shuttered. But coffee-loving travelers don't have long to wait to get their fix at replacement shops. The Starbucks in Concourse A closed earlier this year, while the Starbucks in Concourse B closed last week. Both are set to be remodeled into Dunkin' locations. The transition from Starbucks to Dunkin' was first announced in January 2024, though a timeline was not laid out at the time. The Concourse A Dunkin' will open "in the next several weeks," according to a CVG spokesperson, while the Concourse B Dunkin' will open later this summer. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/04/25/starbucks-cvg-concouse-dunkin-coffee-replacement.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 25Apr 25 I wonder what made them shut down so quickly. It wasn't that long ago that if you got coffee at airports it came in these
April 26Apr 26 8 hours ago, GCrites said: I wonder what made them shut down so quickly. It wasn't that long ago that if you got coffee at airports it came in these Airport vendor contract for Starbucks ended so they closed up shop overnight. Walls up for new vendor contract at nasty Dunkin.
May 20May 20 Frontier Airlines starts international service at CVG airportFrontier Airlines has started flying to a new Caribbean destination from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.The ultra-low-cost carrier started flights to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic Saturday, May 17.Frontier’s only competitor on the route is Vacation Express.The Dominican Republic long has been a top-performing destination for CVG. In 2023, it was CVG’s best-performing international destination. Vacation Express filled 95% of its seats from January 2022 through July 2023.More below:https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2025/05/19/frontier-adds-new-punta-cana-dominican-cvg-airport.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 21May 21 CVG airport's latest nonstop international flight set to launchexpandAir Canada will start operating daily nonstop flights between Cincinnati and Montreal May 22, 2025.Air CanadaBy Chris Wetterich – Staff reporter and columnist, Cincinnati Business CourierMay 21, 2025Air Canada is launching its new nonstop flight from Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport to Montreal this week.The first flight from Montreal, the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec, to CVG lands here Thursday, May 22, with the first flight to Montreal scheduled for Friday, May 23.The flight is Air Canada’s second from CVG. The Montreal-based airline also flies to Toronto. Air Canada will have no competition on the Montreal route."We're very excited we get Montreal back on the map for the first time in 15 years," said Bobby Spann, CVG's vice president for air service development.MORE
May 21May 21 Updated traffic numbers for CVG through April 2025: April Passenger2024: 779.6282025: 754.291Variance: -3.25% April Cargo (Tons)2024: 174.6822025: 141.077Variance: -19.24%YTD Passenger2024: 2,767,2472025: 2,726,088Variance: -1.49% YTD Cargo (Tons)2024: 622,0772025: 553,953Variance: -10.95%
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