January 30, 20205 yr The airport has finally uploaded the statistics for November and December but oddly have not uploaded October yet. Since the overall passenger growth has already been posted above, I'll post the performance by airline. Air Canada Total Pax: 73,230 Percent Change: -0.3%% Actual Change: -236 Alaska Airlines Total Pax: 74,366 Percent Change: N/A Actual Change: N/A American Airlines Total Pax: 2,053,530 Percent Change: +9.7% Actual Change: +180,845 Delta Air Lines Total Pax: 1,851,913 Percent Change: +6.2% Actual Change: +107,422 Frontier Airlines Total Pax: 113,259 Percent Change: -30.1% Actual Change: -48,775 Southwest Airlines Total Pax: 2,851,702 Percent Change: -1.4% Actual Change: -39,205 Spirit Airlines: Total Pax: 450,710 Percent Change: +27.8% Actual Change: +98,063 United Total Pax: 1,127,247 Percent Change: +12.3% Actual Change: 123,337 Allegiant Air (at LCK) Total Pax: 301,915 Percent Change: +0.02% Actual Change: +62 Airline Market Share: Southwest: 33.17% American: 23.89% Delta: 21.54% United: 13.11% Spirit: 5.24% Frontier: 1.32% Alaska: 0.86% Air Canada: 0.85%
January 31, 20205 yr 21 minutes ago, Pablo said: It’s a huge garage. the shortest crane makes me laugh. It’s so short!
January 31, 20205 yr Alaska Airlines started the Seattle flights March 7th. So they racked up 74,366 passengers on 600 flights (to and from for 300 days). That's 124 passengers on each Airbus A320 or 83% of capacity. Is this good?
February 1, 20205 yr 4 hours ago, aderwent said: Alaska Airlines started the Seattle flights March 7th. So they racked up 74,366 passengers on 600 flights (to and from for 300 days). That's 124 passengers on each Airbus A320 or 83% of capacity. Is this good? Good enough for them to add a second daily seasonal flight this coming summer. Regarding the need for a new terminal, I flew in this afternoon around 5 on a southwest flight. The concourse was packed. Every gate had a plane parked at it. People couldn’t even find places to sit that were waiting for their plane to board. Down at baggage claim it was a madhouse. Four flights had just came in and the place was absolutely packed with people looking for their suitcase. I understand this is just a point in time observation and the five o’clock hour is a busy arrival time, but we seem to have pretty much reached max capacity, especially in the Southwest concourse. They need to kick the new terminal project up into high gear.
February 28, 20205 yr Remember, if you are flying next week the airport will be a bit busier than usual.
March 2, 20205 yr Delta adding SEA-CMH route starting June 8th. Route will be flown with Airbus A220-100 jets. This will be in addition to the once daily flight on Alaska and the second daily seasonal flight during the summer months on Alaska. Based on a quick flight search, the route appears to be as follows: CMH 7:15AM --> SEA 9:25AM SEA 10:30PM --> CMH 6:00AM (+1) https://thepointsguy-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thepointsguy.com/news/delta-adds-seattle-routes-dallas-fort-worth/amp/?usqp=mq331AQCKAE%3D&_js_v=0.1#aoh=15830913931737&_ct=1583091406200&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From %1%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fthepointsguy.com%2Fnews%2Fdelta-adds-seattle-routes-dallas-fort-worth%2F Edited March 2, 20205 yr by cbussoccer Add additional point.
March 2, 20205 yr CBF article about the new route. https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/03/02/columbus-airport-adds-new-nonstop-flight-to-west.html?iana=hpmvp_colum_news_headline
March 2, 20205 yr 4 hours ago, cbussoccer said: Delta adding SEA-CMH route starting June 8th. Route will be flown with Airbus A220-100 jets. This will be in addition to the once daily flight on Alaska and the second daily seasonal flight during the summer months on Alaska. Based on a quick flight search, the route appears to be as follows: CMH 7:15AM --> SEA 9:25AM SEA 10:30PM --> CMH 6:00AM (+1) https://thepointsguy-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/thepointsguy.com/news/delta-adds-seattle-routes-dallas-fort-worth/amp/?usqp=mq331AQCKAE%3D&_js_v=0.1#aoh=15830913931737&_ct=1583091406200&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From %1%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fthepointsguy.com%2Fnews%2Fdelta-adds-seattle-routes-dallas-fort-worth%2F 10:30 - 0600 ? That's rough. But glad to see more flights to Seattle.
March 2, 20205 yr 1 minute ago, ck said: 10:30 - 0600 ? That's rough. But glad to see more flights to Seattle. Classic red eye flight. Alaska's year-round return flight is a 9:15AM - 4:45PM flight, so it's nice to have both options. In the summer, Alaska's second daily seasonal flight will be a 10:45PM - 6:15AM. United's SFO-CMH route was a red eye before it went on hiatus for the winter months, but it's back this week and appears to be 4:10PM - 11:59PM.
March 2, 20205 yr As a business traveler, that's basically a no go flight for me. As someone who's vacationing or visiting family, those are certainly options - but having the only delta flight be at that time would make me route through somewhere else. Last time I tried the Alaska daytime flight, it was completely full and I accepted a voucher to fly through Raleigh.
March 2, 20205 yr 9 minutes ago, ck said: As a business traveler, that's basically a no go flight for me. As someone who's vacationing or visiting family, those are certainly options - but having the only delta flight be at that time would make me route through somewhere else. Last time I tried the Alaska daytime flight, it was completely full and I accepted a voucher to fly through Raleigh. Red eye flights can be helpful for business travel, although it's never really ideal. If you have to be in Seattle until 2:00pm for a meeting, you might as well hop on the red eye flight and be home all day Saturday rather than stay in Seattle on Friday night and not get back to Columbus until 3:00pm on Saturday. Similarly, if you have to be in Seattle until 4:00pm on Wednesday but you have a 1:30pm meeting on Thursday in Columbus, the red eye flight makes that possible. I definitely agree it's not ideal, but it's still nice having the additional flights and hopefully driving the price down a bit with the competition between two airlines.
March 3, 20205 yr 18 hours ago, ck said: 10:30 - 0600 ? That's rough. But glad to see more flights to Seattle. So it turns out, according to this article from 10TV, that it will only be a red eye until September 1st. Starting September 1st, the return flight will be 5:15pm - 12:45am. https://www.10tv.com/article/delta-adds-nonstop-flights-seattle-john-glenn-columbus-international-2020-mar
March 3, 20205 yr January stats have been posted, and CMH/LCK are off to a strong start. https://flycolumbus.com/storage/production/20200303094823-jan-2020-airport-totals-cmh-lck.pdf Ridership at CMH is up 3.7% to last year. Southwest is down a bit, likely due to the 737 Max issues, and Air Canada is down. All others experienced growth, with United seeing the largest percentage increase. Allegiant is off to a very strong start to the year over at LCK, up 30% compared to last year thanks to an increase in flights. Combined, the two airports saw a total of 618,430 passengers in January, good for a 4.0% increase over last January. Last January saw a ~9% ridership increase compared to the prior year, but that was largely due to Spirit entering the market. I will be interested to see how the year continues. I've noticed that A321s are scheduled to be used on few flights each day for the CMH-MSP route starting in a few months, and A319s are going to be used once a day on the CMH-DTW route. Previously, the CMH-MSP route's biggest planes were 737-800s and the CMH-DTW were all regional jets. The fact that those two routes are increasing capacity without reducing frequency (from what I can tell) leads me to believe that there is very healthy demand here and our healthy growth should continue.
March 4, 20205 yr 13 hours ago, cbussoccer said: So it turns out, according to this article from 10TV, that it will only be a red eye until September 1st. Starting September 1st, the return flight will be 5:15pm - 12:45am. https://www.10tv.com/article/delta-adds-nonstop-flights-seattle-john-glenn-columbus-international-2020-mar Thanks for update - Getting better! I think any direct flight is great, but red eyes are known for half empty planes, so just curious why that was the time chosen. I'm sure it makes sense and I'm just not in-the-know, but with the scarcity of direct flights to Columbus as is, I definitely like seeing more palatable schedules. 8 hours ago, cbussoccer said: I will be interested to see how the year continues. I've noticed that A321s are scheduled to be used on few flights each day for the CMH-MSP route starting in a few months, and A319s are going to be used once a day on the CMH-DTW route. Previously, the CMH-MSP route's biggest planes were 737-800s and the CMH-DTW were all regional jets. The fact that those two routes are increasing capacity without reducing frequency (from what I can tell) leads me to believe that there is very healthy demand here and our healthy growth should continue. Will be interesting to see the corona virus impact to overall air travel. My company has already guided that all non-essential air travel be avoided.
March 4, 20205 yr 25 minutes ago, ck said: Will be interesting to see the corona virus impact to overall air travel. My company has already guided that all non-essential air travel be avoided. Yep, definitely going to be a huge factor. The Arnold was essentially cancelled completely so that will have a huge effect on March. My company is also contemplating halting non-essential travel, which is a big deal because we are a large company. Once the coronavirus blows over perhaps we will see some rebounding numbers.
March 17, 20205 yr Here's an informative article about how the current situation surrounding the Coronavirus is impacting air travel in Columbus: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2020/03/17/cmh-rickenbacker-airports-feel-effects-of.html?ana=TRUEANTHEMTWT_CO&taid=5e712c6972e8fa00012c03e6&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter Here's a few key points from the article: there will be a decrease of 191 flights over the month of April, or six flights each day Coronavirus didn’t start impacting CMH figures until recently. In January, passenger traffic was up 3.7% year-over-year. February’s numbers are not yet released, but are expected to be strong, according to the authority. At Rickenbacker in February, there was a reduction of 23 regularly scheduled flights, but an influx of 20 additional charter flights. The airport has 450 days of cash on hand, meaning it could operate 450 days without any new revenue. There's no doubt that growth will be much lower, perhaps even in the negatives, at CMH and most other airports this year. With that said, it will be interesting to see how things rebound once we emerge from this situation. I'm sure there is a lot of pent-up air travel, both business and leisure, that waiting for restrictions to be lifted.
March 17, 20205 yr ^Yes, but is there capacity for it? Will fares get so high that only business travelers on company expense accounts can afford them?
April 29, 20205 yr Passenger numbers take a nosedive due to coronavirus cutbacks: John Glenn Columbus Airport battered by pandemic By Mark Williams The Columbus Dispatch Data show just how hard John Glenn Columbus International Airport has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Passenger traffic has been running about 96% below where it was a year ago when it set a record. Read more: https://www.dispatch.com/business/20200428/john-glenn-columbus-airport-battered-by-pandemic
April 29, 20205 yr ^ Thanks for posting that article. I also cross-posted it in the Rickenbacker Airport thread because it contained info on how the cargo-focused Rickenbacker Airport is faring during the coronavirus. (Not bad - its only down 3%)
June 15, 20204 yr So it looks like Alaska Airlines has restarted their nonstop CMH-SEA route, albeit only once daily as opposed to the twice daily flight that was planned before the shutdown. Definitely a good sign as things slowly pick up at the airport.
June 29, 20204 yr Some more good news on routes being added back at CMH. Last week, I flew to Tampa and back. Unfortunately (and surprisingly) there were no direct flights on Southwest between CMH and TPA. This week, it appears the CMH-TPA route is back with two daily flights between the cities during weekdays and three on weekends. I also did a few random searches on other direct routes that have been dropped since the shutdowns started. It likes United is adding their CMH-Houston route back next week with two daily flights. Also next week, United will be adding back the CMH-DEN route with a once daily flight on A320s, and will increase the route to twice daily in August. United is also planning to add back the CMH-SFO route in August, which is very good news. Also in August, United is adding back mainline service to ORD on A320s. It looks like Delta is increasing frequency on the CMH-ATL route this week, and starting in August they will be upgrading some of the flights from 717s to 737-900s. Also this week, the CMH-MSP route will increase from one daily flight to two, and by August it is planned to increase to four daily flights. CMH-LGA will be added back this week with two daily flights. In late September, it looks like the CMH-SLC route will be back using A319s. The CMH-LAX route on American appears to be available starting the second week of August. By the middle of August, American will be operating 4 daily flights on the CMH-DFW route using 737-800s. Currently, this route is only operating twice daily on an E175. The CMH-DCA route, which is currently operating once daily, appears to increase to four daily flights starting in the middle of August. The CMH-PHX route appears to be coming back on a once daily cadence in mid-August. It looks like Southwest will be adding the CMH-PHX route by mid-August, operating twice daily. It also appears Spirit will be adding the CMH-LAS daily route back starting this week. Obviously, these plans could be scrapped depending on what happens over the coming weeks, but these planned increases in service are promising.
September 3, 20204 yr Here are the passenger numbers from June and July. June CMH: 164,700 (-79.0%) LCK: 29,284 (-35.7%) Total: 193,984 (-76.6%) June YTD CMH: 1,818,319 (-56.8%) LCK: 92,966 (-39.9%) Total: 1,911,285 (-56.2%) July CMH: 237,756 (-69.6%) LCK: 31,242 (-35.1%) Total: 268,998 (-67.6%) July YTD CMH: 2,056,075 (-58.8%) LCK: 124,208 (-38.8%) Total: 2,180,283 (-58.0%) Starting next week, Southwest will be making pretty large service cuts nationwide. As a result, CMH will be losing service to Dallas, Houston, Fort Myers, St. Louis, and Washington DC for the time being. Service to Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, and Tampa will remain but frequency will be reduced on most routes. For a bit of good news, Southwest just added the Phoenix route back in the last couple weeks, and American will be adding back their Phoenix route starting next week. United is also planning to add a new route to Fort Myers starting in mid-December.
October 2, 20204 yr On 9/3/2020 at 8:30 AM, cbussoccer said: Starting next week, Southwest will be making pretty large service cuts nationwide. As a result, CMH will be losing service to Dallas, Houston, Fort Myers, St. Louis, and Washington DC for the time being. Service to Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Nashville, Orlando, Phoenix, and Tampa will remain but frequency will be reduced on most routes. It looks like Southwest will be slightly increasing some of their service at CMH to offset some of the large nationwide reductions that went into effect a month ago. Starting next week, the CMH-RSW route will return and operate 1-2 times daily. Starting next week, the CMH-MCO route will have one additional flight on weekdays and two additional flights on weekends. Starting next week, the CMH-TPA route will have one additional flight on weekends. Starting in early November, the CMH-FLL route will return and operate once daily. Starting next week, the CMH-BNA route will add an additional daily flight. Starting in early November, the CMH-DAL route will return and operate once daily. Starting in early November, the CMH-DEN route will add an additional daily flight.
January 27, 20214 yr Air travel plummeted in 2020. Here's how many people flew through Columbus airports In 2019, passenger travel through Columbus airports reached record levels. Last year, though? Those numbers looked a bit different – for obvious reasons. About 3.5 million passengers flew through John Glenn Columbus International Airport and Rickenbacker International Airport’s passenger terminal in 2020. That's about 39% of 2019’s record figure of 8.9 million passengers, according to the Columbus Regional Airport Authority. MORE: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2021/01/27/columbus-air-travel-pandemic-2020.html
February 19, 20214 yr American Airlines announced plans to start CMH-BOS service in August, along with a slew of other routes: http://news.aa.com/news/news-details/2021/American-Airlines-and-JetBlue-Begin-Growth-from-New-York-and-Boston-with-33-New-Routes-Joint-Schedules-and-Codeshare-Flights-NET-ALP-02/default.aspx
February 19, 20214 yr American seems to be picking routes at CMH that Delta dropped as a result of the pandemic. Delta stopped flying their seasonal weekly flight to Cancun, which American picked up back in December. Now they are picking BOS which Delta still hasn't picked back up since the pandemic started.
March 18, 20214 yr Spirit will begin nonstop service from CMH to Pensacola, FL beginning June 10: https://newshub.columbusairports.com/storage/production/20210311134332-press-release-spirit-airlines-heads-to-pensacola.pdf That will bring Spirit to 8 destinations and 9 peak daily flights from CMH, if June schedules remain the same.
March 18, 20214 yr "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 25, 20214 yr United will begin service from CMH to Charleston and Hilton Head, SC (4x and 3x weekly, respectively) as well as Portland, ME (4x weekly) this summer: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2021/03/25/united-adds-direct-flight.html Looks like United is taking a page out of the Allegiant playbook and starting less-than-daily service from several Midwest cities to summer beach destinations. They'll be using their recently-modified CRJ-550s, which take what would normally be a 70-seat jet but is outfitted with First Class and extra legroom economy seats, as well as a closet for carry-on bags. A portion of these jets are going un-used due to the overall downturn in commercial air traffic, so activating them on these routes makes sense. https://hub.united.com/2021-03-25-united-airlines-adds-new-direct-flights-to-coastal-vacation-destinations-starting-memorial-day-weekend-2651205573.html Edited March 25, 20214 yr by CMHOhio Additional Link
March 25, 20214 yr Another added route by Southwest starting this summer, June 6 to be exact, from CMH to MYR: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/book-today-southwest-airlines-takes-150000915.html
March 25, 20214 yr Ugh, Myrtle Beach. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 31, 20214 yr Delta is bringing back their CMH-BOS route starting May 5th! It looks like it will operate 2x daily at first, but increase to 3x daily by the summer. Given that Delta and American will both be operating multiple CMH-BOS flights each day by the end of the summer, I'll be interested to see if Southwest ever decides to bring their route back. It seems unlikely. While looking at the destinations map on the airport's website, I noticed that Spirit will begin flying CMH-LAX 1x daily starting June 9th. I haven't seen that announced anywhere, but it's on the airport's website and the flights are available to be booked on Spirit's website, so apparently it's happening. That's good news as American and Delta have not yet brought their CMH-LAX routes back. Also, it looks like United might be bringing the CMH-SFO daily route back. Direct flights are available to be booked starting in mid-May, although that could change as we get closer.
March 31, 20214 yr Here is confirmation of Spirit's CMH-LAX route. https://thepointsguy.com/news/spirit-airlines-adds-pvr-grows-lax/
April 1, 20214 yr 23 hours ago, cbussoccer said: Delta is bringing back their CMH-BOS route starting May 5th! It looks like it will operate 2x daily at first, but increase to 3x daily by the summer. Given that Delta and American will both be operating multiple CMH-BOS flights each day by the end of the summer, I'll be interested to see if Southwest ever decides to bring their route back. It seems unlikely. While looking at the destinations map on the airport's website, I noticed that Spirit will begin flying CMH-LAX 1x daily starting June 9th. I haven't seen that announced anywhere, but it's on the airport's website and the flights are available to be booked on Spirit's website, so apparently it's happening. That's good news as American and Delta have not yet brought their CMH-LAX routes back. Also, it looks like United might be bringing the CMH-SFO daily route back. Direct flights are available to be booked starting in mid-May, although that could change as we get closer. I really wish Delta would bring back SLC flight. Its been a real struggle since relocating to Columbus from Cincinnati, losing the amount of Delta service i grew accustomed to over the years. Getting out West on Delta has been hard without SLC at the moment.
April 1, 20214 yr 4 minutes ago, savadams13 said: I really wish Delta would bring back SLC flight. Its been a real struggle since relocating to Columbus from Cincinnati, losing the amount of Delta service i grew accustomed to over the years. Getting out West on Delta has been hard without SLC at the moment. The pandemic really hit at the worst possible time. CMH was on the verge of really increasing service to the West coast and then the lockdowns completely killed the momentum. United added a daily flight to SFO, Delta added a daily flight to SLC, Alaska was going to add a second daily flight to SEA, and Delta was going to add a seasonal daily flight to SEA. Thankfully Alaska has maintained one daily flight to SEA pretty much this whole time, but everything else got put on hold. Hopefully some of the routes get resurrected over the coming year. I am somewhat confident in the SLC route returning. Vacation destinations seem to be rebounding much quicker than business destinations. SLC would definitely be more of a vacation destination from Columbus than a business destination, so hopefully Delta brings it back.They also need to bring back their LAX route, but that may be a bit more difficult.
April 1, 20214 yr So I just checked Delta's website and it looks like daily direct flights to SLC are available to be booked as early as June 5th. This flight could obviously get removed from the schedule as we get closer, but it's definitely a good sign that they have it on the schedule. However, they don't seem to have high hopes for bringing back the LAX flight. I checked through the end of August and couldn't find any available direct flights.
April 1, 20214 yr 18 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: So I just checked Delta's website and it looks like daily direct flights to SLC are available to be booked as early as June 5th. This flight could obviously get removed from the schedule as we get closer, but it's definitely a good sign that they have it on the schedule. However, they don't seem to have high hopes for bringing back the LAX flight. I checked through the end of August and couldn't find any available direct flights. I am ok if LAX doesnt come back. SLC works for me, brand new terminal and a great middle ground to anywhere on the west coast. LAX is a hot mess with the construction on going and connection flights are limited domestically.
April 1, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, savadams13 said: I am ok if LAX doesnt come back. SLC works for me, brand new terminal and a great middle ground to anywhere on the west coast. LAX is a hot mess with the construction on going and connection flights are limited domestically. Yea, LAX is a horrible experience. I hope they bring the route back for the sole reason of having more connections from CMH, but I personally hate that airport. Spirit is starting a CMH-LAX route though, so I guess if someone really wants to go to LAX they can take their chances on Spirit.
April 1, 20214 yr 45 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: The pandemic really hit at the worst possible time. CMH was on the verge of really increasing service to the West coast and then the lockdowns completely killed the momentum. Yea, we were also approaching the threshold that they deemed necessary to justify beginning the terminal expansion. Seems like that's probably going to be off the table for a while now, unfortunately depending on how travel rebounds. It will probably depend heavily on the long term effects to business travel and if companies will permanently cut back on business travel after this.
April 1, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, TH3BUDDHA said: Yea, we were also approaching the threshold that they deemed necessary to justify beginning the terminal expansion. Seems like that's probably going to be off the table for a while now, unfortunately depending on how travel rebounds. It will probably depend heavily on the long term effects to business travel and if companies will permanently cut back on business travel after this. Yep, it really happened at the worst possible time for the airport. I do wonder if a growth in leisure travel might offset some of the losses in business travel. I just read earlier today that United and Alaska have already seen their leisure travel numbers rebound back to "normal levels" while business numbers are still at about 20-30% of normal. United seems confident that they can build up a leisure travel base that they did not have before with some of the routes they are adding this summer. A Columbus-Portland, Maine flight is something I never thought would happen, but they are giving it a try. Maybe we will start to see more interesting routes like that which are more geared toward leisure travel. I do think business travel will bounce back pretty close to where it was within a couple years. I think companies who jump back into in-person, face-to-face business will find that they are more successful than companies who try to remain virtual, which will slowly pull people back into the real world from the virtual world. I could definitely be wrong, but that's the feeling I have right now.
April 9, 20214 yr Passengers free to move around Port Columbus with to-go cocktails, beer and wine Passengers traveling through John Glenn Columbus International Airport can order to-go beer, wine and cocktails. More below: https://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/news/2021/04/08/airport-to-go-drinks.html "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 21, 20214 yr Breeze Airways, a new low-cost airline started by the founder of JetBlue, will be offering five different routes from CMH when they launch in July. Tampa (starting July 3) Charleston (starting July 8) New Orleans (starting July 16) Norfolk (starting July 22) Hartford (starting July 22) The frequency of the routes vary. Some are weekly while others are 4x weekly. The routes will be flown on E190s and E195s to start, but will likely be switched to A220s in the future. https://thepointsguy.com/news/breeze-airways-launch-routes-details/ https://www.flybreeze.com/home
May 21, 20214 yr 19 minutes ago, cbussoccer said: Breeze Airways, a new low-cost airline started by the founder of JetBlue, will be offering five different routes from CMH when they launch in July. Tampa (starting July 3) Charleston (starting July 8) New Orleans (starting July 16) Norfolk (starting July 22) Hartford (starting July 22) The frequency of the routes vary. Some are weekly while others are 4x weekly. The routes will be flown on E190s and E195s to start, but will likely be switched to A220s in the future. https://thepointsguy.com/news/breeze-airways-launch-routes-details/ https://www.flybreeze.com/home What an unusual destination map for a airline. I’ve read before that they are targeting routes that will have little to no competition but I didn’t quite expect this.
May 21, 20214 yr 1 minute ago, 646empire said: What an unusual destination map for a airline. I’ve read before that they are targeting routes that will have little to no competition but I didn’t quite expect this. The New Orleans and Hartford routes from Columbus have no competition. Southwest and Spirit used to fly the New Orleans, but neither have brought it back since Covid happened. Charleston and Norfolk do have some competition with Allegiant, it looks like Breeze will be flying those routes with more frequency than Allegiant, and they are flying out of CMH instead of LCK so perhaps they are hoping people will prefer that. United is also flying to Charleston this summer, but I'm guessing that will be at a much higher price point. I definitely didn't expect them to start at this level of service though. Five routes from Columbus is pretty impressive. Hopefully they can get off to a good start and then maybe start expanding westward.
May 21, 20214 yr 1 hour ago, cbussoccer said: The New Orleans and Hartford routes from Columbus have no competition. Southwest and Spirit used to fly the New Orleans, but neither have brought it back since Covid happened. Charleston and Norfolk do have some competition with Allegiant, it looks like Breeze will be flying those routes with more frequency than Allegiant, and they are flying out of CMH instead of LCK so perhaps they are hoping people will prefer that. United is also flying to Charleston this summer, but I'm guessing that will be at a much higher price point. I definitely didn't expect them to start at this level of service though. Five routes from Columbus is pretty impressive. Hopefully they can get off to a good start and then maybe start expanding westward. Charleston and New Orleans have been on my list for quite some time to visit, this is a nice more economical option and yes I prefer to go to John Glenn International over LCK!! Looking forward to possibly utilizing this :)
May 21, 20214 yr 13 minutes ago, Gnoraa said: Charleston and New Orleans have been on my list for quite some time to visit, this is a nice more economical option and yes I prefer to go to John Glenn International over LCK!! Looking forward to possibly utilizing this :) $70 for a round trip flight is hard to beat! Especially for a destination like Charleston or Norfolk where most people from this area historically have had to drive because flying didn't make economic sense even if there was a direct route.
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