Southwest's current self-sabotage is pretty wild too. I don't know if people will gravitate to the budget airlines en masse, but as usual private equity is attacking consumers with laughably bad decisions. Like a $200 fee for subjectively oversized check-ins.

Because why the f not.

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22 hours ago, TBideon said:

Southwest's current self-sabotage is pretty wild too. I don't know if people will gravitate to the budget airlines en masse, but as usual private equity is attacking consumers with laughably bad decisions. Like a $200 fee for subjectively oversized check-ins.

Because why the f not.

You can thank the hedge fund takeover for that

Interesting thought-experiment cleveland.com article:

cleveland

Could the JetBlue-United Airlines partnership re-hub Clev...

Cleveland has waited long enough. The skies are blue over Cleveland Hopkins International Airport once again. Cleveland should seize this moment and become the Midwest hub that JetBlue and the enti...

I don't hate this. Hopefully the Bibb adminstration is also taking note. I'm sure concourse D could handle Jet Blue's ER175 jets and maybe United would let them have it?

3 hours ago, Cleburger said:

I don't hate this. Hopefully the Bibb adminstration is also taking note. I'm sure concourse D could handle Jet Blue's ER175 jets and maybe United would let them have it?

Wanted to confirm here. Hopkins already has three runways, correct? It has the two parallel runways, then the one that runs east to west on the north end, right?

That is correct. The east-west runway 28 is rarely used.

On 6/5/2025 at 4:24 PM, LibertyBlvd said:

That is correct. The east-west runway 28 is rarely used.

I have been flying out of CLE for 30 years and hundreds (if not over one thousand) of flights, and have only landed on 28 once, in a Air Canada Q200 when there was construction going on one of the 24 runways.

Does anyone have have the failed plan to expand Cleveland Hopkins adding a third major runway where the IX center is? This has been discussed above, but I can't find the source material anywhere.

On 6/7/2025 at 12:25 PM, Ethan said:

Does anyone have have the failed plan to expand Cleveland Hopkins adding a third major runway where the IX center is? This has been discussed above, but I can't find the source material anywhere.

As someone who just reached out to CPL over something unrelated (and they usually always come through) I'd send an email their way.

On 6/7/2025 at 8:32 AM, Cleburger said:

I have been flying out of CLE for 30 years and hundreds (if not over one thousand) of flights, and have only landed on 28 once, in a Air Canada Q200 when there was construction going on one of the 24 runways.

I landed on it once! The pilot was extra dramatic about it too, like nooooobody ever lands here, should be a treat lol

Do any major commercial airports not have a crosswind runway? I assumed it was some sort of a requirement tbh.

29 minutes ago, Enginerd said:

Do any major commercial airports not have a crosswind runway? I assumed it was some sort of a requirement tbh.

ATL they are all the same direction, so is LAX and Heathrow

cleveland

Cleveland Hopkins airport begins $3.5 million TSA checkpo...

The project will double the lanes – from two to four – at the Central security checkpoint in the middle of the terminal.

Work to add TSA screening lines at Cleveland Hopkins starts next week

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport plans to double the Transportation Security Administration screening lines at its Central Security Checkpoint in a $3.5 million project that starts June 16.

The project, expected to be completed in January 2026, is part of the first phase of the airport's $3 billion, multiple-year terminal modernization plan, which is expected to be completed over the next decade, the airport said in a Friday statement.

The project, to be done by Feghali Brothers Construction and Engineering, would double the central checkpoint lanes to four by absorbing space to the north of the checkpoint in front of the restroom entrance. The queuing space for the central checkpoint lanes would more than double to 300 linear feet, the airport said.

More below:

https://www.bizjournals.com/cleveland/news/2025/06/13/airport-to-expand-security-to-ease-congestion.html

On 6/11/2025 at 12:20 AM, Enginerd said:

Do any major commercial airports not have a crosswind runway? I assumed it was some sort of a requirement tbh.

There are hundreds of examples. Even if they due have a crosswind runway, it's often not suitable for certain operations (Newark comes to mind).

The FAA is a lot of things, but they are pretty good with weather (until Trump guts all the weather staff). Over the years they have figured out the runway alignments to work most of the time.