Atlanta Airport - Airline Service & Routes Updates Thread (traffic, year-round)

[Atlwarrior]

Atlanta to Nairobi, Kenya coming soon.

Kenya Airways Chairman Michael Joseph announced that service to Atlanta could come as soon as next year.

https://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/...o-atlanta.html

[David1502]

Originally Posted by Atlwarrior

So true! Southwest basically acquired Air Tran to expand its Northeast operations (Baltimore) and take out Air Tran as a competitor. It ashame how they have cut flights at Hartsfield.

I agree that it is a shame that Southwest significantly cut back the number of flights out of ATL. However, SW has a completely different business model than AirTran - SW doesn't like having connecting passengers. They prefer to have the overwhelming number of their passengers doing point to point service without a connection. AirTran, on the other hand was a hub based airline (like Delta) and the majority of their passengers made a connection either through ATL or BWI and they also had a significant amount of point to point service with a large number of their flights from cities in the Midwest to cities in Florida.


Local Atlanta passengers have a huge advantage of flight options because of Delta's massive hub. However, when you remove the majority of connecting passengers like Southwest did, the number of flights to major destinations like New York LaGuardia go down a whole lot.


Imagine the number of international destinations Delta would have out of Atlanta without all of the domestic connections to cities like Birmingham and Greenville, SC- this is the reason that British Airways was unsuccessful years ago when they tried to add a second Atlanta London flight. There weren't enough passengers to make it work.


Speaking of British Airways, they have cut back their daily service from Nashville to London to four days a week. Again, being dependent on one city to generate traffic is a big disadvantage to having a hub supply passengers from a hundred cities.

[ATLondoner]

If you are lucky enough to be in the UK (like me!) tonight on Channel 5 at 9pm a 1 hour documentary on Hartsfield-Jackson



https://tv24.co.uk/b/phud00-d8l

[Atlwarrior]

Originally Posted by ATLondoner

If you are lucky enough to be in the UK (like me!) tonight on Channel 5 at 9pm a 1 hour documentary on Hartsfield-Jackson



https://tv24.co.uk/b/phud00-d8l

Thanks for sharing! How’s London? So jealous! Lol

[KerrTown]

Originally Posted by Columbus1984

Agreed. Having to fly Delta to Seattle then hop over to Vancouver is inconvenient. Just did that flight not long ago.

I was about to ask why you did not fly on Air Canada. Then I looked up the route map on their website. Houston is spoiled with service to all 5 major Canadian cities. Dallas has flights only to the 3 major ones, and excludes the 2 Alberta major cities (probably lack of ties--usually oil related).

Sadly Atlanta only has one route to Toronto.

Originally Posted by David1502

I agree that it is a shame that Southwest significantly cut back the number of flights out of ATL. However, SW has a completely different business model than AirTran - SW doesn't like having connecting passengers. They prefer to have the overwhelming number of their passengers doing point to point service without a connection. AirTran, on the other hand was a hub based airline (like Delta) and the majority of their passengers made a connection either through ATL or BWI and they also had a significant amount of point to point service with a large number of their flights from cities in the Midwest to cities in Florida.


Local Atlanta passengers have a huge advantage of flight options because of Delta's massive hub. However, when you remove the majority of connecting passengers like Southwest did, the number of flights to major destinations like New York LaGuardia go down a whole lot.

In its infancy, WestJet was founded to transplant Southwest's Texas business model to Western Canada. Obviously the Calgary airport is still the flagship hub of the airline, although Toronto's huge population makes it the busiest o&d for the airline. The point to point model is easier to copy in Canada due to fewer major cities, but the hub model would be more practical for servicing the smaller cities (or towns by American standards).

Too bad Columbus didn't take WestJet to Western Canada!

[autolycus25]

Originally Posted by KerrTown

I was about to ask why you did not fly on Air Canada. Then I looked up the route map on their website. Houston is spoiled with service to all 5 major Canadian cities. Dallas has flights only to the 3 major ones, and excludes the 2 Alberta major cities (probably lack of ties--usually oil related).

Sadly Atlanta only has one route to Toronto.

I would fully expect Houston to have a lot of flights to Canada, especially on Air Canada. Air Canada is in Star Alliance with United. Houston is United's main hub to the SE and to Central and South America.

[Atlwarrior]

Originally Posted by autolycus25

I would fully expect Houston to have a lot of flights to Canada, especially on Air Canada. Air Canada is in Star Alliance with United. Houston is United's main hub to the SE and to Central and South America.

That’s true, and hopefully Atlanta will get the same kind of service with WestJet code share.

[Atlwarrior]

KLM upgauage to 787-10


KLM NW19 Preliminary long-haul changes as of 09NOV18
Posted 12 November 2018

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on Friday (09NOV18) filed preliminary schedule for Northern winter 2019/20 season, effective 27OCT19. Notable changes in its first NW19 filing on long-haul routes as follow.

Amsterdam – Atlanta eff 27OCT19 KL623/624 787-10 replaces -9 (in W18), 1 daily (Overall 1 daily each 777-200ER and 787-10)

[Atlwarrior]

Delta adding flight from Atlanta To Burbank

“The connection between Hollywood and Y'allywood just got stronger.

Beginning July 9, Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) will add two daily flights between Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Hollywood Burbank Airport. Delta operates a hub at Los Angeles International Airport, but the new service will add another connection between Atlanta and the L.A. Basin on its 124-seat Boeing 737-700 aircraft.”

[JMatl]

Originally Posted by Atlwarrior

Delta adding flight from Atlanta To Burbank

“The connection between Hollywood and Y'allywood just got stronger.

Beginning July 9, Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE: DAL) will add two daily flights between Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and Hollywood Burbank Airport. Delta operates a hub at Los Angeles International Airport, but the new service will add another connection between Atlanta and the L.A. Basin on its 124-seat Boeing 737-700 aircraft.”

Yay! This is fantastic news. This pretty much completes the restoration of all of our former California routes. Delta used to fly 757's to Burbank.

Now to complete things, jetBlue needs to start flights to their Long Beach hub. Unfortunately, they're maxed out on slots there right now.