Salt Lake International Airport Development Thread

[Jimmy Chips]

I am SanDiego-Honolulu

[Liberty Wellsian]

Do the moderators here not have access to IP addresses? Elsewhere on the internet it seems you need a proxy to troll this hard.

[Stenar]

Originally Posted by Liberty Wellsian

Do the moderators here not have access to IP addresses? Elsewhere on the internet it seems you need a proxy to troll this hard.

He's using a VPN to mask his IP address.

[San Diego-Honolulu]

Originally Posted by Jimmy Chips

I am SanDiego-Honolulu

Yeah, and I am Jimmy Chips

[JMK]

How is Construction of the new Salt Lake Intl Airport Going?

http://www.good4utah.com/news/local-...oing/672582535

[TheWire]

lol. The new park-and-wait lot is going to have a Chevron, Costa Vida and a Burger King.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5239237-1...coming-to-salt

[airportvids]

Originally Posted by TheWire

lol. The new park-and-wait lot is going to have a Chevron, Costa Vida and a Burger King.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5239237-1...coming-to-salt

This is awesome. It's about time.

[jubguy3]

A construction update has been posted.

Landscaping and asphalt paving is complete at the new Park and Wait Lot, which opens June 1, 2017.

Stem walls are finished for the South Concourse-West and a concrete pour is scheduled for next week.

Steel piles have all been driven at the Central Utility Plant and concrete for the walls will be poured later this week.

[TheWire]

Its incredible to see how many piles have been driven out there. It will be exciting to see work start above ground.

[jubguy3]

Originally Posted by TheWire

Its incredible to see how many piles have been driven out there. It will be exciting to see work start above ground.

Pretty quickly the actual terminal and south concourse west structures should start to pop up from the ground. Construction updates will become a lot more interesting in the next couple of months, i assume.

[Wasatch Wasteland]

Just some info tidbits I found promising:

Last year Salt Lake City had the highest percentage increase in International Traffic among major airports (20+million), with a 34% increase from 2015-2016. Third overall behind Oakland and Orange County. SLC also had the highest load factor (how full the planes are) at 86%. For comparison most major international gateways hovered in the high 70's.

Almost 600,000 international passengers in 2016, up from 430,000 in 2015. Granted, still a very small amount compared to other airports, but growing quickly considering international traffic has hovered consistently around 400,000 in SLC for the last 15 years.

Hopefully with the opening of the new airport we may see a large increase in international traffic. If it keeps up this growth, SLC could pass 1 million in the next year or two.

[jubguy3]

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...ventur-436903/

Expect more flights from SLC to Mexico in the coming future

[San Diego-Honolulu]

Originally Posted by jubguy3

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...ventur-436903/

Expect more flights from SLC to Mexico in the coming future

I wouldn't expect many more flights to Mexico from SLC. Delta already flies daily nonstop flights to Cancun and Mexico City from SLC. Also depending on the day of week they also fly nonstop to Guadalajara, Cabo San Lucas, and Puerto Vallarta from SLC. I can eventually see them adding Monterrey, but other than that and maybe adding additional flights to the ones that only operate a couple flights a week, Mexico is already well covered from SLC. I could maybe see Volaris adding nonstop service to Guadalajara in the future.

Side note, JetBlue is adding nonstop service between SLC and Ft. Lauderdale in November. JetBlue will have eight daily flights out of SLC. They already fly to Long Beach, Boston, New York-JFK, and Orlando.


*(The joint venture of Delta and Aeromexico will be mainly focused on LAX...not really on SLC at all)*

[San Diego-Honolulu]

Bad news for the nonstop Salt Lake City to London-Heathrow flight on Delta. It's getting cut in November to just seasonal. It will resume in March. The flight has been operating at a 45% load factor which is Delta's second worst route to London Heathrow. Only the Philadelphia to Heathrow flight is worse.

I knew this route would struggle. I think if it still performs poorly next year on a seasonal basis than Delta will end it all together. I do believe Delta's nonstop flights from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam and Paris, and KLM's Salt Lake City to Amsterdam flight are doing good and operating in the 80% load factor range.

[jubguy3]

Originally Posted by San Diego-Honolulu

Bad news for the nonstop Salt Lake City to London-Heathrow flight on Delta. It's getting cut in November to just seasonal. It will resume in March. The flight has been operating at a 45% load factor which is Delta's second worst route to London Heathrow. Only the Philadelphia to Heathrow flight is worse.

I knew this route would struggle. I think if it still performs poorly next year on a seasonal basis than Delta will end it all together. I do believe Delta's nonstop flights from Salt Lake City to Amsterdam and Paris, and KLM's Salt Lake City to Amsterdam flight are doing good and operating in the 80% load factor range.

...hasn't it always been seasonal?

[Stenar]

Originally Posted by jubguy3

...hasn't it always been seasonal?

It started out as seasonal, but this past winter, they started flying during the winter ski season to potentially bring Brits (and other Europeans) skiing in Utah. I guess they didn't get enough of them.

"Delta's Salt Lake City route will operate seasonally, launching May 1 with daily flights to London Heathrow Airport on 210-seat Boeing 767-300ER aircraft."

Source: www.usatoday.com

"Delta Air Lines announced plans to offer nonstop flights from London's Heathrow Airport to Salt Lake International Airport three times a week during the next ski season. The big announcement could mean a big boost to Utah's economy."

Source: www.ksl.com

[San Diego-Honolulu]

For those of you interested to see how the SLC-Heathrow flight is doing in comparison to Delta's other flights to Heathrow, here is some info. Also Delta just started a nonstop flight between Portland (PDX) and Heathrow this past week on a summer only seasonal basis, it'll be interesting to see how that flight performs. It's also sounding like the slot Delta has been using at Heathrow on their Salt Lake City flight will being going to JetAirways (a very close Delta partner airline from India or to Virgin Atlantic who is Delta's joint venture partner). It's a shame the London service from Salt Lake City hasn't been performing good.

City, Seats, Load
ATL, 13919, 78%
JFK, 17225, 73%
MSP, 5876, 73%
DTW, 5459, 56%
BOS, 5690, 55%
SEA, 5878, 52%*
SLC, 3569, 45%
PHL, 4592, 35%

*Delta has ended their Seattle to Heathrow flight and their joint venture partner Virgin Atlantic operates the route now.

[wrendog]

Hopefully they can at least keep it on a seasonal basis.

[PhilipDDG]

Does anyone know the O&D stats for SLC? Either Domestic/International breakdown or general?

[seventwenty]

http://www.transtats.bts.gov/airport...=1&Airport=SLC