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Old Posted Jun 17, 2014, 7:03 PM
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Speaking of which, has Aeromexico ever flown AUS-MEX? I still think connecting Austin to another major hub would give people another reason to fly into Mexico City, even if it were on their regional jets.
Yes, using a regional carrier.
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Old Posted Jun 17, 2014, 8:11 PM
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Speaking of which, has Aeromexico ever flown AUS-MEX?
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Yes, using a regional carrier.
Actually, when AeroMexico first began service on December 15, 2006, they used Boeing 737 aircraft, but the flight only operated 4 times per week. I remember flying into ABIA from Love Field one afternoon and seeing it taxiing to the runway as we were making our way to the gate.

In July of 2007, they increased the service to daily, but went from a Boeing 737 to the Embraer RJ-145, operated for AeroMexico by Aerolitoral.

They pulled out completely in June of 2008.
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Old Posted Jul 8, 2014, 1:04 AM
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Old Posted Jul 9, 2014, 3:19 AM
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C-17s at ABIA for Obama's visit tomorrow.


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Old Posted Jul 14, 2014, 7:02 PM
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May 2014 Passenger and Cargo report

Looks like we're steadily on our way to getting minimum 1,000,000 passengers/month, especially with the terminal expansion projects providing additional capacity. It'll be interesting to see the numbers for June-August because they tend to be pretty solid.
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Old Posted Jul 14, 2014, 8:08 PM
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BA is still holding strong at an ~80% passenger load factor.
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Old Posted Jul 14, 2014, 8:57 PM
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Yea BA has passed 10K for May.

Ouch Aeromar only 641, that's way down from the month before.
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C-17s at ABIA for Obama's visit tomorrow.


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I watched both of these birds get airborne as they made a turn over SW Austin the other afternoon to head north. They were really lumbering along and seemed to gain altitude slowly. I guess maybe they were being held at a certain height by air traffic or something. One thing is for sure, POTUS does not travel light. I wonder how many vehicles and other items were packed in those planes. Not to bash the President, but it seems to me that it must just cost an outrageous amount of money to move him around from place to place. Couldn't it be done more simply without risking his safety?
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I watched both of these birds get airborne as they made a turn over SW Austin the other afternoon to head north. They were really lumbering along and seemed to gain altitude slowly. I guess maybe they were being held at a certain height by air traffic or something. One thing is for sure, POTUS does not travel light. I wonder how many vehicles and other items were packed in those planes. Not to bash the President, but it seems to me that it must just cost an outrageous amount of money to move him around from place to place. Couldn't it be done more simply without risking his safety?
I think I've seen these types of planes taking off in San Antonio several times, and they always look that way. They have a very shallow, slow climb. Very impressive to look at with how big they are and how slow they appear to be moving. When they turn, it looks like they are about to stall right out of the air.
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Old Posted Jul 15, 2014, 2:26 AM
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Just kill the aeromar flight now!! What's the load factor for that flight? 21%?! Just make the flight 4 times a week and hope things work out...
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Old Posted Jul 15, 2014, 4:54 AM
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I think I've seen these types of planes taking off in San Antonio several times, and they always look that way. They have a very shallow, slow climb. Very impressive to look at with how big they are and how slow they appear to be moving. When they turn, it looks like they are about to stall right out of the air.
They appear slow because they are slow. Just about all "short takeoff and landing" planes are that way.
C-17 Globemaster III is designed to operate from runways as short as 3,500 ft (1,064 m) and as narrow as 90 ft (27 m). In addition, the C-17 can operate from unpaved, unimproved runways (although with greater chance of damage to the aircraft). Minimum speed is 115 knots (132 mph)

For comparison sakes, The max flap speed of a 737-800 jetliner is 250 knots for 1 and 5 setting and the minimum clean flap setting is 210 knots.

Environmental conditions; altitude, temperature, wind speed and direction, and weight of the aircraft; can effect both landing speed and distance.
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Thats awesome! Construction is moving at a fast pace at the airport.
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From the construction webcam at ABIA:



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Old Posted Jul 24, 2014, 9:13 PM
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Have you heard any rumblings about further expanding the number of gates at ABIA (beyond the current expansion, of course)?

Projecting out a modest growth over the coming years...ABIA will surpass it's new passenger capacity within 2-4 years after the completion of the current gate expansion.
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Old Posted Jul 26, 2014, 11:27 PM
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That's what I was thinking. The expansion will bring capacity to 14 million and they say will last through 2025 but I just don't see it taking that long to reach that level. I assume that there is a threshold point that is set and once we pass it then expansion will once again begin. I take it that the 10 millon mark was that point as I thought the original timeline was 2017 for teminal expansion.
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I've seen a few PDFs floating around that I cannot find at the moment but it looks like the most likely proposal is a secondary concourse, part of the current terminal but to the South with an underground shuttle/walkway connecting the two portions.

Actually it might be from earlier in this thread. I'll see if I can hunt it down.

Edit: here's a PDF with the two approved concepts

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Old Posted Jul 27, 2014, 9:34 PM
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Actually, my numbers may be a bit off.

The new, current, gate expansion will increase the PAX capacity to 15 million per year. Should ABIA grow roughly 4% per year, the airport will reach capacity by 2024. As it stands now, ABIA shows positive growth signs...possibly between 5-8+% per year (not to forget the possible future domestic and intercontinental routes which may come to fruition between now and 2024).

At a 5% increase, ABIA will hit 15 million (~15.5MM PAX) in 2022 and ~15.9MM PAX by 2019 based on an 8% increase per year.

I just wish we would build (at least begin developing the infrastructure) for what this airport may be 20 years from now.
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