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[burt]

Passenger traffic continues to decline at RIC.

From today's RTD:

http://www2.timesdis...nal-ar-1864969/

[jbjust]

Too bad March didn't also have an extra day this year.

[burt]

RIC probably is not the only mid-sized airport seeing less seat-capacity, but it's disheartening none-the-less.

Nice to read, however, that low-cost Jet Blue and AirTran passenger traffic is increasing.

From Peter Bacque intoday's RTD:

http://www2.timesdis...-ri-ar-1866437/

[burt]

If this story in today's Style Weekly is accurate, AirTran's performance at RIC is not fulfilling hopes of growing traffic.  But Jet Blue seems to be doing OK.

http://www.styleweek...ent?oid=1704212

[burt]

I will be returning to New York tomorrow (ironically, by train, despite my comment in this thread) burt I have learned that April traffic was up at RIC.

[crashvt03]

I was at the airport this past week flying in/out of the B concourse and I noticed that United has consolidated their operations so that they now use gates B1-B4 instead of having things split from there and further down the concourse near Delta.  Continental was using a couple of gates in the B1-B4 area so it made sense to move the United gates up there as well as there was no room to move the Continental gates down to United.  

With this move, I can easily envision a good area for Southwest/AirTran to move into if they decide to grow the number of flights out of RIC.  I could see JetBlue taking AirTran's gates in the A concourse and Southwest/AirTran taking all of the empty gates in the B concourse.  I think that would give them 6 gates which would be enough for a decent sized schedule.  Guess we'll just have to wait and see if anything materializes.