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[bic]

Central Florida "Very Likely Location" for Virgin Spaceflights — Someday

[DeepEyez]

Airport gets on board with rail

Orlando International Airport is ready to start spending money to one day have a rail station for high-speed trains and possibly commuter and light-rail trains as well.

The Greater Orlando Aviation Authority board Wednesday approved $744,000 to expand and detail the airport's rail station proposal enough that the Florida Rail Commission soon can roll it into the state's overall rail plans.

MCO prepares for rail

Edited by DeepEyez, 20 October 2010 - 11:01 PM.

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After Less Than a Year at OIA, Allegiant Pulls Back to Sanford Airport

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AirTran Deal Big Loss to Community

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Fewer Take Disney's Free Ride From OIA

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Orlando Airport Traffic up 8.2% in Nov.

[prahaboheme]

Huge increase -- expect the same out of December.  I here they had record numbers all over the metro.

[gibby]

I'm really surprised that international was down.

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Copa Airlines to Expand Services in June

[gibby]

I thought that they had increased to three daily flight last month.

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Florida Airports Looking at Cuba

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Orlando Leaders Plan to Woo Southwest Execs

[DeepEyez]

That's going to fail, what in the world does Orlando have to offer that other airliner's haven't already declined?

bic, on 10 February 2011 - 12:32 AM, said:

Orlando Leaders Plan to Woo Southwest Execs

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DeepEyez, on 10 February 2011 - 10:28 PM, said:

That's going to fail, what in the world does Orlando have to offer that other airliner's haven't already declined?

They're not trying to lure Southwest's headquarters-- they just don't want WN to take over the hometown airline and drop all the management jobs while downsizing operations. Orlando has to try something to minimize the damage done after the merger, doesn't it? And AirTran saw enough in this city to want to set up shop so the effort is not that absurd.

[bic]

Changes on the Way at OIA? 'Airport of the Future' Hits Snag

[cloudship]

Always a few years behind.

Grand idea. Doesn't work. Beyond the obvious security issues (checking ids, matching luggage, etc.), the airline systems are so radically different that there is inherently going to be some kind of compromise.

More importantly, airlines have started (barely) realizing that their passengers are a little bit more than cargo. They are realizing that the service end is their only real chance to make a difference, and when airports force them all to become branding only, they loose any advantage they get. Airports have got to start realizing that the airport experience is a significant part of the travelers experience, and thus the airline really wants to make that much more pleasant. If airports dont want to keep fighting the airlines on fees, they have to start paying atte ntion to the airlines needs.

[gibby]

Looks like Avianca will finally start non stop flights to Bogota on July 12 (four flights per week).  I also heard that we were to get twice a week non stop flights to Port of Spain soon.

[shardoon]

my apologies for creating a new thread. i must be going crazy but i cant seem to find the airport thread.

in any case........ does anyone have an idea about when they intend to break ground on the new south terminal complex? ive read numerous sentinel articles about them waiting until they max out the existing terminal before they break ground. in those articles it always listed that even if built out and made 100% efficient, the existing complex capacity is 38 million. we are currently just shy of 36 million. this is 6 million more than we were pre 9/11 when they were about to pull the trigger on the expansion.

now i know that they just finished renovating the original 2 airsides, but the renovation was purely aesthetic. the southwest terminal can be built out for more gates......... but i believe the terminal capacity bottleneck really is the landside complex, which cannot be expanded more.

so now we are at just shy of 36 million, and by years end, we may very well be over 36 million. these numbers are also in a recession economy, i can only imagine what happens when it improves. does anybody know any more updated info regarding this?

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shardoon, on 06 August 2011 - 07:40 AM, said:

my apologies for creating a new thread. i must be going crazy but i cant seem to find the airport thread.

in any case........ does anyone have an idea about when they intend to break ground on the new south terminal complex? ive read numerous sentinel articles about them waiting until they max out the existing terminal before they break ground. in those articles it always listed that even if built out and made 100% efficient, the existing complex capacity is 38 million. we are currently just shy of 36 million. this is 6 million more than we were pre 9/11 when they were about to pull the trigger on the expansion.

now i know that they just finished renovating the original 2 airsides, but the renovation was purely aesthetic. the southwest terminal can be built out for more gates......... but i believe the terminal capacity bottleneck really is the landside complex, which cannot be expanded more.

so now we are at just shy of 36 million, and by years end, we may very well be over 36 million. these numbers are also in a recession economy, i can only imagine what happens when it improves. does anybody know any more updated info regarding this?

At this point, with the economy the way it is, they are waiting for more of a reason to do it. I believe they say they have other ways to continue to expand capacity at existing terminals... I believe they will likely wait until it can't wait anymore, or some sort of train system makes its way to the airport, whether it be a sunrail connector or eventual HSR train or what... it likely won't happen until we get a new governor as the funding just isn't going to come with Rick Scott around.

[prahaboheme]

Orlando International Airport gets OK on Cuba flights

http://www.bizjourna...rt-gets-ok.html