international airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
The FAA experienced an unpreceded outage Wednesday morning, delaying or canceling flights throughout the country. Though the White House has reported that a cyber-attack is not suspected, it does raise…
The Charlotte City Council has has delayed a vote on a $50 million contract to begin preliminary work on a new light rail line until results from the proposed arts-and-parks…
The good: From May 5th to August 21st, American Airlines will be offering a nonstop service between Charlotte (CLT) and San Jose, CA (SJC). The flight to California leaves Charlotte…
This time, it’s flights from Staunton, VA, also known as Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport. From the airport’s press release: The Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport (SHD) Commission announced today a new…
People have a love/hate relationship with airports. They love the mobility that scheduled air service provides but those that live near airports strongly object to the noise. Because of these…
The market reality is that the hub-and-spoke carriers (American, Delta, and United) are moving to bigger planes. This includes regional routes, with 76-seaters replacing 50-seat or smaller aircraft. If smaller…
The price of airline deregulation back in the 1970s was the Essential Air Service program, which guarantees air service (within certain limits) to communities that had scheduled air service at…
American Airlines currently has year-round service from Charlotte Douglas International Airport to 10 destinations in the Pacific and Mountain time zones: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Portland, Sacramento,…
November 30th, daily on an Airbus A319. The last time American or US Airways successfully added a destination with daily service from Charlotte in the Caribbean, Mexico, or Central America…
New Orleans, twice a week, year-round, starting November 18th. Allegiant seems to to doing OK in using Concord as a budget alternative to Charlotte Douglas International Airport to connect the…
If you look at 2016 aviation baseline, you’ll see that about 8 percent — 54 of 661 — of American Airlines’ flights out of its big Charlotte hub are still…
Here’s a summary of American Airlines fights from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) for Thursday, August 11, 2016: By aircraft type: Widebody: 8 (3 A330-300, 5 A330-200) Narrowbody mainline: 288…