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Old 03-26-2013, 06:28 AM
 
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Marcellus Shale boom could restore link between Avoca airport, Pittsburgh - News - Citizens' Voice

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"Pittsburgh offers daily flights to traditional gas cities like Houston and Dallas," Monzo said. "In additional to all the public traffic, providing service from Pitt to regional airports would provide gas companies a more efficient route to get to and from drilling sites."

Starting April 14, two airlines operating at Pittsburgh International - United and SouthWest - will offer daily flights to Houston, Texas, confirmed airport spokeswoman JoAnn Jenny.

The airport services Dallas, Texas, through American Airlines, which Jenny said is a "very popular business route."
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Old 03-27-2013, 08:43 AM
 
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Marcellus Shale boom could restore link between Avoca airport, Pittsburgh - News - Citizens' Voice
Good Luck. People all over the country are clamoring for point to point (p-p) air travel, but outside of resort destinations where the airlines can make a commission on car rental, and golf/Disney world packages, p-p travel is vanishing.

As far as airlines are concerned it is not as much about traffic, as it is about infrastructure. They have an existing infrastructure at Philadelphia airport to serve small airports within 300 miles. After the USAir/AA merger they will have to determine what to do with the Piedmont division operating these old small SAAB turboprops (37 and 50 passengers). Scranton is their 3rd busiest route.

ppl/day City Miles to Philadelphia
162 Harrisburg, PA 84 miles
162 Newark, NJ 80 miles
133 Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, PA 104 miles
132 Ithaca/Cortland, NY 192
120 Salisbury, MD 107
116 New York, NY (LGA) 96 miles
113 Newport News/Williamsburg, VA 201
110 Newburgh/Poughkeepsie, NY 127
105 Islip, NY 130
102 New Haven, CT 157
98 Richmond, VA 198
97 Albany, NY 212
96 Binghamton, NY 166
95 White Plains, NY 115
92 Allentown/Bethlehem/Easton, PA 55 miles
79 Erie, PA 300
78 Williamsport, PA 129
76 Elmira/Corning, NY 180
73 Buffalo, NY 279
67 State College, PA 153
60 Roanoke, VA 311
56 Charlottesville, VA 210
47 Syracuse, NY 228
42 Norfolk, VA 212
37 Baltimore, MD 90 miles
35 Hartford, CT 196
33 Rochester, NY 257
25 Washington, DC 119

Scranton averages 133 ppl per day flying to Philadelphia and 123 ppl per day flying to Detroit. Now supposed you do a Origin and Destination study and you find that 35 people are actually trying to get to Pittsburgh. Plus you do a survey of companies who say they would gladly pay and extra $50 in airfare because the nonstop flight (243 miles) would make it easy to send somebody for the day since they wouldn't have to pay overnight per diem, hotel cost, etc. In addition you could increase traffic by 10 ppl/day because it would be much easier.

But the main reason that Piedmont network exists is that it brings 2400 people per day into Philadelphia airport. The ones who transfer to a plane to Pittsburgh help keep the airline running, but the profit comes from the people who transfer on a flight to Europe. Pittsburgh was abandoned as that kind of hub in 2004, and it isn't going to be restored as an international hub in the forseeable future. With American and USAir merging, they already have too many East Coast hubs.

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Old 03-31-2013, 08:46 PM
 
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My husband use to work for usairways and still as friends that do also. Since Usairways are the only ones that use to have a hub in Pittsburg and closed it as "Mainline" and went to express, they will not have a direct flight to Pittsburg from Scranton again.
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