I was just headed back from MCO to Charlotte remember they have one terminal but yes it’s busy af.
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It’s also worth noting the new measurements between the terminal and airport service lanes. For comparison, right now, the 209’ overhangs the service lane by quite a lot. The new international gates will allow for 4 of the LONGEST passenger aircraft type to sit there at once without overhang, plus another 3 spots that will be able to handle the 777-200ER without any overhang. In fact, if you decided to let some overhang occur, you’d be able to have 24 Boeing 767-300ERs in at once. Without overhang, that’s still 13 767-300ERs they can fit in there at once.
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Exactly, CLT flyers are hub captive and AA can dictate prices due to little to no competition on most routes.
We are better off not having one of the legacy airlines make RDU a hub. The RDU team has been pretty great at working with many airlines on landing routes. That said, budget airlines making RDU a focus city are a different story as they won’t take the business travelers, they’ll just provide good cheap options for leisure routes.
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You hit the nail on the head. My points are with American, which is great because I can fly direct to where my family is (Philly) but also easily connect in Charlotte to get pretty much anywhere in the country. If the AA flights to Philly are outrageous then I can fly Frontier, which also flies direct. But signing up for Delta points, for example, would make sense for other travelers. We have choices here that we wouldn’t have in hub cities, especially ones like Charlotte and Atlanta where one airline dominates.
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I flew to Las Vegas in early June on United and was surprised to find that going out of Charlotte was $100 cheaper than RDU. Guess cause I was not using there hub airline? In past flights out of RDU were always cheaper. Main thing I complain about flying right now is the cost, Before covid LV was +/- 300 not 900, Another trip I made often(before covid) made was RDU to Shanghai/. Use to be $1000 economy-plus and when last I looked. a month ago was $8000. But that was better is better than early 2023 when was $16,000!!! I got all excited when RDU first started talking about now 12,000 foot runway for direct flights to China, again before covid.
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No doubt prices are high, and planes full!
Just looked on Expedia and flights from RDU to Shanghai are $1000. Maybe time for you to take a trip lol
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Someone has mentioned that the Lufthansa Group (Lufthansa, Discover, Austrian, Brussels, Eurowings, Edelweiss, Swiss) may be adding roughly 6 routes to North America next summer, likely being announced Sept 12. It’s said that LH Group been in recent discussions with CHS & RDU and multiple sources have allegedly said that these two destinations will be added from FRA via Lufthansa or Discover. I can’t say if it’s true or not, but we can always just be on the lookout. I have high hopes knowing RDU was in discussions for FRA & AMS in 2019/2020, with RDU’s traffic now even higher than ever.
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I fairly regularly fly between Miami and RDU midweek in the evenings, and have done for many years, and I rarely pay more than $200 round trip on AA.
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Confirmed by ABC11, RDU will be announcing a new airline with a new international route tomorrow. Lufthansa’s summer schedule goes out tomorrow, so I assume it is FRA. I’d probably expect the announcement around 10
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Looks like officially RDU-FRA 5x weekly starting in June. Never thought I’d see Frankfurt before San Diego.
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Woooo awesome and unexpected!
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5x weekly seems like a lot, but pumped for it. There are a lot of NC-Germany connections.
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So this begs the question if the Mayor’s comment about BRT to the airport is an actual study or not. Because we’re not getting rail transit anytime soon.
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I wonder what roads it would go on and will the transit tax cover it? Now I know the wake county isn’t working in a transit bond for next year the city is.
It’s too bad Glenwood is such a shitshow between Saint Mary’s and Downtown such that any ROW acquisition is practically impossible. That would really be the perfect route.
**after consideration there’s less direct routes that would hit more services and amenable populations (eg not through snootyville) like Wade>Blue Ridge >Crabtree>Glenwood, but you get the point
The existing GoTriangle 100 uses the I-40 BOSS lanes for RDU-NCSU-DTR. Why not use the future Western busway + I-40? Add in an Edwards Mill Rd extension (expensive since it has to cross over NC RR, but a big boon for connectivity) and you could hit up PNC Arena as well.
Other express bus routes could use 540 north to TTC/East Wake or 540 west to South Wake.
For local/rapid trips to/within north Raleigh, the idea with the Wake BRT Northern Corridor is to use Capital as an ITB trunk route that then splits into several local routes OTB: Capital, Six Forks, possibly Glenwood.
Trips ITB are usually short enough that they don’t benefit that much from BRT rather than just more frequent local bus.
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RDU-FRA starting June 6th on an A333, 5x weekly
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This is huge, love it and makes my life a lot easier to fly home to Austria 
Quite a statement for RDU and the region too
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From FlyRDU’s Instagram (Promo): Raleigh-Durham Int'l Airport on Instagram: "Now boarding to Germany... and beyond! 🇩🇪 @lufthansa will fly nonstop from RDU to Frankfurt (@frankfurtairport) 5x/weekly beginning June 6, 2024. Flyers can connect onward to Europe, India, the Middle East and more through the @staralliance network."
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