Originally Posted by
slowplay
Keep this in your files and revisit it in 2013. Prior to then the two terminals (C and D) are not physically connected. Kind of difficult to run a competitive connecting hub when your flights aren't able to connect except by bus in LGA terminal traffic.
The terminal construction project will take about a year and $100 million. That will modernize the 1980's Eastern (USAirways) terminal and connect it to our existing Terminal D.
Management couldn't have been much more ham-fisted in the way they presented this expansion to Delta employees. They sucked. The DCI "expansion" is 42 DCI slots moved from DCA, and the majority of the rest coming from JFK, then MEM. The LGA schedule includes a whole bunch of DCI RJ's replacing USAirways Express turboprops. One other thing, just because we have the new LGA slots from LCC doesn't mean we picked up their passengers. Their frequent flyers still have the option to go LCC through PHL, DCA and CLT.
FWIW.
If the USAir terminal is 1980s Eastern... what is ours?
As to LGA, I doubt many UsAir passengers chose LGA for connections over CLT and PHL anyways.
I doubt a bunch of these markets will be served by anything other than DCI now, so if you want to go to NY this is how you'll do it now out of hotspots like ROA and CHO. So we'll still get those plus maybe some international connections to JFK but we'll see.
Did I say we'll? I mean they. We're not included.
But what we will see is the cluster Orvil spoke of, that's a guarantee.