KCI Flight Schedule Adjustments

[langosta]

Aer Lingus 2025 schedule is up next. BNA and RDU are listed as most likely with CMH, IND, and STL in the running per the best online "insiders" in this space.

[dev49]

Aer Lingus 2025 schedule is up next. BNA and RDU are listed as most likely with CMH, IND, and STL in the running per the best online "insiders" in this space.

Guess we will see who has the most incentive money to pay.

[dukuboy1]

Well Nashville is the capital of TN and it's most populated city. All of the attention and efforts goes to Nashville as the main focus of the state. Memphis gets some but really it is all Nashville. Plus the state has been very aggressive in luring businesses with sweet incentives and tax packages. Plus no state income tax for residents. They are "tiny TX" of sorts when it comes to their aggressive nature of development.

KC suffers that MO is less aggressive and that MO has 2 large cities to placate to in STL & KC. STL historically has garnered the attention more and that is still the case, although KC has been closing the gap slowly over the decades. Plus with the largest and most over affluent population in the state of KS being literally right across the street; KC plays state tug-o-war with MO & KS which generally holds us back and or creates a zero sum game for adding new businesses & jobs.

So Nashville's boom is understandable while KC's growth is nice & exciting, until it can really start to find the best way to throw it's weight around we will continue to grow slowly and at times shrink. Fingers crossed the growth continues and in regards to our airport it continues its success.

[hartliss]

Aer Lingus 2025 schedule is up next. BNA and RDU are listed as most likely with CMH, IND, and STL in the running per the best online "insiders" in this space.

Guess we will see who has the most incentive money to pay.

CLE is on the hook for almost 12MM if their Aer Lingus flights don’t meet monthly performance targets. The range of the Airbus XLR is roughly 5000 ish miles, KC to DUB is a little over 4000 miles. Initial tests weren’t promising on full range but I believe they have overcome that hurdle.

However, as others have pointed out - all about the $$$. Corporate support here is absent compared to other cities that have landed service.

https://www.cleveland.com/entertainmen ... disclosed.

[TheUrbanRoo]

Why doesn’t Kansas take that sports betting money they allocated for a sports team (that will literally never make a dent in it) and just get us to $15 mil so we can subsidize and international flight

[langosta]

Why doesn’t Kansas take that sports betting money they allocated for a sports team (that will literally never make a dent in it) and just get us to $15 mil so we can subsidize and international flight

because thats not how their law was written.

[dev49]

Southwest extends their schedule tomorrow for April and May. It’s going to be an interesting week with the rumors of a big network overhaul coming.

[DMNBT_RCJH]

KC does not need a direct Europe flight. It just doesn’t. It would be a stupid use of subsidies.

Connecting through any mainline east coast gateway hub (PHL for AA, EWR for UAL, etc.), with premium lounge access is a much nicer experience for the higher spenders than an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin.

[langosta]

KC does not need a direct Europe flight. It just doesn’t. It would be a stupid use of subsidies.

Connecting through any mainline east coast gateway hub (PHL for AA, EWR for UAL, etc.), with premium lounge access is a much nicer experience for the higher spenders than an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin.

There are real benefits. Is $12million worth it maybe not but I suspect KC wouldn’t offer that anyways.

[brewcrew1000]

KC does not need a direct Europe flight. It just doesn’t. It would be a stupid use of subsidies.

Connecting through any mainline east coast gateway hub (PHL for AA, EWR for UAL, etc.), with premium lounge access is a much nicer experience for the higher spenders than an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin.

I kind of agree. Would much rather have more frequency's to the big hubs over a single Europe flight. Even more frequent flights to mid tier places like San Diego, Pittsburgh, Boston would be much better

[langosta]

KC does not need a direct Europe flight. It just doesn’t. It would be a stupid use of subsidies.

Connecting through any mainline east coast gateway hub (PHL for AA, EWR for UAL, etc.), with premium lounge access is a much nicer experience for the higher spenders than an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin.

I kind of agree. Would much rather have more frequency's to the big hubs over a single Europe flight. Even more frequent flights to mid tier places like San Diego, Pittsburgh, Boston would be much better

Not really an “or” regarding mid-sized cities

[brewcrew1000]

Southwest extends their schedule tomorrow for April and May. It’s going to be an interesting week with the rumors of a big network overhaul coming.

Internal memo is saying they are cutting WN flights at ATL by 1/3rd, i would think MCI-ATL would be one of those cuts

[langosta]

KC to ATL was not cut

[brewcrew1000]

KC to ATL was not cut

It looks like WN really wants to grown BNA, 6 new routes from there

[dnweava]

KC to ATL was not cut

It looks like WN really wants to grown BNA, 6 new routes from there

You could just say Southwest and Nashville. This thread requires to much googling of letters.

[Anthony_Hugo98]

KC to ATL was not cut

It looks like WN really wants to grown BNA, 6 new routes from there

Having the new Crew base helps

[dev49]

KC to ATL was not cut

It looks like WN really wants to grown BNA, 6 new routes from there

Having the new Crew base helps

Agree with this. Once they announced the base there you knew it was going to grow pretty fast.


Saw on another site some post our numbers for this update.

Friday 67 flights
Saturday 63 flights
Sunday 79 flights

A little disappointing to me, was hoping we would be over 80, let alone over 70, consistently by now but that hasn’t been the case. Columbus on Sunday is back so there is that.

[KCPowercat]

Is there still talk of an SWA crew base in KC?

[langosta]

Is MBJ and MSP still out of this extension? Looks so to me

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