It was just an Air Canada promo banner. Nothing unique to STL
Oh then by all means….I made up… I mean… HEARD whispers from a gate agent that St. Louis is going to become Air Canada’s South American gateway. 5x a day flights to Edmonton, Calgary, even Winnipeg coming soon. Not to mention Lima, Rio, and Bogotashadrach wrote:I know but don’t go ‘sprinkling on my magical think’ling.’
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Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto are their 3 hubsshadrach wrote: ↑May 03, 2024In one video from today’s celebration, I saw YVR was in highlighted (filled on) on the backdrop along with YZZ and YUL.
I thought is this a mistake? Reuse of an existing?Or something portentous?
https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/s ... 435913.php
SF Gate use a picture of St Louis to headline their coverage of SFO's new routes, the paragraph pertaining to St Louis reads:
"United Airlines is set to resume flying this summer from San Francisco International to a pair of midwestern business centers where it suspended service when the pandemic hit four years ago. On Aug. 19, United plans to begin SFO-Detroit and SFO-St. Louis service, with 13 flights a week in each market, using Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft. Delta currently operates daily SFO-Detroit flights, and Southwest recently started daily SFO-St. Louis service. Due to the former size of the archdiocese, St. Louis is sometimes referred to as the Rome of the West."
SF Gate use a picture of St Louis to headline their coverage of SFO's new routes, the paragraph pertaining to St Louis reads:
"United Airlines is set to resume flying this summer from San Francisco International to a pair of midwestern business centers where it suspended service when the pandemic hit four years ago. On Aug. 19, United plans to begin SFO-Detroit and SFO-St. Louis service, with 13 flights a week in each market, using Airbus A319 and A320 aircraft. Delta currently operates daily SFO-Detroit flights, and Southwest recently started daily SFO-St. Louis service. Due to the former size of the archdiocese, St. Louis is sometimes referred to as the Rome of the West."
When considering only trips with a single airline, Montreal is now the fastest trip to London (LHR), Madrid (MAD), and Dublin (DUB).
LHR
MAD
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March numbers for STL
Passengers
Up 11.9% vs March 2023
Up 9.2% YTD vs 2023
Up 2.2% vs March 2019
Down 2.2% YTD vs 2019
Passengers last 12 months: 15,176,222
Passengers
Up 11.9% vs March 2023
Up 9.2% YTD vs 2023
Up 2.2% vs March 2019
Down 2.2% YTD vs 2019
Passengers last 12 months: 15,176,222
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Well . . . at least we're catching up on 2019 numbers. Glad to see the month is finally up. Is this the first month up over 2019? Generally looks to be moving in the right direction again.
October 2023 was up vs 2019. But hopefully this starts a run of months above it.symphonicpoet wrote: ↑May 06, 2024Well . . . at least we're catching up on 2019 numbers. Glad to see the month is finally up. Is this the first month up over 2019? Generally looks to be moving in the right direction again.
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^Hey, I very much hope there's still enough time to finish up for the year. 
Glad it wasn't the first. And while that's a little bit of a gap, it's good to see a few in somewhat closeish proximity.
Glad it wasn't the first. And while that's a little bit of a gap, it's good to see a few in somewhat closeish proximity.Good to see Gojet expanding. Even if it isn't flights.
https://www.audacy.com/kmox/news/local/ ... rt-airport
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A St. Louis-based airline is expanding their operations at Lambert International Airport.
GoJet Airlines, which has been a part of aviation community since it was founded in St. Louis almost 43 years ago, are getting a new FAA certification to let them be a maintenance provider for every aircraft coming in to Lambert.
"We have a great depth of experience, highly skilled leadership, highly-skilled long term technician bases of people here in St. Louis," said GoJet President and CEO Rick Leach on Total Information A.M. "It was an opportunity to expand the services for us to get our 145 certificate, which is the certificate that allows us to provide maintenance and heavy repair and overhaul work to other regional airlines or either other large airlines around the country. So it's an opportunity for us to expand our reach."
Leach says the expansion will lead to the airline adding about 150 jobs with GoJet expecting the expansion to be fully up and operational with six lines of heavy maintenance and MOD lines by Mid-July. The expansion will also eliminate the need for airlines to "contract out" heavy maintenance work.
"There's a need for high quality service. And for a 121 carrier like GoJet to be able to also to offer that service to the industry is very positive because there's only one other regional that has this certification," said Leach.
Most of the jobs that will be coming from the expansion will be what the airline calls Air Frame and Power Plant (A&P) Mechanics, which is a license designation for a highly skilled maintenance technician. Leach says the airline is still looking for pilots and along that, they will offer an apprentice program for people that have a mechanical aptitude
"We can bring them in and begin to train them to the level to where they can receive their A&P certification with our mentorship and guidance and training. so about maybe 20% of those jobs would be those kind," said Leach. "But the majority of those jobs are all going to be those highly skilled A&P mechanics that are really good high paying jobs in this field."
https://www.audacy.com/kmox/news/local/ ... rt-airport
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A St. Louis-based airline is expanding their operations at Lambert International Airport.
GoJet Airlines, which has been a part of aviation community since it was founded in St. Louis almost 43 years ago, are getting a new FAA certification to let them be a maintenance provider for every aircraft coming in to Lambert.
"We have a great depth of experience, highly skilled leadership, highly-skilled long term technician bases of people here in St. Louis," said GoJet President and CEO Rick Leach on Total Information A.M. "It was an opportunity to expand the services for us to get our 145 certificate, which is the certificate that allows us to provide maintenance and heavy repair and overhaul work to other regional airlines or either other large airlines around the country. So it's an opportunity for us to expand our reach."
Leach says the expansion will lead to the airline adding about 150 jobs with GoJet expecting the expansion to be fully up and operational with six lines of heavy maintenance and MOD lines by Mid-July. The expansion will also eliminate the need for airlines to "contract out" heavy maintenance work.
"There's a need for high quality service. And for a 121 carrier like GoJet to be able to also to offer that service to the industry is very positive because there's only one other regional that has this certification," said Leach.
Most of the jobs that will be coming from the expansion will be what the airline calls Air Frame and Power Plant (A&P) Mechanics, which is a license designation for a highly skilled maintenance technician. Leach says the airline is still looking for pilots and along that, they will offer an apprentice program for people that have a mechanical aptitude
"We can bring them in and begin to train them to the level to where they can receive their A&P certification with our mentorship and guidance and training. so about maybe 20% of those jobs would be those kind," said Leach. "But the majority of those jobs are all going to be those highly skilled A&P mechanics that are really good high paying jobs in this field."
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^Very nice bit of news! I was just reading that on my phone. You beat me to it!
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Full MRO operations is very important. Great development for STL.
If we can't get the cargo I think we should have maybe we can get some maintenance growth.gone corporate wrote: ↑May 08, 2024Full MRO operations is very important. Great development for STL.
Out of the Fox 2 article
“When you take all of these partners together and you think about all the growth and the transformation that’s happening, this next decade, in my opinion, is going to be the decade this airport deserves and probably the best decade we’ve seen,” Hamm-Niebruegge said.
Best decade we have seen might be a stretch but I do agree the next decade has potential to be really big for the airport from a variety of angles.
First time to comment, but one overall theme is momentum for stl. Rhonda is doing great things for the airport and deserves so much praise.
https://onemileatatime.com/news/iberia-airbus-a321xlr/
Aer Lingus definitively not getting the first a321xlr. They are still in line for 6 of the first 14 if they can work out labor issues.
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Aer Lingus definitively not getting the first a321xlr. They are still in line for 6 of the first 14 if they can work out labor issues.
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Where will GoJet's maintenance hanger be? I notice they park a lot of ERJ next to the old McDonnell Douglas building at the northern end of the airport. Hopefully, they can refurbish that building/complex and use it.
That’s where their hanger is. Next to it.10-intuition wrote: ↑May 10, 2024Where will GoJet's maintenance hanger be? I notice they park a lot of ERJ next to the old McDonnell Douglas building at the northern end of the airport. Hopefully, they can refurbish that building/complex and use it.
Boeing is going to demolish the old one McDonald hanger and build a new one. They might also take over gojets footprint. If they do they have to pay to build gojet a new hanger somewhere else on property.
Curious, who was doing this work before? Where are these jobs coming from? Thanksjshank83 wrote: ↑May 08, 2024If we can't get the cargo I think we should have maybe we can get some maintenance growth.gone corporate wrote: ↑May 08, 2024Full MRO operations is very important. Great development for STL.
Out of the Fox 2 article
“When you take all of these partners together and you think about all the growth and the transformation that’s happening, this next decade, in my opinion, is going to be the decade this airport deserves and probably the best decade we’ve seen,” Hamm-Niebruegge said.
Best decade we have seen might be a stretch but I do agree the next decade has potential to be really big for the airport from a variety of angles.
And yet there are so many things that are relatively easy to fix.ProStl314 wrote: ↑May 09, 2024First time to comment, but one overall theme is momentum for stl. Rhonda is doing great things for the airport and deserves so much praise.
Try parking at the T2 garage. Half the time it is closed off even though there are dozens of clearly visible spots. They have to do shift-by-shift COUNTS of the cars. How on earth is it 2024 and we don't have a real time system to accurately account for all vehicles?
Because of this, and I called them, they still wouldn't let me in. Had to park at Lot E with 400 pounds of luggage, and over an hour for a Super Park shuttle to pick me up. Thankfully the flight was delayed.
Have to walk the equivalent of 3 blocks for a functioning water bottle filler.
Great Bagel Company still has the mismatched 'E' still, probably 4 years later.
Bathrooms are generally pretty filthy, and small. Elevators are run down and dirty. There is no cart rental before security that I found.
I really am looking forward to the next iteration of this airport. But there are some really easy fixes that are being completely ignored and have been for about a decade. Like, a clean bathroom has got to be the easiest of things to carry out, right? All of this to say, I know the new garage should alleviate some pain points, and hopefully they're looking ahead to implement emerging technology in the mix and not just status quo. Some sort of app or throughly placed display boards to direct you clearly to an available garage spot. Just in Phoenix last week, they have indicator lights above occupied stalls and bathrooms are OVERBUILT. Hopeful here.. the last few goes at T2 have been rather dismal. I am high on many things STL but between the general 'finish level' disrepair city wide and the airport experience have me at a lull in optimism.
Functionally, the whole thing 'works'. Passenger numbers are back up, which is fantastic. It's utilitarian. It's just not enjoyable outside of the short security lines. Compared to many airports I've been to of average MSA size what we have now is so rough, and they've let it get this rough that perhaps I'm a little pessimistic.
Anyways, probably not really even helpful for conversation but sharing my experience.
First time I’ve seen a layout put with a timeline. A bit quicker than I expected.
https://www.flystl.com/uploads/document ... 9-2024.pdf
https://www.flystl.com/uploads/document ... 9-2024.pdf
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I know that they plan to retain both MetroLink stations at the airport, but do we know what the plan is for the Terminal 2 station?
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If P1 is supposed to be completed late 28 doesn't that indicate 2026 construction start?
If so that is considerably earlier than i had thought.
Yes 2026 is the start. They are moving airlines out of A to C/D by end of 2025TheWayoftheArch_V2.0 wrote: ↑May 13, 2024If P1 is supposed to be completed late 28 doesn't that indicate 2026 construction start?