Orlando International Airport - Page 5

jzquince69 · February 8th, 2010, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Continental

Does anyone have photos of the current construction at Orlando Intl Airport? i remember going about a year ago, and all the concourse ceilings and floors were being ripped up. Whats the status?

Airside 3. I think its still going on. can't go in unless you're flying out thanks to Bin Laden.

Airside 1 was being renovated in the same fashion before that, but those renovations are complete. Airsides 2 & 4 are newer. Airsides 1 & 3 were the original airsides.

SkyDiveJunkee · February 8th, 2010, 11:35 PM

I flew out of OIA yesterday, back to Boston, and was surprised at how old the original airsides look in comparison. They have not aged well (exterior); value architecture is no value after 15 years.

jzquince69 · February 8th, 2010, 11:48 PM

the old terminals are akin to Hartsfield's airsides and the old ones at O'Hare; typical '60's, '70's, and early '80's styles, where they didn't give a cr@p about the airsides.

American gutted their airsides at O'Hare and retrofitted them to look newer with metal-looking walling and the terrazo floors and interior fake canopies that look cool; very northern city-ish. That's on the insides. On the outside, they look like they're from the '60's still.

Towersville · April 27th, 2010, 08:26 AM

I love this airport!!!

jzquince69 · April 27th, 2010, 08:45 PM

Yeah, I'm fond of it as well. Except for the security checkpoint to get to the airsides. It could be worse... try flying in and out of LaGuardia.

I think when Sunrail Phase II opens up and links directly into the Intermodal center, along with HSR, that will be a profound advancement for OIA. If I was GOAA, I would see if they could get Lynx to do a dedicated line from downtown all the way to Orlando Executive Airport once Sunrail opens up Phase II, so that they can adequately link their two airports via transit.

SkyDiveJunkee · April 27th, 2010, 09:32 PM

There's been talk of adding dedicated lanes to Colonial over to Baldwin Park, so an Executive Airport diversion would make sense if that were to happen.

jzquince69 · July 30th, 2010, 08:35 PM

see Orlando Business News thread about the Airtran news of the new operations center which opened up.

Also, on GoogleMap, you can see probably a couple month old aerial shot of the new rental facility on A & B sides of the terminal complex; pretty expansive.

DannyelBrazil · March 14th, 2012, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ukiyo

I recently was in MCO, and was in universal (i drive area etc) and i saw so many tourists, and the overwhleming majority seemed to be British and Brazilian. I wonder why Orlando is so popular for them.

Huge marketing of Disney in Brazil for decades, Florida is the chepeast destination in the "first world" and also the passion of Brazilian for Theme Parks and this kind of stuff.
Add to this that shopping is great since the price of some products in Brazil can be two or three time more expensive and now the economy of the "South American giant" is booming...

So, nice parks, nice shopping, nice city for people with reasonable amount of money to travel...
My tip: learn some Portuguese and earn lots of dollars.

---

Just loved MCO. Forget the guy who said he didn't see it well. People from South of Brazil is blind about "European perfectionism"...

ThatFloridaDude · March 25th, 2012, 11:42 PM

With the new Passenger Train will the Intermodal Center be built now? Along with the OIA Connector and Sunrail?

jzquince69 · July 20th, 2012, 08:07 PM

It looks like Allegiant Air, which had moved its operations from OSI to MCO a couple of years ago, decided to move back to OSI this past year. I'm actually glad b/c OSI would've lost a supermajority of its flights.

paul.c.martens · July 20th, 2012, 08:23 PM

I don't recall Allegiant ever leaving SFB. They just pulled out of MCO recently? Do you have an article link?

jzquince69 · July 20th, 2012, 09:15 PM

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...irtran-airways

it looks like they had initially moved 1/3 of their flights to MCO.

paul.c.martens · July 20th, 2012, 09:19 PM

So Allegiant is completely vacating MCO? Do you have a link for that article? Thought this happened in 2010.

jzquince69 · July 20th, 2012, 09:57 PM

I read an article- can't recall where that stated that their customers filled out complaint forms stating they preferred OSI to MCO so they moved operations back to OSI. I don't know how the extent- but it made it sound like all of their operations.

jzquince69 · July 22nd, 2012, 02:09 PM

MIA overtook MCO as the state's busiest in the past year. MIA also overtook JFK as having the most international traffic for the first time. The international traffic gave MIA the boost up to 38M passengers per year; OIA is around 35M. That being said, OIA is adding more international flights to South America every year, but, Miami is Miami.

jzquince69 · August 6th, 2012, 10:56 PM

Airside 3- one of the oldest two, was renovated recently. they've got tile floors now to the gates and a full restaurant- can't remember which. Big improvement. But, I would replace the panels surrounding the AGT terminal on both the airside and landside for Airside 1 and 3 to mirror the newer ones on the other side which are encased in glass and stainless steel. not sure how much that would cost.

mariekitty · September 7th, 2012, 06:19 AM

mmmh Ni idea que tan grande es.

Gracias

jzquince69 · September 27th, 2012, 07:49 PM

It looks like they are planning expansion/renovation of the existing terminal complex before the $1B South Terminal Complex is built.

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/p...o-provide.html

the video is no longer posted on the South Terminal proposal:

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/b...photos-of.html

jzquince69 · November 5th, 2012, 04:57 PM

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/n...ight-from.html

New daily service for Avianca to Bogota to begin December 17. Big growth since they began 4 days/week service back in June 2011.

jzquince69 · February 14th, 2013, 04:55 PM

Latest expansion plans article... $2.1B in planned expansions.

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/n...sion-plan.html

April 27th, 2010, 08:26 AM	#84
Towersville Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Pasto/Kansas City/Madrid Posts: 1,457 Likes (Received): 33	I love this airport!!! __________________ San Juan de Pasto D.C. ---T o w e r s V i l l e ---

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February 8th, 2010, 11:35 PM	#82
SkyDiveJunkee Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,501 Likes (Received): 10	I flew out of OIA yesterday, back to Boston, and was surprised at how old the original airsides look in comparison. They have not aged well (exterior); value architecture is no value after 15 years.

February 8th, 2010, 11:48 PM	#83
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	the old terminals are akin to Hartsfield's airsides and the old ones at O'Hare; typical '60's, '70's, and early '80's styles, where they didn't give a cr@p about the airsides. American gutted their airsides at O'Hare and retrofitted them to look newer with metal-looking walling and the terrazo floors and interior fake canopies that look cool; very northern city-ish. That's on the insides. On the outside, they look like they're from the '60's still.

April 27th, 2010, 08:45 PM	#85
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	Yeah, I'm fond of it as well. Except for the security checkpoint to get to the airsides. It could be worse... try flying in and out of LaGuardia. I think when Sunrail Phase II opens up and links directly into the Intermodal center, along with HSR, that will be a profound advancement for OIA. If I was GOAA, I would see if they could get Lynx to do a dedicated line from downtown all the way to Orlando Executive Airport once Sunrail opens up Phase II, so that they can adequately link their two airports via transit.

April 27th, 2010, 09:32 PM	#86
SkyDiveJunkee Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 1,501 Likes (Received): 10	There's been talk of adding dedicated lanes to Colonial over to Baldwin Park, so an Executive Airport diversion would make sense if that were to happen.

July 30th, 2010, 08:35 PM	#87
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	see Orlando Business News thread about the Airtran news of the new operations center which opened up. Also, on GoogleMap, you can see probably a couple month old aerial shot of the new rental facility on A & B sides of the terminal complex; pretty expansive.

July 20th, 2012, 08:07 PM	#90
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	It looks like Allegiant Air, which had moved its operations from OSI to MCO a couple of years ago, decided to move back to OSI this past year. I'm actually glad b/c OSI would've lost a supermajority of its flights.

July 20th, 2012, 08:23 PM	#91
paul.c.martens Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 204 Likes (Received): 1	I don't recall Allegiant ever leaving SFB. They just pulled out of MCO recently? Do you have an article link?

July 20th, 2012, 09:15 PM	#92
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...irtran-airways it looks like they had initially moved 1/3 of their flights to MCO.

July 20th, 2012, 09:19 PM	#93
paul.c.martens Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 204 Likes (Received): 1	So Allegiant is completely vacating MCO? Do you have a link for that article? Thought this happened in 2010.

July 20th, 2012, 09:57 PM	#94
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	I read an article- can't recall where that stated that their customers filled out complaint forms stating they preferred OSI to MCO so they moved operations back to OSI. I don't know how the extent- but it made it sound like all of their operations.

July 22nd, 2012, 02:09 PM	#95
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	MIA overtook MCO as the state's busiest in the past year. MIA also overtook JFK as having the most international traffic for the first time. The international traffic gave MIA the boost up to 38M passengers per year; OIA is around 35M. That being said, OIA is adding more international flights to South America every year, but, Miami is Miami.

August 6th, 2012, 10:56 PM	#96
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	Airside 3- one of the oldest two, was renovated recently. they've got tile floors now to the gates and a full restaurant- can't remember which. Big improvement. But, I would replace the panels surrounding the AGT terminal on both the airside and landside for Airside 1 and 3 to mirror the newer ones on the other side which are encased in glass and stainless steel. not sure how much that would cost.

September 7th, 2012, 06:19 AM	#97
mariekitty BANNED Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 345 Likes (Received): 8	mmmh Ni idea que tan grande es. Gracias

September 27th, 2012, 07:49 PM	#98
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	It looks like they are planning expansion/renovation of the existing terminal complex before the $1B South Terminal Complex is built. http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/p...o-provide.html the video is no longer posted on the South Terminal proposal: http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/b...photos-of.html

November 5th, 2012, 04:57 PM	#99
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/n...ight-from.html New daily service for Avianca to Bogota to begin December 17. Big growth since they began 4 days/week service back in June 2011.

February 14th, 2013, 04:55 PM	#100
jzquince69 jimmy Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: orlando Posts: 2,495 Likes (Received): 9	Latest expansion plans article... $2.1B in planned expansions. http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/n...sion-plan.html