Miami International Airport

[MAH45462]

Surinam Airways resumes service to Miami on August 25th.

They will offer two flights a week between Miami and Paramaribo, Surinam via Aruba.

[mileageman]

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[spellbound]

United is in deep, deep trouble right now. Pretty fair bet that they'll fold or be absorbed by another airline before much longer.

[kevinkagy]

Originally Posted by spellbound

United is in deep, deep trouble right now. Pretty fair bet that they'll fold or be absorbed by another airline before much longer.

Kind of sad to think, but our economy is really bad right now. No more "flying the friendly skies with United". I remember, well not really remember since I'm not that old, but saw on this youtube video they're slogan was "The largest airline in the free world" for a period during the 80's. Apparently, Aeroflot was the largest airline at the time, but it was in the USSR.

[Roark]

Originally Posted by Hia-leah JDM

Oh my gosh, Im so surprised.

I'm surprised too! $100 Million, that's it!
Only 1.6% over budget when they are this far behind schedule? Pretty good for government work.

[MAH45462]

Originally Posted by mileageman

Southwest has announced increased nonstop service to Providence and Chicago from FLL, and new nonstop service to Las Vegas, Kansas City and Albany; All destinations under served or not served at all from MIA, and which would most likely see higher demand and fares at MIA than FLL. Once again, Southwest must be laughing at AA.

And competing with American for title of worst managed airline is United, which is closing FLL and PBI and consolidating at MIA, although not adding any new flights. If they can't maintain service at one of the nations busiest domestic airports in FLL, they might as well just liquidate the airline and shut down.

United is not adding flights (as of yet), but with larger planes, United's MIA capacity will increase more than 200% starting October 29th,

Also, American Airlines will soon apply with DOT to offer daily service to two new cities in Brazil, routed Miami-Salvador-Recife-Miami.

On September 15th, TAM will begin new daily non-stop service to Rio de Janeiro. Also, capacity on the Miami-Manaus route will be increased by more than 60% with a switch from a narrowbody A320 to a widebody 767-300ER. TAM is also planning to launch Miami-Brasilia flights in the first half of 2009.

Plus, Lufthansa has added an extra flight a week to their new Miami-Dusseldorf flights that start at the end of October thanks to strong demand. The route will now be flown daily - the only daily service between Dusseldorf and any city outside of Europe (not even New York has a daily flight). Not only that, but airberlin also flies the route, making it one of only two Miami-Europe routes flown with two competing European airlines (the other being London).

[kevinkagy]

Originally Posted by MAH45462

United is not adding flights (as of yet), but with larger planes, United's MIA capacity will increase more than 200% starting October 29th,

Also, American Airlines will soon apply with DOT to offer daily service to two new cities in Brazil, routed Miami-Salvador-Recife-Miami.

On September 15th, TAM will begin new daily non-stop service to Rio de Janeiro. Also, capacity on the Miami-Manaus route will be increased by more than 60% with a switch from a narrowbody A320 to a widebody 767-300ER. TAM is also planning to launch Miami-Brasilia flights in the first half of 2009.

Plus, Lufthansa has added an extra flight a week to their new Miami-Dusseldorf flights that start at the end of October thanks to strong demand. The route will now be flown daily - the only daily service between Dusseldorf and any city outside of Europe (not even New York has a daily flight). Not only that, but airberlin also flies the route, making it one of only two Miami-Europe routes flown with two competing European airlines (the other being London).

Wow, great news! That's a lot of visitors to Miami, thanks for the update as always!

[mileageman]

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[MAH45462]

I don't think Star will develop MIA as a hub again, but never say never.

Here are highlights of AA's MIA schedule changes this winter. AA's Miami hub is the only major U.S. hub operation that is growing this year. Also, in October 2008, not only will MIA have more daily seats than in October 2007, but Miami will have about 3,000 more daily seats than Orlando (compared to about 4,000 less last year). At this rate, MIA is on its way to claim title as Florida's biggest again.

Some of AA's schedule changes:
*10th daily flight to Dallas
*10th daily flight to LaGuardia
*9th daily flight to Washington/Reagan
*4th daily flight to Sao Paulo (for peak winter, December/January)
*3rd daily flight to Montego Bay
*2nd daily flight to St. Maarten
*Five extra flights a week to Rio de Janeiro
*Three extra flights a week to London
*Three extra flights a week to Santiago de Chile
*Three extra flights a week to Santiago de Caballeros
*Non-stop winter ski service to Eagle County, Colorado, three days a week.

Also, American Airlines will be using more 777s to Miami this winter. This includes 777s for the first time ever on the daily Madrid flight. They will also use 777s on three of the Sao Paulo flights and on one of the Santiago de Chile flights and one Bogota service.

[mileageman]

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[Hurricanes2010]

Good news with the MIC/airport train.

[dave8721]

On plans for new hotel and conference center at the aiport:

http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/080703/story1.shtml

Plans are on track for major private development of four sites at Miami International Airport

By Catherine Lackner
Plans are on track for major private development of four sites at Miami International Airport that could bring the county a half billion dollars, said Greg Owens, division director for real estate management in Miami-Dade's Aviation Department.
Four parcels are involved. The largest, 30 acres next to the Dolphin long-term garage, could become a conference center.
There's also nearly 3 acres for a 200-room hotel; the site of some airport offices and the existing hotel, which is to be renovated; and a service plaza of about 8 acres near LeJeune Road and Central Boulevard, planned for a gasoline station, dry cleaner and pet hotel.
Department representatives are to go before the county commission's Airport & Tourism Committee July 10 to seek approval on the plan's next step.
"We are hoping to issue an invitation to negotiate an expression of interest," Mr. Owens said. "This gives us more flexibility to negotiate with multiple parties. It's an international form of procurement; the requirements are not as strict as they would be in a request for proposals."
A developer must show it has completed a $300 million project and can get funding, he said.
After reviewing the profiles, "We then determine which companies we'd like to invite to phase two, which is to submit proposals," Mr. Owens said.
"We know what the industry is telling us that parcel could support, but we're not telling the industry what to build there," Mr. Owens said of the 30-acre site. "We want them to propose what will generate the most revenue for them and for the department as well.
"The conference center was suggested, and that's what the industry has told us will work there. If the conference center were located on the grounds of the airport, that would be more advantageous because we could have fly-in conferences. But, again, we want the industry to propose what would work best there."

[mileageman]

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[massp88]

Originally Posted by MAH45462

United is not adding flights (as of yet), but with larger planes, United's MIA capacity will increase more than 200% starting October 29th,

Also, American Airlines will soon apply with DOT to offer daily service to two new cities in Brazil, routed Miami-Salvador-Recife-Miami.

On September 15th, TAM will begin new daily non-stop service to Rio de Janeiro. Also, capacity on the Miami-Manaus route will be increased by more than 60% with a switch from a narrowbody A320 to a widebody 767-300ER. TAM is also planning to launch Miami-Brasilia flights in the first half of 2009.

Plus, Lufthansa has added an extra flight a week to their new Miami-Dusseldorf flights that start at the end of October thanks to strong demand. The route will now be flown daily - the only daily service between Dusseldorf and any city outside of Europe (not even New York has a daily flight). Not only that, but airberlin also flies the route, making it one of only two Miami-Europe routes flown with two competing European airlines (the other being London).

Give it time, in 8 months one of the 2 will cut the MIA-DUS route. My money is LH or Lufthansa will survive, the MIA-German market is not big enough to support 2 flights to DUS.

[Paul305]

Huge aerial of the Rental Car Center from the MIC website:

[spellbound]

Originally Posted by mileageman

Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago, El Al announced that they are canceling Miami. The problem was the equipment, many frequent fliers preferred making a stop as it was unpleasant to be on on old run-down 767 for so long (plus it burned too much fuel).

I guess this re-opens our question of who has the longest non-stop out of MIA now that Miami/Tel Aviv is out of the picture.

I'm going out for a few beers and expect an answer by the time I return!

[Paul305]

The MIA Mover has officially started construction.

[mileageman]

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[kevinkagy]

Thanks for the updates on the MIC Paul305!

[massp88]

Originally Posted by mileageman

Unfortunately a couple of weeks ago, El Al announced that they are canceling Miami. The problem was the equipment, many frequent fliers preferred making a stop as it was unpleasant to be on on old run-down 767 for so long (plus it burned too much fuel).




MIAMI

Fliers flow more quickly through security

Travelers at Miami International are passing through the security checkpoints at a faster pace, says the top Transportation Security Administration official overseeing the airport.

Redesigning the checkpoints and tinkering with staffing policy largely did the trick, according to Mark Hatfield, TSA's federal security director for Miami.

In February, only 26% of passengers waited 10 minutes or less at its eight checkpoints. Since May, about 90% of passengers wait 10 minutes or less, he says.

TSA employees at MIA used to work full time, leading to some idle time between peak travel periods.

Now, about a quarter of its employees work part time, allowing the TSA to assign more people to the checkpoints during busy hours.

A mobile unit of TSA officers was also formed to be deployed to busy spots throughout the day, particularly to Terminals D and E, which process more than 60% of the airport's traffic.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/fligh...orthwest_N.htm




Also... Boeing to place a 787 training center in Miami, one of only six cities in the world, and the only one of those cities that doesn't have an airline based there that ordered the 787.

http://www.amtonline.com/article/art...tion=1&id=5946

Just to point something out, the reason this flight is being cut is due to the yields not being where they need to be for this route to make money. At 3 x a week, the loads were decent in the 70-85% depending on month with the bulk of the year being in the high 70s and low 80s. With fuel as high as it is and the gas guzzling 762 being on the route, El Al decided to cut the flight because it simply did not make any money. Also to note, there were not a large number of people connecting via various other U.S. cities, so that had nothing to do with the flight being cut. Also, EL AL has chosen to focus on markets that are more profitable than Miami, namely Los Anegeles (which has gone from 3 x weekly to 5 x weekly) and New York. El Al may be back once fuel drops, but I would say Miami will have no Tel Aviv service for at leats the next 2-3 years.