US apre ATH, ZRH e BRU

[landingFCO]

Nuovo step di espansione in Europa, per il 2007 sembrano essere previste :

ATH con A333 (stagionale)
ZRH con B762 (annuale)
BRU con B752 (annuale)


Ancora non ufficiale, ma dati i dettagli delle informazioni credo lo sarà presto. Sempre se US raggiungerà determinati accordi per il terminal a PHL
http://www.airliners.net/discussions....main/3063981/

[skyrobbie]

Ale qui mi hai preceduto! ehehehehe...

[landingFCO]

Alcune note :

- BRU era già operata fino a inizi anni '00, con B762. Positivo che venga data una seconda opportunità. Il 757 sembra sia una scelta obbligata, non tanto per capacità quanto per range. Altre destinazioni più lontane necessitano invece il B762 che già sono contatissimi. Comunque se confermato BRU avrebbe tutte le 6 big statunitensi (UA 763 su IAD, AA 763 su ORD-JFK, CO 764 su EWR, DL 763 su JFK-ATL, US 752 su PHL, NW 752 su DTW).

- ZRH, era quella più chiacchierata, e quasi una destinazioni scontata ora che US collega circa 20 destinazioni in Europa e dato il nuovo status di hub Star Alliance di Zurigo.

- ATH. E' una sorpresa, non per le potenzialità della rotta o del mercato greco, anzi. E' una sorpresa se riuscissero a spuntarla in quanto CO è anni che cerca di collegare Newark alla capitale ellenica senza successo. Infatti tra Grecia e U.S.A. non ci sono accordi di opensky, e il vettore individuato al momento lato americano è Delta Air Lines che collega JFK (quest'anno pure con frequenze supplementari in alta stagione) e stagionalmente ATL da quest'anno (con grossi riscontri)**. La scelta della macchina, 333, è abbastanza anomala per una rotta stagionale, ma evidentemente c'è traffico a sufficienza. Ho paura però che avranno delle limitazioni di carico, specie sul cargo, perchè già su Roma volano giusti giusti. Ci sarà sicuramente un giro di macchine l'anno prossimo, con nuovi 757 per liberare 767.



** a proposito di DL ad ATH :


Athens - Atlanta daily service from May 16th, 2007

Delta’s non-stop service between Athens and Atlanta, which was launched in May this year as part of Delta’s largest ever international expansion, will continue as part of the airline’s 2007 summer schedule in addition to Delta’s year-round non-stop service between Athens and New York / JFK.

From 16 May 2007 until the end of October the flight will be operated by a Boeing 767-300ER aircraft. “Since its launch on 30 May this year, the Athens-Atlanta flight has become a real success with one of the highest load factors in Delta’s network and from Athens International Airport”, Dimitris Karagioules, Delta’s Commercial Director for Greece and Cyprus stated. “Delta is committed to the Greek market, and following the phenomenal demand we have seen from our customers, I am delighted to announce the return of our Athens-Atlanta service.”

Even with a more than 20 percent increase in international capacity, Delta was successful in increasing trans-Atlantic and Latin America passenger unit revenues during the June quarter compared to the prior year and filled 83 percent of its international seats in June, July and August combined.

“In total more than 3 million customers chose to fly Delta this summer on international routes, representing a nearly 30 percent increase over 2005,” said Glen Hauenstein, Delta’s executive vice president – Network and Revenue Management. “The continued support of our customers enables us to confidently continue our international expansion in 2007.”

With its 2007 expansion, Delta will operate service to more trans-Atlantic destinations than any other U.S. carrier and will strengthen its position as the airline serving the most worldwide destinations. In total, Delta will serve 36 trans-Atlantic destinations by summer 2007 and will offer worldwide service to more than 300 cities.

Delta’s upcoming expansion also increases to 16 the number of trans-Atlantic routes where Delta is the only major U.S. carrier to operate nonstop service, resulting in more direct routings to offer time savings to customers.

“We believe that our customers’ most valuable commodity is their time,” Grinstein said. “By serving destinations like Bucharest and Pisa/Florence nonstop, we return to our customers millions of hours each year that they can spend with their families or advancing their business that otherwise would have been spent making international flight connections.”

Delta’s new flights between New York-JFK and Bucharest, for instance, will reduce travel times by more than four hours in each direction when compared to connections on other major airlines via Europe.

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US Airways to hire more workers to fix Phila. baggage service
By Tom Belden
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER


US Airways is hiring more than 250 additional employees, including tripling the number of managers, to try to solve its baggage-service problems at Philadelphia International Airport, company executives said today.

The airline, Philadelphia's largest, also identified three European cities - Athens, Greece; Brussels, Belgium; and Zurich, Switzerland - where it plans to start flying nonstop from Philadelphia next year if it can get additional airport gates.

President Scott Kirby said US Airways was "very hopeful" that it would settle within the next two weeks a dispute it has had with airport officials over use of gates in Terminal A-East. The airport wants to move Delta Air Lines to A-East from Terminal E so Southwest Airlines can expand its service. US Airways has objected to that, saying gates in A-East should be reserved for international flights.

Airline officials devoted about a third of its third- quarter earnings conference call with analysts and reporters to a progress report on what it was doing to solve Philadelphia's chronic baggage service problems. US Airways baggage performance in Philadelphia has been the worst in its system, with a lost-luggage rate almost four times the airline's as a whole.

In the last week, changes in procedures and staffing have cut the average time customers wait for inbound checked bags to about 20 minutes, compared with almost an hour for many flights recently, Kirby said.

US Airways reported a net loss of $78 million, or 8 cents a share, on revenues of $2.97 billion for the third quarter. Excluding special items, the company had a net profit of $101 million, or $1.09 a share. Comparable financial results for last year's quarter are not available because the airline had emerged from bankruptcy Sept. 27, 2005.

Shares of US Airways were up 63 cents to $49.14 in morning trading on the Nasdaq

- PHILLY.COM -

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/business/15854768.htm

[skyrobbie]

il volo su PHL-BRU di US durò poco a causa degli scarsi risultati ottenuti, evidentemente con il 757 il vettore ha valutato che un rientro sulla destinazione può essere profittevole.

[landingFCO]

Sì il 757 è una macchina più economica per operarvi il lungo raggio, anche se bisogna però rinunciare a qualche posto in biz e a una quota di cargo.

[wondo]

Ale c'è una remota possibilità che USAirways incrementi il VCE-PHL ad annuale?? Visto i buoni risultati di 2 estati consecutive..