Logan Airport Flights and Airlines Discussion

KriterionBOS said:
Wonder if BOS can get Air China and Air India next...
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Air China very doubtful given they won't be able to get the authority to run Beijing to Boston or Shanghai to Boston.

Air India is also pretty doubtful, imo. If they came in Emirates and Qatar would take a big hit. Doubt the market is large enough to handle the capacity.
 
mass88 said:
Air China very doubtful given they won't be able to get the authority to run Beijing to Boston or Shanghai to Boston.
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I could see China Airlines/EVA Air making a run at BOS-Taipei or China Southern trying BOS-Guangzhou but that's about it for East Asia.
 
I tried out the Norwegian flights to Ireland/Northern Ireland out of PVD last week, I'd recommend them. They were both fully packed. I guess Norwegian is finding a market, despite flying between two small cities across the pond (I went to Belfast). They advertise it as Boston-Providence over there though.

Those 737s bounce around more then wide bodies, but i'll take the $400 round trips to Europe in the middle of summer.
 
adamh8297 said:
Primera Air will be adding 4 weekly Brussels to Boston next summer and its on 737 MAX 9 aircraft not the A321neo.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trav...u-s-flight-schedule-routes-europe/1050161002/
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Really interesting. I'd love to learn more about their strategy as I'm not sure what they're looking at in terms of a target demo. It could just be that Brussels is one of the largest unserved cities (for Boston, anyway - DC and NY have direct flights) in Western Europe. But it's not the leisure destination London or Paris is, nor is the narrow body low cost carrier going to appeal to business travelers who would likely prefer to connect over a direct on a 737.
 
Lrfox said:
Really interesting. I'd love to learn more about their strategy as I'm not sure what they're looking at in terms of a target demo. It could just be that Brussels is one of the largest unserved cities (for Boston, anyway - DC and NY have direct flights) in Western Europe. But it's not the leisure destination London or Paris is, nor is the narrow body low cost carrier going to appeal to business travelers who would likely prefer to connect over a direct on a 737.
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Should be though, great tourism destination
 
jass said:
Should be though, great tourism destination
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Can't agree with you more Jass. The food is better than you can get in Paris or London and the "BEER" is without equal.
 
Lrfox said:
Really interesting. I'd love to learn more about their strategy as I'm not sure what they're looking at in terms of a target demo. It could just be that Brussels is one of the largest unserved cities (for Boston, anyway - DC and NY have direct flights) in Western Europe. But it's not the leisure destination London or Paris is, nor is the narrow body low cost carrier going to appeal to business travelers who would likely prefer to connect over a direct on a 737.
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Many people over on airliners.net have mentioned Boston is the largest unserved market from Brussels in North America, or at least one of the 2 or 3 unserved.

Hopefully this service does well and they extend the season next year.
 
I think for tourism, lots of people will just pick the cheapest ticket to Europe and take cheap Ryanair flights or trains from there.
 
mass88 said:
Air China very doubtful given they won't be able to get the authority to run Beijing to Boston or Shanghai to Boston.
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Would that be because Hainan already has that route? I noticed that while Hainan flies to JFK, they fly to small cities I've never heard of (prolly still 10 million plus population tho, lol). JFK gets Air China, China Southern, China Eastern to Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai so I guess its just one foreign carrier per route or something???

Air India is also pretty doubtful, imo. If they came in Emirates and Qatar would take a big hit. Doubt the market is large enough to handle the capacity.
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Being a Bangladeshi, I can tell you that desis will always fly Emirates, Qatar, Etihad over Air India, PIA, or Biman Bangladesh, lol. Well nevermind, some people will take the nonstop over having to switch planes in the Gulf.
 
Lrfox said:
Really interesting. I'd love to learn more about their strategy as I'm not sure what they're looking at in terms of a target demo. It could just be that Brussels is one of the largest unserved cities (for Boston, anyway - DC and NY have direct flights) in Western Europe. But it's not the leisure destination London or Paris is, nor is the narrow body low cost carrier going to appeal to business travelers who would likely prefer to connect over a direct on a 737.
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I am not sure about their strategy. I think the largest unserved Western European tourist destination from Boston is Vienna.
 
Smartiro said:
I am not sure about their strategy. I think the largest unserved Western European tourist destination from Boston is Vienna.
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Vienna might be too far for a narrow body.

Id also say that Athens is a big unserved city. Both for tourism and ethnic travel.
 
tysmith95 said:
Vienna might be too far for a narrow body.

Id also say that Athens is a big unserved city. Both for tourism and ethnic travel.
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Athens is largest unserved European City by far - Almost 70K passengers a year but its so much further away than everything else. Milan has to be a distant number 2.

O+D data may show Edinburgh as number 2 though it is served in Providence and may show a high number for Dusseldorf/Oslo since it was served last year.

The next tier is Geneva, Berlin and Stockholm. Then its probably a bunch of markets with 15-25K a year like Florence, Nice, Hamburg.
 
I think my dad is going to single handedly justify the new Jetblue flight to MEX. Hes already bought like 10 tickets lol
 
adamh8297 said:
Athens is largest unserved European City by far - Almost 70K passengers a year but its so much further away than everything else. Milan has to be a distant number 2.
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Yah i'd expect either Jetblue or Norwegian to serve this route once the A321LR's get delivered. Norwegian has 30 orders for A321LR's. Jetblue has the option to order some, although they haven't done anything regarding Trans-Atlantic.
 
tysmith95 said:
Yah i'd expect either Jetblue or Norwegian to serve this route once the A321LR's get delivered. Norwegian has 30 orders for A321LR's. Jetblue has the option to order some, although they haven't done anything regarding Trans-Atlantic.
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That might be a tough sell to people - an 8 hour and 45 minutes flight on a single aisle plane.
 
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