Portland International Jetport | PWM

2018 wins with 166,526 as the all time high in Nov. short of 7,611. Still 2024 will be the banner year, and without counting Dec numbers, CY 2024 is 63.9K more than total of CY 2023 (2,218,441.00) as of right now with (2,282,368.00)!
 
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Avelo will put PWM over the top for next year! OK, maybe not. :)
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I lived and worked in midtown for 5 years and always had to figure out a way to get up to Portland (flights were too expensive) for select weekends. Usually, it was the Concord Coach limo bus, and it's great. The drivers are nice and before Covid the snacks etc in the back were a delight. Love the big seats with lots of leg room. The drivers haul ass too, and several times made it to 42nd and 1st in 5 hours 15 min. My Plan B was the commuter train up to New Haven and then rent a car. I don't see people flying into New Haven to take a commuter or Amtrak train into the city. That's just over 2 hours and then the timing of it for when it leaves can be another hour. Usually, La Guardia is only a 20 minute Uber or Taxi to midtown. I don't think there are many Mainers with a reason to visit Yale or do business in Stamford. I guess the airline thinks it can draw people into New Haven for the eventual train ride to midtown. I'd rather take Concord Coach and relax/sleep in the big chairs (2 then 1 across) and/or watch movies while using my phone. So, if you factor in an hour before getting on a plane at the Jetport, the hour in the air, the hour to time it for a train to the city, the two hour ride, it comes to over 5 hours. Take the limo bus.
 
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I lived and worked in midtown for 5 years and always had to figure out a way to get up to Portland (flights were too expensive) for select weekends. Usually, it was the Concord Coach limo bus, and it's great. The drivers are nice and before Covid the snacks etc in the back were a delight. Love the big seats with lots of leg room. The drivers haul ass too, and several times made it to 42nd and 1st in 5 hours 15 min. My Plan B was the commuter train up to New Haven and then rent a car. I don't see people flying into New Haven to take a commuter or Amtrak train into the city. That's just over 2 hours and then the timing of it for when it leaves can be another hour. Usually, La Guardia is only a 20 minute Uber or Taxi to midtown. I don't think there are many Mainers with a reason to visit Yale or do business in Stamford. I guess the airline thinks it can draw people into New Haven for the eventual train ride to midtown. I'd rather take Concord Coach and relax/sleep in the big chairs (2 then 1 across) and/or watch movies while using my phone. So, if you factor in an hour before getting on a plane at the Jetport, the hour in the air, the hour to time it for a train to the city, the two hour ride, it comes to over 5 hours. Take the limo bus.
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I do think that overall it would be ridiculous, but I can think of another use case for it: taking the train to Fordham or another college on the Metro North system. No sense in going all the way to midtown if you're trying to get to Fairfield or the Bronx. My brother used to do that at times: take Amtrak BOS-Stamford and then change trains. At $39++ for the flight, $14.50 for the train and the cost of the Uber across New Haven, it could actually be a cheap option and give you more time before leaving Portland relative to driving or other means.
 
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Location of HVN's new terminal which is still a few years away and the lengthening of its runway to 6635'.
 
The residents of East Haven fought the runway extension for many years and eventually lost after the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in favor of the airport and the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case. The airport was built in 1931 so anyone building or buying homes in the area since then probably knew the potential risk with having an airport as their neighbor.
 
New Haven has grown in the last 10 years. It was not the place to go 20 years ago. I remember The New Haven Ravens came to play the Maine Mariners back in the early 80s and remembered watching them play at the coliseum. Things have changed and Avelo has found a niche just like what Frontier did to Trenton NJ. The airline is going to add routes in the future but wanted to see if anyone from the Greenwich and the Metro North corridor want to come to Maine. Less than an hour and no huge expenses. Hey, the investors gave it a green light. Now, Elite Airways tried ISP as did Breeze, maybe this might work, who knows. But now this allows my family member who goes to Quinnipiac, a way home quicker..
 
Think I may bid on the Inbound Baggage Carousel Replacement seeing that I normally check my luggage and have a decent idea on how it should operate along with my experience as a former PWM ramp agent in the 90's. Does this mean that the FIS facility will actually be under construction during 2026?
 
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If FFY means Federal Fiscal Year, FFY 2026 would begin October 1, 2025. But if they're advertising for design services for projects dated FFY 2025 (which we're already in), I have to think that's when the design will be worked on? Are they going to relocate the access road and reconstruct the apron in the next year if there's no design yet?
 
Did anyone else see the news of the Houston (IAH) new service announcement today on United?
Looks to be the typical seasonal Saturday/weekend add, but it's a great add of a large market and for connectivity to points south and west!
Flight doesn't look to be loaded yet, so not sure if it's on mainline or regional aircraft.

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I have been asking for this for several years.... This is big that we have DFW and IAH . This is going to make the folks over at MHT even more angry...
 
In other not-so-good news...It looks like Frontier has substantially gutted PWM....cutting seasonal CVG, ORD, PHL and RDU.... Unless new routes are announced, they'll only operate 2x weekly to MCO for the summer.
 
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Those routes were ended several months ago, Frontier is also in midst of changing with added first class as with gutting other cities as well. With Avelo coming in and Sun Country adding additional flights to MSP, the slots probably were not available for the gates and did not work out for Frontier. I bet they will stick to the we will be back in the fall time timeframe, take the summer off and start back up with MCO and TPA, which make money vs the other low performing routes. Maybe DEN will come back to offer more of a west coast connection than MCO
 
My other thought is that Frontier let the Jetport know that is cutting back for the Summer, so to fill the slots for the gate, the Jetport put out its feelers which allowed Avelo to come in to fill the gap.
 
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