Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport is expanding its arsenal of direct, daily flights this summer.
On June 7, daily flights from GSP to Denver International Airport will take off for the first time starting at 6 a.m. With the time change, Greenville passengers will arrive in Denver at 7:31 a.m.
The announcement comes two months after GSP started daily flights to Miami.
The new nonstop flight will bring its first daily load of up to 76 passengers from Denver to Greenville on June 6, arriving here at 10:38 p.m., according to a statement from GSP spokesman Dudley Brown. Flights from Greenville to Denver on the same plane begin the next day.
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United Airlines will operate the flight, its fifth nonstop destination from GSP to other cities.
GSP’s president and CEO, Dave Edwards, said in a statement that he was pleased to see the airport’s relationship with United expand.
“Denver is one of the top 10 cities that GSP passengers visit the most,” he said in the statement. “This new service will make it more convenient for passengers to visit Denver or connect to other West Coast destinations.”
First-class and coach seats will be available.
Steve Jaquith, United’s vice president of the Denver hub, said his airline will be able to connect GSP customers to hundreds of domestic and international destinations in United’s network.
United currently offers daily nonstop service from GSP to Chicago (ORD), Houston (IAH), Newark, N.J. (EWR), and Washington, D.C. (IAD).
On top of mudslides, breached levees, flooding and traffic messes, this week’s storm — the strongest of the season — has also interrupted hundreds of flights at the Bay Area’s airports.
By 8:30 p.m. Friday, San Francisco International Airport reported 475 delays and 25 cancellations, airport duty manager Maria Buyco said.
The airport also enacted a ground delay program, where incoming flights are held at their departure airports, at 1:30 p.m. Friday that would impact afternoon and evening flights. Morgan said the ground delay was prompted by the weather. The average delays on Friday were about 90 minutes, Buyco said.
On Thursday, the airport saw 490 delays, ranging between one minute and two hours, and 123 cancellations. The canceled flights were mostly commuter planes departing from and landing on the West Coast, said airport duty manager Chris Morgan.
Mineta San Jose International Airport reported three cancellations Friday on outbound flights because of weather elsewhere, spokeswoman Rosemary Barnes said. The airport also received a diverted flight that was originaly scheduled to land at San Francisco International Airport, she said.
The airport, which has 250 commercial departures per day, had three cancellations on Thursday.
There were no canceled or delayed at Oakland International Airport on Friday.
Ashley McBride is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: ashley.mcbride@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ashleynmcb
United Airlines will add three new domestic routes at its Denver hub.
Daily flights to Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Syracuse, New York, will begin June 6 and will operate year-round. Flights to Portland, Maine, start June 8, but they’ll operate only on weekends during the summer schedule. (Scroll down for full schedule details)
All three of the new routes will go head-to-head against service offered by Denver-based budget rival Frontier Airlines.
The routes add to other previously announced United routes to Charleston, South Carolina; Eureka, California; and Fairbanks, Alaska. Those flights also begin June 6.
In other details announced Thursday, United will expand its existing weekend-only summer service to Burlington, Vermont; Savannah, Georgia; and Pensacola in Florida. A Sunday round-trip flight is being added to those routes, which currently fly only on Saturdays.
Also getting more flights will be United’s service between Denver and Fort Myers, Florida. The route previously operated only during the winter, but will now be offered Saturdays and Sundays during the summer and fall until daily service resumes as scheduled in October.
The latest routes were announced the same day that United put its new “rebanked” schedule into effect at Denver. The airline has tweaked schedules on its “banks” of incoming and outgoing flights, trying to better match connecting passengers with flights.
United says the schedule adjustment – which began Thursday (Feb. 14) – will boost the number of morning flights available to business customers traveling from Denver to the East and West coasts while also improving connecting options for customers traveling to or from the airline’s Midwest and Mountain Region destinations. The effort was first announced last fall.
TODAY IN THE SKY: The fleet and hubs of United Airlines, by the numbers
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United Airlines unveils look for new employee uniforms
and provide better options to customers arriving on flights from smaller markets to get to destinations east and west of Denver,” he added.
United has already rebanked its schedules at its hubs at Chicago O’Hare and Houston Bush Intercontinental.
Schedule details for United’s three newest Denver routes are below.
TODAY IN THE SKY: United frequent-flyers splurge on miles to see Boeing 747 ‘disassembly center’ (story continues below)
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First look: United shows off its first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner
Presidential hopeful and Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Tuesday she will vote for the “Green New Deal” resolution when it comes up in the Senate but stressed that she doesn’t back some of the more extreme positions of some of its supporters, such as ending air travel.
“The ‘Green New Deal?’ I see it as, by the way, I see it as aspirational. I see it as a jumpstart,” said Klobuchar, D-Minn., during an interview Tuesday on Fox News. “I would vote yes, but I would also, if it got down to the nitty-gritty of an actual legislation as opposed to ‘Oh, here are goals we have,’ that would be different.”
Democrats offered conflicting views of the “Green New Deal” resolution to the public this week. The resolution itself called for a World War II-level mobilization to fight climate change and create millions of new jobs. But a summary found on the website of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., which was later taken down, said the goal was to make cows and air travel obsolete.
Klobuchar made it clear she doesn’t support going that far.
“I am for a jumpstart of the discussion and a framework, as Sen. Markey has described. I’m not for reducing air travel,” Klobuchar said.
Klobuchar spoke after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., announced the resolution would be brought up for a vote, in an effort to put Democrats on the record on the controversial measure.
Klobuchar is one of the 11 Democratic co-sponsors of the resolution in the Senate.
The measure outlines a 10-year plan to reduce carbon emissions and replace fossil fuel with renewable energy. It also calls for “meeting 100 percent of the power demand in the United States through clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources,” but Klobuchar said it was unlikely that there would be zero greenhouse gas emissions in the near future.
“I don’t think that’s going to happen in the next few years,” Klobuchar said. “You can imagine by new technology and by the way, that includes nuclear and everything else, that we could get to a better place.”
Instead, Klobuchar said she would like the U.S. to re-enter the international Paris climate agreement that President Trump announced the U.S. would no longer be a part of in 2017.
“I would like to see is on day one to get back into the international climate change agreement. We are the only country not in it,” Klobuchar said. “I would like to see us put in place those clean power rules again that would bring us a 30 percent reduction. I think those are doable things that we’ve worked on.”
It is unclear when the Senate will vote on the “Green New Deal” resolution.
Feb 14 (Reuters) – Panama’s Copa Holdings expects demand for flights in Argentina and Brazil to remain weak in 2019, executives said on Thursday during a presentation on its earnings, which showed its profit in 2018 had slumped 75 percent to $88 million.
Copa’s results were significantly affected by a $190 million writeoff as the company decided to phase out its fleet of 19 Embraer planes. The planes will gradually be replaced by Boeing aircraft.
Still, even without that charge, profits would have dropped 25 percent in 2018 from a year earlier.
Other factors that impacted the results of Copa, which flies only to destinations in the Americas, were high oil prices for much of the year, and weak currencies that plagued Brazil and Argentina, two of the region’s most important markets.
Executives said on a conference call with analysts that ticket sales were particularly hard hit in Argentina, where they tumbled 40 percent in 2018 as the South American nation faced a deep recession. (Reporting by Marcelo Rochabrun Editing by Bernadette Baum)
The 19th century French photographer known as Nadar was quite an enterprising fellow. He started out as a sketch artist and once set some sort of record for the number of tiny sketches he could get on one page: 250 in all. Magnifying glasses in Paris must have sold out.
But Nadar didn’t stop there. In time he became interested in traveling by hot air balloon. First, he went up by himself and marveled at the view. He said it gave him a serene perspective on life and removed him from all the evil vanities of human endeavor.
But I wonder what he’d have made of contemporary airline travel. It hardly detaches us from the evil vanities of human endeavor. I’m often seated next to a self-important businessman wearing Gucci shoes, adding up multiple figures on his expensive tablet. Or I’m seated next to someone who slurps her drink while I’m trying to sleep. And then there are those who barely have any clothes on, save a pair of shorts and a sleeveless t-shirt: no doubt would-be, stuck-up body builders.
Even Nadar went on to spoil his airborne experience. He oversaw the building of a vehicle that would hold nine people, with separate compartments and even a wine cellar. It drifted over four hundred miles away from Paris and came down suddenly in Hanover, injuring several of the passengers. Nadar grew tired of being up there by himself and sought company. This was a mistake. Ballooning should be meditation, not transportation. That’s the only way to get the evil out.
Law360 (February 14, 2019, 7:06 PM EST) — Expedia Inc. has asked a New York federal judge to temporarily stop United Airlines’ plan to block the travel fare aggregator’s users from booking post-September 2019 flights, saying it’s in breach…
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Expedia Group Inc. boosted fourth-quarter revenue by selling more hotel rooms and airline tickets, but write-downs pushed profit down 69 percent, to $17 million.
The results still beat expectations for the online travel agency.
The shares jumped $9.13, or 7 percent, to $137 in extended trading Thursday after losing a penny in the regular session. At Thursday’s close, the stock had gained 13.5 percent since the beginning of the year, while the Standard Poor’s 500 index rose nearly 9 percent.
Expedia said that fourth-quarter adjusted profit was $1.18 per share, topping the $1.07 average forecast of 11 analysts surveyed by Zacks Investment Research.
Revenue rose 10 percent to $2.56 billion. Eleven analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $2.54 billion.
About two-thirds of Expedia sales come from booking lodging on sites including Hotels.com, and that revenue grew 10 percent. Growth in the vacation-rental segment HomeAway — a competitor to Airbnb — slowed to 20 percent in the fourth quarter but grew 29 percent for the full year.
Airline revenue rose 18 percent, as Expedia sold more tickets and at higher average prices.
However, the Bellevue, Washington-based company is locked in a potentially damaging legal fight with a major airline customer.
This week Expedia said that United Airlines is threatening to pull flight information from its sites after a breakdown in talks over a new contract.
Expedia sued United and asked a federal judge to block the airline from cutting Expedia’s access to information about seats and fares. The companies’ current contract expires this fall.
In a heavily redacted complaint, Expedia said it would lose customers for years if United carried through on its threat.
United Airlines spokeswoman Maggie Schmerin said Expedia has refused to take part in “constructive discussions” about a new contract, and United expects its fares won’t be listed on Expedia sites after Sept. 30. She said that because Expedia might not be able to help United ticket holders after that date, United told Expedia it plans to bar Expedia from booking tickets for United flights on or after Oct. 1.
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