While Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) isn’t as important of a market for American as it was a few years back, the airline still has some positive passenger experience news for the airport…
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To put an outdoor lounge in perspective, for 6 months of the year, Austin is hotter than Miami and just as humid. I don’t understand the the fascination airlines have with opening outdoor terraces in AUS. Delta is planning one for their new AUS club too
Maybe AA should've built this first, while they were running their failed AUS focus city project. Feels like that would've brought in more flyers.
Lucky have you seen this?
“Cathay Pacific offers £20,000 Sydney to London flight amid disruption in Gulf.”
Attending the extremely hot Expo in Osaka last year made me realize not everywhere has the highly advanced umbrella, shade tree, cold beer, and patio mister technology we have developed here in Texas but let me assure you our patios are actually quite comfortable in the summer.
I realize this is fully “old man yells at cloud” but…
I hope their “work zone” isn’t like the newly updated “bUsInEsS cEnTeR” at the AC in DFW terminal B. They recently ripped out the cubicles and put in weird high-back lounge chairs with little round tables the size of a postage stamp along the walls and one long work table in the center.
Aesthetically it’s nice and all, and those old cubes were BEAT UP but it provided a good semi-private work space for about 16 people. Now if the center table is occupied by the 6-8 people it fits there’s absolutely nowhere in that lounge to set out a laptop and work.
Someplace, somewhere, between AUS, ORD, and DCA, the Thot Leader is rock hard hearing this news
Anyone have an insight as to what will happen with the existing space? Will United absorb it or will it become a credit card or contract lounge?
All that technology didn't due to the late, unlamented Chase Sapphire ... thing at AUS any good.
To put an outdoor lounge in perspective, for 6 months of the year, Austin is hotter than Miami and just as humid. I don’t understand the the fascination airlines have with opening outdoor terraces in AUS. Delta is planning one for their new AUS club too
Attending the extremely hot Expo in Osaka last year made me realize not everywhere has the highly advanced umbrella, shade tree, cold beer, and patio mister technology we have developed here in Texas but let me assure you our patios are actually quite comfortable in the summer.
All that technology didn't due to the late, unlamented Chase Sapphire ... thing at AUS any good.
Let me assure you that all those features did very little to overcome the brutal heat and humidity for me. Sitting out on a patio in Texas during summer … count me out.
Spending $20 billion tax payers money on HVAC annually for deployed troops made me realize only Americans wastes a fortune developing and using "highly advanced umbrella, shade tree, cold beer, and patio mister technology".
But let me assure you our adversaries are actually quite comfortable in the desert summer.
Maybe AA should've built this first, while they were running their failed AUS focus city project. Feels like that would've brought in more flyers.
huh?
They already had announced a new club at that time (with two stories, if I recall). And AA was already the largest US3 carrier in AUS and they did bring in more flyers. A LOT more flyers.
The issue wasn't AUS as a failure, it was their pilot scope that prevented AA from using RJs to build AUS up and required far more mainline for the P2P so it no longer made economic sense.
Delta doesn't have as much absolute RJ scope as AA does, but the Delta RJ scope doesn't restrict where those planes are used so Delta doesn't have the same issue in AUS that delta did contractually.
Lucky have you seen this?
“Cathay Pacific offers £20,000 Sydney to London flight amid disruption in Gulf.”
Aaron, There is a place for this type of post, and this isn’t it.
Send that news to Ben on his daily feedback forum.
FoulOwl, There is a time for this type of reply, and this isn't it.
Take a time machine back to March then send your reply.
I realize this is fully “old man yells at cloud” but…
I hope their “work zone” isn’t like the newly updated “bUsInEsS cEnTeR” at the AC in DFW terminal B. They recently ripped out the cubicles and put in weird high-back lounge chairs with little round tables the size of a postage stamp along the walls and one long work table in the center.
Aesthetically it’s nice and all, and those old cubes were BEAT UP but it provided a good semi-private work space for about 16 people. Now if the center table is occupied by the 6-8 people it fits there’s absolutely nowhere in that lounge to set out a laptop and work.
Someplace, somewhere, between AUS, ORD, and DCA, the Thot Leader is rock hard hearing this news
Anyone have an insight as to what will happen with the existing space? Will United absorb it or will it become a credit card or contract lounge?
You mean a second Sky Club? Haven't seen any talk of a Delta One lounge coming to AUS.
I can't wait to sit out there in August when it's 105 degrees F...
Your analysis of the Austin expansion misadventure fails to discuss the role played by the union contracts which didn't allow flexibility for regional flying from non-hubs. Once again, unions shoot themselves in the foot as parasites that undermine their host.
Love what's planned. But AA, please make up your mind about AUS. In, out, in, out......