Portland International Jetport | PWM

We just flew to Orlando for our vacation via Southwest. Our flight from Portland to BWI was 100% full. Our 2nd flight from BWI to MCO was only about 70% full. Coming back, our flight from MCO top BWI wasn't even half full, maybe 40%. Emptiest plane I've been on in years. But, BWI to PWM was 100% full.
 
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Is seasonal Southwest service to Nashville still an option? Whoever updates the airport information on Wikipedia is normally reliable and surprisingly accurate.
 
Portlander said:
Is seasonal Southwest service to Nashville still an option? Whoever updates the airport information on Wikipedia is normally reliable and surprisingly accurate.
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It will be Saturday-only for the summer I believe. WN is opening at crew base at BNA this year so hopefully in the future there will be more frequency.
 
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The jetport expects a 17% bump in available seats for summer '24

www.pressherald.com

Portland Jetport anticipates 17% passenger increase this summer

Service expansions by Breeze, Frontier and other airlines could push summer passenger numbers to 2 million.
www.pressherald.com www.pressherald.com

Plus a statement from a Breeze company spokesperson:

Breeze is tapping Portland for outbound passengers year round as well, company spokesman Gareth Edmondson-Jones said.

"Portland is one of those rare places that is a really strong draw in the summer and a really strong origin in the winter,” Edmondson-Jones said.
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Breeze now offers 10 destinations from Portland, after starting last spring with flights to Tampa, Florida; Charleston, South Carolina; Norfolk, Virginia,; and Pittsburgh, he said, and more likely will be added soon.
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A few shots of SNA (John Wayne International) where I survived the landing on its notorious 5700' runway in a fully loaded 757. It was reminiscent of some of my tail hook landings on Navy aircraft carriers! Easy terminal to navigate and a pleasant change of pace from hectic LAX which my return flight originated from.
 
Breeze has had quite strong load factors on their sunshine routes for the first two months of the year, with an average 77.5% load factor for all routes in January and 84.7% in February (Combined origin / destination load factors)

This is quite a bit better than Frontier, which had LF's between 50-65% for PWM-MCO (Although F9 carried more passengers overall and brought quite a few more seats to the market)


Admittedly I'm not clever enough to use the Bureau of Transportation Statistic's data portal to get a breakdown by route, but if anyone knows how to take a stab at manipulating the data, it can be found here.

OST_R | BTS | Transtats

This is the TranStats homepage. TranStats provides one-stop shopping for intermodal transportation data for researchers, decision-makers, as well as the general public interested in transportation issues.
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Here's a look at January and February Load Factors for Breeze's winter routes out of PWM. These numbers are origin passengers only. I'll try to aggregate Origin / destination loads separately.

Overall very strong numbers for Breeze!

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F9 has 4 different destination flights today
ORD Started Service Late night Owl 10:12pm departure, will they keep food service open past 6pm?, MCO, RDU Resumed service, PHL Resumed Service
CVG starts 5/21
 
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