![]() I can imagine that if you need to be around BDL for business, you would prefer to fly to BDL instead of JFK or EWR. I reckon you mean DUB-BDL? Anyway, why is it a strange route? BDL is the home of some insurance companies and back in the days that our company owned an insurance company based in that area, we also had a nonstop flight from our hometown to BDL. It seems a bit random when you consider the fact that EI already flies to nearby NE huns such as BOS, JFK, and EWR. UA makes bank on Houston to Rio with upfront oil seats too.Īer Lingus EWR-BDL. Houston to Perth and Baku and a few others (even formerly MAR pre Maduro) are big oil markets though not nonstop. Houston to Georgetown, Guyana is starting in a few months as an oil route also. BA carried a lot of contract traffic Houston to Aberdeen and Stavanger via LHR at one point. Houston Aberdeen was rumoured once but never came to fruition. SQ moved the Houston Moscow flight leg from SIN to MAN due to deteriorating Russian relations but the IAH DME leg was a popular oil route and aerospace one as at the time NASA and Roscosmos did more back-and-forth travel between mission controls ( they still partner actually but less traffic now). They also flew HOU-IAH in the late 80s on the Houston Proud Express logo planes, but the Houston Ellington Field service was very popular from Galveston, Clear Lake, NASA, and the south HOU metro as it gave one 500 more fflyer miles and there was free parking. Houston had, what I think, was the only intra-city commercial service (non-helicopter) as CO flew EFD-IAH many years with it finally ending around 2005 IIRC. Houston-Luanda was flown many years thrice weekly as a scheduled charter, mainly for the energy biz. PrivatAir also contracted (?) and flew Stavenger to Houston, too? Do I have that correct?Īnd Privatair flew much longer AMS-IAH to supplement KL's former daily combi 747 service AMS-IAH (UA flies it daily also) KLM is Houston’s oldest Euro airline starting service to HOU in the late 50s. This was mainly a Volkswagen management staff flight. I remember PrivatAir flyng Frankfurt-Pune? Do I have that correct? And I heard years past the Singapore's Houston-Moscow-Singapore flight was very popular. Being right on top of the Western Ghats, Weather is much more pleasant as compared to Mumbai and being an education hub for students from across the region, there are over 136 engineering colleges in Pune to tap talent from.ĭidn’t LH briefly serve Pune in 2018(?)-ish with one of their own A319’s, with a stop in Baku or Tsbili? It is close to Mumbai - just a 3 hour drive now on the expressway. By the mid-90s, atleast 3 major German automakers had setup camp and other smaller German engineering companies had also chosen Pune as their base. German automakers in the 90s evaluated Ludhiana (LUH) and Pune and somehow Pune got picked. When I interviewed a Pune based automaker for a story, he told me that Pune was not the obvious choice. Later when the Indian economy opened up in the early 90s, German companies found Pune to be an obvious choice I guess. Not sure when the German community first setup camp, but the first German school was already running in the late 70s. Mercedes tied up with Tata for manufacture of Trucks in the 1940s in a limited license-production arrangement. ![]() Pune already had an established network of auto-ancillary companies making components for automobiles/bicycles even in the 1930s and 40s servicing the nascent Indian automobile manufacturers. The only reason it was shutdown was because PrivatAir ceased operations temporarily and LH no longer had the aircraft to operate the route. Both FRA and MUC flights were at the PNQ terminal at the same time between 2am and 4am and left together as well. Towards the end, MUC was also added 3x/week with FRA staying at 3x/week. ![]() The FRA flight was 3x/week initially but later upped to 6x/week - Saturdays are restricted to Air Force Operations and maintenance so operations on Saturday are pared down compared to other days. On the flight I was on, we stopped in another small, out of the way airport called OTP. However I am told that the operation was later switched to a mixed class 737 with 20J and 60 Y seats. It operated non-stop east-bound but had a stop in IST on the way back to FRA. The only time I took that flight it was operating in a 37 seat all J configuration. Initially, the PrivatAir 737 was all business class configuration. ![]() Thank you for the generous response! Were the PrivatAir 737s split between a business class configuration and traditional economy seats? Amazing the big German influence in that part of India, wonder what drove that (pardon the pun).
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