Boston Aviation

This year American Airlines will not operate its Boston to Paris-Charles de Gaulle summer seasonal route. Previously, American Airlines operated the route daily on a Boeing 757. I understand why American is terminating their service on the route when both Norwegian Airlines and Primera Air will begin the route this year on top of the current service from both Delta and Air France. Unfortunately, this means that American will not have any transatlantic flights from Boston. Source:  www.routesonline.com

Today, March 3, 2018, Delta Air Lines has started two more new routes from Boston Logan Airport. The flights are from Boston to Charleston, South Carolina, and to Savannah, Georgia. Both flights will operate once a week, on Saturdays, on a Bombardier CRJ700 operated by GoJet. In both Charleston and Savannah, Delta's new flight will compete against JetBlue's flights. Both routes will end JetBlue's monopoly in the market and will increase competition. Delta is adding a large number of flights this year from Boston Logan, with the goal of reaching 150 departures a day and this is just one step in that direction. Source:  www.routesonline.com

This is a Delta Airbus A330-300 landing in Boston after its flight from Amsterdam. Delta codeshares with KLM on the route, which is why KLM doesn't fly to Boston. The plane has the registration N815NW and is 11 years old. The plane was originally delivered to Northwest Airlines but joined  Delta's fleet after they merged.

Today, March 1, 2018, Iberia is resuming its seasonal service to Boston from Madrid. The Spanish carrier briefly stops service to Boston for the months of January and February. I am interested to see if the load factor on their flights will improve this year compared to last year when they had to compete against Air Europa, which has since terminated its service to Boston. Additionally, it will be interesting how Level, an airline owned by the International Airlines Group (same company that owns Iberia), will affect Iberia's load factor with its service to Barcelona.

The  New York Times  released a very interesting article about why Boston was able to cope with the January Bomb Cyclone significantly better than JFK Airport. Boston handled it relatively well with delays and cancelations one day and being on a regular schedule the next, while JFK was struggling with more and more flights being delayed for several days.

Here is a Boeing 757-200 of Icelandair landing in Boston after its flight from Keflavík Airport in Iceland. The plane has the registration TF-ISV and is named Grábrók. Icelandair names all of its planes after Icelandic volcanoes. The plane had its first flight in June 1999. 

More about Boston Logan's Terminal Expansion. I have found  this website  from KPF showing their proposition for the Terminal E Expansion. I really like the design by AECOM which was selected, but I like the design by KPF even more. I think that the wooden interior design and overall appearance would fit in more with the current Terminal E, compared to the huge difference between the old part of Terminal E and the bright red roof of the future new part of Terminal E. Here are some images of the design by KPF.