{"id":10166,"date":"2010-09-29T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/?p=10166"},"modified":"2016-12-16T10:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:57:27","slug":"the-new-airport-battleground-raleigh-durham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/the-new-airport-battleground-raleigh-durham\/","title":{"rendered":"The new airport battleground: Raleigh-Durham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PrepareFlightsTab\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10358\" title=\"88092491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/plane_brancatelli-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flights\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By Joe Brancatelli<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"American Airlines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=american-airlines-flight-deals\" target=\"_self\">AmericanAirlines<\/a> opened and abandoned a hub in <strong>Raleigh-Durham<\/strong> in the 1990s and it and Southwest Airlines have been fighting for control of North Carolina&#8217;s second-busiest airport ever since. But now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=delta-air-lines-flight-deals\" target=\"_self\">Delta Air Lines<\/a> is challenging the status quo with flights to five new cities and more service on three of its existing RDU routes. Beginning November 1, Delta and its commuter partners will launch two daily flights to Hartford, Connecticut; three daily flights to <a title=\"Orlando\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=orlando-vacations&amp;cnt=OVI\" target=\"_self\">Orlando<\/a>; two daily flights to Tampa; two daily flights to St. Louis and daily flights to Columbus, Ohio. Delta will also add one daily flight to three airports: its Minneapolis-St. Paul hub; its <atitle=\"New York City vacations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=new-york-city-vacations&amp;cnt=PKH\" target=\"_self\">New York\/Kennedy<\/a> hub; and Boston\/Logan.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Remember that proposed Delta-<a title=\"US Airways\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=us-airways-flight-deals\" target=\"_self\">US Airways<\/a> deal where the two carriers would swap assets at New York\/LaGuardia and <a title=\"Washington D.C. vacations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=washingtondc-vacations&amp;cnt=PKH\" target=\"_self\">Washington\/National<\/a>? After it was effectively killed by the Transportation Department during summer, Delta announced a slew of new flights from the gates at National that it retained. And now US Airways is adding new flights from LaGuardia using the gates that it tried to tradeto Delta. On October 31, US Airways begins commuter flights to seven cities from LGA. Only two routes&#8211;Hartford and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania&#8211;do not already have service from other airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Frontier Airlines will move its flights between Milwaukee and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=tampa-vacations&amp;cnt=PKH\" target=\"_self\">Tampa<\/a> International (TPA) to St. Petersburg\/Clearwater International (PIE) beginning November 18.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Hotels\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/hotels\/\" target=\"_self\">Hotels<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Flights\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PrepareFlightsTab\" target=\"_self\">Flights<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Business Travel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orbitz.com\/App\/PerformMDLPDealsContent?deal_id=roadwarrior&amp;cnt=OVI\" target=\"_self\">Business travel<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Joe Brancatelli is editor and publisher of <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joesentme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JoeSentMe.com<\/em><\/a><em>, a non-commercial Web site for business travelers. Copyright 2010 by Joe Brancatelli. Licensed by contract for Orbitz use.<\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pixel.newscred.com\/px.gif?key=YXJ0aWNsZT1lZGEzZTZiNzU4YTU4ODEyMzE4NWNmZDIwNjVjMjU5OQ==\" alt=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" class=\"nc_pixel\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American and Southwest airlines have fought for control of Raleigh-Durham airport ever for years. 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