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Greater Rochester International Airport: Gateway to the World’s Image Centre
Part 2: 1990s-2015

Text and photos by James C. Kruggel Ph.D. (aka BWI-ROCman from DAC)
Primary Sources: City of Rochester and Monroe County documents, and the Rochester Times-Union and Democrat and Chronicle
1990: Legacy Dominance, High Fares, and Smaller Planes. In the 1990’s, the Rochester market was ruled by the six “legacy” carriers. The legacies had high costs per available seat mile (CASM). The legacy carriers often replaced mainline jets with smaller turboprops and new small regional jets, to the consternation of travelers. Fares soared. The Rochester airport had served about 1.5-1.8 million passengers a year before People Express. The airport leveled off at around 2.3-2.5 million passengers in the 1990’s. USAir renamed itself US Airways in 1997, and adopted a businesslike dark blue livery.
 
The beautiful new terminal offered a vastly improved airport experience. The two-level approach road, vast ticketing, concessions, baggage, and gate areas offered comfort and convenience. The design included huge wraparound windows in the gate areas, which offer panoramic views of the entire airfield. The 11-gage A (east) concourse served United, American, Northwest, and Continental. The 11-gate B (west) concourse served USAir and Delta. However, Monroe County’s passenger-enplanement projections turned out to be too high, because of consolidation, and the terminal turned out to be overbuilt.
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport Terminal Aerial View 2020 6-29
In 1992 Delta introduced Canadair CRJ-200 50-seat regional jets to the Cincinnati hub, marking a long trend of Rochester’s mainline aircraft being replaced by smaller regional aircraft. However, the smaller aircraft offered business travelers the benefit of higher frequency. In the 1980’s Rochester often had 60-80 daily departures; in the 1990’s, over 100.
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A few boutique carriers served Rochester in the 1990’s. A “Mohawk Airlines II” flew Fairchild Metro turboprops to regional destinations. Skyway Airlines, regional affiliate of Wisconsin’s famous Midwest Express, offered General Motors-sponsored flights on Beechcraft 1900 props to Flint, Michigan. They also briefly offered service for America West to their short-lived hub at Columbus, Ohio. A short-lived low-fare airline called Eastwind offered flights to Boston and Washington-Dulles on over-sized Boeing 737-700’s in 1998. A new Midway Airlines offered daily flights to its high-tech market hub of Raleigh-Durham, NC on Canadair regional jets, from about 1998-2001.

Cargo brought larger aircraft into ROC, including stretch DC-8 service by Emery Worldwide and the splashy green aircraft of BAX Global. FedEx continued to serve ROC with 727’s. United Parcel Service, unfortunately for Rochester, runs its Upstate air service to Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo, and trucks Rochester cargo even today.

2000’s: Low-Fare Carriers and Market Restructuring. But by 2000, new winds were blowing in the industry and in Rochester. Corporate downsizing continued.  Massive restructuring of the local economy began, as Kodak’s failure to anticipate digital photography reduced the company to a fraction of its former size. Air travel remained essentially sound, if stagnant, in Rochester. But reform was coming for air travelers.
 
USA consumers and politicians, fed up with high fares, got the government to hold off a proposed United-USAirways merger until a weakening 2001 economy caused United to cancel the proposed transaction. In 2000, airline startup whiz David Neeleman founded low-fare carrier JetBlue Airways using unused slots at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport. He and investors recognized that a huge market for low fares existed in the wake of PeoplExpress’ demise.
ValuJet Airlines of Atlanta, after suffering a crash in 1996, installed new management, bought small carrier AirTran, and restructured into a stable and profitable carrier with the AirTran name. Quiet Southwest Airlines, which had been slowly adding routes and staying under “legacy” carriers’ radar, suddenly moved east in 1993 and began building a hub at Baltimore-Washington Airport.
 
These large, well-capitalized low-fare carriers were now financially prepared to bring reform to the complacent, high-cost industry. Then, the September 11, 2001 attacks permanently undercut the market situation that tolerated the high CASM’s of the legacy carriers.​

Below: Independence Air CRJ at ROC in 2005
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Above: Rochester Aerial view 2005

In the 2000’s, reform came to Rochester swiftly.  In October 2000, JetBlue entered with flights to JFK with their seat-TV-equipped Airbus A320’s. AirTran Airways began building a careful “complement hub” at Baltimore to serve Florida and markets that 800-lb gorilla Southwest did not serve. AirTran entered Rochester in March 2002 with flights on Boeing 717’s to Baltimore and its Atlanta base, and added nonstops to Florida as well. Air Tran started with a gate subleased from United and later moved to two USAir gates, B2 and B4.​

Below: JetBlue A320 at ROC in September 2012
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Enplanements rose again in Rochester reaching 2.9 million in 2007. But market changes continued to happen. The financial crisis of 2008 undercut the healthier economy of the mid-2000’s. Legacy carriers also went through bankruptcies in the 2000’s to restructure themselves. By 2010, they had narrowed the CASM gap with the low-fare carriers. Meanwhile, as the low-fare carriers grew, they entered more congested airports, and their employee groups got more seniority, inching their costs upward.

In a happy development, FedEx in 2001 introduced Rochester’s first scheduled widebodies since 1973, using Airbus A310’s. Since then, FedEx has also operated A300’s, McDonnell-Douglas DC-10’s, and Boeing 767-300 and 757-200’s to Rochester, offering spotters a regular diet of widebodies. Flights go to FedEx’s Memphis hub or to other spoke markets, or New York-Kennedy or Newark. Air Canada entered Rochester with turboprop flights to the airline’s Toronto Pearson International Airport superhub.
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Above: FedEx DC-10 at ROC in March 2013.

Early 2010’s: Back to the Future: Fuel Costs, and Consolidation Redux.  The 2008 fuel-cost crisis hastened the desire of legacy carriers to attempt another round of consolidation. Unfortunately for consumers and medium- and small-size markets such as Rochester, the Bush and Obama Administrations approved a series of mergers that reduced the eight largest carriers (the legacies, Southwest, and AirTran) to four.
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport Southwest 737 "Mustard Rocket" March 2015
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport US Airways Express CRJ-200 N241PS 2012 September
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport A Concourse action AirTran 717 N996AT and US Airways Express CRJ-200 N241PS

Delta bought Northwest, United bought Continental, American bought US Airways, and Southwest bought AirTran. American moved to US Airways’ gates, Delta moved to American’s old gates and kept Northwest’s. Southwest took over AirTran’s two gates plus an old Delta gate, B1. The most pronounced change for Rochester was AirTran’s being absorbed by much higher-cost Southwest, whose costs had risen significantly as oil hedges expired and the route system became more enmeshed in major airports.
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Above: Rochester in May 2007

As might be expected, the market responded to the new higher-fare situation. New “ultra low cost carriers” (ULCC’s) such as Allegiant, Spirit, and Frontier grew in the USA, prospering by offering ‘bare fare’ sub-weekly nonstop services direct from medium and small-size markets to sunspots such as Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Phoenix.  But these carriers do not offer connections. In 2015, Allegiant entered Rochester with nonstops each to Orlando-Sanford and Fort Lauderdale. Later, Allegiant ended Fort Lauderdale and began service to Punta Gorda (near Fort Myers).
 
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Above: Rochester in August 2008

By 2010, Rochester was well into the kind of economic restructuring pain that its neighbors Buffalo and Syracuse had experienced in the 1980’s. Rochester’s large manufacturing employers shrank, and the University of Rochester and its teaching hospital became Monroe County’s largest employer.  High fuel costs ended Rochester’s two longest flights: nonstops by American to its Dallas-Fort Worth hub (about 2005-2007) and AirTran to Las Vegas (2007).
 
The name of philanthropy in Rochester had been Eastman. Now it was Wegman or Golisano, referring to the successful Rochester-based Wegman-family-owned grocery chain Wegmans, and Paychex founder Thomas Golisano. Many small tech startups began, but a new age of contract-work and economic insecurity began. Remarkably, Rochester’s enplanements remained surprisingly strong, stagnating at round 2.4-2.5 million passengers a year since consolidation.​

Below: Rochester in March 2010
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Small Airport Improvements. The airport saw some small improvement projects during the early 2010’s. In 2010, the two security checkpoints were consolidated into one for efficiency, and the parking garage was expanded. Because the new security checkpoint put the airport’s concession atrium and runway viewing areas behind security, Monroe County graciously moved the airport’s administrative offices to build a landside viewing atrium outside security on the terminal’s west side. The airport’s already excellent airfield viewing became even better.
 
The airport’s tight 5,500’ crosswind runway 10-28 was lengthened to 6,400, plus an engineered material arrestor system (EMAS) was added at the 10 (west) end. New taxiways were built, easing aircraft access around the field. The 1992 terminal, while overbuilt, proved a successful, adaptable facility that met air travel needs well.
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Mid 2010’s: A Combination of Good and Bad, with a Decent Service Mix. Air service to Rochester was restructured, not all for the worse, by the consolidation. Southwest replaced AirTran in Rochester in 2013. Southwest maintained service to Baltimore and its consolidated superhub there, as well as nonstops to Tampa and Orlando.
 
But Southwest dismantled AirTran’s Atlanta hub, moving traffic to Chicago Midway and Baltimore hubs. Southwest replaced AirTran’s ROC-ATL flights with flights to Midway. But, apparently unhappy with a too-high percentage of connecting passengers, Southwest ended ROC-MDW in November 2015, replacing it with an additional ROC-BWI frequency.

JetBlue appears to have shrunken some in the face of the Southwest juggernaut, mostly serving ROC-JFK with its smaller Embraer 190 large regional jets.  Delta, American, and US Airways had New York and Washington slot transactions, necessary for regulatory approval of their mergers. One transaction saw Rochester’s historic New York LaGuardia service switch from US Airways to Delta.  The historic name of US Airways disappeared from Rochester on October 17, 2015 as American Airlines retired the name.​

Right: "Clock of Nations," which from 1962 to 2008 stood in Rochester's Midtown Plaza. Now in the airport terminal concessions atrium. Sort of our own Disney "Small World" animatronic art.
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ROC Greater Rochester International Airport JetBlue EMB-190 N184JB 2018 March 5
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport American Eagle CRJ-700 N543EA and CRJ-900 N588NN 2017 Sept.
Smaller regional jets in Rochester were often replaced by larger 70-90 seat Canadair and Embraer jets. All legacies maintain “mainline” jets at Rochester, though American does so only seasonally (fall-spring months to the Charlotte, NC hub).
 
Given the unhappy competitive state of the United States airline industry, Rochester entered 2016 with a relatively good service mix for a market its size. Legacies American, Delta and United maintained services to their surviving regional hubs as well as key business markets such as New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington. Southwest and JetBlue kept a “mainline low-fare” presence with good connections at their respective BWI and JFK hubs. Allegiant brought a new ULCC option to favorite Rochester sun spots, and Air Canada maintained international connection to Canada and Air Canada’s massive Toronto hub.

Late 2010’s to 2020’s: Major Terminal Renovation, Loss of Air Canada. In 2016, New York State made $190 million available for Upstate airport improvements. Later in the 2010’s, all four medium-size Upstate New York airports embarked on major passenger-facilities improvements.
Albany is spending $90 million building a terminal-connected parking garage, and roadway-access improvements. Buffalo is spending $80 million to build new exit walkways to the baggage claim, new baggage carousels, curb space, and other improvements. In 2018, Syracuse completed a $62 million largely-cosmetic renovation that removed an ugly concrete roadway-canopy dating to at least the 1980’s, installed a new glass landside façade, and renovated ticketing, baggage, and lobby areas. 
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport west rotunda concession construction 2018 Dec 19
​In Rochester, then-Monroe County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo submitted an application and received the maximum $40 million. Monroe County also got a $4 million Federal grant. The County planned a $54 million renovation and upgrade of the airport terminal including a roadway canopy, security-checkpoint renovation and expansion, additions to the east and west ends of the concessions atrium, additional concessions and new play areas in the rotundas, cosmetic upgrades in the concourses, additional electrical outlets and counter space for laptop use, and installation of ‘smart technology’ like color-coded lighting for the hearing-impaired.
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport new approach road canopy construction 2018 March 5, photo 1
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport new approach road canopy construction 2018 March 5, photo 2
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport new approach road canopy construction 2018 March 5, photo 3
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport Upper Level Roadway Construction 2018 Sept 27
But in September 2017, the County asked the county legislature for $25 million more and would not explain due to “security reasons.” The money apparently was at least in part for what turned out to be facial-recognition cameras and technology on the canopy. The terminal now has 100 cameras, including eight with facial-recognition capability. The project now would cost a total of $79 million.
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport atrium west expansion construction 2018 March 5 photo 1
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport atrium west expansion construction 2018 March 5 photo 2
The construction took place over 18 months, ending in October 2018. The most striking feature is the curvy white stretched-cloth roadway canopy, which can be lighted different colors. The security checkpoint was expanded and a new central exit escalator down to the arrivals area, and a fountain-sculpture with a downtown-Rochester theme built. Jagged corner expansions to the concessions atrium over the apron added seating, but do not appear to affect aircraft parking. 1,000 new electrical outlets were added post-security.
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport apron pavement work 2018 October 2-18 Delta MD-88 N956DL
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport west atrium expansion 2020 3-11
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport 2018 November 27 Remodeled West Food Court
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport, Nov. 27, 2018 Expanded West Atrium Seating Area
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport, Nov. 27, 2018 Remodeled Gates B8-B11 Area
​Oddly, and unhappily, the county moved the newsstand into the middle of the atrium, blocking a significant portion of the beautiful apron view with…..magazines. The county removed the historic former Midtown Plaza ‘Clock of Nations’ to make way for the newsstand.
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport Downtown-Themed Fountain by Arrivals Escalator  2020 March 11
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport Newsstand 2020 3-16
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport west atrium seating expansion 2020 3-11
Rochester entered 2020 with mostly-incremental changes in its air service from recent years. On October 31, 2018, Air Canada ended their daily Beechcraft 1900 flights to Toronto. Syracuse, and Harrisburg, PA, lost Air Canada the same day as Rochester. The loss reflects an ongoing trend of carriers retiring smaller aircraft that allow thinner routes or very small market-pairs to be operated.
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport Southwest 737-700 N931WN "Texas One" 2017 Sept.
Rochester’s air traffic has slightly improved exiting the 2010’s. In 2019, the airport handled 2,578,754 passengers, and in 2018, 2,570, 242. Traffic grew incrementally, from 2,378,499 (2015, 2,392, 138 (2016), and 2,423, 130 (2017). Markets and aircraft types, judging from FlightAware, have largely remained similar. 
2020 promised to be a strong year, perhaps breaking 2.6 million. However, with the onset of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, Rochester, like airports nationwide, saw drastic reductions in its schedule passenger air service. Time will tell how quickly the airport, and air travel in general, recover. 
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport Ramp Action 2018 March 5 N8645A
ROC Greater Rochester International Airport ramp action 3 Dec 2019. American CRJ-900 Southwest 737-700 Delta MD-88? -90?
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