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Old Nov 28, 2011, 6:32 am
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knope2001
 
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Some, though the malinline CAK, DSM and STL flights nearly replaced last year's CRJ capacity. OO operated 23,550 departing seats as FL*, while FL+WN offered 23,002 seats to CAK, DSM and STL.

I think the reduced traffic is:

--partly due to lost OO seats
--partly due to much lower load factors on mainline flights to DSM, CAK and perhaps STL...traffic not growing to meet the increased capacity shifted over
--partly due to the year over year loss of DFW
--partly due to other trims, like MCI is 2x vs 3x last October

FL+WN had 1x DEN last October and had 3x this October, so all these other trims overtook that DEN capacity increase to show year-over-year drop.
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