Why no BNA BOS nonstops?
Jan 16, 2011, 2:02 pm
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Why no BNA BOS nonstops?
I've never understood why there are no nonstop flights in the BNA-BOS market. After the AA BNA hub closed, AA still kept a couple daily MD-80 flights on the route for a while. They dropped them for AE RJ flights. Then they discontinued these as well. DL tried one RJ flight per day for a while. Soon that disappeared too. Seems WN has no plans for this route.
Why is this market such a bust, I wonder.
Why is this market such a bust, I wonder.
Jan 16, 2011, 3:05 pm
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I've never understood why there are no nonstop flights in the BNA-BOS market. After the AA BNA hub closed, AA still kept a couple daily MD-80 flights on the route for a while. They dropped them for AE RJ flights. Then they discontinued these as well. DL tried one RJ flight per day for a while. Soon that disappeared too. Seems WN has no plans for this route.
Why is this market such a bust, I wonder.
Why is this market such a bust, I wonder.
I wrote a blog post on hubs and routing recently. Check it out: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/unroad...-focus-cities/
Jan 16, 2011, 3:41 pm
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6P&E, nothing to do with the market. Most airlines only operate flights that originate at a hub city, to a non-hub city. As neither BNA and BOS are hubs for any airline, there is no non-stop between this city pair. Even very large volume city pairs do not necessarily have non-stops. There is no BOS-MSY non-stop either.
I wrote a blog post on hubs and routing recently. Check it out: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/unroad...-focus-cities/
I wrote a blog post on hubs and routing recently. Check it out: http://boardingarea.com/blogs/unroad...-focus-cities/
BNA-TPA
BNA-SAN
BNA-RDU
BNA-LGA
BNA-DCA
BNA-BDL
BNA-ORF
BNA-JAX
I could go on, but these are all non-hub to non-hub routings. You would think if multiple daily JAX-BNA nonstops exist, there might be a nonstop from BNA to BOS. Apparently, there is not enough demand for a non-stop and I find it curious.
Jan 16, 2011, 6:00 pm
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How do you explain these non-stop routings and the fact that they exist?
BNA-TPA
BNA-SAN
BNA-RDU
BNA-LGA
BNA-DCA
BNA-BDL
BNA-ORF
BNA-JAX
I could go on, but these are all non-hub to non-hub routings. You would think if multiple daily JAX-BNA nonstops exist, there might be a nonstop from BNA to BOS. Apparently, there is not enough demand for a non-stop and I find it curious.
BNA-TPA
BNA-SAN
BNA-RDU
BNA-LGA
BNA-DCA
BNA-BDL
BNA-ORF
BNA-JAX
I could go on, but these are all non-hub to non-hub routings. You would think if multiple daily JAX-BNA nonstops exist, there might be a nonstop from BNA to BOS. Apparently, there is not enough demand for a non-stop and I find it curious.
As Southwest grows BOS, they are the best bet for a return to BOS-BNA.