Originally Posted by
knope2001
The biggest surprises for me at San Diego and Hartford. The Florida markets are no surprise. Raleigh and Baltimore are largely leisure traffic, and MCI-SAT seemed to be the same. St Louis and Louisville had good fares but just had a hard time filling the CRJ. Wausau didn't have the best yields for connections, and poor Muskegon just can't fill a CRJ.
The decision to drop MKG isn't tremendously surprising, but it sure is disappointing.
In a better economy I think MKG could fill the CRJs - the local paper says the flights have been running 70-80% full as is. Three months isn't much time to get the market used to jet service. The prop service seemed to be pretty consistently full the few times I'd used it.
I'm not looking forward to the driving to GRR that's in my future - as much as I don't like the drive, I'd rather do that and fly west via MSP (or MKE, I guess, while YX lives) than fly east and connect through DTW in order to go west on NWA...