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Old Feb 19, 2009, 9:11 am
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Originally Posted by Mudfish
That was the one thing I was hoping for when I saw the news about this yesterday. Truth is, I'm not sure we will see that. From WN's point of view, it is hard to go after the US crowd considering that US runs a BOS-PHL flight every hour. WN would certainly drive down the price if they fly that route, but it seems to me that US is in a good position to undercut them until they go away. Could WN really be competitive on that route?
Same could've been said of PIT-PHL a few years ago. We all know what happened to fares on that pair.
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