Originally Posted by
3Cforme
DTW-DEN with Southwest, Delta, United, and Frontier? That would likely lead to very unsustainable fares, and I don't think anybody could make it up in volume.
It should be noted that F9 is not on this route, and they've never really done much in New England. They were in Hartford recently but that was cut.
Originally Posted by
tjisnumbaone
Whoever is in charge of routing is out of their mind.
It was stupid enough to go to BOS.
Did not know about this until going through thw WN forum because I wanted to comment about a news story I saw not too long ago and saw this.
No chance for DEN. UA and B6 will just ramp up service to drive WN out of the market. B6 got PTV's, WN got nothing.
STL will be difficult. I believe AA still does this route. They can get a IFE-equipped 738 on that route.
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I am surprised by this. I guess WN is going all-in. It will be funny to see them fail. Honestly I will laugh so hard when they pull out of DEN.
For STL. Right now it looks like AA has 3x MD80 on the route. The route has not been cut in the recent announcement but I don't know if they'll keep that level of capacity.
But I don't think WN really cares here. They've explicitly said that one reason for these flights is access to DAL, which makes sense. Why they didn't make them one-stops, I don't know.
As for DEN, I'm really not sure how much WN cares about O&D here. I'm sure WN is planning for a good amount of connecting traffic.