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Old Feb 25, 2011 | 10:29 am
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Duckouttahere
 
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Originally Posted by 402Fanatic
Yes it is. The market is only about 100 pax per day each way. With only AS on the route there were 124 seats available each day. Add 274 more seats on WN and now you have 398 seats for only a demand of 100? There aren't a ton of thin markets in the country with 3 frequencies like that on it. WN clearly wanted to add enough capacity to make it unprofitable for AS. It's all relative. You don't have to add 10 round trips to call it flooding the market.
Nice of Southwest.
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