Originally Posted by
Duckouttahere
Nice of Southwest.
How is this any different than what AS does when Frontier starts flying ANC-DEN? Or when MarkAir started flying SEA-ANC/LAX etc?
Originally Posted by
bernardd
Can I ask where the 100 per day number comes from and if its, for example, the average over the week? I was on the SJC-AUS flight last Friday evening and both that AND the WN non-stop went out full, so the demand that day was way over 300 passengers in total last Friday given there were two other flights earlier in the day. Is the problem more that the route has high peaks, but the troughs are to low to make it viable? Thinking about the peak patterns, is it also that it's hard to get an aircraft full in both directions, so that it's not viable to run the service less days, for example only Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday?
Just remember WN has an extensive feed on their end. Most of Texas can connect there, so can Florida, Oklahoma etc. AS doesn't have great feed on either end compared to WN. That's why this route has always struck me as an odd one.
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.
If there are only 100 pax/day on that route, why did AS throw a second frequency on it long before WN started flying the route?