Originally Posted by
newsmanhoss
ATL has also been marginally scaled back since then, and maybe WN will take a different approach there (maybe less focused on hub-and-spoke banks to focus on O&D).
It will be fun to watch, that's for sure.
Based on continued performance problems at MDW I'm not so sure they're ready for the much bigger ATL... Yeah, they have LAS which is big for them but rarely prone to weather or traffic problems.
It will be fun to watch as they grow with hubs. I don't see ATL as O&D for much more than a quarter of the gates they'll inherit. Unless they suddenly switch their game and establish some domestic and international interline agreements. ATL is all about connections.
If I was running B6 I'd be making a play for F9's Airbus aircraft and gates in certain markets knowing the WN/FL merger is going to leave profitable room for growth Westward. Frontier is in a bad situation right now. I don't see them as launch customer being around long enough to accept the first CS300.
But that said my Crazy 8-ball has been wrong many times.
