Originally Posted by
BlueHorseShoe2000
If the price of oil continues to rise, I think there's better than a 50/50 chance that Southwest pulls down MKE-West Coast service this fall. That's especially likely if they begin dismantling the East-West hub.
That's a distinct possibility for sure, and if that would happen, MKE would be left with no service AT ALL to the west coast. I would think that either WN or DL would at least add a token MKE-LAX single nonstop. DL had the single nonstop last time this situation occurred, and that was during the last run up in fuel.
But, I will offer a prediction that WN will at least try to make a go of MKELAX this winter to see how it works out with no F9 competition.
Southwest is somewhat hard to predict. After all, who would have thought that they would enter MKE back in 2009, but they did.