Originally Posted by
newsmanhoss
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.
I don't think that Delta will jump in the LAX-MKE route. Last time around Midwest handed them their customers with a code share and FF agreement, not sure how many people would book with Delta without the code share or FF agreement. Plus since Frontier is not flying the route Delta has no motivation to create more competition, lower fares for Frontier.
Southwest will have Airtran's numbers and will probably see a lot of red ink on the route and stay away from the LAX-MKE route as well.
Originally Posted by
MikeFromMKE
I wonder how quickly BBD could get them some more Q's to replace the E35/45's. Surely it would make sense fuel-wise and give them the opportunity to make more money by being able to sell more seats. The problem is figuring out if the acquisition cost would be worth it and how long we can expect oil to be through the roof.
I don't think Republic is interested in any more Q's.