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Old Dec 28, 2012 | 11:58 pm
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Originally Posted by LETTERBOY
If a flight isn't making money, isn't it a bust, at least from a financial standpoint? And in any case, why on earth would they keep a flight if it's not making money?
What I meant to say was that it didn't make as much money as they envisioned. I tend to agree with another poster in that DC and NY are larger metro areas with more O&D traffic than CLT generated and those passengers don't mind paying more, compared to connecting passengers. I live in the DC area and find the IAD-HNL service highly appealing, even though I could take a connecting flight for less. With that said, PHL-HNL would have probably survived, as opposed to CLT.
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