Originally Posted by
davywavy
As I said, I don't do schedules, but it is one the of reasons Daniel Shurz gave for the move in a letter to the staff.
Of course, there is usually more than one reason for anything, just as avoiding Southwest on DEN-DAY and consolidation at CVG (with the Apple flights) is also part of it, as happened at CLE - which DEN-CLE repo flights have (mostly) ended.
Consolidation at CVG makes sense, in terms of more efficient use of ground staff/counter space. That I can buy. And of course airlines will rarely admit publicly that they're backing away from competition.
Originally Posted by
MostlyAir
With the schedule as it is now there is no repo move, being that they're not flying an empty plane form DAY-CVG simply for the fact of getting it there. Flying scheduled passenger service from DEN-CVG, potentially makes more money than say flying DEN-DAY-CVG, the last leg being an empty plane. Taking off burns a lot of fuel!
Obviously there won't be a repo move from DAY to CVG since Frontier no longer serves DAY. But there's gotta be a repo move from somewhere since the CUN and PUJ flights don't happen during the overnight hours when the plane from DEN is on the ground in CVG. That's a fact. Alas, I think we're just not communicating, so I'll drop it. Cheers.