Originally Posted by
flyerfmaz
Thanks for the input and feedback, all. I'll keep pursuing WN at every turn at the office. Maybe part of the issue is my location (Tucson) -- possibly there aren't as many favorable fares out of here. Got a TUS-MDW-CHS run on WN tomorrow, then back Friday. Almost to A-List Preferred. I'll do my best to make some productive contributions to these forums rather than just whine. :-)
Indeed, as one poster notes in #52, I think a part of it is the very pronounced phenomonon now in the U.S. of small cities really getting hit hard by airline consolidation.
Several years ago I found TUS fares to be outrageous and schedules to be inconvenient. I wound up flying to PHX and drove from there to my business in Sierra Vista.
WN, like all the airlines, seems to be no longer in market expansion mode. It's not WN that's changed it is the airline biz.