Originally Posted by
beachmouse
So according to that logic, Cincinnati is a podunk town not deserving of its own airport because Southwest doesn't fly there.
It's served out of Dayton and Lousiville. BOS didn't have WN for a long time either, but they still served that market very well via PVD and MHT.
And I guess they shouldn't have put that big Airbus plant in Mobile, Alabama because not only isn't it a worthy airport, it's also not building 737s, which are the only true airplane?
Where an airplane manufacturer, military base, or cargo flights go is irrelevant. They aren't passenger service. Airbus is OK. But I have a strong preference for the American-made Boeing planes, and for all-Boeing airlines.
This will not make Airbus corporate happy if they have to fly into Pensacola on WN and then drive another hour and a half to the main plant.
So Pensacola is served by WN. However, they probably wouldn't fly WN anyway, since WN is an all-Boeing airline. The irony is that DL appears to fly only Boeing and McDonnell Douglass aircraft to Pensacola. That's worth a laugh!
Originally Posted by
SJC ORD LDR
That just isn't true. WN does not fly to any location in Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, or Wyoming. They don't. DL serves these states from their SLC and/or MSP hubs. UA serves them from their DEN hub.
While these cities are too small for the WN model of service, DL and UA do a good job making money on these routes with their connection partners. Heck, DL is sending full sized mainline planes to places like BZN on a regular basis now.
Let's get the old map out. I said they don't serve parts of Montana and North Dakota. BIL and BZN are the aggregation points, although I'm not sure if BZN is reasonably priced, I'm not going to go and try to figure it out, since I may just be hitting bad dates. I guess technically, there are parts of Wyoming and South Dakota that they don't serve, although they serve a good portion of South Dakota out of Omaha, and a good portion of Wyoming out of DEN.
I don't think any of those cities are economical to serve, so they probably have absurd ticket prices, except for maybe BIL as an aggregation point for DL mainline, even that might be a stretch.