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Old Aug 19, 2015 | 6:53 pm
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Originally Posted by enviroian
Okay so what am I missing here. Non stop flights to the HQ of the world's largest retailer and they are using a .....CR7? Is this airport too small to accommodate larger aircraft? Please tell me this is the reason. Otherwise they should be using 7-5's for this route if they can easily fill a plane.
8800 ft of pavement, they could take a widebody.

I'm not sure how you think they could consistently fill 200 seats on this route at any reasonable yield, against copious one stop options. This is one of many routes UA has to XNA.
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