Originally Posted by
PA42
Considering that it only took just over 30 mins for someone to reply that knows exactly why...
It had everything to do with the way Southwest flight ops defined a wet runway vs. the 2 other mainline operators (FL+DL) and the amount of seats that had to be blocked off constantly. City got whacked because SWA refused to adapt to an operation that was different than what they were used to doing over the last 4 decades. Nothing else, nothing more.
The short runway was just icing on the cake. Had they been able to make money there relative to other opportunities they would have found a way. Low load factors coupled with expanding opportunities at LGA and DCA doomed the Key West operation. Just as it did at Branson and Jackson.
http://keysnews.com/node/60527