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Nov 5, 2016 | 11:36 am

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jacksafar

Join Date: Oct 2004

Location: MSP (after 21 years in SEA)

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Originally Posted by dmarge18

Kind of surprising it's an E175 for such a long route. Understand it can do it, obviously, but are they not expecting a high demand? Possibly a trial to gauge demand?

DL flies an E175 YVR-MSP (this gets up gauged in the summer)
AC flies an E175 or E190 SEA-YYZ

These are definitely some of the longer RJ flights from this area

I'm sure once the cruise/summer season starts you will see more capacity.
I think people (in general) really underestimate the power of the customer base at MKE. It's close to ORD yes, but most people there would prefer MSP over ORD and non-stop over connecting any day.

Northwest had a very very large and very loyal customer base (both business and leisure) in MKE, there was a WorldClub (now there is a SkyClub). I remember often NW had DC-10 widebody flights MKE-MSP multiple times a day.

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