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Old Feb 8, 2019, 4:14 pm
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ursine1
 
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I have skepticism regarding Southwest's ability to maintain long term profitability on their Hawaii routes. Fares will need to account for a significant portion of the plane flying on points and/or CP, which to me means short term or very limited advertised sale low fares (think a bucket of 6 total) offset by a balance of higher than industry average ones. And possibly points redemption at exchange rates higher than we've seen so far. Demand will be high for a while, so I suspect passengers will find that using points and with a CP they're getting a better deal than elsewhere, but without not so much. It will be interesting to see.
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