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Old Jan 29, 2022 | 6:02 pm
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Originally Posted by joeyE
Queue my monthly rant on how CLT gets but a single daily domestic appearance (MIA-CLT-MIA). I find it odd that CLT to DFW, LAX or ORD can't support profitable widebody pax loads.
The same argument can be made for PHL that is down to 1x daily widebody to MIA and DFW. On the other hand, there are more Asia/India/MIdEast flights now than there were in the Fall and most, if not each, of them requires 2 planes, 2 crews, etc. to run it daily in each direction. There's also an uptick in European routes, too. So, the issue isn't if CLT-DFW (or any other domestic route) can be profitable on a widebody, it's which profitable routes are best suited for the available fleet of widebodies on hand?
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