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Jul 16, 2024 | 3:37 am

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worldwidedreamer

Join Date: Feb 2006

Location: the American West

Programs: Aiming for less

Posts: 4,060

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Originally Posted by FATFlyer

FAT-GDL elicited a quick competitive response.

Volaris often operates 3X daily during busy periods/busy days.

But in response to AS the third FAT-GDL for Holidays 2024 was just rescheduled to depart Fresno at the same 7am time as AS. Volaris has never scheduled a FAT departure earlier than 9pm, only operating redeyes.

Then Aeromexico has added an additional FAT-GDL for the Holiday period, giving them 2X departing Fresno in the evenings.

That means there will be 6 daily FAT-GDL flights over the Holidays including two 7am departures out of FAT. We will see how the market chooses between the offerings and if it can absorb the capacity.

While I live near RNO, and don’t track FAT prices, I can say our Volaris GDL flights are consistently very expensive. We also have a large VFR community, along with a lot of second homeowners near SJD, so think there is an opportunity here as well.

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