Originally Posted by
RobOnLI
In the same vain as EWR is "such a weird market" for DL. UA won't be grabbing much OD traffic out of MSP with the massive DL fortress. I'd imagine the same is true for DL. No doubt you can find "a" flight with an empty FC seat on DL out of EWR but those would be super few & far between just like UA ex-MSP.
MSP-EWR on DL doesn't have quite the elite/premium light loads that UA does, although to be fair DL is flying it with 717s and I cherry-picked a UA 739 instead of the 319/E75 that is more common (wouldn't be surprised if this one is just to cheaply RON the frame in MSP).
Originally Posted by
United747
I would agree with weird but not sad. My parents and I ended up 4,5, and 6 (1k, silver, and GM, respectively) with plus points on SFO-MSP on Saturday. F was sold out even before we booked.
Sad in the sense that I like United and I worry for routes whenever I see numbers like this. The morning flight is already gone from the winter schedule, down to 1x 319 and 1x E75 daily. Tighter schedule and inventory means I won't be on UA next time. SFO seems to be hotter demand this decade, but I flew it a lot in the 2010s and it was always a free CPU with my 1K status and earlier in this thread I found a post of mine about an SFO flight 1/20 in F at OLCI
But for comparison, UA used to fly LAX-MSP with E75s, and that route was a common source of domestic op-ups until it got cut.