<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Cory6188:
CO has flights to ATL, ORD, and DFW out of A because it is entirely O&D traffic. Everyone going to these three cities are ending their trips there or in EWR. Therefore, CO does it out of convenience to business travelers because it is much quicker to get through A.
The reason that everyone going from these cities is ending in EWR (at least most of the time) is because there are always non-stops on other airlines from the cities (ORD-AA/UA, DFW-AA/DL, ATL-DL). Therefore, no one would ever connect in EWR when they can get non-stops from their home cities, so CO makes transit easier by going out of A.</font>
Obviously not, or the original post would not be here!
They actually try to bill this as "shuttle" service from EWR to ORD/ATL/DFW. Reality is that it is predominantly originating and terminating passengers. One would suspect that once C3 was opened at the end of 2001, they would have had the capacity to move these back to C. But the building of a Prez Club in A makes it appear CO is there to stay.