Originally Posted by
CLEHillbilly
I was very surprised to have seen this on the local CLE news last week. MDW was my preferred Chicago destination with CO, I wish CO would reconsider this as MDW is very easy to get in/out of for my day trips to CHI.
After hearing this at first I had to wonder is this tied to any possible merger deals in the future considering its ORD being saved and the fact that CO did not cut duplicate airline routes to the NYC area to LGA or JFK since EWR is their hub. If fuel is the reason then lets cut at least one of those airports, "whats good for the goose is good for the gander" IMHO (not that I want any routes like these to be cut but why not consider those routes also?).
You have to look at the big picture, not just a generic co-term argument. LGA and JFK do not generally suffer the fare pressures that MDW did/does. They aren't cutting the route because it is a duplicate; they are cutting it because it is not profitable. I'm particularly interested to see if the up-guage the aircraft at peak times to/from ORD since the demand has theoretically remained static while the number of seats on the route has dropped by ~100 daily. Speaking of which, when did CO cut back to 2x ERJ daily on the EWR-MDW route? It used to be mainline 3-4x daily.