Originally Posted by
prismwiz
B6 and F9 have the same IFE installed by Live TV which is owned by B6. Except on B6, IFE is free while on F9 it is not. B6 runs SLC not as a hub, but point to point, so there is no reason to deemphasize SLC.
Yeah, that's true. I was thinking more along the lines of making DEN an east-west connector hub, but on second thoughts, the traffic at SLC is pretty much all point-to-point anyway, since B6 already flies non-stop to JFK from the destinations it flies to on the west coast from SLC.
B6 might be able to make the F9 routes work simply through achieving better economies of scale than F9 can currently achieve on its own. But, they'd probably dump the A318s for sure---no reason to keep those with the E-190s.