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Jun 17, 2008 | 8:23 am

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jimcfsus

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Location: Athens, WV, USA; a US cockroach long before it was in FFOCUS; now a lowly US5 for only the 2nd time in 20 years.

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BostonMark

Really, much of US cuts have been the night bank - red eyes fit the Vegas lifestyle but people don't want to pay a lot for them. In this economic environment the cost to fly the red-eye greatly out-paces people's willingness to pay for it.

If people really need to take a redeye East out of LAS, just take a hop to LAX, SAN, PHX, SFO, for example and take their redeyes east. If US couldn't give you a fare on the hop, I'm sure WN would be happy to get you to the redeye.

I used to do these games when I wanted to use an award ticket, yet do LAS and SFO/SJC on the same trip. So I'd fly into LAS, do my business there (no, not gamble, convention/computer show) then take a hop on WN or UA to the bay area (SJC or SFO), spend time in the bay area, then come back to east coast from there.