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Old Jul 8, 2008, 8:55 am
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Originally Posted by sammy0623
completely just making this up, but, what if southwest were to fly only intra-hawaii?? they could send some planes over there, and gets frequent intra-island short hops...
I doubt it would be a good use of planes -- lots of takeoffs/landings that are hard on the aircraft and crew, people's expectation of dirt cheap fares, and already a very well supplied market (that you want to add a 737 to?). There are other places that can offer more profit than this I think.
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