Alaska - Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) Update
Apr 20, 2019, 2:18 pm
#4
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as with most other conversations about prospective AS destinations, insight into O/D traffic on these three routes, as well as SEA/PDX<—>XNA traffic over AA/UA/DL hubs, would be useful
Apr 20, 2019, 2:22 pm
#5
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XNA is feeling it after getting Frontier last week, as well as yet another AA nonstop (PHL). Seattle and Bentonville are the two largest retail centers in the world now tho, so this could make sense (as well as picking up Asia feed heading to $WMT, which is what the LAX and SFO flights also cater to obv.)
Apr 20, 2019, 4:48 pm
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Walmart IT office is in the bay area. I've a friend who works for them and she uses the UA nonstop. The schedule is pretty bad for SFO based flyer since it's evening SFO-XNA and early morning back.
If AS schedules a prime time morning SFO-XNA and afternoon back, they'll get all of Walmart's business. A E75 should work fine on this route.
If AS schedules a prime time morning SFO-XNA and afternoon back, they'll get all of Walmart's business. A E75 should work fine on this route.
Apr 20, 2019, 5:37 pm
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to my mind, that’s a pretty ideal schedule for people in the SF office who have to make a one- or two-day mid-week trip to HQ ... at least half a day in the office before leaving, and at least half a day in the office after the return flight
Apr 21, 2019, 2:13 pm
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yeah that's it, via AA and yes to LGA. for all i know it might still exist too, since AA is still 2X daily to LAX and 2X daily to LGA
Apr 21, 2019, 2:14 pm
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Walmart IT office is in the bay area. I've a friend who works for them and she uses the UA nonstop. The schedule is pretty bad for SFO based flyer since it's evening SFO-XNA and early morning back.
If AS schedules a prime time morning SFO-XNA and afternoon back, they'll get all of Walmart's business. A E75 should work fine on this route.
If AS schedules a prime time morning SFO-XNA and afternoon back, they'll get all of Walmart's business. A E75 should work fine on this route.
Apr 21, 2019, 3:24 pm
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And even more ideal for someone XNA based (where the travel decision making is more likely to be made along with more senior execs) that can fly out for their meeting and be back to sleep in their own bed.
Apr 22, 2019, 10:56 am
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Apr 22, 2019, 11:16 pm
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Umm...that’s an excellent schedule. For most airports and metro areas of this size on the east half of the country maintain exactly 0 daily flights to California.
Apr 23, 2019, 1:14 pm
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If AS is basically blowing off corporate business by not offering a competitive transcon product out of SFO/LAX, chasing after Walmart in XNA (when they can offer ZERO connectivity east of XNA) seems a bit schizophrenic.