Why is MSP<>MKE so Popular?
Oct 19, 2018, 12:47 pm
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Oct 19, 2018, 2:13 pm
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And only Southwest operates seasonal flights to a big (SEA does not count) west coast business destination. DL has opportunities here!
Oct 19, 2018, 2:24 pm
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I still haven’t gotten a good answer to why there is so much traffic between the two cities with large aircraft.
Oct 19, 2018, 2:26 pm
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My sister-in-law lives in MKE so we go probably once or twice a year. There's 1 or 2 BOS-MKE nonstops depending on the time of the year, but if its not convenient we'll often connect through DTW. I have flown BOS-MSP-MKE due to irrops before.
Oct 19, 2018, 2:29 pm
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DL flies lots of big planes between MKE and MSP because DL can fill lots of big planes with paying customers on that route. If they couldn't, then they would put those planes on different routes or park the planes in the desert.
Oct 19, 2018, 2:33 pm
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Good answer! Why so many paying customers?
Oct 19, 2018, 2:40 pm
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It’s interesting that there are 3 retirement aged couples on my flight today in F with me. I assume they are MKE area residents on leisure travel.
Oct 19, 2018, 2:55 pm
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Oct 19, 2018, 3:19 pm
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MEM is roughly the same size as MKE, MEM-ATL is roughly the same distance as MKE-MSP, and there are 11x/day MEM-ATL, all mainline, and they're currently being upgauged from MD88s to 739s.
6x/day narrowbody is not some insane amount of capacity for an airport with the amount of traffic that MKE has. This thread should be deleted.
6x/day narrowbody is not some insane amount of capacity for an airport with the amount of traffic that MKE has. This thread should be deleted.
Oct 19, 2018, 3:25 pm
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True, but ORD has 3 SEAs and 4 SLCs whereas MKE only has 1 of each. More westbound traffic will be routed on those out of ORD whereas more will go through MSP out of MKE.
Oct 19, 2018, 5:10 pm
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MEM is roughly the same size as MKE, MEM-ATL is roughly the same distance as MKE-MSP, and there are 11x/day MEM-ATL, all mainline, and they're currently being upgauged from MD88s to 739s.
6x/day narrowbody is not some insane amount of capacity for an airport with the amount of traffic that MKE has. This thread should be deleted.
6x/day narrowbody is not some insane amount of capacity for an airport with the amount of traffic that MKE has. This thread should be deleted.
Oct 19, 2018, 5:26 pm
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I rember some of the people I knew from the University of Wisconsin saying that it was cheaper to take some kind of shuttle to Milwaukee and fly out then to fly from Madison. The prices in MKE were half or more than half of what tickets at MSN were. This was over a decade ago so I'm not sure if it is still true. If so it probably is collecting a good chuck of the state.
Oct 19, 2018, 9:15 pm
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I rember some of the people I knew from the University of Wisconsin saying that it was cheaper to take some kind of shuttle to Milwaukee and fly out then to fly from Madison. The prices in MKE were half or more than half of what tickets at MSN were. This was over a decade ago so I'm not sure if it is still true. If so it probably is collecting a good chuck of the state.