Why is MSP<>MKE so Popular?
Oct 19, 2018, 9:25 pm
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Oct 19, 2018, 9:38 pm
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Oct 20, 2018, 12:30 am
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https://www.mmac.org/
There, you can find a list of major employers and perhaps learn about why businesses choose Milwaukee as a home. They appear to have all sorts of documents, reports, and charts about why the city is prosperous.
Oct 20, 2018, 6:40 am
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What difference does that make??? (it wasn't a "major" hub fwiw, but again, it's totally irrelevant. It's all O/D traffic.)
MKE was never a NW or DL hub. Why is this thread so politically charged that you think it should be deleted?
Oct 20, 2018, 8:44 am
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It's not just a matter of why so many paying customers (almost any airline can get lots and lots of customers on almost any route if they offer a $1 fare with no fuel surcharges) but how many customers there are at fares that DL considers to be profitable.
Oct 20, 2018, 9:28 am
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10 (or whatever) years ago DL and NW flew out of MKE. Plus it was a hub for YX (Midwest).
NW flew to 8 or 9 cities (it changed a lot); DL to a handful of hubs. They merged so NW flyers became DL flyers.
YX was great and flew to 20+ cities (30?). YX went away and I would guess the majority of those flyers went to DL/NW. (In fact, when YX was going away they offered to transfer your YX miles to NW (I think it was NW at the time, maybe DL, too lazy to google).
NW flew to 8 or 9 cities (it changed a lot); DL to a handful of hubs. They merged so NW flyers became DL flyers.
YX was great and flew to 20+ cities (30?). YX went away and I would guess the majority of those flyers went to DL/NW. (In fact, when YX was going away they offered to transfer your YX miles to NW (I think it was NW at the time, maybe DL, too lazy to google).
Oct 20, 2018, 10:04 am
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Maybe it would be intelligent discussion if there were some statistics indicating MSP to MKE had some extraordinarly higher ratio of flights/passenger travel compared to other non hub cities that you can travel to from MSP. But I imagine with all the flights leaving MSP to non hubs you could probably find data similar to MKE for another city.
In addition there are flights all day long from other hubs to MKE (ATL and DTW) that are always chalk full of people also.
Milwaukee is 5th largest city in the Midwest and 31st largest city in the US (per Wikipedia). People go to MKE, how is this a valuable thread? Why do people go anywhere?
Also many have given common sense answers that OP has ignored or rejected.
Oct 20, 2018, 11:41 am
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10 (or whatever) years ago DL and NW flew out of MKE. Plus it was a hub for YX (Midwest).
NW flew to 8 or 9 cities (it changed a lot); DL to a handful of hubs. They merged so NW flyers became DL flyers.
YX was great and flew to 20+ cities (30?). YX went away and I would guess the majority of those flyers went to DL/NW. (In fact, when YX was going away they offered to transfer your YX miles to NW (I think it was NW at the time, maybe DL, too lazy to google).
NW flew to 8 or 9 cities (it changed a lot); DL to a handful of hubs. They merged so NW flyers became DL flyers.
YX was great and flew to 20+ cities (30?). YX went away and I would guess the majority of those flyers went to DL/NW. (In fact, when YX was going away they offered to transfer your YX miles to NW (I think it was NW at the time, maybe DL, too lazy to google).
Oct 20, 2018, 12:37 pm
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It did, but that was a pretty brief period: January '08 until Republic bought Midwest Airlines from TPG in 2009.
https://crankyflier.com/2012/06/07/t...ssed-to-delta/
Oct 20, 2018, 2:43 pm
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I commuted DC-MKE on DL for months a variety of ways (ATL, MSP, DTW). Upgrades were tough even as a Diamond. Was not at all uncommon to see a full 757 or 739 on a Thursday afternoon.
That SC was wonderful though. They had a make your own nacho bar for along time.
That SC was wonderful though. They had a make your own nacho bar for along time.