Goodbye MCI-SAT
Nov 7, 2011 | 5:08 pm
#1
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Goodbye MCI-SAT
Since this route cut doesn't involve MKE, I thought a seperate thread would be appropriate.
F9 will discontinue MCI-SAT this coming January. Can't say I'm too surprised given the odd schedule of the route (no Monday or Friday flights). With the previously annouced elimination of SAT-MKE and frequency reductions on SAT-DEN, Frontier will only operate one daily flight to SAT this winter (to DEN of course). Hardly competitive, especially compared to UA and Southwest.
F9 will discontinue MCI-SAT this coming January. Can't say I'm too surprised given the odd schedule of the route (no Monday or Friday flights). With the previously annouced elimination of SAT-MKE and frequency reductions on SAT-DEN, Frontier will only operate one daily flight to SAT this winter (to DEN of course). Hardly competitive, especially compared to UA and Southwest.
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Nov 7, 2011 | 6:43 pm
#3
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I don't understand why they would only fly one daily DEN-SAT flight? Why not suspend the route until spring or discontinue the city all together?? I can't imange the costs to start/end the station is higher then the losses they will incur flying the route against two other established carriers.
Nov 7, 2011 | 11:19 pm
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I don't understand why they would only fly one daily DEN-SAT flight? Why not suspend the route until spring or discontinue the city all together?? I can't imange the costs to start/end the station is higher then the losses they will incur flying the route against two other established carriers.
Nov 8, 2011 | 6:34 am
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Nov 8, 2011 | 3:55 pm
#7
Join Date: Feb 2009
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Probably has enough traffic to keep it afloat even at 1x day. Its only for 2 months and F9 probably has enough FF on the DEN side to keep it alive. The MCI connection is much sadder as by most accounts some of the recent MCI additions have been doing fairly well (especially LAS).
Of course its a moot point if they don't resume the route which is a high possibility.