Just to be clear, the WN SFO-MKE flight was transitioned to seasonal. It starts back up on June 7, the same day that UA starts the SFO-MSN flight.
I too miss the FL flights and their C cabin, especially because they had redeyes on the LAX and SFO runs.

Thanks -- I didn't realize that. Seasonal as in only summer? Midwest Express used to run it from April though Jan. 2 or so.

Southwest hasn't said if their west coast flights to San Francisco, San Diego or Seattle will be staying year-round or if not how long the season will last. My guess is SFO wll remain year round, SAN may remain year round but Seattle will be summer only since Delta and Alaska both will fly mainline jets on the route.

Last year Southwest had a serious fleet crunch due to the mass retirement of a subfleet. It left them short several aircraft through fall, winter and into 2018. Cutting long-haul routes which are not key to network connectivity freed up quite a bit of aircraft time with comparably contained damage. They have been receiving new deliveries and by summer they are in much better shape. I think it is likely at least SFO will return to year-round service. But we don't yet know for sure.

WN's schedule is only out through August right now, so as knope points out...we don't know yet. In 2017 SFO and SAN ended effective Nov. 5.

I just checked their schedule, they updated it. It looks like SFO ends in August :( The United transfer in ORD is terrible. The regional jet terminal is very far away from the mainline jet terminal.

It looks like WN is extending MKE-SEA. It may go back to year round, but MKE-SAN and MKE-SFO are still seasonal. Delta and Alaska are flying mainline jets on that route already. This seems strange. Any thoughts?

I would think there's significantly more demand for MKE-SFO than MKE-SEA, but what do I know? Having three airlines servicing MKE-SEA while MKE-SFO doesn't even have year-round service from a single carrier makes no sense to me.

I agree. It is instinctively puzzling. Maybe Knope has some figures?

Update on re-emergence of Midwest Airlines

https://www.biztimes.com/2018/indust...b323-244050445

Frontier adds MKE-SAN
 

Frontier added MKE-SAN, it appears year-round three days a week. If it is year-round, that's great news for the people of Milwaukee!
Let's hope either United, Frontier or Southwest add SFO year-round. My family came to visit me and had to transfer in STL. They are older and would prefer a non-stop flight between MKE and the Bay Area!

https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news...e-to-san-diego

Best all

Anything new on C in MKE?

Mitchell Airport adds free WiFi...
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money...rs/2335446002/

Gonna drive up tomorrow from O'Hare. I sure miss the SFO nonstop. I don't get why no one is trying to serve the route year-round with a regional jet. Seems like the numbers would work.

MKE name change:
https://fox6now.com/2019/02/05/mitch...ing-milwaukee/