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Old Apr 2, 2013, 10:20 pm
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Unhappy WN abandons BOI>SEA and now BOI>PDX!!
AS has to love this news. Guess what will happen to prices on these routes now?

Which of your favorite routes have been cancelled?
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Old Apr 3, 2013, 6:28 am
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ISP-MDW

Used to be at least 6 flights a day. From MDW, anywhere WN flies, especially the west, used to a one connect, convenient delight. Now its a friggin chore to fly anywhere but Florida from ISP.
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Old Apr 3, 2013, 8:03 am
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BOI>SLC

I used to live on that route. Back in 2005-2008 I had the student special were you only had to fly 4RT and you would earn a free ticket. Those were the good old days!
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Old Apr 3, 2013, 12:00 pm
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Still unhappy about the loss of CLE-STL...
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Old Apr 3, 2013, 1:17 pm
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BNA-ONT
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Old Apr 3, 2013, 3:38 pm
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ABQ<->SLC
ABQ<->STL

Southwest has really taken a dump on the non-stop destinations out of ABQ in the last year or so...
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Old Apr 4, 2013, 9:49 am
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I was hoping WN would keep LEX after Airtran integration, but noooooooooo.
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Old Apr 4, 2013, 11:44 am
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Originally Posted by toomanybooks
I was hoping WN would keep LEX after Airtran integration, but noooooooooo.
I live in Lexington and was so hoping they would keep service here. It's only an hour to SDF though.
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Old Apr 5, 2013, 1:09 am
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WN has been cutting Tucson flights like there's no tomorrow. We're down to three LAX flights in the summer (from a high of six a few years ago). Once June rolls around, it'll take 7-8 hours to get to DAL on WN or 6 hours to get to ABQ.

It's gotten so bad in the last 1.5 years, I'm moving to Phoenix in a couple weeks. Doing the drive ever week is getting old.
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Old Apr 5, 2013, 12:23 pm
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IND-MDW - Another recent short-haul casualty!
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Old Apr 5, 2013, 5:42 pm
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Originally Posted by joshua362
ISP-MDW

Used to be at least 6 flights a day. From MDW, anywhere WN flies, especially the west, used to a one connect, convenient delight. Now its a friggin chore to fly anywhere but Florida from ISP.
Don't they fly ISP-BWI? BWI reaches most of WN's major markets except SFO/OAK, DAL and MSP nonstop. BWI-DAL will be flown. I wouldn't be surprised though if ISP is downsized even more, and maybe one Florida market like ISP-TPA moves over to LGA-TPA.
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Old Apr 5, 2013, 6:38 pm
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Originally Posted by rtalk25
Don't they fly ISP-BWI? BWI reaches most of WN's major markets except SFO/OAK, DAL and MSP nonstop. BWI-DAL will be flown. I wouldn't be surprised though if ISP is downsized even more, and maybe one Florida market like ISP-TPA moves over to LGA-TPA.
Yes, over and over. Except I like to fly to SAN, OAK, SFO & MCI. Choices are severely restricted now where before I had many options. Had to fly a 3 hop 10+ hour marathon ISP-BWI-MDW-SFO a few days before New Years. Started using my coupons after leaving BWI, lets say I arrived in great spirits and it was a challenge figuring out BART for the first time (but all good, it was a blast).

Just don't understand it. ISP-MDW flights were largely packed when I flew them (Sun/Mon/Thurs/Fri). They built an 8 gate shrine to themselves in one of the most dense well off markets in the US. The hassle of driving / flying into LGA with frequency can't be worth abandoning ISP. ISP fares are sky high, its easy to get same day / next day WGA fares out of LGA. Plus the terminal they and AirTran are in is a dump!

But they must know what they are doing...
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Old Apr 5, 2013, 8:04 pm
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Originally Posted by joshua362
Except I like to fly to SAN, OAK, SFO & MCI. Choices are severely restricted now where before I had many options.
Don't they fly BWI-SAN nonstop? I seem to recall one of my TUS-SAN or PHX-SAN flights continuing to BWI.

But I hear you on severely restricted choices....these last 15 months have been brutal.
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Old Apr 8, 2013, 9:42 pm
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RNO to SLC nonstop is gone. Hello Delta. RNO to ONT gone already, too.. it just started.

Waiting for RNO to PDX nonstop to go. Never full...
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Old Apr 9, 2013, 12:30 am
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RNO-SJC and, in early June, RNO-OAK nonstops also will be eliminated. Grrr...

CEO Kelly states the short-haul market over 20 years is down. The medium-haul market is sort of flat. The growth has been in the long-haul market.

http://www.vegasinc.com/news/2013/fe...res-fees-and-/

IMHO he is gambling that losing SWA's short haul loyal base is worth the risk...does not make me happy or even optimistic about LUV stock...
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