BACCALA From United States of America, joined May 2009, 116 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 months 3 weeks 2 days 3 hours ago) and read 1012 times:
I was looking on Continental.com for a flight to Houston on May 3-7 and noticed that at 11:35am both CO (737-800) and UA(A319) have a flight leaving at the same time. On the return that Monday they both have a flight leaving 9:30 am with about a 10 minuite diffrence in arrival time from IAH-SEA. First question why do they do this? Could a widebody work better or is this a cheaper way to operate?
Because that's the number of seats they need on that route at that time. Demand is not even over time, whether you're looking at over the course of a year, a week, or even over the course of a day. It's all about rightsizing. Have flights when people want to travel, and don't have flights when people don't want to travel.
Quoting BACCALA (Thread starter): Could a widebody work better or is this a cheaper way to operate?
Yes. But, cutting that plane in half to send it to two different destinations after the flight could get kind of expensive. Also, flying half empty widebodies at many other times of the day, week, or year can get very expensive as well.
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RoseFlyer From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 7613 posts, RR: 51 Reply 2, posted (3 months 3 weeks 2 days 2 hours ago) and read 904 times:
This is a glitch you see in the schedules before they are firmed up. On legacy UA routes operated by CO metal and legacy CO routes operated by UA metal, you'll sometimes see two flights with the exact same departure time operated by each airline. The problem will go away, and in this case, I suspect the PMCO flight will be dropped.
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