Aggieflyboi04 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 207 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 3574 times:
Tjwgrr From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 2297 posts, RR: 3 Reply 2, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 3524 times:
EWR is prone to many delays- not conducive to SWA's quick turns.... I don't think SWA would touch EWR with a 10 foot pole.
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LUVRSW From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 498 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 3519 times:
MSP-RSW MSP-TPA MSP-MCO MSP-PHX Time to put the last nail in the coffin of NW! Then WN can fly FAR RST BJI STC DLH TVF GFK EAU CWA GRB to MDW! Wishful Thinking
KcrwFlyer From United States of America, joined May 2004, 3629 posts, RR: 7 Reply 4, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 3512 times:
Quoting LUVRSW (Reply 3): Then WN can fly FAR RST BJI STC DLH TVF GFK EAU CWA GRB to MDW! Wishful Thinking
Amazingly, extremely wishful. I thought there was a minimum city size?
Kahala777 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 5, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3505 times:
Minneapolis:
Lets hope that they go for the throat of Northwest Airlines and invade the Minneapolis market. It is possible to see:
Baltimore - 5 daily
Chicago - 5 daily
Detroit - 5 daily
Kansas City - 2 daily
Las Vegas - 3 daily
Los Angeles - 5 daily
Oakland - 3 daily
Orlando - 3 daily
Philadelphia - 4 daily
Phoenix - 3 daily
Portland - 2 daily
St. Louis - 2 daily
Seattle - 2 daily
The above combination could easily only occupy 4 gates, and would not be that big of a gamble since MSP needs more flights with all of the Northwest Airlines cutbacks and what not.Northwest Airlines, is living in borrowed time and day in and day out it is screwing over not only its employees but the city of Minneapolis.
Allowing Southwest Airlines into the MSP market would allow a breath of fresh air for the people of MSP, since they are now being strongholded by Northwest Airlines, and its over the top ways of dropping its employees. If it turns out to be a nail in the Northwest coffin, so be it.
NIKV69 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3470 times:
Quoting Tjwgrr (Reply 2): EWR is prone to many delays- not conducive to SWA's quick turns.... I don't think SWA would touch EWR with a 10 foot pole.
Yes, EWR makes no sense for WN. Maybe JFK or LGA but never in NJ.
MSP in quite interesting, if and when NW goes belly up WN would definitely enjoy success there. I would love to see ISP-MSP SO I can connect with SCY MSP-IFP without flying out of JFK on SCY and dealing with the long lay over
BigGSFO From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 2755 posts, RR: 7 Reply 7, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 3470 times:
I agree with the consensus above - IMO, MSP would stand a better chance of WN than EWR. I can see them starting with 10-15 flights to their "non-hubs" (MDW, LAS, MCO) and then aggressively expanding over the course of a few years. MSP would be a good fit for them and for the people of the Twin Cities and surrounding areas.
Aeroman62 From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 158 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3431 times:
Quoting KcrwFlyer (Reply 4): Amazingly, extremely wishful. I thought there was a minimum city size?
Jackson, Mississippi, Midland, Amarillo, aren't that big, and they are served by WN. It isn't the size of the city, it's the revenue potential and the service ability to match WN's operational requirements.
MFEFlyer From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 367 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3415 times:
and that also includes HRL, they only have a population of about 70,000-80,000. And they are still serviced by WN.
PVD757 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 3375 posts, RR: 18 Reply 10, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3413 times:
I could see WN being interested in both MSP and EWR - no ones knows if it will ever get beyond interested but WN...
Tornado82 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 3394 times:
Quoting Tjwgrr (Reply 2): EWR is prone to many delays- not conducive to SWA's quick turns.... I don't think SWA would touch EWR with a 10 foot pole.
While there's no doubt EWR is very delay prone... Southwest is already in Philly. For instance yesterday, a day with heavier rains/winds in EWR, Philly's delays were still running about 60-90 minutes longer as per the FAA site.
MKEdude From South Korea, joined May 2005, 1008 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 3345 times:
If WN is serious about serving the New York market, then they have to expand beyond ISP either at EWR or JFK. As for MSP, it is clearly ripe for competition, but even in their current financial shape NW is not going to allow anybody to hone in on their turf. I think it would be tough for WN to make a go there.
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Cloudy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 13, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 3327 times:
Quoting Aeroman62 (Reply 8): Jackson, Mississippi, Midland, Amarillo, aren't that big, and they are served by WN. It isn't the size of the city, it's the revenue potential and the service ability to match WN's operational requirements.
This has been explained before many times in many threads. The smaller metro areas that WN serves are served because they were added in the days before deregulation, or for political reasons(Jackson). Southwest insists that new cities it flies to be able to support 10 flights a day, right away. They have held fast to this rule. Most cities it has entered recently have a lot more demand potential than that. There are many smaller cities that would love to have WN, but they are indeed pipe-dreaming. Southwest has niether the equipment nor the business model to serve these destinations. Once the 737-500's go (I don't know when that will be), it is possible that many smaller destinations within Texas may be dropped.
Airtran and now Jetblue (with the E190) are going after some of these markets, not Southwest. They can make money on fewer flights per day, and have smaller aircraft.
KcrwFlyer From United States of America, joined May 2004, 3629 posts, RR: 7 Reply 14, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 3266 times:
Quoting Aeroman62 (Reply 8): Jackson, Mississippi, Midland, Amarillo, aren't that big, and they are served by WN. It isn't the size of the city, it's the revenue potential and the service ability to match WN's operational requirements.
Aviatortj From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1838 posts, RR: 8 Reply 16, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 9 hours ago) and read 3123 times:
Quoting MKEdude (Reply 12): As for MSP, it is clearly ripe for competition, but even in their current financial shape NW is not going to allow anybody to hone in on their turf. I think it would be tough for WN to make a go there.
I'd love to watch that fight go down. The press around here somehow has already painted WN as the world's best airline. Throwing in Kahala's routes would be a big cut into NWA.
Ntspelich From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 764 posts, RR: 0 Reply 17, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 3069 times:
Word on the street is that LGA could be a possibility depending on DL and US's financial futures.
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N908AW From United States of America, joined Aug 2005, 848 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2981 times:
Quoting KcrwFlyer (Reply 4): Amazingly, extremely wishful. I thought there was a minimum city size?
Ever heard of JAN? Most of the cities listed up there were functioning at a level equal to JAN pre-WN.
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Wedgetail737 From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 5527 posts, RR: 5 Reply 19, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2974 times:
Does MSP have the gate space to handle WN right now? Just curious.
AirRyan From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 2529 posts, RR: 6 Reply 20, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2961 times:
Not even WN would have the resources to drive NW out of business and even if they did come up to MSP they still couldn't touch NW much more so than did TZ. Contrary to what many in the press and at DAL would like people to beleive, not everyone loves WN's service.
AviatorTJ From United States of America, joined Jul 2003, 1838 posts, RR: 8 Reply 21, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 3 hours ago) and read 2920 times:
This article suggests AirTran as the one to fill the void on MSP-MDW. I don't know where I'd put my money. Something tells me WN is in MSP's cards more now than ever.
Pilottim747 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1607 posts, RR: 5 Reply 22, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2899 times:
It'd be nice to see FL doing MSP-MDW again. SY used to fly MSP-ORD so that'd be ok too.
Quoting AviatorTJ (Reply 21): Something tells me WN is in MSP's cards more now than ever.
That'd be something else.
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SHUPirate1 From United States of America, joined Sep 2003, 3661 posts, RR: 18 Reply 23, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2883 times:
I wouldn't be surprised to see jetBlue use the opportunity to start MSP-JFK 190 service.
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Aggieflyboi04 From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 207 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (7 years 7 months 1 week 4 days 1 hour ago) and read 2885 times:
Quoting Cloudy (Reply 13): Once the 737-500's go (I don't know when that will be), it is possible that many smaller destinations within Texas may be dropped.
I don't see this happening, the only honestly small destination that WN serves in Texas is HRL but even there they have the traffic going to South Padre, I have flown this route even in winter months and the flights are full.
I think that WN is possibly seriously looking at MSP right now with ATA stoping service there.
26 AviatorTJ: Turns out it was just the military charters to MSP this morning.
27 PanAm747: How many people said, "Oh, WN will never move into PHL - it's too delay prone and US would drive them out of business?" Proving that an airline WON'T
28 N908aw: Last WN-MSP offer was for 10 gates and MSP didn't have it...
29 Iowaman: Interesting, since WN usually only starts cities with around 10 flights a day and expands from there, I guess they want plenty of room for expansion
30 N808NWatMSP: What about at the HHH Terminal? I'm sure that there would be plenty of space for WN to move in.
31 DCA-ROCguy: Although I have little time to post these days, I continue to lurk and will chime briefly into this one. Where are our NWA experts? I'll try to take t
32 JetBluefan1: I don't think that we'll ever see WN at EWR, especially with JetBlue now serving its 5 Florida markets from the airport. We all know that WN loves to
33 LTBEWR: First of all, don't forget that WN is already in the NYC area, sort of, at Islip. There, they can have access to over 1.5 million Long Island resident
34 Tornado82: Not to mention they'd have to acquire slots from someone
35 Alphascan: Interesting logic on this thread. The logic spewed seems to be that since ATA, WN's code share partner couldn't make a go of the MSP/MDW route competi
36 Jerion: As mentioned in previous posts. AirTran jumped on the MSP-MDW routes when ATA announced their pull out. I'm still hoping to see WN head into MSP soon.
37 ORDagent: Hooray for FL!! It's great to see that the LCCs such as FL are nimble enough to enter a market when the opportunity presents itself. I just hope that
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