TWA1985 From United States of America, joined Nov 2006, 636 posts, RR: 0 Posted (5 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
Hello Everyone,
I have a quick question. After looking through my Jan. 1, 1985 and Jul. 1, 1985 Western Airlines Timetables, I noticed that Western flew four flights daily between Oklahoma City and Tulsa (both ways). I know this may not seem like a lot, but for an airline based out west, it does not make sense to me why Western Airlines would be so interested in Oklahoma. I would think that American Airlines, with their main hub only a little over 200 miles to the south, would have served the routes.
This is a photo of a Western Boeing 727 taking off from Tulsa in May of 1986.
PeachAir From United States of America, joined Dec 2000, 355 posts, RR: 4 Reply 1, posted (5 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 11 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
Western used to have SLC-OKC-TUL-SLC in addition to SLC-TUL-OKC-SLC. These frequencies were two each per day.
Rw717 From United States of America, joined Sep 2006, 283 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (5 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
At that time there were many odd routings by various airlines. One great example is the LAS-RNO flights opereated by EA in the 80's. At one time they were the only airline flying between these cities, and as a former Reno Air employee I can assure you that it is a fairly large market.
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Matt D From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 9502 posts, RR: 51 Reply 3, posted (5 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
Speaking of odd routings, does Northwest still fly the TUS-PHX segment? I know they were at least up until 2000. That was a holdover from the Hughes Airwest and Republic days. I always assumed that odd routes like that were simply equipment positioning flights. I know both TWA and Northwest did it for several years back in the 90's when MD-80's were flown (on scheduled, ticket-available) between SNA and ONT.
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PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 4, posted (5 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
Quote: Western used to have SLC-OKC-TUL-SLC in addition to SLC-TUL-OKC-SLC. These frequencies were two each per day.
In addition, Western also used to fly TUL-OKC-LAX. My grandmother used to fly that route to visit us in California a lot.
In the days before RJ's, it was not uncommon for two major non-hub cities to share a triangle routing for distant routes. AA used to have many of them, like SBA-BFL-DFW, DFW-BFL-SBA-DFW, & DFW-BFL-SBA.
My guess is that Western probably routed their Oklahoma services as TUL-OKC-SLC, SLC-TUL-OKC-SLC, SLC-OKC-TUL-SLC, SLC-OKC-TUL, as well as TUL-OKC-LAX.
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Notdownnlocked From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 915 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (5 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
This routing was to get pax from OKC/TUL to SLC and the West. It had pretty much nothing to do with carrying pax OKC-TUL. If WA did get pax on that route is was just an incremental bonus.
Ouboy79 From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 3998 posts, RR: 23 Reply 6, posted (5 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
DL carried this route on for quite sometime...it ended when they dropped the mainline equipment for TUL-SLC and had OKC handle it solo.
Any opinion/comment posted is that of my own and not that of Southwest Airlines Co.
NWAESC From United States of America, joined Aug 2007, 3324 posts, RR: 9 Reply 8, posted (5 years 7 months 2 weeks 5 days 2 hours ago) and read 1971 times:
Quoting Matt D (Reply 3): Speaking of odd routings, does Northwest still fly the TUS-PHX segment?
No, they do not....
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