It seems like this guy is just an opportunist after wanting to bolt from DEN in less than a year. I would be pretty pissed on the hiring team and hiring someone for a role that big and then they want to bail that quickly.
Jump to postBe curious if there is any three way collaboration between United, Air Canada, and Emirates, as Air Canada announced a similar partnership and has increased service from YYZ to DXB. AC and UA are very closely linked through Star Alliance, A++, and their transborder JV. I was thinking the same thing...
Jump to postSLC is in an excellent geographic location for a hub; the mere fact that in 2019 it served almost 27 million people for an MSA population of only 1.3 million proves this. In fact SLC probably has the highest number of passengers per MSA population in the US. Furthermore, Salt lake City's isolation ...
Jump to postAirport leadership wants more international service, including Africa. From an employee newsletter: "To further deepen Denver’s engagement around the world, we will commit our attention and resources to attract air service to international destinations that are currently not served from DEN. T...
Jump to postWhich is one reason the closure of smaller hubs hurt the country. Now we have empty runways in PIT, STL, CLE and we are spending billions building runways in megahubs and suffering massive system inefficiencies when a thunderstorm/snowstorm rolls thru northern Illinois, Georgia, Colorado. Having ad...
Jump to postThe economics just aren't there with the current aircraft on the market for Hub-small town spoke. The ideal solution would probably be a single pilot 30-50 seat electric airliner with a range of 500NM, but how is any manufacturer going to recoup their cost with all the regulatory hurdles to developi...
Jump to postPSP is obviously the big loser out west. At least only an hour drive from ONT. The other surprise for me is Allegiant cutting TUS. They were building up in TUS and going to have 4 cities served by June (PVU, IND, BLI, and LAS).
Jump to postI think B6 is the most vulnerable of the major carriers. Their biggest hub in JFK is an area that people don't want to travel to right now because of it being a covid hotbed and they have a nice east coast operation but are by no means the 800 pound gorilla that WN is on the west coast so they don't...
Jump to postBoeing will be fine and it will be a long road to recovery, but hopefully this time they learned their lesson not to cut corners and not play down to stakeholders the design flaws of the MAX. It's about transparency to the public and their customers about what they did and how they plan to fix it. T...
Jump to postHere is my theory. Other than MA, population growth in New England over the last decade has been pretty stagnant. BOS and BDL are the only two airports in the New England region than can support year round service to anything west of the Mississippi which is where WN has a lot of their strongest mar...
Jump to postFAQ LF BNA-TUP FEB 1.5>3[4] MAR 0>3[4] MAY 0>1.3[3] LF CEC-OAK FEB 0.6>1.0[1.0] MAY 0>1.0[1.3] JUN 0>1.0[1.6] JUL 0>1.0[1.5] AUG 0>1.0[1.6] LF LAS-PGA FEB 0.3>0.6[0.4] MAR 0>0.6[0.7] APR 0>0.6[0.9] MAY 0>0.6[1.0] JUN 0>0.6[1.0] JUL 0>0.6[1.0] AUG 0>0.6[1.0] LF LAS-SBA FEB 0.6>1.0[0.7] MAR 0>1.0[0.7...
Jump to post1. Most communities in the Contiguous US that can support some kind of regular air service have long enough runways that can support a jet over a turboprop. 2. People want a consistent product. Most people don't know the difference between United and United Express because you are still flying a jet...
Jump to postBummer to hear but not surprised. I believe Kansas City (aside from CLE) was the only market where FI was the sole TATL operator. However, with FI gone, what are the chances MCI could attract another flight? Say to AMS or LHR? I’m hopeful but not optimistic. MCI is just not an attractive market for...
Jump to postThank you for putting this together, this is really cool for us WN fans to see the big picture. Shocked that DAL has 61 destinations for an airport that not long ago was further restricted by the wright amendment.
Jump to postThe only merger at the major level I see happening in the next few years is Frontier/Spirit. With a huge fleet and the lowest costs in the industry, they could setup small bases anywhere they want and undercut the majors on almost every route and make money. I don't see Sun Country being acquired an...
Jump to postWN is a very conservative airline that doesn't make dramatic changes in a hurry. Wall street doesn't like the fact they don't charge bag fees, but it's a small way to differentiate themselves and build brand loyalty in a very competitive market. They do have ways they generate ancillary revenue like...
Jump to postI agree with you. Passenger airlines are first and foremost in the business of flying people. That said, having the ability to fly cargo can really help to mitigate parts of the year where demand is not as high on a route. One route I've flown that I've heard is heavily reliant on cargo is DFW-SCL. ...
Jump to postI would love to see more flights to Brazil, but the Brazilian economy is sluggish right now and I'm not sure there is really strong demand. I don't think eliminating the Visa requirement is going to do a lot to stimulate tourism from Americans to Brazil. Flights are expensive which keeps backpackers...
Jump to postAmazon started investing in their own air and ground logistics fleet because they wanted to do everything in their control to make one day shipping a reality in most of the contiguous US. That is a game changer. Disney would have to have projections showing that the number of pax they are funneling ...
Jump to postDL doesn't depend as much on their regional partners because they have narrowbody planes in their mainline fleet like the 717 and A220 they can more closely match to demand on thinner routes.
Jump to postIn a recent Airways Magazine article, it said Airbus saw a market for 1000 Airbus A380s. In the end, only about 250 of them will actually be delivered and flown by customers. I'd say that's falling short of the target goal.
Jump to postThe MRJ looks great on paper, but how it will actually operate in commercial service are two different things. I hope Mitsubishi has learned from the lessons that Sukhoi has had to suffer through.
Jump to postFor a small charter airline that only has 8 737NGs, this is probably going to be a big blow to their bottomline and hurt their reputation. I remember how quickly things went downhill at Eastern after the overrun at LGA with Pence onboard.
Jump to postResponding to the original question: Now that OMP (O'Hare Modernization Program) is almost done, the problem with ORD has shifted from a runway capacity problem to a significant gate shortage. I don't think the ORD 21 program will provide relief through a net gain in gates for probably 5 years. And...
Jump to postThis topic comes up frequently. I would be thrilled to have a PHX-NRT flight, but I don't think AA feels they can get good enough yields on the route, despite the fact I think the 787 would be the perfect plane for this route. Not sure what would entice Parker and company to pull the trigger. I
Jump to postO gosh here we go again with this. The short answer is that I can see a one pilot cockpit with more of a systems manager role in my lifetime but not a fully autonomous one with passengers. Pilots are paid for when shit hits the fan and so to have someone in there who can quickly diagnose a system ma...
Jump to postOP: I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't mischaracterize articles to intentionally mislead readers. This is not "hurting the airline" in the most common interpretation. It's not misleading readers. Even though the article title is actually, "Hurting customer service." that to me is...
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It seems like there would be some opportunity for WN to fly to some Mexico beach destinations from PHX. At the very least, SJO and PVR I would think are doable. Any thoughts on why WN doesn't see an opportunity here to compete with AA on these routes?
MCDU has dedicated his life to posting any negative WN news he can find on this forum so I choose to ignore him. WN has definitely had its fair share of issues operationally over the past few months, but I'm not sure I would have done things any differently in terms of cancelling flights out of MDW ...
Jump to postDid anyone actually read the piece in the Dallas Morning News? Kelly said that MEX was showing sign of improvements, but that they wanted to shift more efforts to Hawaii and that they would love to go back to MEX. "Mexico City was showing very nice improvement. It's much more of a business mark...
Jump to postWhile I agree that WN is ill-equipped to compete in markets with a foreign POS, I think there are bigger factors at play here. B6 for example knows Latin markets better than most and they have had similar struggles at MEX. The market is mostly dominated by the 3 Mexican LCCs with AM/DL serving the ...
Jump to postLooks like Via Air is beginning to cut back on their AUS frequencies. I don't know how they could have stretched themselves any thinner.
Jump to postI don't think WN has the right equipment to serve BZN. Too many seats on the 737 to make BZN work profitably. An airplane like the A220 would be perfect on a route like DEN-BZN at about 100-110 seats but I don't see WN going down that road.
Jump to postThis was in Enrilia's OAG thread a few weeks ago about TUS-CLT being cut. It is unfortunate, but I don't think the redeye was a real popular option for travelers out of TUS. There are also many people traveling from the east coast who just prefer to fly into PHX and take the shuttle down to Tucson b...
Jump to postHi there, To make a hub work, you need more than just a big metro area. In the case of LAS, it had trouble for many years attracting anything more than low-yield tourists who wanted to save their $ for the gambling and activities on the strip. Now, LAS is becoming a more diversified economy I would ...
Jump to postCLT-TUS going away next year is unfortunate, but not unexpected. I just don't think AA could get enough connecting traffic from TUS flowing to CLT when they have DFW and ORD to fill that void. So far AA has failed to make JFK and now CLT work from TUS. I'd love to see DL or B6 offer a seasonal JFK r...
Jump to postThese guys are growing quickly and it will be interesting to see how they hold up. Interesting business model flying less than daily RJs to medium-sized markets from larger focus cities. Reminds me of the old expressjet at-risk flying. I've heard they've had several mishaps with cancelled flights an...
Jump to postTUS to BLI & PVU? Hah! I give it three months. Because these are brand new destinations, the airport is actually providing some financial incentives to G4 to get the services off to a good start. So I am hopeful that these will stick around. TUS has had a hard time keeping east coast destinatio...
Jump to postGlad to see that TUS is getting another airline. This time it is G4 announcing 2x weekly flights to PVU and BLI. Been a great 2018 for TUS and glad to see more ULCCs giving TUS a shot! In 2018 alone, we've gotten F9 to DEN, added service to DAL and SJC on WN, Via Air to AUS, the AA redeye flight to ...
Jump to post*LF PGA-PHX SEP 0>1.7[0] OCT 0>1.7[0] NOV 0>0.2[0] Well that explains an odd routing when Contour/LF swapped the E135 that's been doing the OAK-CEC route for a few months now. N16502 routed CEC-IGM-PGA-PHX-MQY (div to JWN) returning to base at Smyrna. Must have done a road-show visit or proving run...
Jump to postI was considering going with these guys on a past business trip to AUS from TUS, but they only fly the route 3x week which was less than ideal. I'm glad I didn't because if you head over to tripadvisor, you can see all the awful reviews of how many passengers they leave in the dust when operational ...
Jump to postBetween SY starting seasonal service to MSP and now F9 back to DEN seasonally, it is nice to see some ULCC activity again at TUS. It would be nice to get NK and G4 here as well.
Jump to postDTW has a ton of routes that support the auto industry. DTW-NGO on DL and then 5D which has DTW-BJX, DTW-MTY(also served by DL) and soon DTW-QRO.
Jump to postdoulasc I am sorry for all the sarcastic posts on here. I enjoy discussing the feasibility of air service to various communities and I don't see why people need to be so rude in commenting on your post. To answer your question, I don't think Portsmouth is an ideal location to start air service. It d...
Jump to postFact is, PHX loses out due to a number of factors: low yields, lack of significant international business ties, a hub airline not committed to anything outside of domestic service, proximity to LAX, and the fact that any European or Asian service is 10-12+ hours. Long flights plus low yields don't ...
Jump to postAWW I see I thought they were in talks to expand to NRT so Jal will go first any ideas when>? My question would be why? JAL and AA have a joint venture and AA offers a great deal of Asia service from LAX which is geographically positioned nicely to serve PHX. You could probably fill a plane 3x week...
Jump to postI don't think PSP fits well with WN's strategy. WN essentially picks places that have year round demand. They do offer seasonal services between markets but there needs to be at least one market served from the originating city that has sufficient year round demand for them to make it worth while to...
Jump to postWell if I remember correctly, WN had partnerships with Westjet and Volaris at various points that both went belly up. I'm not sure any of those are very fruitful if they were to re-consider. But who at this point is even a likely candidate? I'm sure if one of the big 3 learned that one of their alli...
Jump to postCan they please change the name of the newly merged carrier to Peaches and Cream?
Jump to postWow, fantastic trip report and great pictures! I am jealous of all of the great food and adventures you got to go on while in Pucon. I spent a semester studying Spanish in Chile and have fond memories of this beautiful country. I stayed in Vina with a host family and traveled all over the country. O...
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