flyoregon wrote:RWA380 wrote:AC4500 wrote:Anyone know what the future status of UA's DEN-OTH flight is? They currently fly it twice weekly on Sundays and Wednesdays on a seasonal basis, which is set to end on October 3rd. As of now, I don't see any plans for them resuming this flight in the placeholder schedule for next summer.
I wonder if QX would ever try SEA-OTH at some point.
OTH is on their map, like ACV, LMT, PDT & more cities they have left. The Q-400 is a big prop for little markets. UA flies OTH-SFO year round, albeit not daily. OTH first is a fishing community, secondly it's close enough to Bandon Dunes, you know south, in Bandon that spoiled rich people fly yheir small jets in by 10am & leave by 4pm, to have supper with the family, after getting in 18 holes & a few pints.
Coos Bay is not som much touristy, but a real active fishing town, with all the people & stories one could imagine. A friend of mine, her family owns a motel called Capt'n Jacks & it's a bit divet, but a wonderful Polish family runs it & bends over backwards to make things nice.
The fishing industry is losing money, there are less fish & seafood to harvest, as our coast is having massive die offs of certain species now that ocean temperatures are rising. The towns themselves are finding it hard to keep kids interested in a way of life there vs the bigger places with more opportunity.
I would be rather curious to know what percentage of tickets that involve OTH, are they more OTH POS, or elsewhere to OTH?, I think the latter. Other than a few military, government or state workers, I just don't know how 1-2 Q-400's would fare. I say this once in a while, QX those Dornier 328 props, were the best aircraft you've ever flown & I'm pissed you got rid of them.
They'd be a bit long in the tooth by now, but QX could have stayed in PDT, LMT, OTH & retuned service to ACV. But it was a cost cutting measure & i get it, but someone will come in & change that landscape.
It seems a PC-12 is the perfect size airplane for something like PDX-LMT/OTH (obvious PDT with Boutique on the route), but I know in years past there was hesitation with single engine airplanes for some businesses to commit to travel contracts with an airline with Boutique.
Seems a little surprising that Boutique hasn’t nosed around PDX-OTH. They could market it to the golf crowd in PDX pretty easily, especially with their AA/UA interlines for connections.
OTH is all about Bandon Dunes anymore. Commercial fishing isn’t paying for those flights from SFO and DEN. If AS/QX wants to restart an Oregon market that it left, SLE is the lowest hanging fruit.
Personally and selfishly I’d be overjoyed if they went back to PDT, but I think pigs will fly first.