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Service once daily Monday through Friday starting February 23. This will complement the existing Mason City to ORD flights. Nice to see the additional flight option. Maybe MSP could come online someday.

Source: http://m.globegazette.com/news/local...8313019f0e8.html?mobile_touch=true

[Edited 2014-12-29 13:08:52]

DSM is jealous for the destination, not necessarily for that particular service though, heh.

Look at MCW though, with TWO destinations now, neither one of which is MSP. Hope it gets used.

I'm very pleasantly surprised. I didn't think STL would be added.

I'm disappointed at the timing of the flights though. STL-MCW only works for O&D.

well thats interesting! Does anyone know how the loads of MCW-ORD are doing? I miss the days of connecting through STL on TWA-AA from CID.

Quoting planespotting (Reply 1): DSM is jealous for the destination, not necessarily for that particular service though, heh.

I suppose it would be tough without the EAS support, but I wonder if flights such as STL-DSM and CID would work to cater to O&D. As you state it's not exactly the greatest service or aircraft size.

Quoting MSPNWA (Reply 2): I'm disappointed at the timing of the flights though. STL-MCW only works for O&D.

Yeah a 6:30am departure from STL seems a little bit weird. The routing is STL-FOD-MCW for a total of three hours.

FOD-ORD is also starting. Looks like the aircraft will do a STL-FOD-MCW-ORD routing.