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DaCubbyBearBar wrote:No
PI4EVR wrote:On the heels of an announcement just this week that WN is reducing some flight schedules due to staffing issues, and a drop off in passenger numbers and revenue, they have to get their house in order. A large disgruntled workgroup/s and customer service and reliability issues are immediate issues that need attention. They have stated that advance bookings are strong through the holiday season, but they've got to fine tune the operation and "right the ship" so to speak now. Here it is a peak travel period approaching to close out the summer season, and yet the numbers show people have backed off travel for now due to Covid risks and in some cases pricing. I have 3 sets of friends totaling 8 people in PA and MD who have canceled traditional fall trips to FL by staying closer to home. The rise in the delta variant in FL and overall pricing for a week's vacation discouraged them, and they were flying WN and AA.
Unfortunately, we all are having to respond to and deal with further pandemic issues that will likely remain into 2022, so I'd see no rapid build up of new service into the first quarter. WN really has to fix its reputation with employees and customer alike quickly.
jplatts wrote:PI4EVR wrote:On the heels of an announcement just this week that WN is reducing some flight schedules due to staffing issues, and a drop off in passenger numbers and revenue, they have to get their house in order. A large disgruntled workgroup/s and customer service and reliability issues are immediate issues that need attention. They have stated that advance bookings are strong through the holiday season, but they've got to fine tune the operation and "right the ship" so to speak now. Here it is a peak travel period approaching to close out the summer season, and yet the numbers show people have backed off travel for now due to Covid risks and in some cases pricing. I have 3 sets of friends totaling 8 people in PA and MD who have canceled traditional fall trips to FL by staying closer to home. The rise in the delta variant in FL and overall pricing for a week's vacation discouraged them, and they were flying WN and AA.
Unfortunately, we all are having to respond to and deal with further pandemic issues that will likely remain into 2022, so I'd see no rapid build up of new service into the first quarter. WN really has to fix its reputation with employees and customer alike quickly.
While WN hasn't yet re-added DAL-BOS/DTW nonstop service, the return of WN DAL-BOS/DTW nonstop service is a possibility as
(a) demand had returned on most of the WN nonstop routes that WN was operating out of DAL in June 2021,
(b) BOS and DTW were two of the top destinations traveled to from DAL on WN prior to the COVID-19 pandemic that aren't currently served nonstop from DAL,
(c) the station average load factor for WN at DAL in June 2021 was slightly higher than the station average load factor for WN at DAL in June 2019, with the station average load factor for WN at DAL being 85.10% compared to the 84.48% station average load factor that WN had at DAL in June 2019, and
(d) WN carried 1,279,467 passengers out of DAL in June 2021, which is 92.71% the amount of passengers that WN carried out of DAL in June 2019 (with WN having carried 1,380,114 passengers in June 2019).