To: Flavius Josephus
If routes to small cities don't pay, they shouldn't fly there. That's what busses are for.
It's not that routes to smaller cities don't pay; try flying to somewhere in North Dakota from either coast for less than $400. The problem is that not as many people want to fly from small cities to any one point, so you need to fly through a hub or use smaller planes. Southwest claims not have any hubs, and small city flying doesn't fit Southwest's one-size-fits all business model. The 737 is too large to fly there, and Southwest doesn't fly anything smaller. The legacy carriers fly a number of different aircraft types, which increases costs.
To: conservative in nyc
A number of the carriers, including Continental, now have those small, nimble little Embraer (Gulfstream?) jets for smaller routes and offpeak. Personally, I love'em.
95 posted on
03/14/2006 4:21:15 PM PST by
Flavius Josephus
(War today is always cheaper than war tomorrow.)
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