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Comment on Geek Test: What’s Wrong With This Southwest Ad? by VIDEO: What’s Wrong With This Southwest Airlines Commerical? | Airline Reporter | An airline blog on the airline industry

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:12:22 +0000

[...] Webb over at Things in the Sky asked today “What’s Wrong With This Southwest Ad?” and I found one of the two things off with it. Can you find both or even [...]

Comment on A Few Route Announcements from Virgin America by whakojacko

whakojacko — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:52:29 +0000

10 bucks says they get trashed in Toronto.

Comment on Finnair Says Goodbye to the MD-11 by House Cleaning: Interesting Stories I Didn’t Blog | Airline Reporter | An airline blog on the airline industry

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:37:20 +0000

[...] Finnair has stopped flying the MD-11. Which is a total shame! (via Things in the Sky & Cranky [...]

Comment on Sun Country to Fly To London (Really) by Dan Webb

Dan Webb — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:50:46 +0000

Gary – all good points, and I don’t disagree. I think SY is experimenting a bit here, and they don’t want to get too ambitious on their first shot. If this turns out OK I think we’ll see more in summer 2011.

Comment on Sun Country to Fly To London (Really) by Gary

Gary — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:07:21 +0000

The plane sitting for a day seems really crazy. They don’t have better revenue opportunities for the aircarft that extra crew costs can’t be covered?

This route eats up the aircraft for 48 hours.

There’s GOT to be better ways to generate the revenue this flight’ll earn.

Say that the aircraft did 6 segments per day over the two days that the aircraft is off to London. Call that 6 roundtrips total then.

If the average roundtrip fare on MSP-STN was $900, they’d only need to generate a $150 average roundtrip fare on those other trips to generate the same revenue. That’s oversimplified of course, holds load factors constant, and doesn’t speak to the cost of flying 12 segments vs 2 though opening up a STN operation is likely more expensive than much of what else they might do with the aircraft.

This just seems batty to me.

Comment on Lufthansa To Launch Iraq Service This Summer by Ali

Ali — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:41:57 +0000

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Comment on A Quick Look at Boston-Baltimore by Dan Webb

Dan Webb — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:39:40 +0000

@BN – Good point. I’ll be more mindful of that next time!

Comment on A Quick Look at Boston-Baltimore by BN

BN — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:37:30 +0000

Don’t mean to be critical but this is just a pet peeve of mine In your graphs comparing market share in 2008 and 2009, it would be of help if you use the same coloring scheme in both.

Comment on JetBlue Boosts LAX Transcons, But Cuts LGB by jetBlue shaking up their Los Angeles service - The Wandering Aramean

jetBlue shaking up their Los Angeles service - The Wandering Aramean — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:45:03 +0000

[...] same time, transcon service from Long Beach will shrink by two flights, one each to Boston and JFK (hat tip to Dan for figuring out where the cuts came from). Considering the peak of eight daily flights between JFK and Long Beach this drawdown to only two [...]

Comment on A Quick Look at Boston-Baltimore by Jay

Jay — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:34:08 +0000

Another point, this one aimed more toward the infinite wisdom within the NE Corridor transit system, is the lack of connection between MARC and Metro service ‘down there’. SEPTA to NJ Transit works wonderfully to bypass Amtrak between Philadelphia and NYC through Trenton if PHL-LGA doesn’t work, and NY to Boston is a world of its own. But anything north of Philadelphia to the BWI area is impossible because of DART and MARC.

I’ll be curious to see if jetBlue will be the next airline in MHT (which itself now has either 4 or 5 open gates) looking for Boston-area traffic, or if we’ll see someone new come in. WN has MHT-BWI down to routine, so competition would be fierce.