Whatever happened to nonstop L.A. flights?
Sunday, January 14, 2007
By David Bear, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette click this shiznit :angry:
Sunday, January 14, 2007
By David Bear, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette click this shiznit :angry:
So what's your point? Are you agreeing with the reporter and the customer or are you agreeing with your company that it's better to reduce more service out of PIT?
S'plain it me to Lucy?
So what is your point? I'm posting a link to an article. Read it and draw your own conclusions.
Must be feeling pretty good about yourself that you can start the business with someone this early on a sunday morning. Well I think you are the stuff being squeezed out of that chihuahua in my avatar. What do ya think of them apples?
So what is your point? I'm posting a link to an article. Read it and draw your own conclusions.
Must be feeling pretty good about yourself that you can start the business with someone this early on a sunday morning. Well I think you are the stuff being squeezed out of that chihuahua in my avatar. What do ya think of them apples?
.... Obviously the customer in the article hasn't learned since he only flies 3 times a year to LAX ....
Just a note of correction:
The first sentence of the article states: "For Gil Hanna, an Upper St. Clair business traveler who takes an average of three trips a month to Los Angeles, time makes all the difference".
I wish LAX was still the PSA mecca it once was. Times change.The article states, more or less, that the company is reallocating the aircraft to a market where it can make a profit during the Winter.
I'm sorry this one guy is inconvenienced. But airlines are not charities or not-for-profit organizations. It makes business sense to reallocate aircraft seasonally, and US (and others) have been doing that for years. For once, I'll agree with the Sand Castle and say 'good job' for maximizing revenue.
Lighten up, Pittsburgh. Sorry you got de-hubbed. In fact, I started with US in PIT many moons ago and wish it were still the US mecca it once was. I was there recently for business, and it was sad to see an empty US concourse in that beautiful airport.
But $ talks, and unfortunately, PIT doesn't generate enough of it.
Yea, amazing that they will fly many less then capacity flights out of other cities then claim they make money to justify their existence.....This guy does not understand how an airline can cancel a flight that was "almost to capacity" at most times...Cracks me up how many people say this....
The only thing these airline managers care about are POWER and MONEY, and it seems that both are very abundant at that level.....Well they are very talented when it comes to insulting theer high yield Trans-Atlantic Customers in Print.
Actually, WN only has 2 daily non-stops each from PHL and BWI to LAX. PHL is primarily O&D for this route and I would assume BWI is more connecting. WN considers these Premier routes which require and produce high yields in both directions because they limit aircraft utilization - not typical WN strategy. So I think WN would only do PIT-LAX if the flights were forecasted to be consistently full in both directions. Add to that, the lack of a broad FF program and it could become difficult to attract sufficient business traffic on a PIT-LAX non-stop. Many business FFs would probably prefer a 1 stop if it was the only thing available on a Program affiliated airline than flying non-stop on WN. It would be interesting though if WN gave it a try, since unlike the Legacies, they don't appear to cut and run from a route as soon as yields slow down.Sounds like a good opportunity for WN to step in....
Add to that, the lack of a broad FF program and it could become difficult to attract sufficient business traffic on a PIT-LAX non-stop. Many business FFs would probably prefer a 1 stop if it was the only thing available on a Program affiliated airline than flying non-stop on WN.