Southwest Overwhelmingly #1 Pick by Passengers in DIA

[swamt]

Almost 50% (48.9% to be exact) picking SWA when givin 6 of the top DIA airlines to choose from.  Looks like United came in 2nd, Frontier came in 3rd, and Delta came in 4th with only 7.8% of votes.  Kind of an eye opener when United actually carries 40.7% of traffic out of DIA and SWA has only about 1/4 @ 26.2% and growing...
 
DIA20: One airline is the fly-away favorite at Denver's airport

 

[WorldTraveler]

you don't need a newspaper survey to know that WN has been DEN's largest local carrier for a number of years

UA's presence is buoyed by carrying connecting passengers. UA also carries more longhaul passengers which are worth more.

 

[swamt]

you don't need a newspaper survey to know that WN has been DEN's largest local carrier for a number of years

UA's presence is buoyed by carrying connecting passengers. UA also carries more longhaul passengers which are worth more.

Hey dummy, re-read the article. SWA is not the largest local carrier at DIA for a number of years.  UAL has more than 40% of passengers at DIA, with SWA having just over 25%.  Big difference there skippy. SWA has only been there since 2006, not even 10 years yet. I honestly think this speaks volumes for SWA's ability to attract passengers and their outstanding customer service.  Give SWA 10 years at ATL and do the very same poll.  We would all probably see the same results, but you are to thick headed to accept something like that happening to Delta, but it could as it just did to UAL and I would have never expected SWA to beat out UAL in a Denver poll about favorite local airline at DIA.

 

[WorldTraveler]

no, you are the dummy because you don't the difference between local passengers and boardings.

WN IS the largest carrier at DEN in terms of local passengers.

UA boards more passengers but the difference is that UA's increased number of passengers is because of connections.

WN won't have more than its hub/focus cities from ATL in a couple years, let alone 10.

the only reason why WN accomplished what they did at DEN is because they used their fuel hedge advantage to build DEN at a time when UA was weak and because WN had been unsuccessful at growing to any significant size in SLC after years of trying.

DEN is the only legacy hub that WN has penetrated and it is in part because F9 was pounding away at UA as well.

now F9 is grasping at any straws it can, UA is reclaiming territory in DEN but WN is still and will likely continue to be the largest carrier in the local DEN market.

the newspaper survey mirrors very closely the share of local DEN traffic that WN has.

 

[robbedagain]

congrats to all the SWA folks for that in DIA!

 

[swamt]

Thx for the kind words robbed...

 

[WorldTraveler]

looks like UA might be DEN's only choice until WN gets its **** together

 

[robbedagain]

anytime bro