Agreed.
Agreed.
I saw this morning that Delta is dropping Dayton from LGA to add Chattanooga. Sure would like them to add OKC.
DCA service is usually political. Oklahoma's state leaders haven't been demanding enough (or don't care) to get DCA service to either OKC or TUL. Meanwhile Arkansas has not one but TWO non-stops to DCA (from LIT and XNA). Even Mississippi has daily non-stop service from Jackson to DCA.
For the most part, the closer you are to the hub the more service you will get. The longer the flight, the higher the cost. A good example would be the amount of service we have to Dallas, compared to how much service Jacksonville has to dallas. It doesn't cost AA a lot to send a lot of flights to OKC. Crew costs are low, fuel costs are tiny, and the amount of aircraft time tied up is minuscule. JAX, even though a similar sized city, is much farther. Fuel and crew costs are quadrupled, and aircraft utilization time is tripled. Since it costs more, they have to have higher fares which reduces the number of people willing to pay. So even though the cities are similar, the lower cost of the shorter flight allows AA to give OKC more service in the form of cheaper fees for their routes out of DFW. It costs AA more to gain that feed out of JAX.
In this scenario, a lot of smaller cities in the east have better service to the east coast hubs not because they have something better than OKC. They are simply cheaper markets to operate in due to distance.
DTW metro is also 8 times larger than Chatannoga's, and its airport has a Delta hub. If you look at the table catch22 posted on the 1st page of this thread, in Q 2 of 2017, there were 433 round trip passengers per day to WAS airports, which includes Dulles and BWI on top of DCA. That’s not all that much traffic if you consider that IAD and BWI have a direct flights already. I’d guess we maybe have 120 round trip passengers per day, which would then only make economic sense for one airline to fly to/from OKC once a day? Just back-of-the-napkin here...
Don’t get hung up on my beauty comment, it’s just part of a package why Chatanooga is a place to fly from DCA.
I see Allegiant is announcing a bunch of new routes tomorrow. Doesn't appear that OKC will be getting any with tomorrow's announcement. Not sure if this a sign that they feel OKC is maxed out at the moment. Or..Allegiant ran out of darts on the dart board
Nothing to write home about if you're the average passenger but looks like Southwest will be starting 737 MAX-8 service on one of the HOU flights.
Showing an -800, now, not a MAX 8.
https://twitter.com/Fly_Nashville/st...068182528?s=20
Nashville service added by SWA
1x weekly on Sunday. It's a start.
Bummer about the MAX 8, pretty sure Airlineroute.net mentioned HOU-OKC-HOU was going to be one of the MAX 8 routes added this year. On the other hand, good stuff with BNA added in the mix, even if it's one weekly.
Excellent news! Hope it gets used so that we get more than 1 x weekly.
90 in the total market, so about 45 or so each way.
See this post for others.
http://www.okctalk.com/showthread.ph...56#post1017456
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