Nonstop OKC-SAT & MSY

[BDP]

Good points Metro. It's filling up with migrant and commuting workers. TIME said the population is 60k at night and 150k during the day.

[venture]

>>About CAK and FNT, both airports are not focus ops for Air Tran. Yes, both airports have a fair number of daily departures from Air Tran, but not that many.<<

Being an Ohio native, I really wouldn't agree with this. CAK (Akron-Canton for those not familiar) has 3 gates used by AirTran for flights to: Atlanta (4 daily), Boston (2 daily), Fort Lauderdale (1 weekly), Las Vegas (5 weekly), New York LGA (3 daily), Orlando (1 daily), and Tampa (1 daily). Seven cities with nonstop stop service...definitely a focus market for AirTran. Look for Baltimore and others to follow. I'll give you Flint.

[OUman]

Ok, if you tally all the daily FL (Air Tran) departures from CAK (including the 5 weekly to LAS-airlines call 5 X week and up daily service, I have no clue why though), you get 16 daily departures. Now does a focus op mean service to a wide range of destinations from an airport or a certain number of dailies from that airport? Just wondering, my understanding of what a focus op is maybe off. And if it's about markets, then WN (Southwest) definitely has a focus op at OKC-18 dd's to 6 airports-LAS, PHX, MCI, DAL, HOU and STL.

OUman

[venture]

Focus Cities are defined different depending on the operation you are looking at. Traditional network airlines - the legacies and hub-and-spoke based LCCs like Frontier and AirTran...would consider cities like CAK (AirTran), CUN (Frontier), FLL (US Airways), etc...focus cities.

When you go into point-to-point based operations like Southwest...its hard to nail them down. Its all relative on the operation. Its like comparing hubs...you have to look at the overall operation. America West's Columbus Hub was no where close to PHX or LAS....but it was a hub.

[OUman]

Ahh, I see. Thanks.

OUman