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TerryWrist

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on: October 24, 2007, 05:23:57 pm
lol who flies to these places?

is there anything actually there?
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Reply #1 on: October 24, 2007, 05:30:26 pm
Obviously you don't appreciate national parks, mountains, ski slopes, canyons, wildlife, or Lawrence Welk.
             
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Reply #2 on: October 24, 2007, 07:19:42 pm
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lol who flies to these places?

is there anything actually there?


no one.

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Reply #3 on: October 24, 2007, 07:21:32 pm
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lol who flies to these places?

is there anything actually there?

I think there is Salt Lake City in Utah, I think it's a Delta hub.

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Reply #4 on: October 24, 2007, 07:44:47 pm
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Obviously you don't appreciate national parks, mountains, ski slopes, canyons, wildlife, or Lawrence Welk.



for a major commercial airlines

it would net major loss to fly there
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Reply #5 on: October 24, 2007, 07:51:14 pm
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it would net major loss to fly there


Sure. If you flew a 737 into those places.

Tiny planes + tiny salaries for pilots and F/A's + outrageous fares = profit
             
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Reply #6 on: October 24, 2007, 07:55:06 pm
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for a major commercial airlines

it would net major loss to fly there


Sure. If you flew a 737 into those places.

Tiny planes + tiny salaries for pilots and F/A's + outrageous fares = profit

To add, EAS sorta mandates that airlines fly there, whether or not they are making money on it in reality. But yeah, most of these cities will be seeing nothing larger than a Dash-8 land at their airport.

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Reply #7 on: October 24, 2007, 08:09:35 pm
Sky West seems to do pretty well flying around those states amongst others. They are a massive regional airline that flies under the United banner. Its kind of short sighted to dismiss small destinations. With the right equipment there is lots of money to be made flying to small centres that rely on air travel. Kalispell Montana has quite a high tech community, for instance, and they rely on feeder services to places like Chicago and Salt Lake City.
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Reply #8 on: October 24, 2007, 11:43:21 pm
Wow, do NorthWest, United and Delta all make tons of runs into the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, and Utah.   Heck it keeps lots of EMB-120's and CRJ's busy.

SkyWest(US) is based in St. George, UT

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Reply #9 on: October 24, 2007, 11:51:26 pm
Northwest makes 4 flights daily into minot north dakota with (what else) a DC9.  Having flown that flight (so yes I fly there) I can tell you its always full, there are frequent standbys and from what a friend of mine who works for NW  tells me (and she works in route planning so she'd know) they make a small fortune off that route.
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Reply #10 on: October 26, 2007, 04:55:45 am
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lol who flies to these places?

is there anything actually there?

I think there is Salt Lake City in Utah, I think it's a Delta hub.

It is a Delta hub, a fairly sizeable one at that which DL is currently growing.

Regarding the wilderness areas mentioned above.  Give it time.  I'll be flyin me birds there sooner or later! :-)
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Reply #11 on: October 26, 2007, 06:24:26 am
If you're the only show in town people will pay quite a bit of money to fly your airline.

The government also pays the airlines to fly to certain cities (EAS contracts).  A list can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_Air_Service
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Reply #12 on: October 26, 2007, 06:55:24 am
As for Montana there is alot of activity.

Delta flies into Billings,Bozeman, Butte, Helena, Missoula and Kalispell
Northwest flies into Billings Bozeman and Kalispell
United into Billings Missoula and Kalispell
Big Sky files all over the state
Horizon Air, Billings, Helena and Kalispell

So there is quite a bit of Activity in Montana, Wyoming is a diffrent story, not as much traffic.

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Reply #13 on: October 26, 2007, 10:41:12 am
Northwest fly there from MSP right?
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Reply #14 on: October 26, 2007, 07:45:00 pm
Actually if you look at some of the big ticket ski areas like Jackson Hole in Wyoming and Gunnison, Eagle, and Montrose (Telluride) they have lots of winter service operated by A320s(UA) and 757s(UA,AA,CO,NW) mainline flights as well as plenty of CR7s and CR2s (UA,DL) with a smattering of Brasilias (DL-SLC) and Dash 8Q200s/300s (UA) as well as some really small birds like Great Lakes Airlines and their BE1900D.  I used to fly on Air Wisconsin Bae-146s(UA) DEN-ASE, DEN-EGE a few years back but they have all be replaced now with mainline A320s and CR7s and Dash 8s unfortunately.

Oh and my in-game airline has a large regional operation to every major small community in the Western US from our hub.  Its our bread and butter.  :wink:

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