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This is pretty unfortunate that we are losing this flight up here. I know that I have family in Austin and Houston and I've taken that flight more than a couple times. The thing is though, I took this flight for Thanksgiving and even on a busy weekend like that, the MD80 was less than half full.
In fact, AA is dropping HOU overall from its mailine service.
AA is doing some major things up in Boston to, lots of Eagle flights are going away up there. I also hear a rumor that their LGA-BOS/DCA service is going away, that I can't confirm though.
I'm surprised. Austin a city going through a lot of growth, so I'm surprised this route doesn't offer better yields.
Don''t worry jetBlue is comming soon
One thing to consider when it comes to yields at AUS is Southwest. WN has a huge presence at AUS and Hobby so competing for high yields is almost out of the question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil D.
Just to give you an example in two weeks I'm doing a business trip to Texas, in two days we're covering three cities (oh joy). We were asked this year to becareful how we spend our travel budget so when I contacted my travel dept. we looked at AA, CO, and then WN. Take a look at the costs
Routing
WN- ISP-MDW-DFW (codeshare on ATA) DAL-SAT-HOB-BWI-ISP
Total cost $395
AA- LGA-DFW-SAT-HOB-LGA
Total cost- $1221
CO- JFK-HOU-DFW-SAT-HOU-JFK
Total cost- $829
So basically how can AA compete with a fare of less then $400? Even with the connections our arrival and departures times are within 30 mins of AA's non-stop flights. Some of you know in general I'm a WN fan but this comes down to good business sense, its that simple.
HOU Tommy, HOU, NOT HOB lol
a WN fan? nooooo :P