We don't do many red eyes anymore and we don't do connections, so most LAS based airplanes are home in LAS parked at night; they found that not enough people are interested in red eye flights.
Bellingham is a busy new base/domicile for us. We have flights everyday out of there, sometimes 3 times a day...and they have been pretty full. Lots of Canadians will drive an hour to fly on us because it costs them $100+ more to pay the taxes and fly across the border from Vancouver. It doesn't cost them any taxes to drive across the border to Bellingham, WA.
Most destinations we only service 2 days a week which is perfect for smaller cities which couldn't fill a 150 seat airplane everyday. They're able to do so because of the low initial cost to buy the MD-80s; we don't have to keep them flying all day long to turn a profit like newer Boeings and Airbuses. It also allows us to rotate an airplane to serve different cities on different days of the week so we don't have to dedicate one airplane to any one route.
(ie. just one airplane can serve city A & B on Sat & Wed...city C & D on Sun & Thurs...and city E & F on Mon & Fri). At the end of the day, each LAS based airplane is at it's home base ready to go to another city the next morning.
LAS is currently a pretty senior base. Most new hires were sent to SFB, FLL, UTA, and BLI in the last 2 classes. Hopefully hiring will resume in late summer.
We also recently contracted with The Blue Man Group show at the LAS Venetian hotel. Not sure of all the details, but we sell their tickets onboard and have advertising for them inside our planes. In turn, they have our logo on the airplane featured in their show and somehow we share in the profits; just one more way of "thinking outside of the box" and finding additional streams of revenue.
Last edited by daytonaflyer : 04-03-2008 at 11:52 AM.
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