Originally Posted by
BMEP100
I flew the 10 and 727 out of there for a brief period. London and Hawaii on the 10, alot of different stuff on the 72.
The base shrank as the loss margins widened with the LCC's invasion and marketing realized ( and admitted), that Denver is a relatively small remote city with little O and D traffic.
The reason Denver opened in the first place was that prior to jets, everyone needed a refueling stop between the coastal hubs.
Denver will open, grow and shrink again when this current group of marketing gurus admit it's a loser for anything larger than 150 seats. Always has been.
Finally to answer your question; the flying will be very inconsistent as marketing hunts and pecks for yield in a thin market.
I don't doubt your analysis of the Denver of the past...but this is not your 1980s Denver. The 10 county Denver area is now about 3M peeps. The median housing listing as of 4/17 is 420K. The unemployment rate is 2.7%. Southwest Airlines came in here in 2006 with 13 flights a day, today they have just under 200. At our flight ops pow wows, management has consistently opined that "Denver is our most profitable hub". AND there ain't no guppy or A320 that can make it to HI from Denver. So I'm guessing the 757 base will do just fine. BUT, I could be wrong.
