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 agree with BMEP, and it is a moment in time. Assuming the current revenue Nazi's are correct, it validates the decisions our revenue nazi's made 2-5 years ago, and they shrank DEN until the connecting traffic made a lot of money.
The decisions made now won't be validated for 2-5 years. I hope it works, but I just turn the wheel, and pull the gear handle. But I do pay attention, and have skin in the game.
If the company is going to continue to make monumental staffing changes every 2-5 years, maybe a monumental change to our commuter policy might be an important bullet to start our next negotiations.
But, I agree with BMEP.