Originally Posted by
JoeFever1
BMI is 100 miles from ORD...I’d understand shrinking ORD, removing the crew base, and shifting it to BMI, but short of that would seem odd to just open a base in BMI.
The interesting thing about ORD is that it pulls from the west half of the state, lower Wisconsin, western Indiana. That’s around 9-10 million people easy. If you moved the bulk of flights to BMI You will lose 6 million people. Bulk of those people will just go to Spirit or Southwest.