Calm down, folks. Even if the overall % of 4 day trips does come down, your still going to have TONS of 3/4 day trips here.
We aren’t Allegiant. Frontier (who went predominantly to 1-2 day trips during COVID) is slowly increasing 3/4 day trips again. They are also much smaller than us (at the moment) which makes 1-2 days a lot more manageable.
We will be almost 200 airplanes by the end of next year. When we take our last delivery we will be at 300. Im guessing by the time that happens we will be serving an additional 20-30 or more new markets. Well over 1,000+ flights a day.
You really think we will be doing 90% 1-2 day trips? We would need at minimum 8-10 more bases to MAAAAYBE even begin to scratch the surface of whether that’s even feasible. Relax.
If anything I couple see the software become a bit smarter. I mean I’ve done trips where I go to LAS, for example, and spend days 2 and 3 doing day trips to SEA and PDX.
You could have them created as day trips for LAS bidders and then your not sending other base crew out there to fly that. Things a long that line.