Originally Posted by
skytrekker
I'm all for more bases out west, RNO, SLC, SEA, PHX, etc. From an economic value, is growing LAS not the ULCC path and avoiding the high costs that direct employees bring by opening a base, beyond the contract employees?
At a quarter million people, RNO isn’t exactly huge. SLC might make sense with their new terminal but they aren’t a huge population service area either (~225k) . SEA is big enough but AK and DL are kind of monopolizing the terminal space. PDX (service area population ~2 million) has recently expanded their gates, PHX has a service area of ~4million (and growing) so certainly a possibility.