Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
PTP isn't dead. It is SWAs main competitive advantage these days. People will pay $200 more per ticket to not make a connection. Also, hub and spoke would need a smaller plane to feed the hub and bigger planes to fly the trunk flights. I would think TUS-PHX is a great example of a flight that a 150 (or smaller) sized plane would do very well.
It's not so much about the gauge of the aircraft as it is about frequency. AW talked more about the MAX7 within that context. P2P is king at SWA. And will be for quite sometime. Although they have been "dialing up" the connections per TD(CFO). Hence why the displacements. I do believe though the network, fleet and customer experience are all under a great deep dive of what that will look like in few years. As we know adding fleet types, hub and spoke and segmenting the cabin add complexity and cost. We'll see.