Today we announce our intention to add service in first half 2021 to Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport in Georgia, and a return to Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport in Mississippi.

 

COS! Finally! I'll be able to get places quickly with all my free time on furlough.

 

Savannah! Awesome!!

 

Jackson ... as in, Mississippi.

I guess that's good news?

 

be a lot better if it was Jackson hole.

 

What? Impossible. How can they be starting all this new service? Don’t they need our concessions first? (sarcasm off)

 

Just imagine the cities they COULD serve if we give concessions.

 

I mean, if we just let them slap the brand on a fleet of outsourced RJs from the lowest bidder, we could hit every airport in the country!

 

I was thinking about this this morning. Here’s what I came up with.

Let’s say there were two flights to XYZ that were both COVID full.

Dec 1st they allow the middle seats to be booked. Now instead of two half full airplanes, they run one full airplane.

Now there’s an extra airplane and crew sitting around. What to do with them?

We also have all these ramp agents and gate agents sitting around. Can we send them on a field trip... someplace they can drive to to work the flights?

Sure. Send the extra ONT folks to PSP
... MDW to ORD
... HOU to IAH
... ATL to SAV
... DEN to COS

Throw the extra airplane and crew on a hub turn (yes, we do) and the net additional flying is pretty much zero, and you’ve allocated resources that would’ve otherwise gone unused to try and make a little extra revenue. Not really “growth”, just more dots on the map.

 

Ground services can be outsourced when flights are below 12 per day. Expect us to open many cities with up to 12 flights.