Lots of new routes announced today... LAS-BWI, MSP-DEN, IAH-LAX, PHL-LAS.....

Heard a rumor of getting more used AC above the 3 we are already planning on getting....?

01-30-2013 | 10:45 AM

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Lots of new routes announced today... LAS-BWI, MSP-DEN, IAH-LAX, PHL-LAS.....

Heard a rumor of getting more used AC above the 3 we are already planning on getting....?

Very cool. Wish Spirit would offer service to LIT, it'd be nice to have someone other than American and Southwest to fly out of here.

01-30-2013 | 12:48 PM

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Lots of new routes announced today... LAS-BWI, MSP-DEN, IAH-LAX, PHL-LAS.....

Heard a rumor of getting more used AC above the 3 we are already planning on getting....?

You would think there would be more routes out of DFW, as the base expands there. How big will the base get? Are there any hard numbers?

01-30-2013 | 02:29 PM

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You would think there would be more routes out of DFW, as the base expands there. How big will the base get? Are there any hard numbers?

Hard to tell. They always find something new, that will be the biggest base, then they find something else and drop everything. A year ago LAS was going to get as big as FLL. Right now LAS is stagnating.

DFW will probably get big. I can see 100 per seat by the end of the year. Right now they have 40 as of March. I doubt management knows. They like to stay flexible and I can't blame them for that. Plans are changing frequently. We are watching the legacies, and if we see a market that seems overpriced, we go in. In other words, the legacies make a move, then we make a move. DFW was the result of the AA bankruptcy. We started to crank up LAS when US Air was pulling back, etc.

01-30-2013 | 03:50 PM

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You would think there would be more routes out of DFW, as the base expands there. How big will the base get? Are there any hard numbers?

I think we already announced a bunch of new routes from DFW in the spring. I forget them all, but we've got CUN, OAK, PHL, MSP, and a few more I think that we start from DFW in the next few months.

As for the DFW base, the latest estimate(take it for what it's worth) is around 80 crews by summer, possibly more after that.

01-31-2013 | 03:41 AM

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01-31-2013 | 04:39 AM

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