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Originally Posted by austlar1
Yeah, I know. I fly it fairly often. Sometimes there are 20 or more people from the Austin/Houston leg making the transfer with me to the Houston/NO flight. Most of the flights are connections rather than through flights. I think at least one or two non stop flights between Austin and NO would have been justifiable for several years now.
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SW flys 737s exclusively that seats at least 120 passengers. They can't fly profitably with 20 or even 30 passengers. SW would have to combine Austin to New Orleans traffic of 5 to 6 flights into one flight to turn a profit. It's your choice, one direct flight a day or six multiple stop flights a day?
SW's mode of operations has been these multiple hops flights since its inception in which they have done very well. Who are you to question their operations?