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Originally Posted by RomanR27
LIR was the only sun route that went daily last year (and IIRC it was originally announced at only 2x weekly), so clearly there was pent up demand in this market for Costa Rica that exceeded even their own initial projections. That's why I was guessing SJO with its elevation may be pushing the range to YOW, given how successful they were with Costa Rica last year. Although given LIR is reducing to 4x weekly this winter, perhaps they ended up overcorrecting in the end.
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The capacity glut at PD is so atypical. Often it's the network additions that tell the story at an airline (frames are scarce, frames are expensive, frames on the ground make no money). I'd suggest at PD it's almost opposite. They have so much slack, it's the freq cuts and citiy-pair discontinuations that tell the story.
Whether LIR went daily bc they had to send their airplanes somewhere or the route was meeting expectations, I'm not sure. As you say, 4X this winter is very telling in an ample slack environment
My comments about SJO were only that the decision was not aircraft-performance related
Speaking of cuts, just tried to book FLL for Thanksgiving and it's only 2X weekly in October? What?? Sure this was covered up thread but I was shocked
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