It costs more more mile to fly a larger aircraft. I think you meant it's cheaper per seat mile. Southwest, Frontier, and JetBlue all fly into smaller markets. Southwest, for examples, flies into Spokane and Boise. JetBlue flies to Burlington, VT (although it could be argued that BTV may attract traffic from Montreal). David R > No question, that as a pure $/mile cost, it's cheaper to fly bigger > planes than little planes. > > Add in many of labour contracts, and that cost advantage tips to a > negative. > > Southwest, Frontier, jetBlue don't have the ridiculous labour > contracts, and also don't fly to smaller markets and hence can fly > 737s/A320s comfortably. > > Of course, Southwest is a point to point carrier, which leaves > different metrics altogether. > > Matthew > > > On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 02:21 PM, John Kurtzke wrote: > > > Matthew, > > So Denver works fine as a hub, if both legs are on aircraft of > > major airlines; it works poorly as a bus station where you would > > connect > > to or from a regional carrier. I'm not sure that's a problem.