----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 16:08 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] WN at DEN > In a message dated 9/30/2003 3:51:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time, > clay.wardlow@xxxxxxxx writes: > > << Just chatting with a friend from DEN and he tells me WN is rumored to be > starting service to COS in the not-so-distant future. Anyone heard anything on > this? > > Also, I mentioned to him that WN used to serve DEN, but pulled out because > Stapleton was hurting their on-time performance. (At least that's what I > remember the story to be....) now they won't be starting up service to DEN because > it's too expensive to operate there. How long ago did they serve DEN and when > did they pull out? >> > > I thought they pulled out because Stapleton was closed and DIA has sky high > costs. They have been rumored into COS for years, and that intensified when > WesPac pulled out. I will believe this when I see it. I am surprised that > jetBlue chose DEN over COS, since they chose LGB over LAX and LAX does not have > the costs of DEN or the ontime problems. DIA had nothing to do with it. Now that I'm at home, I can look up when WN pulled out of DEN. It was 1986. DIA didn't open until 1995. David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html