David, I am comparing flying UA (connecting either at LAX or SFO) to connecting through DEN in UA or F9. UA let's you to do this, F9 doesn't. That's what I found interesting. I know AS has non-stops, but I am sticking to UA because of status/Econ Plus/Ch.9 even though I may give AS a shot with 9 daily non-stops. America West has too few flights and their non-stops don't exactly jive with my schedule. As far as WN, well, you know how I feel :) BAHA Fan of sticking to UA -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:19 AM To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Frontier question LAS/DEN: 627 statue miles (sm) DEN/SEA: 1022 sm LAS-DEN-SEA: 1649 sm LAS/SEA: 866 sm Difference: 783 sm (nearly twice as long through DEN versus nonstop) I would say DEN is very much out of the way - or have you looked at a map of the US recently? The nonstop time is about 2.5 hours on Alaska, Southwest, and America. When you say "shortest trip in the city pairing is 4 hrs and 9 mins through SFO," are you talking about UA? AS has connecting flights (through PDX) as short as 3.5 hours and on Soutwhest you can get flight times as short as 3.5-4 hours when using either connecting or 1 stop flights. David R > LAS-DEN-SEA (or the other way) is not that out of the way. > UA 484 SEA-DEN 8:00 AM SEA - 11:35 AM DEN > UA 1409 DEN 12:20 - LAS 1:09 PM > > This trip has 5 hrs and 9 mins of block time. > The shortest trip in the city pairing is 4 hrs and 9 mins through SFO. > > So, it would make sense to connect through DEN. Oh well, maybe I will try > two tickets, or just fly them on the weekend just for the heck.. > > BAHA > Fan of DEN and UA. > > -----Original Message----- > From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 7:34 AM > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Frontier question > > That reminds me - a while back I was looking at flights between OAK and > Boise. It offered me (at a very high increase over the other fares shown) a > trip that connected via MSP. > Just recently I looked at Alaska's web page for flights between OAK and LAX. > I don't think a connection in PDX or SEA was worth the extra 100's of > dollars! > > The point of this? It appears that Frontier's online booking engine is > pretty smart and won't allow a way out-of-the-way connection such as > LAS-DEN-SEA. > > David R > > In a message dated 2/23/2004 9:56:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, > > damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > > > Think about it - why go hundreds of miles to the southeast then go > hundreds > > > of miles southwest to fly to a destination that is nearly directly south > of > > > Seattle? > > > > ATA offers San Francisco- Honolulu via Chicago... > > Air Canada SFO- Hong Kong via Toronto... > > > > Now thats going out of the way. > > > > Scott- SFO