Actually, the shortest trip in the city pair is 2h 11m on any of America West's four nonstop SEA-LAS flights. Alaska's nine nonstop flights range from 2h 16m to 2h 26 min. So yeah, going to DEN doesn't end up being too much more out of your way than going through SFO. But you could still cut your travel time almost in half compared to SFO by flying nonstop. --- David Mueller / MRY dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx http://www.quanterium.com ...fan of flying nonstop --------- Original Message --------- DATE: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 08:18:28 From: Bahadir Acuner <bahadiracuner@xxxxxxxxx> To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: >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 >