I agree, Denver is very much more a mid-america airport than a west-coast airport. It's quite misleading, it's "only" one time zone off the west-coast, and since it's just on the east side of the mountains and the mountains run down the west coast, it's 'just over there thar hills'. There maybe only a few people west of Denver before you hit the Pacific but you'd still have to fly over it. It'd probably be like connecting in St. Louis flying from New York City to Atlanta. Matthew http://www.redmac.ca - Getting Canadian's their Macintosh accessories http://www.justaddanoccasion.com - Great gift ideas, featuring smoked salmon On Feb 24, 2004, at 9:19 AM, damiross2@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > 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