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August 4, 2012
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mrf777

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UA CLE-SAN is returning this year for the Holiday season, I don't think  it operated last year.

August 4, 2012
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There's no shortage of CLE-SAN traffic (about 250 pax/day - enough for a year-round non-stop in most markets), but yields have always been disappointing. Not enough biz traffic I guess.

August 5, 2012
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So, the demand is there but it's not lucrative enough?  Ah...gotta love how this works.Confused

August 8, 2012
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Massy--why does the flight work then over the holidays---higher fares?

August 8, 2012
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They fill it up with Christmas travelers and it is "utilization flying" - an extra trip for an existing aircraft. Instead of sitting in CLE for the night it goes out in the evening and returns as a red-eye in the eqrly morning without disrupting it's usual daytime schedule. Thus, they can treat the fixed depreciation/maintenance costs associated with the aircraft as essentially zero - the variable cost for CLE-SAN is only crew and fuel. Some years after 9/11 CO used to do it in the summer, too.

I heard a story (which I'm not sure I believe) - that CO, which used to run CLE-SAN daily, cut the trip because they gave up a gate and ground handlers in SAN as a post-9/11 economy measure and could no longer physically turn around three aircraft at three gates simultaneously. So they kept the Newark and Houston flights (natch) and cancelled the one to CLE.

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