AirTran's Tri-State Area Service

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

Can anyone tell me why AirTran has so many non-stops out of HPN to Florida and none out of LGA?

[T-Bird76]

Because LGA already has enough Florida routes served by Delta, US, Spirit, AA, and B6. They wouldn't be able to get enough marketshare to make it profitable.

[njgtr82]

no slots available?

[T-Bird76]

A bit off topic but when did AirTran and Frontier become codeshare partners? I was just looking at AirTran's site and they are codeshare partners. Interesting...

[nwafan20]

A few months ago.

[hiss srq]

there used to be a LGA SRQ and its load factors were constantly like 20% I used to non rev in first or whatever they caleed that joke of a service every week back and fourth

[JetBlueAirwaysFan]

Didn't AirTran serve Islip in 1997 when they first started flying? I seem to remember flying them from ISP-MCO.

[hiss srq]

yes and atl as well using 737-200's my uncle flew them when he moved to savannah

[T-Bird76]

How long were they at ISP, a day? I don't remember them at ISP at all. During that time anyway when I was in college I was only flying TWA at JFK anyway.

[hiss srq]

They were there a very very short time. I think I recall a picture in Newsday when I was young of a 732 landing there infact.