Nashville to Las Vegas

[hp-csr-phx]

Looks like good utilzation of an aircraft that would have been on the ground in BNA all night.


Yahoo News

 

[CLTBWIDAYSYR]

I can't find any info on which metal (east or west) will fly the route.

 

[FCYTravis]

I can't find any info on which metal (east or west) will fly the route.

It doesn't say which, so it's East metal. West metal flights have been marked as such in the releases.

 

[AL-PS-PI-AW]

Great to hear about this new service from LAS.
Hope we will see new service from LAS to other cities as well. LAS-BDL,PVD,ROC,YYZ and YUL would be nice.

 

[hp-csr-phx]

I can't find any info on which metal (east or west) will fly the route.

West does not fly to BNA.

 

[BuffaloJoe]

West does not fly to BNA.

It is East metal. Flight numbers are 726/727.

 

[Justme]

This new route demonstrates one of several synergies born from the merger of America West and US Airways

How does this route demonstrate a synergy? They were able to serve several east coast and southern cities before the merger. Thoughts?

 

[IMisstheAladdinTrays]

How does this route demonstrate a synergy? They were able to serve several east coast and southern cities before the merger. Thoughts?

Well if you read about it on the hub you will see. The flight from BNA to LAS will depart BNA at 21:00. The flight will then depart LAS for BNA at 23:50...it will be a Redeye. Great utilization of aircraft. As this plane just RON's now. With this schedule it will be back in time for the first flight out in the a.m. to wherever on the east.

 

[flyingcat]

How does this route demonstrate a synergy? They were able to serve several east coast and southern cities before the merger. Thoughts?

East mainline metal does very few red eyes. Now that east can serve Vegas from other points the plane can make money rather than just wait around for the sun to rise parked at a gate.

Besides it also offers another way for passengers to get to the west hubs. Which is important if flights are canceled.

 

[tadjr]

How does this route demonstrate a synergy?

It also opens up a lot of conx possibilities from BNA that werent there before. Many of the West coast cities have flights into/out of LAS at that time of night that BNA people would not have had a conx to (unless you went to CLT, then to LAS)

 

[phllax]

It is East metal. Flight numbers are 726/727.

Wouldn't that be a West flight according to the new flight numbering system?

 

[BuffaloJoe]

Wouldn't that be a West flight according to the new flight numbering system?

West flights are 1-699 East 700-? Express carriers even higher

 

[Hope777]

Well, just reading the Press Release, sounds like West Metal to me. Operated by A319 aircraft seating 124 passengers. At this point, the East A319's have 12 and 108 for 120 seats. So unless All aircraft will be reconfig'd by then it is West Metal.

 

[rjh]

Well, just reading the Press Release, sounds like West Metal to me. Operated by A319 aircraft seating 124 passengers. At this point, the East A319's have 12 and 108 for 120 seats. So unless All aircraft will be reconfig'd by then it is West Metal.

I think it's east metal. As mentioned before, the flight # corresponds to a new east flight number. And, when pulling up the flights on the ETC, it only comes up under "US", not under "HP". It was probably a simple mistake in the press release.

 

[BuffaloJoe]

Well, just reading the Press Release, sounds like West Metal to me. Operated by A319 aircraft seating 124 passengers. At this point, the East A319's have 12 and 108 for 120 seats. So unless All aircraft will be reconfig'd by then it is West Metal.

If its west metal, where is the plane coming from? I also tried to find where it would be coming from in the east and its B737-300's from PHL and a 400 from CLT. They aren't gonna park that from 5am till 9pm.

Then again, the Flight is not loaded yet, either.