AirTran Reporter

Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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Location: Indianapolis

What are the chances that Cape Air will stay in Indiana and continue the IND-SBN, EVV service? I guess the airport directors at SBN and EVV don't want the subsidies to continue so that would mean Cape Air picking up the tab.

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Joined: 15 Jun 2005
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Location: Indianapolis, IN

If they aren't going to continue the subsidies then I'd think Cape Air will go.

AirTran Reporter

Joined: 17 Jun 2005
Posts: 341
Location: Indianapolis

Probably. How well did the ATA connection flights do when they had them for the short time?

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Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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Location: Carmel, IN

These flights are basically public transportation. Just like IndyGo, you have to subsidize them to make them work. Unless and until there are competitive connection opportunities in IND for pax from SBN and EVV, there won't be enough demand for those routes to make them unsubsidized.

AirTran Reporter

Joined: 17 Jun 2005
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Location: Indianapolis

Didn't USAir fly the SBN/IND and EVV/IND route when they had their "hub" here? Does anyone know how those flights did? I am pretty sure USAir had some good connection opportunities.

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USAir did fly mainline IND-EVV and IND-SDF. I'm not sure about SBN. I know they offered USAir Express to several little towns throughout the state.

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Location: Carmel, IN

But that was also in the days of limited competition, cheap gas, and generally rosy operating conditions. In today's cutthroat world of airline competition, there's no way most of those routes would work unless they connected to a major-league hub or were subsidized.