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REAL WORLD OPS: Houston Express is ending
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:25 am
by khelm
Somehow I missed this, but looks like Sonair is ending IAH-LUA and LUA-IAH flights on 3/28.
I guess they weren't profitable.
Not sure how many people operated these, but the real question is will the disappear from GC? (I don't personally have an opinion either way)
Re: REAL WORLD OPS: Houston Express is ending
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:32 pm
by kevinh
I've flown IAH-LAD once for GCVA. It's a heck of a long flight so not one I'd repeat in a hurry.
The flights were for oil industry execs so the aircraft are fitted out with mostly premium seats. Only 189 seats in total, just 36 economy. Apparently the aircraft sometimes flew fairly empty. Last year SonAir started selling seats to the general public but perhaps there wasn't much demand. I assume the lease is running out and won't be renewed. There's an article about the operation here:
http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/ ... nt-3877280
Presumably the two aircraft will stay in the GCVA fleet as they belong to Atlas. If and when they are leased to a new customer then I guess we will get those routes to fly. The IAH-LAD route might stay in the schedule until then, I'm not sure how GCVA schedulers deal with such changes.