Originally Posted by
VickersVicount
MSP/DTW would seem very ambitious. Wonder where that originated from unless there are incentives at play. I still have slight concerns the current US bubble will pop and that finite connecting pax would then just be pulled from other established hubs. Some of these suggested routes are marginal ex LHR never mind anywhere else.
MSP and DTW handle similar annual passenger numbers as SIN, GRU, MUC and MNL
CAA stats from Feb'23 show LHR's MSP and DTW routes each had over 11000 passenger in Feb
Taking into account the number of flights from LHR to EWR (87k) LHR-MIA (88k) LHR-SFO (71k) the passenger numbers on these daily flights don't seem to suggest this a marginal route.
source
Table 12.1
https://www.caa.co.uk/data-and-analy...23/march-2023/
Always helpful if posters could rationalise or evidence their assumptions. Many thanks