Originally Posted by
ATNotts
Isn't it really all about whether the airline wants high revenue passengers, in which case the daily service at business friendly times is the answer, or if volume leisure traffic is the goal then lower frequency is acceptable. The clever (supposedly) people within the business's financial department probably know, or believe they know how much front end traffic they could attract operating daily in the low season and made their decisions based on that assumption.
Yup, exactly that. Some routes fill from the front, some from the back, clever airlines manage both. Look at BA's LGW config and VS' leisure A350. Thomas Cook made West Coast work as it was manly P2P leisure and frequency was secondary. American proved the point that a reliable as clockwork daily service to a US hub on a right sized aircraft would attract business traffic via ORD, but that was a much less competitive world and well before they got into bed with BA. Maybe what's on offer is actually fine for the current market and demand and as I get older I need to look back less fondly?