Only one is in service now, though a second, he said, is merely waiting on paperwork and only days away from joining the fleet. If demand scales up as McKinney anticipates that it could, there are four aircraft that he could eventually draw from. Northern Pacific is also operating the largest aircraft of the three airlines on the route by a hefty margin, utilizing a Boeing 757-200 that seats 181 in a three-class configuration. That doesn’t seem to bother the new entrant, with CEO Rob McKinney telling RGN during a telephone interview that demand for the route, particularly its Friday afternoon out and Sunday return timetable, is “virtually unlimited” if priced and timed rightīookings are looking “really good”, he said, couching numbers in what is often a pretty steep demand curve. Northern Pacific is competing directly on the route with both Frontier (1x daily) and Southwest (7x daily). The short, 220 mile trip takes about an hour by plane versus four by car. It is targeted at Angelinos looking for a long weekend in Las Vegas.
The once-weekly Ontario-Las Vegas roundtrip is Northern Pacific’s only scheduled service.
So ends an unfortunate NP first experience. Waiting for a shuttle to a Hilton, and driving to ONT tomorrow (by choice, they offered a flight on SWA).
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