Why are there no commercial airline flights directly from Houston, Texas to Key West, Florida?
Those connecting flights that do exist are incredibly expensive. You can fly all the way across the Atlantic ocean for less than a simple jaunt across the Gulf of Mexico. Why is that?
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If they could fill a flight to any destination, you can be sure someone would accomodate. Called economics.
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supply and demand.
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Have you ever seen the airport in Key West lol? Think only the puddle jumper types of planes can fly in there. Need to fly into Mijami and take a connecting flight in.
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Key West has challenges to commercial aviation: 1- Size. It's runway is less than 5,000 feet long. That limits the types of aircraft which can fly out of EYW. (Remember...What goes in must come out) There is but a single jet which regularly goes in and out of there. 2. Key West (EYW) has airspace restrictions. Birds, a tethered balloon that's 14,000 feet up, noise restrictions which basically shut it down from 11p-7a. One of those places that it's very hard to get to.
