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Old Aug 14, 2012 | 4:30 am
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davywavy
 
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Originally Posted by spencercoop
The daily O&D is 70, so 35 people each way. 35 x 7 is 245 /3 (3x weekly) is about 82. So even if they get every person who flies this route, they would still only fill 82 seats on each flight. There are 138 seats on an A319, so 56 seats are going to go out empty on each flight.

How is Frontier going to make any money off this route? Are they getting a subsidy?
Before Frontier started DEN-PHF, there were some 16 (O&D) pax per day each way. Yet it sustains a daily A319 with high load factors.

I expect GSO-MCO to do quite well.
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