Originally Posted by
rtalk25
As Frontier has chosen airports like ILG, and others where there is no Southwest, JetBlue or Spirit, and mid size markets like GSO and MDT, would there be benefit to move the Orlando focus from MCO to SFB?
SFB would be attractive to reach Volusia County/Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach, FL MSA and areas in eastern central Florida. It'd serve a niche in a way, while still servicing Orlando, somewhat similar to this Princeton/Trenton idea.
It's an interesting question. Never say never, but I think it is unlikely. TTN-Florida seems to be working so well because they are flying to primary airports, and Frontier is taking much the same tack with ILG.
Switching to a Florida alternate - MKE-PIE instead of MKE-TPA - didn't work for Frontier, although that might have had more to do with what was happening at MKE, and when Allegiant tried switching some flights from SFB to MCO, that didn't work, either.
I guess the first question is, how much more Florida can TTN support? Is there a market TTN-PBI or TTN-DAB, or, as someone else suggested, TTN-SRQ? If SFB does serve a somewhat different catchment area, does it make sense to fly a couple of TTN-SFB as well as TTN-MCO?
Or - JAX? When Frontier flew DEN-JAX loads were terrific, but does that transfer to TTN? Could TTN support MIA, or is MIA covered by FLL?
Or would any of those simply cannibalise the present routes?
Then comes the question - will ILG just replicate TTN, or is it a unique market? Would ILG-MIA be better than ILG-FLL?
I don't know the answers to any of these questions, but I think they're fun to consider.