Originally Posted by
Jerseyguy
The Florida flights are going to be hard to raise but I think they should be able to raise IAH/MDW/DEN without negating the value. PHL-IAH and PHL-MDW are going around $300-350 they could charge $99-$119 and still have it be a good value.
Nobody has ever made money in the USA with cheap fares and infrequent service except to very high volume leisure destinations -- or where there's no competition (podunk to Vegas). This makes sense, of course. It certainly is possible with the rest of the industry charging oligopoly-level fares that this might change. Still. I wouldn't bet on such success. There are many, many travel choices from Wilmington, DE. Frontier is going to have to be super-cheap to draw crowds. And super cheap doesn't usually pay the fuel bill. It is so much harder to make money without biz travellers, and you're going to get almost zero biz travellers at ILG with these frequencies -- certainly not the higher paying travellers going on somebody else's dime.