Originally Posted by
rtalk25
I was surprised they never gave it TLC. 2x weekly is too little. It needed 4x weekly. While CVG and CLE have a good purpose for TTN, F9 should have given CMH an increase as well, rather than dump it for IND and BNA, which are going to be longer routes where they might run into some difficulties with higher costs and difficulty selling profitably.
It was 3x weekly when it first started, and before they discontinued it they were selling 3x weekly again in March or April (just tapering it off to 2x weekly in the winter). In the many times I flew the route, it seemed to be completely full every time
However, in chatting with fellow pax and overhearing conversations, it seemed few of them were actually heading to/from Columbus. A lot of them talked about the long journey they still had after arriving at CMH to get to Cleveland or Cincinnati (or Dayton, Sandusky, etc).
Are you NJ based or Columbus based? I expect many that are NJ based that flew TTN-CMH will still fly Frontier but to either CVG or CLE and rent a car to get to Columbus if necessary.
I am just recently Columbus based, but I was previously NYC-based; I still go up frequently for work and also to see my old NJ/NY friends. It won't be worth it to me to go to CLE, especially since United still offers pretty regular cheap weekend fares, as well as <$100 one-ways on their Amtrak-codeshared CMH-EWR-ZFV (Philadelphia Amtrak) route -- I can just hop on the Amtrak segment, get my ticket scanned, and get off at Metropark.
At the end of the day, I was surprised that they even offered the TTN-CMH service in the first place. I suspect the Columbus airport authority gave them some kind of nice incentive to try it out. I know that my needs, which happened to align perfectly with the route, were probably a very unique case. At least I got to take advantage of it while it lasted.