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Old Feb 3, 2014 | 2:26 pm
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Originally Posted by pointsaway
Awesome! Pretty surprised Frontier would go for St. Aug over JAX proper but I guess the cost differential was substantial enough to make a difference. St. Aug's airport is an extremely small facility mostly used by private aircraft, but they have a café and at least one rental car station I know of. Seeing as I'm in JAX, this is a potentially cool option for the future.
I'm guessing FA was able to have the landing fees waived in St Augustine vs JAX; and didn't want to have to compete w/ SW or DL. St Augustine's airport has plenty of runway. Even a has a seaplane ramp just in case they need to do a splash down in the Intercoastal.

I'm guessing FA is probably also targeting more NJ tourist that are interested in the beach or golf since it's much closer to either than JAX.
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