Originally Posted by
rtalk25
Didn't ILG-MDW go down to 2x weekly during the winter? I know now it's up again during Chicago's peak season with MDT-MDW, and TTN-MDW daily.
Another factor this winter is Southwest starting all those DCA-MDW flights. BWI-MDW flights is selling for $120 one-way now, I think $20 less than last year. It was $110 or so originally when DCA-MDW was put into the schedule. I don't know if Southwest will curtail IAD-MDW or if it will keep that much capacity to MDW from the WAS airports, and keep low fares on BWI-MDW to fill seats, which might diminish interest from some to use ILG-MDW.
The TTN-MDW fares always seem higher when I check between the two (TTN-MDW and ILG-MDW).
All true. ILG-MDW went down to 2 x daily because of reduced winter demand, but that is very common with Frontier's model. Winter - Q1 - has always been the financial pits, which is why they moved into TTN and ILG (and now CLE) to cash in on the lucrative snowbird/Florida market.
TTN-MDW is a case of building the market. When it began (5 x weekly?) there were a lot of low fares and low loads. Now it has built and is daily with higher fares and darn good loads. Same-same TTN-ATL.
I find the whole process - market building from nothing - fascinating, with its few fails (ILG-IAH or TTN-CMH) and as well as it's several successes.
Southwest's IAD-MDW is a whole other ball game and, I'm told, will be one to watch. :-)