Originally Posted by
davywavy
Or has Delta come to understand - as it appears to have done with Spirit - that Frontier's market is no threat to Delta?
It appears that atleast on CLE-ATL, for June 25th,
Frontier offers a low fare of $68.99 on it's 12:05PM flight.
Delta's flights on CLE-ATL are all $275 one-way.
However, where Southwest and Delta compete over on CAK-ATL, it's $110 one-way on Delta.
I believe Southwest's schedule gets updated tomorrow. It's CLE/CAK approach will be interesting to see. I wonder if it might move the ATL and BOS service up to CLE, and launch HOU eventually, while just having DCA, DEN (east-west) and Florida and maybe a couple of BWI frequencies added to CAK. If Southwest ever does move CAK-ATL to CLE-ATL, I think Frontier's staying power on the route becomes diminished.
I think it's safe to say that Southwest won't consider IAD-ATL as it already deleted it.
It's possible that Delta views Frontier in the Spirit, Sun Country category now over the Southwest, JetBlue, Virgin category but if Southwest is running a high frequency route perhaps outside of DEN against another carrier or maybe not, it might not be a route Frontier wants to run as well - e.g. I doubt we'll see CLE-BNA on F9.
Another one to watch is US, and relating to F9 on IAD-CLT. US has been matching Spirit on PHL-DFW with $74 fares. If US matches Spirit, then I could see US matching Frontier on IAD-CLT.