Originally Posted by
davywavy
Not quite. Frontier left ABE because the airport wanted to (or was going to to) put costs up. Prior to that Frontier had intended to expand at ABE, at least with more Florida.
While I've always liked the idea of PBI for Frontier, I think UST may be the focus for the immediate future. The TTN-UST flights are gangbusters, and while I wonder if IAD-UST may be over scheduled by a frequency, I believe they're booking okay for so far out.
I would not fall over in shock to see more routes to UST at least by Spring Break.
Yes, costs were the reason cited, but Allegiant has worked there in ABE, and F9 has gone into other cost airports since then.
In the bigger picture, I wonder if TTN/ILG, CLE, IAD and the point to point MCO or future UST routes are side revenue, because of F9's dichotomous operation of having DEN very hub centric with connections but it's complete opposite over in the East. Most routes not daily and no connection or thru flights in the East. ULCC Spirit offers ACY-DTW-LAX and other connections although it doesn't hub at DTW. But Frontier is going more of an Allegiant approach in the East, but it's full hub out West.
Would DEN eventually become unbundled of it's hub and be made just one large focus city, with no connections offered into and out of it?