Originally Posted by
davywavy
It did not okay, but not great - partly because Allegiant was flying GSO-SFB, perhaps, but also because of the issue I raised in the previous post - what to do with it when winter is over?
Maybe GSO-MCO is not worth restarting.
But the MCO/SFB demand from flight from the other markets, maybe north of Washington DC region, seems more steady, and more steady than the demand to other Florida cities such as FLL, TPA and RSW.
e.g. Southwest will fly PHL-MCO 4x daily in the summer, 5x daily in the winter, but not a huge increase when it goes to 5x or decrease when it goes back to 4x. That's why I was thinking is still large enough for maybe some less than daily return on ABE-MCO since many from that region might be supporting WN or B6 (out of EWR) rather than their local airport.
Also maybe service to SWF maybe to capture Bergen County, NJ (NJ's wealthiest county) and SWF's local area of the
Poughkeepsie-Newburgh MSA, where a smaller airport maybe closer or more convenient than EWR from areas north of EWR.
MCO is also a market Frontier likes to use, as most focus cities start off with MCO. ILG has more MCO service than other Florida service. MDT has MCO, and of course TTN, CLE and IAD all were linked to MCO.
An interesting test would be if Frontier chose to compete on CVG-MCO maybe 4x weekly against Delta and Allegiant. Spirit and Delta somehow work in DTW, without Delta having a reaction. But Delta is more reactive to JetBlue but so far, it seems Delta maybe treating Frontier like Spirit than JetBlue.