Originally Posted by
rsteinmetz70112
The apparently people were only willing to travel to this airport if prices were below cost.
If the airlines were making money they wouldn't pull out.
ILG's history is an unfortunate one - the last major who was here (Delta) left after realizing selling $500 tickets to ATL two flights a day wasn't sustainable.
F9 was the first time service here did work. They flew to destinations people wanted to go for affordable fares. I don't think the issue was that they didn't make money. The issue here is the amount of money they could make over time was severely capped in a one gate facility versus what they are capable of doing at a station like PHL. Flying out of PHL is certainly the better use of aircraft for F9. But I don't think ILG operated at a loss.