Originally Posted by
ethernal
Alternatively, they know their market.. Disney World has 50 million visitors a year - a lot of them are intentional, and some are local, but most are domestic guests. To get that volume, they have to squarely target a middle class family. Middle class families don't have infinite pockets - every dollar spent on airfare is a dollar less willing-to-pay for tickets, hotels, and food in the park.
Spirit also has more nonstop destinations to MCO than Delta does (by about 20 cities).
Yup, Just look at the mothballed gates 60 A-Q at MCO. That is the unused escalator in the middle of the train boarding area and the bottom stop on the SkyClub elevator. DL had regional jet nonstops to dozens of markets to compete with Allegiant. Now it's all mainline and all crammed into 70-79. I remember sitting down there in the shared gate area waiting for the single daily nonstop CRJ to GSP seeing other flights to markets in NC, KY, TN, OH, AL among many others.
That opened the door for Spirit. They are now the perfect partner for Disney as all a theme park would want is one high density nonstop a day to many markets, hopefully well-timed for travelers with kids.