Originally Posted by
iahphx
As I said, many of these are routes they flew before and then eliminated. This, of course, is the long history of attempted competition at PHL. It never works. Maybe it should, but it doesn't. And, to my knowledge, no large ultra low cost airline has ever succeeded with infrequent "friends and family" routes. Sure, it can work in oddball markets like mainland to Puerto Rico, but it's highly unlikely to work between Philly and Kansas City. Let's come back in a year and two and see what happens.
Ah, it sounded like you were implying Frontier's Philly station as a whole failed rather than individual routes.
Agreed on coming back in a couple years to see. I doubt all 10 will still be here but also doubt it's an "almost certain bet most of these routes will soon fail" (outside of winter suspensions but coming back the next summer season).