F9 commitment to MKE
 

From Business Journal of Milwaukee:

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee....html?ana=e_ph

That commitment looks more like MKE-DEN x 4 more than anything else.

A maintenance hangar and call center to keep the community pacified.

For those of us who no longer have MBJ access, would someone hit the highlights of the story, please? Thanks!

Yeah... Google can't get me around this article this time around.

Through the kindness of someone on this board, I was able to see the full text of the story. Not much new, but here are key points:

F9 MKE capacity in early 2012 will be about half that of early 2011. DEN will be down about 1% and MCI up about 13%

Denver share of Frontier ASM's will be about 80%, MCI about 9% and MKE about 8%. MKE will have more flights than MCI (37 vs 20) but MKE's tend to be shorter / more frequent than MCI.

Q3 in Denver was "healthily profitable". Shurz said that while DEN performace wasn't "good enough" it is very significantly better than anywhere else.

Everything else was stuff we already knew...general statements about sub-99 seat aircaft losing money, Frontier's purchase by Republic out of BK court, Frontier having top MKE market share in September, focus on making Denver a bigger part of F9, etc.

I also read that Frontier will lose 27 million dollars in tax credits from the State of Wisconsin because of the cuts.

I think that happened when YX/F9 became a non Wisconsin based company.

Not true if my memory serves me right. NW sued to get the same tax cuts as Midwest Airlines was getting. So the state changed the law to include any airline with a significant presence at the airport. I don't know the level of service required to get the tax breaks, but Frontier will now fall below that level.

This was the story two years ago:

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee...16/story2.html

This is the story now:

http://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee...-job-goal.html