Awesome! Pretty surprised Frontier would go for St. Aug over JAX proper but I guess the cost differential was substantial enough to make a difference. St. Aug's airport is an extremely small facility mostly used by private aircraft, but they have a café and at least one rental car station I know of. Seeing as I'm in JAX, this is a potentially cool option for the future.

I'm guessing FA was able to have the landing fees waived in St Augustine vs JAX; and didn't want to have to compete w/ SW or DL. St Augustine's airport has plenty of runway. Even a has a seaplane ramp just in case they need to do a splash down in the Intercoastal. :D

I'm guessing FA is probably also targeting more NJ tourist that are interested in the beach or golf since it's much closer to either than JAX.

Here the St. Augustine Record:

http://staugustine.com/news/local-ne...e#.UvAtOJvJVzg

I remember Skybus who flew to CMH before. They announced to RIC, PSM, GSO & Hicopee, Mass as well.

Oh yeah. Should be a boon for the World Golf Village in particular, I'd think. Bet a bunch of those folks never make it up to Duval County or as far south as Daytona even and just stay right around St. Augustine.

The next logical addition would probably be MDW-UST. I'd think Chicago being such a large market with cold weather could easily fill on the flights to St. Augustine, and Chicago is a destination of itself in the Spring and Summer.

Uh-oh...Here we go yet again. WN had flown it already. I believe this route has done extremely very well. It will get more tougher competitive against WN out of JAX-MDW.