Originally Posted by
Moonbeam
I am not sure how the bean counters figure out all this stuff but Frontier seems to be leaving lower cost airports: FLL for MIA, MDW for ORD and adding flights out of PHL instead of Trenton. IAD and CLE are not all that cheap to operate out of either. I am sure they will have pilot and flight attendant bases at all the mini hubs soon doing turns so they can save on hotels just like Allegiant. I am thinking the Denver base will shrink in 2015 even though they state otherwise.
You have to consider the "net" result. Costs are higher at ORD when compared to MDW but the revenue is also higher so the net number is better at ORD. Denver has high costs and some of the lowest yields in the system. That is a bad combination.
It has been said 1000 times but F9 proved one thing in 2008, Denver can't support three airlines. SWA isn't leaving, UAL is done cutting, that leaves F9 to find another place for a large percentage of their ops.