Originally Posted by
bozobigtop
They're willing to open a west coast base on top of Denver? That strategy works for United with all of its vast resources, not sure what's behind Frontier's reason.
MGMT wants to transition from a traditional hub and spoke model to more point to point flying. Right now DEN is about 3 times the size of either ORD or MCO. The point to point strategy works better with smaller bases scattered around the country a la Spirit. The CEO has said the goal is to eventually have two bases in each time zone; one in the north and one in the south. LAS makes sense for the west coast because of the large volume of flying we do out of there especially with the high amount of redeyes.