Originally Posted by
bogeydriver
Don't rule anything out with Scott Kirby. He's looking under every AA and DL rock out there for opportunities. 757/767 service to MCO from EWR hourly would be insanely profitable. We did it at Eastern and it was one of the few domestic operations, other than the Shuttle, that was consistently in the black. I think other spoke flights to the other hubs could justify a 756 base there. We shall see.
EWR-MCO is one of the lowest yielding city pairs United has, all leisure. Eastern wasn't competing with Spirit, Allegiant, JetBlue, etc that are all depressing fares even further.