Originally Posted by
Rahlifer
Southwest, Spirit and Frontier seem to be doing just fine without regional feeders. Not every one-horse town needs to have scheduled air service since 99% of America lives within a two hour drive of a major airport.
Notice that I said “regional airports”. The airlines you mentioned are LCC’s and ULCC’s and not majors and don’t really serve the regional airports.
I’d like to see the percentage of passengers on the legacy airlines that utilize regional airports to travel. I imagine it’s pretty significant.