Originally Posted by
VacancyBid
SA to MCO might be a niche. European leisure travel isn't high yield, but there's a lot of weathly south americans who like disney.
Still have a hard time imagining MCO as a hub because where are the connecting passengers coming from and where will they be going? Nashville to San Juan? ATL and CLT make such sense because ther are in the middle of the SE US not at one corner. MIA makes sense as a funnel to points south and because of the inherent size of south florida.
MIA makes sense but MCO doesn't? MCO carried 600,000 more pax than MIA last year. The Miami metro area is at 6.1 million but it's not like Orlando is a slouch at 4.1 million. Considering will be a shared hub and Tampa's metro area is another 3.0 million people I don't see why it wouldn't work to fill in a massive hole in our network.