Originally Posted by
BlueScholar
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.
It would. People don't realize MIA and MCO markets and numbers changed quite a bit in the last few years. It's to the point that bringing C terminal to full 60 gates is already overdue if they'd start doing all the construction right now...
MCO is far from MCO 10 years ago.