Florida exp to pounce on Spirit's routes
 

• One additional daily roundtrip flight between:
  • IAH and MCO (Orlando), LAS (Las Vegas), MSY (New Orleans), ATL (Atlanta), BWI (Baltimore) and MIA (Miami)
  • ORD and MCO, FLL, MSY and LAS
  • EWR and MCO and FLL
  • LAX and LAS

“If Spirit suddenly goes out of business it will be incredibly disruptive, so we’re adding these flights to give their customers other options if they want or need them,” said Global Network Planning and Alliances SVP Patrick Quayle.

This schedule expansion means that we will now offer:

• 45 flights/day to MCO
• 30 flights/day to FLL
• 43 flights/day to LAS

Tickets for the new flights will go on sale later today.

ohh how sweet. Very generous of them. lol, Kirby the vulture is wasting no time swooping in eating up the pieces left by Spirit.

as he should…….Kirby occupies a lot of space in your head.

It’s business, not personal, man

He may be an a-hole, but he's our a-hole.

Wishing the best for Spirit pilots.

All these new airplanes have to go somewhere. With the economy slowing down, I think these new flights will drive down legacy yields more than ULCC yields.

Spirit is used to operating with very low yields. Is United? I hope so.

Welcome to capitalism!

Yeah I’m not so sure I’d characterize this action as that.
In case you don’t know MCO/ FLL to EWR is LIKE A BIG FRGN market and EWR is once again slot controlled. If he doesn’t act on that….surely AA maybe even Delta and JB would. If An opportunity such as this is missed and gobbled up by your competitors, one might call that negligence.

Exactly. Either UAL tries to fill the void or someone else will. But either way, the void WILL be filled by someone.