Category Transport Issues
Spirit and Frontier propose a merger – impacts on Florida
Spirit and Frontier, the nation’s two largest Ultra-Low cost carriers (ULCC’s) have agreed to merge. We’re going to dive much deeper into this topic in the next few days. But here are some quick takeaways. Spirit is based in Florida and is currently building a new HQ complex minutes away from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. […]
Lousy airline revenue numbers for Florida a concern and other commercial aviation news
Governor Ron DeSantis gets credit for stimulating travel to Florida during the height of the COVID pandemic. Keeping Florida open and “free” was his goal. Not only did Florida’s spikes in COVID during the summer’s of 2020 and 2021, coincide with dips in the rest of the country but we now have some evidence that […]
Cuts escalating as travel flatlines due to Omicron
First the good news, Delta will add Destin/Fort Walton Beach-New York-LaGuardia nonstops in March, the same month United shuts down its service to the airport completely. Frontier is moving Chicago-O’Hare nonstops to Tampa over to Midway Airport and dropping O’Hare-Miami nonstops immediately and adding Midway-Fort Lauderdale in its place next winter. Breeze will be placing […]
Air Florida routes through the years
This month marks 40 years since the tragic Air Florida crash into a bridge over the Potomac. Air Florida had been one the airline darlings of the post-deregulation commercial aviation era that began in 1978, but by 1984 had ceased operations. Rapid expansion which turned the carrier into a domestic and international force had come […]
The 5G debacle, Frontier adding Chicago-Midway to Florida routes and other commercial aviation news
This week, commercial aviation discussions have been centered around the botched American roll out of 5G networks, an embarrassment that continues the perception abroad that the United States is in decline relative to other western democracies. No other major industrialized nation has had this sort of clunky problem around the roll out of 5G as […]
Major jetBlue cuts highlight the week in Florida commercial aviation
JetBlue which has faced major operational challenges of late trimmed several flight to/from the sunshine state this past week. Here are the full list of Florida-related cuts: Fort Lauderdale to Bozeman and Port of Spain Tampa to Providence and Richmond Fort Myers to Providence As we reported last month United has confirmed it will close […]
United discontinuing Destin/Fort Walton Beach service next Spring
In a somewhat surprising move, United Airlines is discontinuing service to Destin/Fort Walton Beach (VPS) in March. This comes at a time when the airport has seen an increase in service from Southwest and American among other carriers in the last year. United has cut service to over a dozen airports nationally since March 2021, […]
This week’s Florida commercial aviation news
American Airlines continues to face a shortage of long-haul aircraft and accordingly will cut Miami-Paris (CDG) service for the summer months, with current nonstops ending March 26, 2022. The flight is currently flown twice daily and American has flown the route continuously since 1992. The nonstop route will return in October 2022. American will also […]
This week’s Florida commercial aviation news
Frontier will cut in February, nonstop service to five cities from Miami – Albany, Buffalo, Portland (ME), Newburgh/Hudson Valley and Rochester, NY. As we reported last week, all five cities will be served from Fort Lauderdale on the carrier beginning in February. So this is a shift of flights from one airport to another. Allegiant […]
Miami v Fort Lauderdale has become Miami and Fort Lauderdale
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic a general rule permeated the domestic airline industry. You focused South Florida operations on either Miami or Fort Lauderdale and unless you were a US legacy network carrier (American, Delta and United), you generally didn’t serve both. Palm Beach International, a third commercial airport in the region is much smaller […]
The Florida Squeeze 