Florida is now per some data, the most expensive place to live in the US. One thing many non-Floridians don’t realize is the number of toll roads in the state, which has the most miles of toll roads in the nation, with many more in the construction or planning stages. The proposed toll roads threaten […]

Spirit Airlines is cutting all service to Pensacola outright this summer Other Spirit summer cuts Fort Lauderdale-Indianapolis/Louisville/Managua/Pensacola Miami-Raleigh-Durham/Tegucigalpa Orlando-Minneapolis-St Paul/Montego Bay/Raleigh-Durham/Rochester/ Tampa-Houston-Bush/Philadelphia JetBlue dropping Miami-Hartford, West Palm Beach – Frontier Orlando cuts : cutting nonstops this summer to Harlingen/Wilmington, DE/Little Rock/Pensacola this summer Southwest is dropping Denver-Fort Lauderdale/Miami this summer. Both flights return in October. […]

This weekend we’re going to go through the extensive list of domestic flight cuts from Florida that have been loaded for the summer – it’s quite depressing and we’re still working on accumulating the list. But in a piece of good news, Norse Atlantic, a new startup Norwegian carrier we mentioned setting up a US […]

It’s been a few weeks since we looked at route changes because the flux in the commercial aviation industry due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine made it difficult to track changes. In fact, many flights that were temporarily taken down, have been restored as oil prices, while high, aren’t as high as feared. Delta […]

Throughout Thursday, I had sources tell me despite almost universal claims from analysts that a Spirit and jetBlue merger is a bad deal, the board of Spirit had a fiduciary duty to see what wiggle room they had in the binding merger agreement with Frontier to open discussions with jetBlue. Early this morning, we got […]

So basically looking at this, from a Florida perspective outside Fort Lauderdale (FLL) and maybe Orlando (MCO), this proposed merger is pro-competitive. A total of nine routes overlap outside of ones that touch FLL or MCO. This overlap is far less worrying, again outside FLL than the already agreed upon Frontier/Spirit merger. To/From Fort Myers […]

Wall Street was rocked yesterday by jetBlue Airways’ (B6) unsolicited bid to buy Spirit Airlines (NK) which has already agreed to merge with Frontier Airlines. JetBlue is based in New York and Spirit is based in Broward County, though the State of Florida has twice failed in its efforts to have JetBlue relocate its HQ […]

JetBlue is cutting the following routes for the summer, taking an ax to their Fort Lauderdale hub: Fort Lauderdale-Cartagena/Chicago-O’Hare/Cleveland/Grand Cayman/Port-of-Spain/Portland (OR)/Providenciales/Seattle-Tacoma/St Maarten West Palm Beach-Los Angeles also being cut for the summer. Southwest is bumping Fort Lauderdale-Havana nonstop back to THREE TIMES daily in the summer. A lot of empty planes going to be making […]

With much of the nation dropping all Covid restrictions (whether this is wise or not can be debated) and the rising costs of fuel, airlines are emphasizing re-ramping up service to business markets like Boston, New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Therefore additions to Florida are limited and as we’ve talked about previously the […]