Posted Feb 16, 2008, 5:51 PM
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Mobile, Alabama
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Mobile, AL
Posts: 313
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Originally Posted by MobileLSUboy2005
I WISH Mobile could support Frontier Airlines, but if Baton Rouge can't then i highly doubt we could.
Baton Rouge's newspaper says, "According to Metro Airport figures, Frontier’s two daily flights averaged about 2,860 passengers per month between September and January, just shy of the airport’s projected average of 3,320....Business was good enough that Frontier previously announced a third flight would be added next month.
The problem, Hodas said, was that most local fliers don’t travel past Denver, which is how discount airlines typically make money.
“The traffic to Denver is pretty good, but for the routes to be successful, we’ve got to get a mix,” he said. “We just weren’t seeing that."...When the city began negotiating with Frontier in 2005, oil was around $65 a barrel. Since then, prices have risen to near $100 a barrel."
Source: 2theadvocate.com
Itd be great if Mobile could get it, especially since it drove down the prices in Baton Rouge by 27%, and everyone knows Mobile's flights are outrageous, but I just don't think it would happen (at least not when fuel is so high)
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