I noticed that Avelo cut many other cities as well. In the press releases for each of those cities, Avelo stated that the routes weren't profitable because the fees were too high at the Orlando (Mco) airport... I hope in the future we will get an airline that will stay longer and grow from CWA
It seems fishy but I can't figure out exactly what is going on. Seems like it would be really costly to set up at an airport, put all the infrastructure in place, then bail after less than a year. That actually doesn't seem like a long enough time to see if it actually worked. How could you know without a full year cycle? Plus, it can take time to build awareness. They also got state and federal grant money totaling more than $1 million but that doesn't seem like enough to make it worthwhile.
True. I think that Avelo is trying to shift to the Orlando Lakeland airport that they opened recently... Which makes me think the discision had little to do with passenger numbers and more to do with cutting all routes to Orlando (Mco).
If that were the case though, wouldn't they be able to just change the route from CWA to the new airport? Plus, the Dayton and Charlottesville examples go back to before the CWA route was set up.
That's a good point... The only thing I could think of is that maybe they are still analyzing the new airport to see if it will do as well as MCO. But that doesn't explain the other two cities... Regardless this is an interesting story. Thanks for reporting!
I noticed that Avelo cut many other cities as well. In the press releases for each of those cities, Avelo stated that the routes weren't profitable because the fees were too high at the Orlando (Mco) airport... I hope in the future we will get an airline that will stay longer and grow from CWA
It seems fishy but I can't figure out exactly what is going on. Seems like it would be really costly to set up at an airport, put all the infrastructure in place, then bail after less than a year. That actually doesn't seem like a long enough time to see if it actually worked. How could you know without a full year cycle? Plus, it can take time to build awareness. They also got state and federal grant money totaling more than $1 million but that doesn't seem like enough to make it worthwhile.
True. I think that Avelo is trying to shift to the Orlando Lakeland airport that they opened recently... Which makes me think the discision had little to do with passenger numbers and more to do with cutting all routes to Orlando (Mco).
If that were the case though, wouldn't they be able to just change the route from CWA to the new airport? Plus, the Dayton and Charlottesville examples go back to before the CWA route was set up.
That's a good point... The only thing I could think of is that maybe they are still analyzing the new airport to see if it will do as well as MCO. But that doesn't explain the other two cities... Regardless this is an interesting story. Thanks for reporting!