Allegiant Air decides to directly compete with Direct Air (in Pennsylvania)
March 4th, 2009 at 01:29pm Thomas V. Bona
As astute blog reader JA noted before, Allegiant Air is going to compete with Direct Air on Allentown-Myrtle Beach.
This is significant on two levels:
- Allegiant tends to avoid competition. According to an airline presentation last month, Allegiant only had direct competition on two routes at the end of 2008, versus nine routes at the end of 2007. The presentation noted ‘To date, only one airline has entered our routes. That attempt lasted year and has not been repeated. Other airlines appear to see us as an annoyance, not a threat.”
- As I noted yesterday, Allegiant and Direct Air are the two biggest players at RFD. If Allegiant decides to compete with Direct Air in more spots, Rockford could be one of them…
What think you, fair readers?
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1. rfdbusinessman | March 5th, 2009 at 8:37 am
I would hope both can be successful and both continue to grow. RFD needs each of these two airlines to be successful in hope of building additional service and obtaining service from one or more of the following:
* Major low cost carrier (LCC) like Frontier, AirTran, JetBlue, Spirit
* Mexican legacy or LCC carrier like AeroMexico, VivaAerobus,
Interjet or Volaris
* International charters or regular service airlines.
Could Allegiant be trying to push Direct Air “out the door” ?
2. Sally Hanks | March 5th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Is Rockford getting Ft. Lauderdale back? Will Allegiant start Rockford-Punta Gorda? Would this be “too much Florida”?
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