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Passengers might save the 30-60 additional minutes to get from/ to the more remote central Florida airports. MCO handles more passengers than EWR, IAH or BOS. But it isn’t nearly big enough to handle 25 Million passengers a year. Anybody who doesn’t get to MCO two hours before take-off on a heavy travel day risks waving at their departing plane from the X-ray station. By the way… those security lines are nothing to sneeze at. Something rarely mentioned in announcements like this one, is what passengers will experience in the “new” destination airport.Īnyone who has flown into/ out of Orlando International (MCO) will be familiar with the interminable lines to get through jammed security stations, crowded gates with not enough seating, crowded trains to and from the concourses and a general feeling that if you stop to get your bearings, you’ll be run over by the masses rushing to get to the parks. But if it doesn’t, well, Allegiant can easily walk away like it does from any spoke that doesn’t work out. If it works on Allegiant’s best routes, great, then it can grow. Fly a handful of flights in and right back out. This is really dipping its toes in the water to see if demand is there.Īllegiant goes in and out of markets regularly. There’s no need to pull crews and airplanes in from the SFB base or base airplanes at MCO itself. Airplanes will originate in these cities, fly to Orlando, and then turn right around. These cities are all bases for Allegiant. That second part, at least, is not a problem this time. 1, 2011, the aircraft will move to Orlando Sanford International Airport to support the additional flights.

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Allegiant currently bases five MD-80 series jet aircraft at Orlando International Airport and as of Feb.

When Allegiant announced it was retreating from MCO last time, the airline blamed cost issues, saying “…the substantially lower airport operating costs coupled with the more efficient operating environment at Orlando Sanford made this the right decision for Allegiant.” But further down, it also said this:īy consolidating the operations to a single airport in the Orlando area, Allegiant is able to keep costs down and offer its customers the best travel deals.

Allegiant didn’t serve Asheville at all at the time, not starting until Nov 2011. You’ll notice that Allentown and Knoxville were both part of that grand experiment. Allegiant MCO 2010/2011 Route Map generated by the Great Circle Mapper – copyright © Karl L.