What is Allegiant’s strategy for St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport?
Truth be told, we’re probably a little undersized in Tampa Bay, and the only reason we’re not expanding in St. Pete this winter is that we’re a lot undersized in Phoenix. So what little expansion we’re doing this winter is focused there. I know our good friends at St. Petersburg-Clearwater International were a little nervous when they say how many routes we cut back during the slow period of September-October, but Tampa Bay has been good to us, as have our friends at the airport. I believe all of the routes return before Thanksgiving and are already available for sale. How does Allegiant manage to keep its flights operating almost full? Generally we use the behavior of passengers in prior years, on a market by market basis, to guide us this year. That enables us to do a good job judging what fares we should have out there and for how many seats. The other thing we’ve done is right-size a lot of our markets since fuel went up, and that’s been very successful. I have to say our pricing f
