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United Airlines Will Let Passengers Avoid Trump Airport And Switch To Miami Or Fort Lauderdale For Free - Live and Let's Fly (liveandletsfly.com)

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United Airlines is preparing for customers who may object to flying into an airport named for President Donald Trump, and reservation agents have been authorized to move those passengers to Fort Lauderdale or Miami without charging more.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The problem with MCO is that Orlando doesn't want a hub airport. The entire economy is based on tourism and having a hub doesn't help unless the hub is owned by the government.

FLL needs a new tenant who could treat the airport like a hub. Delta has ATL and American has MIA. JetBlue has a presence there, but likely not enough to fill the lost capacity unless it gets a massive capital injection. That leaves United and Southwest.

United is the airline that has the quickest ability to fill the void and has a long term route strategy which can use an airport like FLL, including off-loading some international traffic from IAD.

[–] deacon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I think I agree with all of that, so it really does comes down to the semantics of the first statement.

I would say pedantically it isn’t a hub yet, only the most likely next hub, but you’re right for the purposes of your original comment.