WOW Air has been growing their route network significantly the past several years. Arguably too fast, given their financial performance. Their first US destination was Boston in March 2015, and since then they've added service to over a dozen other US cities. WOW Air has now announced their next US destination. As of December 18,…
Continue reading: WOW Air Launching Flights To Orlando As Of December 2018
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It would be smart for WOW (and Icelandair) to apply to run a fifth freedom route onto this, both will have horrible ground time on this route and it may be helpful to have a fifth freedom to CUN, NAS, (if possible HAV or CCC), or any other location in the Carribean/Central America
While something tells me winter is not the worst time to have the plane sitting on the ground (likely low utilization that time of year), I wonder if there are any fifth freedom routes available that can be operated with that airframe to somewhere touristy in Central America or northern South America, like CUN/LIM/LIR/etc.?
I'm really excited because this new route is going to open up some options for me. I'm always seeing great flight sales on WOW out of the Northeast airports but since I'm travelling out of the New Orleans airport (MSY), getting to the Northeast often ruins the price for me.
The good news is that I find flights from New Orleans (MSY) to Orlando (MCO) for about $20 on Spirit or Frontier pretty often, so I'm thinking that Iceland is in my future for 2019!
I've flown internationally to Europe on European carriers from Orlando and most of the passengers are Europeans headed to the US
With regards to fifth freedom routes, presumably it can fly down to the European Caribbean islands without any difficulty if it wants to.
Whether there's any market for such a flight is another matter - not to mention they won't want any delays to result in the Orlando flight getting missed connections.
While it makes sense for full service carriers on some high yielding routes (e.g. LH, BA) leaving their A380s etc parked the whole day in JNB i can't help but question the finances with this LCC. That plane costs lots of cash staying on the ground for a full day.
But somehow it ought to be working as this is a common thing with many of their flights to US.
This should actually be a pretty good flight, because unlike St. Louis or Pittsburgh, Orlando is actually a city where many Europeans want to go.
This is my hometown airport so I am extremely excited!!! I do think the route will be successful though mostly because we have a lot of Europeans visit Orlando (especially from Great Britain)
I am excited for wow now from Orlando to travel Europe & Asia particularly for India New Delhi