Allegiant CEO stated they were looking at Punta Gorda and St. Augustine routes in their Q1 conf call.
Is this idea smart or dangerous as Skybus made huge mistakes are these markets damaged . Does it make sense for Allegiant to fly small uni-directional markets with flights from small northern markets. What would the impact be on the PIE flying, would they move flights south from PIE?

From Q1 conf call

Q: Just in terms of some of the small town airports that have been oft orphaned by SkyBus and some of the other bankruptcies, can you talk about growth opportunities that are sort of now on your horizon that weren't previously, and along those lines, also on the charter segment, do you see sort of incremental opportunities given some of the bankruptcies? Thanks.

A: Duane this is Andrew (Levy). On your first point, there's really not a lot of what SkyBus did that we find interesting. Punta Gorda would be an exception. That is an airport that could be an interesting destination for the Southwestern part of Florida so we're talking to the airport. St. Augustine as well. Those are both low-cost airports, and obviously that's something that we do like. That's maybe the one thing that we and SkyBus did similarly is focus on airport costs. As far as the fixed fee side of the business, yes, there are opportunities that are presenting themselves, especially with the demise of Champion, who did a lot of that flying. We're in advanced stages of negotiations with a company that's currently Champion and will be using them until they wind down operations at the end of May. We're hopeful that in the coming weeks we'll be able to announce that we've reached a firm agreement to put an airplane with their customer. There's another opportunity there, similar situation, much earlier stages of negotiation but suffice to say with less capacity out there, we're getting more opportunities on the fixed fee side, whether it be track programs or ad hoc last-minute types of opportunities.