Originally Posted by
Wycombe
They were moved from Sanford (SFB) weren't they. Don't think TOM have operated from MCO (in recent years anyway)
Orlando MCO only became interested in mainstream multiple daily flights long ago, and UK holiday flights moved over to Sanford, little used and still with immigration facilities. However the later has in recent times become a major point for US LCC airline Allegiant, and the focus has moved on, so Melbourne is the next to get used. Being "cheap" for charges, and "somewhere in Florida" are its characteristics.
Despite its rebranding as "Melbourne Orlando airport", it puts Frankfurt Hahn in the shade, being 75 miles from Disney, probably a couple of hours drive each way (I doubt the brochures say that), given the 192 that links the two is not even a freeway and has signals etc along the way. Melbourne is actually on the Atlantic coast. The airport used to handle such NASA traffic to Cape Canaveral as wasn't entitled to the NASA internal flights, but seems to have retreated to being a Florida secondary airport.