Situated about 100 kilometres south of Denver, Colorado Springs welcomed over 2.1 million passengers in 2022, according to the airport’s statistics. Its best year since 2001, traffic exceeded 2019 figures by 27%. It is primarily due to one key development: the arrival of Southwest. The airline, which launched Colorado Springs almost two years ago in […]
January 31, 2023 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Frontier has expanded its presence at Phoenix PHX with the introduction of several new routes during the first week of January. Five new destinations have been added by the ULCC. All of them are already well-served by other carriers (weekly frequency in January shown in brackets): 5 January: Kansas City (2) versus Southwest (28) and […]
January 11, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Fort Lauderdale ended 2021 with 28.1 million passengers, according to the airport’s own statistics. This was 24% lower than 2019, when the Florida airport welcomed a record 36.8 million customers. Some 12 million additional passengers were added between 2014 and 2019 (+49%), the result of huge growth by Allegiant, American, JetBlue, Southwest and Spirit. While […]
December 21, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
On Thursday 28 April Frontier returned to Chicago MDW after an absence of seven years. The ULCC launched seven routes that day, with another route added the following day. Frontier had last flown out of Chicago’s second airport in April 2015, when it offered service to Trenton in New Jersey. In the summer of 2014, […]
May 5, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The recent announcement that America’s two biggest ULCCs, Frontier and Spirit, plan to merge came as something of a surprise to many in the industry. However, with similar business models and significant fleet commonality it makes a lot of sense. The combined entity would become the fifth biggest carrier in the US behind the big […]
February 11, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Frontier Airlines added three more new routes from its Orlando base on 4 November when it began 2-weekly service to Cedar Rapids in Iowa, Fargo in North Dakota and San Salvador in El Salvador. All three routes will operate on Thursdays and Sundays using the airline’s A320-series fleet and none faces direct competition. The previous […]
November 9, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Latest daily figures provided by the US TSA show that average weekly passenger numbers passing through US airports are now at around 75%-80% of the level they were back in 2019, with that figure rising to around 85% on national holidays such as Independence Day (4 July) and Labor Day (6 September). However, the biggest […]
September 15, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
On Thursday 12 August Frontier Airlines launched a new service from its second biggest base at Las Vegas in Nevada. Central Illinois Regional Airport at Bloomington-Normal (IATA code BMI) is now served 2-weekly (on Thursdays and Sundays). The inaugural service on the 2,340-kilometre route (flight number F9 1974, operated by an Airbus A320 registration N317FR) […]
August 16, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Portland International Jetport in Maine (IATA code PWM) welcomed two new Frontier Airlines routes on Tuesday 13 July. The ULCC began 4-weekly service (on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays) to both Atlanta in Georgia and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania using its A320 fleet. The 1,650-kilometre route to Atlanta is already served 12-weekly by Delta and the […]
July 16, 2021 | Latest Route News +
Frontier Airlines has enhanced its international offering from Florida by launching weekly flights on Saturday 10 July to Princess Juliana International Airport (IATA code SXM) on the Dutch part of the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten. The slightly larger half of the island to the north is called Saint Martin and is controlled by France. […]
July 15, 2021 | Latest Route News +
The Airline CEO Heavyweights session at Routes Americas 2021 yesterday brought together leaders from Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines, and the US Travel Association to discuss some of the challenges brought by the pandemic and how they have managed to remain in a relatively favourable position to weather the crisis. Sharing some of the key lessons […]
June 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, North America
The last four weeks have seen a further steady improvement in US demand relative to the same period in 2019. Having passed 60% of the level from two years ago on 31 March and then passing the 65% mark on 12 May, the 70% level was passed for the first time on Thursday 27 May, […]
June 23, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, North America