The community shakeup continues at Frontier Airways. The Denver-based ultra-low-cost provider unveiled almost a dozen new routes Tuesday, every of which is able to launch this fall.
Among the many new routes are the provider’s fourth and fifth nonstop locations from New York Metropolis’s John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport (JFK). Previous to this summer time, the provider had by no means served this airport.
Frontier can also be returning to Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) for the primary time since final 12 months and to Dulles Worldwide Airport (IAD) exterior Washington, D.C., for the primary time since 2021.
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In all, the provider’s newest community adjustment impacts 15 cities throughout the nation.
It is the newest in a monthslong overhaul throughout which Frontier has launched into an effort to spice up profitability.
After including properly over 100 new routes to date earlier this 12 months and eliminating dozens extra, the provider is shifting its fall schedule to primarily deal with the busiest days of the week for leisure journey — together with deep cuts to its Tuesday and Wednesday flying.
Even with reductions in general midweek flying, lots of the new routes introduced this week do embody both every day service or a number of weekly spherical journeys, together with on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
The provider didn’t make any cuts along side Tuesday’s announcement, a Frontier spokesperson advised TPG.
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Frontier’s 11 new routes
This is the complete rundown of Frontier’s 11 new routes:
| Route | Launches | Frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Worldwide Airport (ATL) to Austin Bergstrom Worldwide Airport (AUS) | Oct. 11 | Three weekly spherical journeys (final flew in 2019) |
| ATL to Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport (EWR) | Nov. 4 | Each day (final flew in 2020) |
| ATL to IAD | Nov. 14 | Each day |
| BUR to Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport (PHX) | Nov. 21 | 4 weekly spherical journeys (final flew in 2022) |
| BUR to San Francisco Worldwide Airport (SFO) | Nov. 21 | Each day |
| BUR to Denver Worldwide Airport (DEN) | Nov. 22 | Each day (final flew in 2022) |
| Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Worldwide Airport (CVG) to Sarasota Bradenton Worldwide Airport (SRQ) | Oct. 12 | Weekly (final flew in 2021) |
| IAD to Orlando Worldwide Airport (MCO) | Nov. 14 | 4 weekly spherical journeys (final flew in 2021) |
| JFK to MCO | Oct. 27 | Each day |
| JFK to Tampa Worldwide Airport (TPA) | Oct. 27 | Each day |
| Seattle Tacoma Worldwide Airport (SEA) to Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport (SLC) | Oct. 11 | Three weekly spherical journeys |
What to learn about these new routes
Although Frontier does not fly any of those 11 routes at present, the provider has flown quite a few them prior to now, as famous above. In a number of instances, Frontier final operated the nonstop service in 2022 or earlier.
Apart from Cincinnati-to-Sarasota, every of those new routes touches a significant hub of the “Large Three” U.S. community carriers. This aligns with a technique Frontier deployed this 12 months that focuses much less on stalwart leisure journey locations and extra on vacationers flying between large cities to go to buddies and family.
With respect to the Washington, D.C., area, Frontier has been absent from Dulles in recent times; the provider already serves Ronald Reagan Washington Nationwide Airport (DCA) and Baltimore/Washington Worldwide Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).
In the meantime, this newest route announcement continues the provider’s quick progress in 2024 at ATL — the world’s busiest airport — and in CVG, the place it not too long ago established a crew base.
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