If Frontier’s growth has seen haphazard to you, you’re not alone. While I’m no airline CEO, some routes (Raleigh-Durham to Portland, ME, anyone?) leave me scratching my head. Yesterday, we learned that Frontier would be adding 15 new routes to their route map, but also eliminating nine routes, for a net gain of six routes.
The Good News: 15 New Routes
Per a Frontier press release, here are the 15 new routes, along with their frequency and aircraft type:
- SAN DIEGO (SAN) to/from PITTSBURGH (PIT)
- Aircraft: Airbus A321
- Frequency: Monday, Friday
- Service Start: August, 13
- SAN DIEGO (SAN) to/from CLEVELAND (CLE)
- Aircraft: Airbus A321
- Frequency: Wednesday, Saturday
- Service Start: August, 15
- SAN DIEGO (SAN) to/from INDIANAPOLIS (IND)
- Aircraft: Airbus A321
- Frequency: Monday, Friday
- Service Start: August, 13
- SAN DIEGO (SAN) to/from MILWAUKEE (MKE)
- Aircraft: Airbus A321
- Frequency: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday
- Service Start: August, 14
- SAN DIEGO (SAN) to/from RALEIGH/DURHAM (RDU)
- Aircraft: Airbus A321
- Frequency: Wednesday, Saturday
- Service Start: August, 15
- ORLANDO (MCO) to/from ONTARIO (ONT)
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Frequency: Daily
- Service Start: August, 13
- LAS VEGAS (LAS) to/from SPOKANE (GEG)
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Frequency: Monday, Friday
- Service Start: August 13
- LAS VEGAS (LAS) to/from NORFOLK (ORF)
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Frequency: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday
- Service Start: August, 14
- LAS VEGAS (LAS) to/from CALGARY (YYC)
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Frequency: Wednesday, Saturday
- Service Start: August, 15
- ORLANDO (MCO) to/from PITTSBURGH (PIT)
- Aircraft: Airbus A321
- Frequency: Monday, Friday
- Service Start: August, 13
- SAN ANTONIO (SAT) to/from ORANGE COUNTY (SNA)
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Frequency: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday
- Service Start: August 13
- SAN ANTONIO (SAT) to/from SALT LAKE CITY (SLC)
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Frequency: Wednesday, Saturday
- Service Start: August 15
- MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL (MSP) to/from CHARLESTON (CHS)
- Aircraft: Airbus A319
- Frequency: Wednesday, Saturday
- Service Start: August 15
- AUSTIN (AUS) to/from LOUISVILLE (SDF)
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Frequency: Monday, Friday
- Service Start: August 13
- AUSTIN (AUS) to/from ORANGE COUNTY (SNA)
- Aircraft: Airbus A320
- Frequency: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday
- Service Start: August 14
In map form:
Map courtesy of the Great Circle Mapper. gcmap.com
The Bad News
As stated above, nine routes are ending. Per USA Today, here they are:
- Cleveland
- Phoenix: Ends Aug. 9
- Seattle: Ends Aug. 11
- San Diego
- Colorado Springs: Ends Aug. 9
- Oklahoma City: Ends Aug. 11
- Tulsa: Ends Aug. 9
- Cincinnati
- Philadelphia: Ends Aug. 10
- Phoenix: Ends Aug. 11
- Philadelphia
- Cincinnati: Ends Aug. 10
- Grand Rapids: Ends Aug. 10
In map form:
Map courtesy of the Great Circle Mapper. gcmap.com
We’re not sure if these cancelled routes are seasonally closed or permanently closed. Only time will tell.
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The only problem with these flights is that you actually have to fly Frontier in order to use them.
+1 Tim
I think SAT-COS is also cancelled
The couple times a week schedule can hardly be called “service”. I quit Frontier, burned my 200,000 plus miles and never looked back. Southwest regularity beats them hands down.
I use to fly Frontier and also belong to the Discount Den program for two years. At first, there was a lot of real cheap flights from and to STL. Then it became a joke, given other cities got the deals. The real downer was flying out of Denver last year and Frontier baggage check counter was a circus.
Still sore at Frontier for abandoning my two favorite niche airports — Shenandoah and Wilmington (DE)….. got the Frontier card back then…… (but used the points, thanks to Drew TIF, for free night stays with Melbourne Radisson — gasp)
Every now and then, see some super Frontier flights (on excruciatingly painful planes — think smashed up knees) to new places (and am half tempted yet again this summer for flight options into the Rockies — esp. COS & Montana) But then I see seasonal car rental rates at such places and the temptation fades….
Lesson being…. don’t ever fall in “love” with Frontier….