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F9 Shrinking - Lynx GROWING .......

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The success of Frontier Airlines’ Lynx subsidiary could prompt the Denver-based carrier to add more turboprops to its fleet than originally planned, Frontier Airlines CEO and President Sean Menke said Monday.
Speaking to about 285 people at an aviation seminar in Aspen, Menke said the airline is looking at speeding up the delivery schedule for some of its new, 74-seat Bombardier Q400 turboprop aircraft. The planes are used for short-haul destinations, including Aspen, Jackson Hole and Grand Junction, and burn 30 percent less fuel than a regional jet similar in size.
Denver-based Frontier currently operates 10 turboprop planes, with the option to acquire 10 more from Bombardier in the next couple years.
“We are exercising options for 10 more and looking at picking up additional aircraft,” Menke said at The Boyd Group Aviation Summit in Aspen — a three-day conference hosted by Evergreen-based The Boyd Group, an aviation consulting firm.
Menke is evaluating how the carrier can advance the delivery of 10 turboprops Frontier has ordered from 2010 to 2009.
And, as Frontier is shedding jetliners from its fleet as it navigates Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it wants to purchase more Q400s. How many it would buy hasn’t been determined.
Bankruptcy protection allowed Frontier to break ties with its regional partner Republic Airways, which resulted in the elimination of six flights from Frontier’s schedule.
Republic operated 12 Embraer 170 jets, each with a capacity of 76 seats.
Aspen/Pitkin County Airport officials spoke highly of the new Lynx service.
“They’ve done really well up here,” said David Ulane, assistant aviation director at Aspen’s airport. “We were a little apprehensive at first, but they’ve added a couple thousand passengers [to the airport].”
Lynx flies four daily nonstop flights from Denver to Aspen, seven days a week.
“We’ve seen a correlation in parking revenue, so it’s been really successful,” Ulane said.
 
Yeah, on the outside it seems bad. I guess I'm impressed that a management has figured out that the Q400 should do almost everything inside of 300nm. F the whole prop aura. If you want to survive, turboprops can only help.
 
Yeah, on the outside it seems bad. I guess I'm impressed that a management has figured out that the Q400 should do almost everything inside of 300nm. F the whole prop aura. If you want to survive, turboprops can only help.

I think you missed the point.....completely. Hint: It has nothing to do with the airplane.
 
No, I got your point. You think Lynx sucks because their pay is low, they have no union, and Frontier is furloughing.

Looks like you are at Frontier, maybe furloughed. Suggest to someone Lynx is taking your jobs and mainline should be running the more efficient 320's three a day to everything Lynx does. Problem solved.
 
No, I got your point. You think Lynx sucks because their pay is low, they have no union, and Frontier is furloughing.

Looks like you are at Frontier, maybe furloughed. Suggest to someone Lynx is taking your jobs and mainline should be running the more efficient 320's three a day to everything Lynx does. Problem solved.

You keep missing the point Propsync - it was another example of scope exploitation. I don't have a problem with Lynx.

Frontier pilots allowed this to happen on a certain level. Their scope is UNLIMITED 76 seat props.

It is just another example of mainline shrinking while their regional is growing..........

Nothing more - nothing less........but thanks for trying to flame it into something else. :laugh:
 
Sounds to me like Frontier is carving a niche for itself in the market that will likely not be threatened by Southwest or United. The Q400 is a good plane for local western mountain flying. Good for them.
 
Very glad to hear ASE's parking lot revenue is up.

BIL-IAH
ASE-CUN

It's revenue that WN can't touch, thus it's good for the network. The 74 seat horses were let out of the barn a long time ago, so they might as well help us survive.
 
As pilots, all we should care about is getting the most money and the most days off we can to take care of our families. We can not do that at Lynx. This is bad news for us. Sometimes smart business decisions are not in our best interests.
 

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