Frontier Expands Service to Mexico

[batsky2000]

Frontier Airlines Expands Service to Mexico With Additional Frequencies, New Point-to-Point Flights (May 20, 2004)
Denver Airline Receives Approval to Fly Kansas City and Salt Lake City to Cancun

DENVER (May 20, 2004) - Frontier Airlines (Nasdaq: FRNT) has received approval from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to begin non-stop service between Cancun International Airport (CUN) and Kansas City International Airport (MCI), as well as Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC). The service, pending approval from the government of Mexico, will begin July 3, 2004 offering once-weekly Saturday flights to Cancun. Frontier currently flies between its Denver hub and five beach destinations in Mexico: Cancun, Puerto Vallarta, Cabo San Lucas, Mazatlan and Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo. Frontier has also applied to offer non-stop service between Cancun and St. Louis (STL), but has not yet received approval from the DOT to begin the service.

To celebrate the new service, Frontier is offering $99* one-way fares between Cancun and Kansas City and Cancun and Salt Lake City. Fares require a round-trip purchase and must be purchased by midnight EDT May 27, 2004 for travel by Sept. 25, 2004.

Frontier also announced added frequencies from its Denver (DEN) hub to several Mexico destinations for the peak winter season including the following:

Service from Denver (DEN) to Los Cabos International Airport (SJD) in Cabo San Lucas will increase from three times a week to daily beginning Nov. 7, 2004.
Service from Denver (DEN) to General Rafael Buelna International Airport (MZT) in Mazatlan will increase from three times a week to four times a week starting Nov. 7, 2004 and will increase to daily service for the Christmas and Spring Break seasons.
Service from Denver (DEN) to Puerto Vallarta will increase from three times a week to five times a week on Nov. 7, 2004 and will increase to daily service for the Christmas and Spring Break seasons.
"Mexico has proven to be an extremely popular destination for our customers and we are eager to offer the Salt Lake City and Kansas City communities their first, and currently only non-stop Cancun flights," said Sean Menke, senior vice president of marketing. "We are proud to be the largest carrier to Mexico from Denver and we look forward to continued expansion of the service to new markets outside of Denver so that even more customers can take advantage of Frontier's non-stop service to Mexico this winter."

Frontier is recognized throughout the nation for its unique customer amenities including low fares, new Airbus jets, 24 Channels of LiveTV and Frontier's generous EarlyReturns frequent flyer program that allows travelers to earn a free ticket at only 15,000 miles domestically and 25,000 miles to Mexico - the lowest in the aviation industry.

To kick off the new service to Cancun from Salt Lake City and Kansas City, Frontier is offering double miles to its EarlyReturns members who fly to Cancun from either Kansas City or Salt Lake City by August 28, 2004. To enroll in the program, customers can visit Frontier's Web site at www.frontierairlines.com, pick up an EarlyReturns enrollment form at any Frontier airport counter or call Frontier's EarlyReturns Service Center toll-free hotline at 866-26-EARLY or Frontier's reservations at 800-4321-FLY.

To make a reservation, customers may visit Frontier's Web site at www.frontierairlines.com, contact Frontier Airlines at 1-800-4321-FLY, or consult their professional travel agent.

 

[General Lee]

Why wouldn't Delta try SLC to Cancun? It must be our fault.....

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[greyhound]

Can't go wrong with Mex...

When I was at Greyhound, we would bring "busloads" of people to Tijuana from the northwest just to catch a flight to another destination in Mexico. (Tons of them)

Her's a few others routes that might work.

PDX -MEX
STL- mEX

PHX-MEX
ELP-mex

Any of the beach cities in Mexico from almost anywhere in the U.S can be profitable.

I'll let the airlines decide which aircraft is best for these routes or how frequently they should fly to them.

But I know that if they are served right. They can be profitable.

 

[General Lee]

Frontier seems to be having some troubles also unfortunately:


Reuters
Frontier reports wider loss than expected - analyst
Wednesday May 26, 2:14 pm ET


NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters) - Low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines (NasdaqNM:FRNT - News) on Wednesday reported a preliminary fourth-quarter net loss that was wider than Wall Street had expected, according to a J.P. Morgan analyst.


The Denver-based airline, which will officially report its earnings on Thursday, reported a net loss of 14 cents a share in a filing with the U.S. Department of Transportation, Jamie Baker, an analyst at J.P. Morgan, said in a research note.

"The numbers are preliminary and could be inaccurate," a Frontier spokesman told Reuters. The spokesman said he could not confirm any numbers reported in the filing.

Analysts, on average, expected a loss of 4 cents a share, according to Reuters Estimates.

Shares of Frontier fell 1.2 percent to $9.53 in afternoon trade on Nasdaq.

Passenger traffic rose 8.7 percent from a year earlier, according to Baker's note.

The filing did not identify one-time items for the quarter and Baker said he did not expect any. "We believe Frontier's net loss will reach $5.4 million in the quarter," Baker wrote.

"With...Frontier's efforts at diversification still unproven, and with the company potentially on the eve of an earnings disappointment, there's no change to our 'neutral' rating," Baker wrote.


Bye Bye--General Lee