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Frontier Airlines will cut daily departures from Milwaukee by 44 percent to drop unprofitable flights as parent Republic Airways Holdings Inc. (RJET) prepares to sell or spin off the carrier.
Frontier will end non-stop service to six cities by mid- April as departures from Milwaukee are reduced to 18 from 32 a day, Lindsey Carpenter, a spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview today.
Republic is close to naming an adviser to help divest Frontier, which it bought out of bankruptcy in 2009. Frontier faced competition in Milwaukee from Southwest Airlines Co., the biggest low-fare carrier. The city had served as a Frontier hub since Republic bought Midwest Airlines in 2009 and combined the two carriers under the Frontier name.
“We’ve been incurring significant losses on our flights out of Milwaukee,” Carpenter said. “We can’t continue to do that if we want to stay a viable airline.”
Frontier is still assessing how many employees will be affected by the changes and hopes to offer them other jobs with the airline, she said. Midwest’s Milwaukee departures peaked at 150 a day in 2007.
The carrier no longer will fly non-stop from Milwaukee to Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Newark and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The cuts come as the airline expands flights from its main base in Denver.
Republic fell 2.2 percent to $5.87 at the close in New York. The shares have risen 71 percent this year.
To contact the reporter on this story: Mary Schlangenstein in Dallas at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Ed Dufner at [email protected]
Frontier will end non-stop service to six cities by mid- April as departures from Milwaukee are reduced to 18 from 32 a day, Lindsey Carpenter, a spokeswoman, said in a telephone interview today.
Republic is close to naming an adviser to help divest Frontier, which it bought out of bankruptcy in 2009. Frontier faced competition in Milwaukee from Southwest Airlines Co., the biggest low-fare carrier. The city had served as a Frontier hub since Republic bought Midwest Airlines in 2009 and combined the two carriers under the Frontier name.
“We’ve been incurring significant losses on our flights out of Milwaukee,” Carpenter said. “We can’t continue to do that if we want to stay a viable airline.”
Frontier is still assessing how many employees will be affected by the changes and hopes to offer them other jobs with the airline, she said. Midwest’s Milwaukee departures peaked at 150 a day in 2007.
The carrier no longer will fly non-stop from Milwaukee to Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Newark and Grand Rapids, Michigan. The cuts come as the airline expands flights from its main base in Denver.
Republic fell 2.2 percent to $5.87 at the close in New York. The shares have risen 71 percent this year.
To contact the reporter on this story: Mary Schlangenstein in Dallas at [email protected]
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Ed Dufner at [email protected]