Frontier's major expansion announcement

[hawkerflyer]

Press release on yahoo indicating a major expansion announcement tomorrow, 12/18. Any of the boys or girls in DEN care to jump in ?

 

[General Lee]

I am not Frontier, but it will probably state some new routes that will utilize the new Horizon CR7s. I think they will get 9 CR7s next year??? Also, they will have to expand a lot if TED really does use 200 A320's eventually.....

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[storminpilot]

New Hub

How about a new hub.............like Pittsburgh?

 

[lowecur]

mmmmmmmmm

You cannot have a major expansion without a major addition of new a/c. They have blueprinted themselves after the Jetblue business model. Let's see what happens.

 

[storminpilot]

Press Release Source: Frontier Airlines


Frontier Airlines to Hold Press Conference and Media Conference Call to Announce Major Expansion Plans

Wednesday December 17, 6:52 pm ET

DENVER, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Frontier Airlines (Nasdaq: FRNT - News) will hold a press conference at Frontier's headquarters at 7001 Tower Road, Thursday, Dec. 18 at 1 p.m. (MT), to announce major expansion plans for the Denver-based airline.

The press conference will be hosted by Jeff Potter, Frontier's president and CEO, and Sean Menke, senior vice-president of marketing.

Details of the event follow:
WHAT: Press Conference to announce to discuss new
Frontier destinations and expansion plans

WHEN: Dec. 18, 2003 at 1 p.m. (MT)

WHERE: Frontier Center One, 7001 Tower Road, in the
auditorium

In addition, Frontier will host a media conference call at 3:00 MT for out-of town and aviation industry media. Please contact Joe Hodas at [email protected] or 720-374-4504 to RSVP and to receive instructions for participating in the conference call.

 

[Heavy Set]

Big expansion out of LA...

Here is the news: Big expansion out of LA... Could this thwart Virgin USA's entry into the LA market (marked as a potential hub)?



Frontier Airlines to Begin Focus City Expansion from Los Angeles International Airport
Thursday December 18, 10:01 am ET
Frontier to Begin New Non-Stop Service from Los Angeles to St. Louis, Minneapolis and Kansas City as well as Denver to Anchorage and Washington-Dulles


DENVER, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Marking the first expansion of point-to-point routes outside of its Denver International Airport (DEN) hub, Frontier Airlines (Nasdaq: FRNT - News) today announced plans to begin service between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Kansas City International Airport (MCI), Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL), and Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP), beginning Apr. 11, 2004. The airline will operate two daily non-stop flights between Los Angeles (LAX) and each of these three cities. The new routes will complement Frontier's existing six daily non-stops between Denver and Los Angeles, as well as its service between Denver and Ontario (ONT), San Diego (SAN) and Orange County (SNA).
In addition to Frontier's expansion in Los Angeles, the airline also announced separately today that it will start one daily non-stop flight from its Denver hub to Anchorage International Airport (ANC) on May 9, 2004 and two daily non-stops to Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) on Apr. 11, 2004, as well as two-daily non-stops to El Paso International Airport (ELP) on Feb. 8, 2004 that will replace its existing service via Albuquerque.

"Today marks a critical and exciting juncture for Frontier Airlines, its employees and its loyal customers," said Senior Vice President of Marketing Sean Menke. "We have focused on the growth of our hub in Denver for the past ten years, and we feel comfortable that we are now at a point that we can begin to fully leverage and utilize that asset as we begin to offer non-stop service outside of Denver to complement our hub schedule. The result will be better utilization of our planes as well as our facilities, and more options for travelers in Los Angeles, which has always been our most popular destination. We look forward to making our mark in Los Angeles, one of the world's greatest destinations, and complementing the extensive service we already offer in Southern California."

Following are the Los Angeles flight schedules:


Los Angeles-St. Louis
Flight Number Departs Arrives Frequency
1286 9:35 a.m. 3:10 p.m. Daily
1287 4:20 p.m. 9:55 p.m. Daily


St. Louis-Los Angeles
Flight Number Departs Arrives Frequency
1409 7:00 a.m. 9:05 a.m. Daily
1407 2:30 p.m. 4:35 p.m. Daily


Los Angeles-Kansas City
Flight Number Departs Arrives Frequency
1831 9:45 a.m. 2:50 p.m. Daily
1830 5:35 p.m. 10:40 p.m. Daily


Kansas City-Los Angeles
Flight Number Departs Arrives Frequency
1832 7:25 a.m. 8:55 a.m. Daily
1833 3:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Daily


Los Angeles-Minneapolis/St. Paul
Flight Number Departs Arrives Frequency
1106 9:50 a.m. 3:20 p.m. Daily
1109 5:25 p.m. 10:55 p.m. Daily


Minneapolis/St. Paul-Los Angeles
Flight Number Departs Arrives Frequency
1416 7:10 a.m. 9:10 a.m. Daily
1414 3:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Daily

All times given in local arrival or departure city times.



The airline published an introductory fare sale for flights to/from Los Angeles with fares starting as low as $198 round-trip between Los Angeles and Minneapolis/St. Paul, Kansas City and St. Louis. Introductory fares require a round-trip purchase and are available for purchase through 10:00 p.m. MT on Jan. 31, 2004 for travel beginning Apr. 11, 2004.

Introductory sale fares may not be available on all flights/dates. Once
purchased, these fares are non-refundable and non-transferable, but may
be reissued for a $100 change fee plus any applicable difference in fare.
Fares do not include passenger facilities fees of up to $18 round-trip,
the September 11th Security Fee of $2.50 per enplanement, or segment fees
of $3. A segment is defined as one takeoff and one landing. Prices
subject to change and other restrictions may apply.


To celebrate the new service, members of Frontier Airlines' frequent flyer program, EarlyReturns, will receive double bonus miles for travel to and from Los Angeles between Apr. 11, 2004 and June 30, 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.

About Frontier

Currently in its tenth year of operations, Denver-based Frontier Airlines is the second largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport with a fleet of 39 aircraft and employing approximately 3,800 aviation professionals. Frontier, in conjunction with Frontier JetExpress operated by Mesa Air Group ("Mesa"), operates routes linking our Denver hub to 37 cities in 22 states spanning the nation from coast-to-coast and to four cities in Mexico. Frontier's maintenance and engineering department has received the Federal Aviation Administration's highest award, the Diamond Certificate of Excellence, in recognition of 100 percent of its maintenance and engineering employees completing advanced aircraft maintenance training programs, for four consecutive years. In August 2003, Frontier ranked as one of the "Top 10 Domestic Airlines" as determined by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine. Frontier provides capacity information and other operating statistics on its Web site, which may be viewed at www.frontierairlines.com.

 

[F9 Driver]

The other one....

Frontier Airlines to Expand Denver Service to Anchorage, Alaska and Dulles in Washington, D.C.
Frontier to Also Add Non-Stop Service From Denver To El Paso, as Well as Focus City in Los Angeles


DENVER (Dec. 18, 2003) - Frontier Airlines (Nasdaq: FRNT) today announced plans to begin service between its Denver International Airport (DEN) hub and Anchorage International Airport (ANC), Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) and El Paso International Airport (ELP) with two daily non-stops to Washington D.C. and El Paso, and one daily non-stop to Anchorage. Seasonal service to Anchorage will begin May 9, 2004 and service to Washington-Dulles will begin April 11, 2004. Frontier currently serves El Paso via Albuquerque, and the new non-stop service will replace the existing service beginning February 8, 2004. Including Washington Dulles and Anchorage, Frontier will serve 43 cities from its Denver hub, with Washington Reagan International (DCA), as well as Baltimore-Washington International (BWI) as additional options for traveling to Washington D.C.

In addition to Frontier’s new service from its Denver hub, the airline also announced separately today that it will add service between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Kansas City International Airport (MCI), Lambert-St. Louis International Airport (STL), and Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport (MSP), beginning Apr. 11, 2004. The airline will operate two daily non-stop flights between LAX and each of the three airports.

“Both Washington-Dulles and Anchorage will have great connecting opportunities out of our Denver hub to the West and the East respectively and we are excited to bring these key markets to Denver,” said Senior Vice President of Marketing Sean Menke. “With Washington-Dulles we have added another option to a destination that is critical for business travelers and popular with leisure travelers. Frontier is also excited to provide travelers a new connection to Anchorage, Alaska, a popular, yet underserved destination.”

 

[js31pilot]

Congrats Frontier.........should be an interesting new year !

 

[Be200pilot]

Who owns Frontier?

 

[F9 Driver]

FRNT on Nasdaq

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=frnt&d=t

 

[General Lee]

Interesting plans. I think they will have good competition on those routes though:

LAX ---MCI --Southwest has four flights I believe, so the yeilds won't be that high.

LAX--MSP---That was a good one. Until now, only NW had nonstop flights and this will make them bring down fares.

LAX--STL---A good one too, but AA has cut back a lot on their own costs, and they announced today and extra flight ( now 4 per day) on that route. They also have a pretty good RJ hub there for connections.

I thought Frontier was going to go for another airline's hub---like CLT or CVG. Maybe that will be down the road. LA does have a large population base---so there should be plenty of PAX.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[FLB717]

General,
Nawww CVG is going to be our new home. We love you guys at Delta sooooo much we followed to DFW and now CVG and F9 was going to thier new home.

seriously, what has really happened is all the dons at the LCC's met is Toronto and devided up the USA into familys so each LCC will work for the Big Boss as not to compeat with each other.

Just kiddin

 

[Sniper@YourFeet]

Re: The other one....

“With Washington-Dulles we have added another option to a destination that is critical for business travelers and popular with leisure travelers.”

And covered a UAL and 'Independent' route. Looks like Frontier has entered the mix as a potential competitor to ACA.

 

[General Lee]

FLB717,

I knew you were kidding for a couple reasons: #1--a friend of mine based in CVG said that there was a recent article in the local paper saying that "Airtran was in a holding pattern" concerning any CVG flights, and that they would continue to fly mainly from Dayton to ATL instead. #2---I honestly don't think there is a lot of room for expanded service at CVG (this is always my response--but it is true). I am trying to think where they could come up with some more gates----not many available. (maybe one or two) I guess Airtran can also build a new terminal in CVG---just like ATL?
You had me shaking, though!!!! (not) Take care.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[FLB717]

General,
Term 1 and 2 have extra gate space. I would not rule CVG out. Personaly I would love to fly to CVG, I think it would be great to slide back my window and give Randy R. the salue he deseves. I even joked to my C.P. that he may get a call from CMR HQ.But DAY does do very well for us. You may have noticed slowly more destinations being added, just like CAK vs CLE. Any way sorry for hijacking the F9 threat is a DAL vs AAI argument.

 

[General Lee]

FLB717,

Of course We'll hijack it---no one else is responding. You can have Terminal 1. We will be adding back capacity in 2004 and terminal 2 will be used more. Also, you can have CAK---although we have added mainline service there before, and we could put 737s on it again. We aren't just going to give you new routes with no competition.

Bye Bye--General Lee

 

[FLB717]

General,
Cool ! 5 gates means 50 flights a day, Ill take it It would be great we could have lunch, look at airplanes we could bond Oh yeah I dont think Delta has ever givin us anything but a hemroid.
Merry Chritmas all.