Bill Franke, who pioneered the ultralow-cost airline model that has led the push for new fees on fliers, thinks the U.S. needs a third cut-rate carrier. Mr. Franke's investment firm, Indigo Partners LLC, is in exclusive talks to buy Frontier Airlines, according to a person familiar with the situation. If Indigo purchases the small, Denver-based carrier from current parent Republic Airways Holdings Inc., Mr. Franke plans to turn the... Turkish Butcher 'Salt Bae' Has the Internet Salivating Blast Near Colombian Bullring Injures Dozens Disney Cuts Ties to YouTube Superstar PewDiePie SpaceX Blasts Off From Historic Launch Pad BeatsX Review: Apple’s Other Wireless Earbuds Get all the frills for one low price: includes best seats, bags, refundability, and more. Find our best prices in one easy place. Join the club and have exclusive access to our lowest fares. We are looking for the best to join our team.“So here is what you do, book a "Classic Plus" flight and request seats in the following rows: 2-5.”
“The leather seats are nice and offer pretty good leg room, and the TVs with live TV in each seatback make me smile to and from my destination.” “BTW, a five star airline would offer free TV and cheaper cocktails.” "Top notch, really came through for us. Instead of a stretch limo we decided to get my kid a vehicle for their date so they could enjoy their prom night without being in a stretch limo with a bunch of other…" Denver to Vail Transportation. Denver to Vail Private SUV and sedans. Transportation from/to Denver International Airport(DIA) to/from Vail, Breckenridge, Keystone, Aspen, Winter Park, Steamboat… Yelp users haven’t asked any questions yet about Frontier Airlines. You Might Also Consider "This review is for Vladimir Goregliad who owns Motion Luxury Rent A Car and Motion Autohaus (a high end car dealer). I worked closely with Vlad to buy a rare 2000 Mercedes Convertible. It was the best car…" "I was in a bind recently and needed a cab ASAP.
He arrived within 10 minutes and got me to my destination quickly and safe. I was impressed and would use him again if I needed to!"This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site (including, for example, the order in which they appear). This site does not include all credit card companies or all available credit card offers. Please view our advertising policy page for more information. Editorial Note: Opinions expressed here are author’s alone, not those of any bank, credit card issuer, airlines or hotel chain, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any of these entities.Frontier Airlines’ new perk will make you actually want the middle seatIf you're flying with Frontier Airlines, you might want to reserve yourself a middle seat.The ultra-budget airline, on par with Spirit Airlines and EasyJet, is installing new seats in its Airbus 320s and 319s this year. The middle seats in each row will be afforded an extra inch of width compared to its neighbors.
The middle seats, which will not come at any additional cost, will be 19 inches wide, which Frontier says makes them the broadest in the United States.The trade-off is that the new seating arrangement pushes seating rows closer together, so that the pitch, or distance between the end point on one seat and the same point on the seat ahead, is only 28 inches, according to Conde Nast Traveler. Plus, the seats will no longer recline, coming in a "pre-reclined" mode to save flight attendants from the headaches of in-air legroom fights. The new arrangement adds a total of 12 seats to each flight.But it's worth keeping in mind that when people fly Frontier, they probably aren't expecting a comfortable ride. It's ranked as one of the five worst airlines in the United States, racking up bumped passengers, complaints, and mishandled bags. Barely more than half of its planes land on time. With such low expectations, flyers might just view the new middle seats as a rare and unexpected perk.All products and services featured are based solely on editorial selection.
FORTUNE may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Quotes delayed at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Interactive Data. S&P Index data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed SolutionsWeekend weather cancellations continued to plague Frontier Airlines Monday, as crews worked around the clock sorting through the mess left by arctic temperatures and heavier-than-forecast snow in Denver that led the carrier to cancel 275 flights nationwide. The Denver-based carrier completed about 65 percent of its scheduled flights Monday, and the number will climb on Tuesday, as the airline gets crews and aircraft where they need to be, spokesman Jim Faulkner said. “We’re still working to get crews back into position who have been affected by the Denver weather,” he said in an e-mail Monday evening. About 70 percent of Frontier’s weekend flights experienced some kind of delay.
By Monday afternoon, the airline expected about 60 percent of non-Denver luggage that arrived on incoming flights to be on its way to final destinations, where ground crews will work to reunite the bags with their owners. Frontier has brought in extra staff to help sort and deliver bags to Colorado customers, he said. Through Monday, customer service agents had received about 1,800 e-mails, Faulkner said. On Monday alone, calls to the airline’s reservations lines were expected to reach 16,000. “Both groups are also bringing in people on their days off,” he said. “This will continue through Tuesday, and we will monitor the situation to assess the needs for Wednesday.” Customers were frustrated Monday morning by long lines at Denver International Airport ticket counters that were taking longer-than-normal to resolve as agents dealt with rebookings. Judy Michel and her husband arrived at 6:30 a.m. Monday for an 8:30 a.m. Frontier flight to New Orleans, only to be told it had been canceled, she said.
Only two people were working the ultra-low-cost carrier’s ticket counter, she said, where large numbers of passengers, some with families in tow, were lined up after being stranded. “The line didn’t move, and people were arriving, and the line got longer and longer,” Michel said. When she finally reached the counter, the agent offered to book them on a Thursday flight or refund the ticket. The couple, who were returning to Alabama after visiting their son, took the refund and went to Southwest Airlines, where the last-minute fare for the flight was $1,000, twice what they paid for the Frontier flight. All airlines at DIA experienced trouble over the weekend because of the snow, though most operations were back to normal by 5:30 p.m. Sunday. Faulkner said Frontier was more heavily affected because Denver, where about 60 flights originate daily, is its largest crew base. About 650 pilots are based in Denver, compared with 200 each in Orlando and Chicago.
About 750 flight attendants are based in Denver, compared with 400 in Orlando and 300 in Chicago. “We had large numbers of them who were stranded outside of Denver over the weekend, and many were scheduled to operate flights from Denver to somewhere else,” said spokesman Gil Rudawsky, a Frontier spokesman. In some cases, a plane was available but the airline had no crew available to fly it. In one case, a Denver-based crew was scheduled to fly from Las Vegas to Cleveland, but the crew couldn’t get to Las Vegas so the flight was canceled. Airline crews have limits on the amount of time they can fly, Rudawsky said. “Many of them ‘timed out’ and were unable to continue flying.” Schedulers are working to get crew timing back on track. The Air Line Pilots Association blamed management for the trouble at DIA. “This most recent meltdown by Frontier Airlines is due to the same executive mismanagement and misplaced focus on cost-cutting that has placed Frontier near the very bottom of the industry in operational performance and customer satisfaction,” said Capt. Brian Ketchum, who is chair of the ALPA’s Frontier Airlines Master Executive Council.
Frontier’s unionized pilots and flight attendants are currently in contract negotiations. Frontier called Ketchum’s statement opportunistic. “We’re disappointed our pilots took this opportunity to make this statement; while we are in the process of recovering from an operational disruption,” the airline said in a prepared statement. “While this winter storm was worse than forecasted, this rhetoric is commonplace in airlines going through contract negotiations with their pilot group.” Stranded travelers slumped around DIA, some exasperated, many scrambling to adjust plans. For many, the cancellations meant paying out more money than expected. On Sunday, Frontier spokesman Richard Oliver said the company would not provide food or accommodations for stranded travelers. “Weather-related delays do not require compensation or rooms overnight,” Oliver said. “The same would apply with any other airline. When it is weather-related, we are not required, nor is it in the contract, to provide food.”