Frontier CEO Barry Biffle is betting on the ULCC model to win—pushing back against a notion that a cost convergence could sound a death knell for the category.
Frontier Airlines will start service to 12 new destinations from Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) in May, including Chicago, Detroit and Indianapolis.
An event-saturated January followed a year not short on its own challenges, and during recent earnings calls airlines projected which issues might spill over.
A weak or failed Spirit is just as much a threat to price-conscious consumers’ ability to fly and enjoy low fares as a merger with JetBlue Airways would be.
Frontier, which operates 14 nonstop routes from SJU, expects to base as many as 90 pilots and 200 flight attendants at the airport within a year of its opening.
The average emissions of Alaska Airlines, Frontier Airlines, JetBlue Airways, and Spirit Airlines are notably lower than the average emissions of the Big Four.