Frontier Airways continues to make massive adjustments to its community.
This time, the Denver-based provider slashed eight home routes, as first seen in Cirium schedules and later confirmed by a provider spokesperson. The cuts are far-reaching and contact a number of airports throughout the nation.
You may discover a map of the affected routes beneath, however highlights embrace two flights lower from El Paso, Texas, and two from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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In actual fact, the routes to El Paso simply launched a number of weeks in the past in Might, they usually’re now being lower efficient instantly. After flights from Ontario, California, and San Diego to El Paso are suspended, Frontier will solely serve the Texas metropolis from Denver and Las Vegas.
Frontier’s cuts do not symbolize any market exits for the airline, however the San Juan drawbacks are notable resulting from the truth that the airline operates a base within the Puerto Rican capital.
That mentioned, San Juan has lately turn into the most recent battleground for airline dominance. JetBlue Airways, which has traditionally operated a spotlight metropolis in San Juan, lately introduced that it will double down on service there, because it ceded market share lately to different carriers that entered the market extra lately, together with Frontier and its ultra-low-cost rival Spirit Airways.
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In latest months, Frontier has been shifting from a purely leisure-focused community technique to at least one that touches many extra main metropolitan facilities, together with most notably New York. In actual fact, the airline added two routes from New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) in March, and it simply adopted up with a 3rd route from JFK to Atlanta launching in August.
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This concentrate on going head-to-head with main carriers from their megahubs comes as there’s seemingly been an excessive amount of capability added to cities similar to Orlando and Las Vegas.
Earlier this 12 months, Frontier added a whopping 54 new routes adopted by 17 extra only a few weeks later. It additionally slashed 16 in February, adopted by 14 extra in March.
For its half, Frontier declined to touch upon the route adjustments, with spokesperson Jen de la Cruz saying succinctly that “they’ve been discontinued not less than seasonally.”
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