BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11135 posts, RR: 61 Posted (11 years 4 months 6 days ago) and read 1033 times:
What do you think will be the future of Frontier JetExpress?
They already announced they'd serve 3 times daily service to San Jose (SJC) and 2 times daily to Houston which would supplement the Frontier's current service.
That's all they announced so far. Do you think we'll see much more? If so, what?
Mesa Air is planning on basing 5 CRJ200ERs in Denver for Frontier JetExpress.
I hope we see a livery on them.
Great Lakes Airlines is putting scenic images on its tail because of its partnership with Frontier.
Regards
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Jmc1975 From Israel, joined Sep 2000, 3162 posts, RR: 17 Reply 1, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 963 times:
More than likely, we will see Mesa (Frontier JetExpress) add service to secondary markets through its Denver hub to such cities as Tucson, Boise, Spokane, Wichita, Des Moines, Colorado Springs and Oklahoma City. They probably feed Frontier with the same proportion of flights as they (America West Express) does for America West.
JonnyGT From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 241 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 902 times:
America West recently began flying one 732 to Des Moine each day because the loads were becoming huge on Mesa's CRJs. Do you believe Frontier will begin service to Des Moines?
BH346 From United States of America, joined Jan 2000, 3265 posts, RR: 17 Reply 4, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 896 times:
Hope they fly to Wichita. I think there's a good chance. The city's been talking with AirTran, Frontier, and ATA(Doubt that will happen) to start flying here. Local businesses are pledging money to low fare carriers if they come here.
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5280AGL From United States of America, joined Apr 2001, 414 posts, RR: 1 Reply 8, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 864 times:
I think DSM would be a perfect market fit for the RJ's...This is a city that has been screwed over for years by UAL as far as Denver service, high priced, predatory, and increasingly less capacity as time goes on. Therefore, the market loses quite a percentage of passengers going to larger better-served cities cities like Omaha and Kansas City.
ICT? I don't know, I would think that the service would be more sucessful in places like Tulsa, Des Moines and Oklahoma City.
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11135 posts, RR: 61 Reply 10, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 849 times:
Mariner,
I'm really not too sure. I originally heard 5 when they announced it back in September. I guess they decided that Frontier JetExpress would be bigger than they thought, so now they're going to base 7.
Regards
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Mariner From New Zealand, joined Nov 2001, 22722 posts, RR: 88 Reply 11, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 847 times:
BA:
Fair enough. Either way, it isn't bad!
I guess the bigger question on my mind - and a few other people's - is the livery. Will it look like Frontier with the "critters on the tails"? or will it look like Mesa?
BA From United States of America, joined May 2000, 11135 posts, RR: 61 Reply 12, posted (11 years 4 months 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 841 times:
Mariner,
I haven't heard anything about the livery. I am guessing it will have its own livery since Great Lakes Airlines is putting scenic tail images since they code-share with Frontier.
We'll find out soon enough.
Regards
"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran
LoneStarMike From United States of America, joined Jul 2000, 3643 posts, RR: 38 Reply 14, posted (11 years 4 months 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 771 times:
Here's another market that I think would be good for Frontier JetExpress. DAL-DEN.
Now I know you're probably thinking "why would Frontier JetExpress want to serve DAL when Frontier already serves DFW?" Well, for the same reason Continental Express serves DAL and Continental serves DFW. It gives people who live closer to Love Field a choice.
All Frontier JetExpress would have to do would be run 3-4 roundtrips per day to their hub in Denver. From DEN, Love Field passengers could make connections to other points throughout the west. The limitations of the Wright Amendment would not apply in this case, because the first leg of the trip would be on an aircraft with 56 seats or less, so the passenger wouldn't have to buy 2 separate tickets and claim and recheck their luggage in DEN.
This, I think, is why Continental Express' service out of DAL has been so successful. Lots of folks take Continental Express to either IAH or CLE, then connect to other Continental Express/Continental mainline jets to other destinations all on one ticket and without having to claim and recheck luggage.
Not only is Love Field more convenient for a lot of wealthy people in Highland Park, but getting through security would probably take less time than at DFW. Obviously Frontier JetExpress wouldn't be operating out of the West Concourse which is used by Southwest. They most likely would operate out of the North Concourse, where Delta Connection has a handful of flights to ATL, the East Concourse where Continental Express has 12-15 departures a day to IAH and CLE, or Legend's old terminal that no one is using at the present time. Since there's not much traffic out of North Concourse or East Concourse and none out of Legend's terminal, security lines would not be an issue.
If Continental Express can make DAL-CLE work, then I don't see why Frontier JetExpress couldn't make DAL-DEN work.
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