Frontier Airlines announced new seasonal flights to their second non-stop destination between their low-fare hub of Denver to Alaska.   Frontier will begin flights to Fairbanks, Alaska four times weekly on Airbus A319 aircraft between May and September. 

This new Alaska service will complement current seasonal fligths Frontier operates between Denver and Anchorage.  Also this week in [...]

The airlines continue to struggle to fill planes and keep fares high enough to make money.  October saw low-cost airlines continue to post traffic and capacity increases with AirTran, Allegiant, and JetBlue the only carriers that grew in size and traffic. 

Allegiant continues to grow at very strong rates.  Allegiant Air is a low-cost model airline [...]

Southwest Airlines yesterday launched their first flights to the mid-west city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  Southwest becomes the third low-cost carrier to make Milwaukee a target of their expansion plans.  Midwest Airlines that calls Milwaukee home, continues to have strong market share at the airport and AirTran has grown dramatically in Milwaukee over the last year [...]

Frontier Airlines has emerged today from Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection as a wholly owned subsidiary of Republic Airways of Indianapolis.  The regional operator Republic now owns both Frontier and Midwest, as well as Mokulele Airlines in Hawaii.  These stand-alone airlines are in addition to Republics largest operation flying regional planes for network airlines such as [...]

AirTran today announced yet another Caribbean destination to its network by linking both Atlanta and Orlando to Aruba.  The new flights will begin in December and will operate on Saturdays only.  This new service is in addition to other Caribbean additions just announced last week – Nassau, The Bahamas and Montego Bay, Jamaica.  AirTran already operates to [...]