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znu signal: "Frontier Airlines Plans To Transform Business, Be More Like Ryanair" (but wait, there might be good news here)

Posted by ty97 Oct 30 '23, 12:06

I mean, Frontier already *is* like Ryanair in many ways. But not in how the route their planes.

"By the spring of 2024, Frontier plans to build a significantly more modular network. The idea is that Frontier will base aircraft at specific airports, and then 90%+ of the time, those planes will fly back to the same base each night. This is similar to what you’ll find at most ultra low cost carriers in Europe. What’s the advantage of this?

Frontier has had huge issues with operational reliability, and basing aircraft out of an airport helps with that; that’s because when there are irregular operations, a plane will currently get out of sequence, and then the operation struggles to recover, due to the domino effect of that"

https://onemileatatime.com/news/frontier-airlines-transform-business/ (onemileatatime.com)

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*eye twitches* -- nm - znufrii, vice president Oct 30, 12:19
For what it is worth, we flew Spirit to and Frontier back from Vegas. Direct flights. No complaints, with them. Having ONE runway functioning in Vegas - Spawn Oct 30, 12:11 5
- Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant, etc are big in places like Vegas and Orlando (or Sanford for Allegiant) flying to all kinds of medium and small cities. - ty97 Oct 30, 12:15
- Ill do Spirit for the short flight 40min from here. Vegas in transition due to F1 and other projects ongoing, hack, etc -- nm* - budice Oct 30, 12:12
- wow, so Amy's not even worth $40 to you after 20 years? wow -- nm - hollywood big shot Oct 30, 12:12 2
  - She paid for room and flight, I paid for Sphere and food. -- nm - Spawn Oct 30, 12:17 1
    - lol that makes much more sense - hollywood big shot Oct 30, 12:18
Has anyone flown Allegiant? Where do they fit on the customer service/experience spectrum? -- nm - psilotum Oct 30, 12:11 7
- We flew them. It was fine for a short flight. -- nm - spamlet Oct 30, 12:20
- I have not, some family have. They are a Ryanair equivalent, even down to the way they fly to secondary airports sometimes. - ty97 Oct 30, 12:13 4
  - Like for example, if you fly Allegiant to 'Orlando' you are not flying to the Orlando airport. Same with Tampa. -- (edited) - ty97 Oct 30, 12:16 3
    - In STL they fly to the airport by the air base over in IL and they’re the only ones that fly there. -- nm - spamlet Oct 30, 12:20 1
      - And I think they fly to Rockford for 'Chicago'. They don't only fly to secondary airports, but it's definitely part of their thing. -- (edited) - ty97 Oct 30, 12:39
    - Some people pay a lot of money to jump out o a plane. Into the 'glades. -- nm - Spawn Oct 30, 12:18
- Lower end -- nm - budice Oct 30, 12:11

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