Frontier Airlines

Airline Offers Hometown Beers

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

DENVER (AP) — Frontier Airlines is asking passengers which Colorado beers to feature each month on its flights. This month's choice i...

GADLING: Frontier Drops Signature Chocolate Chip Cookie

Gadling | McLean Robbins | Posted 04.05.2012

Frontier Airlines will stop serving complimentary chocolate chip cookies as of May 1. While this news may be good for our waistline, we're sad to see ...

What's Next For Frontier? CEO Has Some Ideas..

AP | By SAMANTHA BOMKAMP and JOSHUA FREED | Posted 02.08.2012

NEW YORK -- The chief executive at Republic Airways Holdings Inc. says he's trying to make the airline's money-losing Frontier Airlines unit more like...

A New Frontier For Old Partnership

Posted 01.27.2012

After Republic Airways Holdings purchased Frontier Airlines out of bankruptcy in 2009, Denver's home-grown airline had to relocate its headquarters to...

A Clear-Headed Response To A Dizzying Flight

Christine Negroni | Posted 01.11.2012

Christine Negroni

Passengers on Frontier Airlines Flight 787 were startled when the oxygen masks dropped as the airplane was cruising above the Rocky Mountains at 36,000 feet last month...

UPDATE: Frontier Shedding 100 Jobs In Denver

AP | JOSHUA FREED | Posted 01.08.2012

By JOSHUA FREED, Associated Press Frontier Airlines could soon be up for sale. Known to travelers as the airline with pictures of animals on the...

Passenger: I Was Strip-Searched Over My 'Appearance'

AP | JEFF KAROUB | Posted 11.13.2011

DETROIT — An Ohio woman said Tuesday that she endured nearly four hours in police custody that included being forced off an airplane in handcuff...

Frontier Flight Attendants Ratify Labor Contract

Posted 10.30.2011

In a rare bit of good news for the struggling airline, Frontier flight attendants have ratified their first contract with the carrier, The Denver Post...

Frontier Coming Home To Roost?

Posted 10.02.2011

Frontier Airlines just flew the coop. Or, given the context, should that be 'coup?' Company officials there recently told the Denver Post the compan...

Frontier's Hail Damage Woes May Finally Be Behind Them

AP | Posted 09.21.2011

DENVER -- Frontier Airlines says it expects to return to normal service including a full schedule on Saturday after repairing planes that were damaged...

Frontier Continues To Struggle With Hail Damage

AP | Posted 09.19.2011

DENVER — Frontier Airlines has canceled 15 more flights because of a hail storm in Denver that damaged many of its planes last week, but expects...

Frontier Faces More Hail Woes

AP | Posted 09.17.2011

DENVER -- Frontier Airlines is canceling more flights at Denver International Airport because of hail damage to its airplanes. Spokesman Peter Kowalc...

Hail Damage Cancels More United Flights At DIA

AP | Posted 09.17.2011

DENVER — United Airlines canceled 13 more departures from Denver International Airport on Sunday while it inspected airplanes for damage from la...

Another 96 Flights Canceled Following 'Golf Ball-Sized Hail' In Denver

AP | Posted 09.15.2011

DENVER — Frontier Airlines has announced more flight cancellations through Monday after golf ball-sized hail at Denver International Airport too...

One-Third Of Frontier's Plane Fleet Damaged

AP | BY COLLEEN SLEVIN | Posted 09.14.2011

DENVER — Dozens more flights had to be canceled at Denver International Airport Friday as airlines continued to deal with the fallout from a hai...

UPDATE: Frontier Apologizes For Forcing Quadriplegic Man Off Flight

AP/Reuters | Posted 08.20.2011

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- A quadriplegic Colorado man says he was humiliated after he was forced off a Frontier Airlines plane because a pilot said it wa...

Airport Workers Honored For Stopping Alleged Rape

AP | By SHEILA V KUMAR | Posted 08.14.2011

DENVER -- Two aircraft mechanics who came to the aid of a woman they thought was being raped at Denver International Airport say they don't consider t...

Republic Aims To Give Up Control Of Money-Losing Frontier Airlines

AP | By JOSHUA FREED | Posted 08.14.2011

-- Republic Airways plans to shrink its ownership of money-losing Frontier Airlines to a minority stake by the end of 2014 under an agreement with Fr...

A Ride in the Cockpit of an Airbus A318

Peter Mandel | Posted 06.18.2011

Peter Mandel

The flakes have mushroomed into a blizzard. We reach 'decision' speed (where there is not enough runway left to stop) and this is the second that Cavender tells me that our number two engine is out.

Frontier Airlines Launches 5-Day Winter Sale

Denver Business Journal | Mark Harden | Posted 05.25.2011

Frontier Airlines launched a five-day sale for winter flights Monday, with one-way fares from Denver starting at $39. Tickets must be purchased by ...

Frontier Airlines Flight At Denver International Airport

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

DENVER — Medics have met a Frontier Airlines flight at the Denver airport after a child on board was reported to potentially have a contagious d...

Frontier Airlines To Launch New Route From Denver To Costa Rica

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

DENVER — Frontier Airlines will begin seasonal service to Liberia, Costa Rica starting Feb. 13 of next year. Liberia is about four hours northw...

Airline Work, Not as Easy at TV Makes It Seem

Christine Negroni | Posted 05.25.2011

Christine Negroni

Afraid of forgetting to watch Sunday night's profile of Frontier Airlines by Undercover Boss, I set an alarm. Ends up, you just can't reduce commercial aviation to a made-for-TV format. It's just too big for that.

Frontier Airlines Extends Denver Headquarters Lease Through 2020

Denver Business Journal | Mark Harden | Posted 05.25.2011

Frontier Airlines said Monday it has extended the lease on its Denver headquarters building to 2020. The airline, which since last October has been...

Frontier Airlines' "Political-Style" Ad

Claire Walter | Posted 05.25.2011

Claire Walter

Innuendo, partial truths and omissions are nothing new in political advertising, but in a newspaper ad for an airline? Yes indeed.