Frontier Airlines Continues Aggressive Expansion With 22 More Routes

Frontier Airlines unveiled it will be adding another 22 routes this year, including starting service to Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean for the first time.

The announcement of more new routes comes less than two weeks after the ULCC revealed a 20-route expansion. The airline is aggressively broadening its network as rival ULCC Spirit Airlines pulls out of markets after entering Chapter 11 restructuring for the second time following an emergence from bankruptcy protection earlier this year. Spirit is exiting 11 markets by early October. 

“We are on a mission to increase service domestically and internationally,” says Josh Flyr, Frontier's vice president of network and operations design.

The airline will open service to Providenciales International Airport (PLS) in the Turks and Caicos from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) from Dec. 20. The all-Airbus A320 operator will fly the route once weekly.

Service to PLS is just one of seven new routes from ATL revealed by Frontier. From Dec. 13, the carrier will fly once weekly between ATL and Nassau in the Bahamas, a market Frontier does not currently serve, but to which it has operated in the past. Other new routes from ATL include once-weekly service beginning in December to St. Maarten in the Caribbean and to Mexican destinations Puerto Vallarta and San José del Cabo.

The carrier will also start domestic routes from ATL to Memphis starting Nov. 20 and to Milwaukee starting Dec. 19. Both routes will be flown twice weekly.

Other highlights of Frontier's latest network announcement include services to Guatemala City, Guatemala, from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and Orlando International Airport (MCO) starting in late December. Both DFW and MCO will also see new Frontier flights to San Salvador, El Salvador, launching in December.

San Salvador will also be served by Frontier from Miami and Washington Dulles airports starting in December.