Frontier Airlines to end seasonal flights to/from St. Augustine

Frontier Airlines recently announced it will end its seasonal flights from St. Augustine to Chicago and Philadelphia in October 2016. The airline operates all its flights to St. Augustine from these two destinations. The service on both the routes would be resumed in spring. The airline is however yet to announce the spring schedule and confirm the date on which the service would resume.

Media reports said that the changed schedules would be impacting other markets as well. Frontier Airlines has also said that it would be dropping nonstop flights to San Antonio, Milwaukee, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Nashville, Chicago, Ohio, Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati during the winter season by October end.

Frontier Airlines will however continue to operate flights from Philadelphia to ten other destinations, which includes Jamaica, Punta Cana, New Orleans, Tampa, Miami, Orlando, Cancun, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Texas and Austin.

Jim Faulkner, Spokesman of Frontier Airlines, said, “The changes in the routes are at best only seasonal adjustments. The company is yet to take a decision on the flights to be resumed next spring. Our endeavor is first to assess market performance and accordingly identify the best places to continue operations. Moreover, the airline's practice is also to switch aircrafts flying from cold weather destinations to those to warm ones during the winter. The airline also traditionally flies to cold winter destinations during the summer months.”

Apart from Philadelphia and Chicago, Frontier Airlines has also said that it would be discontinuing seasonal flights to Detroit from Trenton-Mercer Airport in January next year. The airline has indicated that it will conduct its flights services to Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Tampa, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale from Trenton-Mercer Airport this winter.

Frontier Airlines is renowned for offering cheap airfares. The airline aggressively markets itself using the slogan “Low Fares Done Right”, thereby meaning that the base fares currently offered are 50 to 70 percent lower than “industry average” ticket prices provided on major airlines.