Frontier Airlines expansion

[loveswdw]

Frontier Airlines fans:

They announced today the largest expansion of routes in their history.
http://www.kten.com/story/35912593/...-low-fares-to-90-percent-of-the-us-population

They also opened their schedule today through the beginning of April 2017.

 

[Dis703]

Thanks! I was waiting for November to open up.

 

[focusondisney]

Yea, saw they are coming to Buffalo on the news yesterday. We still need our return flight so I checked them out. Not impressed. Their Saturday price was over $200 plus seat & luggage fees. If I did the all in price, it would be over $310 for a flight that leaves Orlando at 10 am. That's the same price I could be paying for a SW flight at 9 pm. I'll still wait for SW to drop their price.

If I could fly on a Wednesday & pay $35 plus fees, maybe. Otherwise, nope.

 

[MrsNick]

Thank you! We have good fares for Easter break. Really appreciate it. Was looking at other airlines, including on the airline I travel almost exclusively and I didn't think we were going to be able to go since fares were so expensive.

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

Frontier bought 100 more planes so they can now fly to other cities.

 

[barbliny]

MacArthur Airport on Long Island is 20 minutes from our house. Jumped right on that announcement of expanded routes for Long Island!! I booked yesterday for October to Tampa (was cheaper than MCO, and we actually prefer flying into TPA when going to WDW - and especially after they just announced the MCO tram work).

It was $34 each way!! Granted I elected to pay $15 for extra legroom (figured it was worth the extra $2) and to get aisle seats in the first 3 rows. And one checked bag between the 2 of us for $25. I figure this flight is 'my learning curve' and I can see just how much I can cram into a bag that fits under our the seat - so I can save the baggage fee next time! Those same flights on Southwest would have cost me almost $140 each way.

I think for Florida I still might stick to SWA since I can get deals (have $79 for September) sporadically still - and I'm hoping even more competition from Frontier at MacArthur brings the flights down more. I just love the flexibility in flight changes and price refunding SWA brings to the table.

But, I'm more excited for all of the new non-stop routes from LI on Frontier - New Orleans and Chicago for instance. Southwest has pared the non-stops out of LI to only 1 or 2 flights per day to a few Florida airports - they just kept slashing routes over the years.

 

[wanderlust7]

I booked Tuesday too. Been obsessively checking flights and couldn't believe my eyes when I saw $20 one-way from San Francisco to MCO! Total all-in for the 4 of us with the seat fees and 1 checked bag (we travel light) came to $282. I would have been happy with that price for 1 person!

 

[BuzzLiteyear]

I was excited to see they are coming to Buffalo, that is until I got online and checked their prices. Round trip for us (family of 5) is about $3200! Do their prices fluctuate? Am I missing something? Like I said, I'm completely new to frontier.

 

[focusondisney]

I was excited to see they are coming to Buffalo, that is until I got online and checked their prices. Round trip for us (family of 5) is about $3200! Do their prices fluctuate? Am I missing something? Like I said, I'm completely new to frontier.

I know. I was surprised at the prices too. Looks like if you can fly midweek, they have much better prices. And the flight times aren't even very good. I was hoping if nothing else, it would prompt SW & JB to lower their prices a bit. And that hasn't happened yet either.

 

[loveswdw]

I was excited to see they are coming to Buffalo, that is until I got online and checked their prices. Round trip for us (family of 5) is about $3200! Do their prices fluctuate? Am I missing something? Like I said, I'm completely new to frontier.

Frontier seems to run A LOT of sales and promos. Generally, their prices get better the closer you are to your trip. Here's what they are running currently.

As you can see, you book by 7/21 and travel must be completed by 8/16. That's not a long window for a sale price. Most people I know have booked their flights WELL in advance.

 

[wanderlust7]

For the SFO-MCO $20 flights I bought, it's for October, so not really a busy time I don't think. It was available all days of the week for the week I was looking at. I think they only allocated 5 seats each flight at that price because after I booked our 4 seats and went back to look, it said only 1 left.

The flight to MCO is a red-eye, which I really didn't want, but I'll do it to save $700!