{"id":50262,"date":"2015-05-03T15:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T21:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/no-i-wont-be-flying-frontier-any-time-soon.html"},"modified":"2015-05-04T15:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-04T21:43:22","slug":"no-i-wont-be-flying-frontier-any-time-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/no-i-wont-be-flying-frontier-any-time-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"No, I won&#039;t be flying Frontier any time soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pleased their employees still have jobs, but there&#39;s nothing in their ultra-low-cost business model that makes traveling with them at all attractive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/m.bizjournals.com\/denver\/morning_call\/2015\/04\/ceo-frontier-airlines-flies-from-verge-of.html?ana=twt&#038;r=full'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/S9hjfi_9EU3LIy53a_kqvSKZgEQeKqgqy-6ehjIjbBE49HeGhiIwrwBcY4hrKrdllNJkGQy5t96fMfVsTZb6LG81v6EPLsjnk2xN_owlCiqgn2kV7yffu_2krvSVq6uhphEakNYfxKQc=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/m.bizjournals.com\/denver\/morning_call\/2015\/04\/ceo-frontier-airlines-flies-from-verge-of.html?ana=twt&#038;r=full'>EXCLUSIVE: Frontier Airlines CEO on flight from &#8216;verge of extinction&#8217; to profitability; push to cut complaints &#8211; Denver Business Journal<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nFrontier Airlines turned a profit in 2014 under its new ultra-low-cost fare model, an accomplishment that will allow the Denver-based carrier to boost salaries for key employees and, its leaders hope, help turn back the onslaught of complaints that have overwhelmed it in recent months.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/HD38is6b7Dp'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleased their employees still have jobs, but there&#39;s nothing in their ultra-low-cost business model that makes traveling with them at all attractive. EXCLUSIVE: Frontier Airlines CEO on flight from &#8216;verge of extinction&#8217; to profitability; push to cut complaints &#8211; Denver Business Journal Frontier Airlines turned a profit in 2014 under its new ultra-low-cost fare model, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/03\/no-i-wont-be-flying-frontier-any-time-soon.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;No, I won&#039;t be flying Frontier any time soon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,46,717],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-school-daze","category-traveling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131098,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/frontier-tries-to-make-flying-with-family-slightly-less-stressful-awful.html","url_meta":{"origin":50262,"position":0},"title":"Frontier tries to make flying with family slightly less stressful, awful","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Jul-16 12:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Frontier Airlines has been going to a \"pay us extra if you actually want to buy seats next to each other\" model (also a \"pay extra if you want an window or aisle seat\" model), with the idea that anything that makes people pay extra as a separate charge lets\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/553acfce-8e38-4dd4-b669-7458377fc8e7imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/553acfce-8e38-4dd4-b669-7458377fc8e7imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/553acfce-8e38-4dd4-b669-7458377fc8e7imgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27303,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/glad-we-got-our-cookies-when-we-did.html","url_meta":{"origin":50262,"position":1},"title":"Glad we got our cookies when we did","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Apr-12 9:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Frontier Airlines had been serving warm chocolate chips to all passengers as part of their longer flights (e.g., California to Denver) since their merger with Midwest Airlines (which was about the only thing from Midwest Airlines that anyone appreciated). 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