Last thing I heard before going on vacation was that they were giving horizon the boot, or something along those lines. Are they honestly interested in the 50 seat market again, or are they just shopping in general? As if it wasn't obvious enough, I'm asking for personal reasons, I'd love to see us set camp in Denver.

Dirty

 

I have no idea who you work for, but "us" won't be camping in denver with frontier.

Frontier is establising Lynx, it's own wholly owned regional carrier, and has purchased the 70 seat Q400's for its lynx certificate to fly.

Frontier and Horizon have parted ways. There was a press release not too long ago making it official.

 

I just heard the same thing today from a reserve guy here at the squadron who is with UAL. He said he called to try to get on seat to come to his mil job and they tried to recruit him.. HAHAHAH

 

I know there is info on this already, but does anyone know when they will start operating these AC or in other words start hiring for their new operation?

 

Lynx is separate from their JetExpress brand. In addition to Lynx, which Frontier will own and operate, they have put out an RFP for the operation of 21 RJs presumably to the lowest bidder.

 

Mass confusion...all one can do is speculate at this point. Give it a month. We might not know more, but there'll sure as the world be more rumors floating around the DEN crew rooms.

 

An internal memo at Frontier stated that Lynx would begin service in May of 2007. All 10 Q400s are supposed to be on line by December of 2007.

 

Quote:

denver & the west

Frontier thinking small to go bigger
The airline will buy small turboprops to expand its regional service and stave off Southwest competition.

By Kelly Yamanouchi
Denver Post Staff Writer



Frontier Airlines' parent company is branching out beyond its fleet of jets, buying smaller 74- seat turboprop planes it could fly to places such as Aspen and Jackson Hole, Wyo.

Evergreen-based aviation consultant Mike Boyd said that could give Frontier a competitive advantage over rival Southwest, which has only larger planes.

"These airplanes will give Frontier revenue that Southwest could never dream of getting," he said. "Southwest wants to put Frontier out of business. (Now) that's not going to happen."

Frontier Airlines Holdings Inc. is buying 10 Bombardier Q400 turboprop planes worth $256.8 million. It will operate them through a wholly owned subsidiary and will fly to as many as 18 destinations in Colorado and the Rocky Mountains.

The operation will create 300 to 400 new jobs by the end of 2007, according to the company.

"When you draw a 650-, 700- mile circle around Denver, what we see is a lot of opportunity, but we didn't necessarily have the right aircraft," said Frontier chief executive Jeff Potter. "It gives us the flexibility to serve some of the Colorado mountain destinations that we couldn't otherwise do."

Frontier did not name the cities it will serve but said service could begin as early as May. Boyd said the planes are best used on flights to places such as Aspen, Jackson Hole, Durango, Grand Junction and Billings, Mont.

Frontier also said Wednesday it wants to expand the number of planes in its regional jet partnership from nine to as many as 20.

Its current regional jet carrier is Horizon Air, but Frontier will issue a request for proposals to operate that regional jet fleet to Horizon and other carriers.


End Quote

 

They have job postings for CP and Director of Flight Ops positions on "Climto350.com."

 

Frontier has no idea what it is getting itself into. The Q400 is a maintenance disaster. Yes it can make ALOT of money when it is running, the problem is that the reliability is absolute crap. Also, I have heard from some F9 employees that the pilot group is actually sueing the company for forming the new operation.