Frontier Airlines

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I still think Frontier will eventually go broke
While they seem generally competent in flying their planes, Frontier doesn't do much else with.competence. My flight to Florida this Saturday morning was moved to Saturday evening,, which fortunately did not upset me much given my open schedule (and the fact that I was only paying $29, with no other alternative at anything close to that price point). After the schedule change, I periodically looked for a lower fare, given that sone other days we're (insanely) only $19! Curiously, though, the flight was consistently much more expensive than all their other flights this week, even though it was scheduled at a very off peak time.

I had the usual Gold elite problem of assigning myself an exit row seat at check in, and had to use chat to get it done. Before going to the airport, I checked to see where my plane was. To my surprise, it was scheduled to sit at the gate for 8 hours before the flight. I cannot understand why any airline with available equipment would wait to fly Saturday night instead of Saturday morning to Forida. Moreover, the fight was only one third full, undoubtedly due to the unpopular flight time and the unusually high fares they were charging. They then made several passengers unhappy by moving them to the back off the airplane for weight and balance, after they had paid to sit further forward.

The final annoyance was a maintenance delay to put oil in the APU, even though the plane had sat around all day.

I do not believe an airline with this level of incompetence -- especially with revenue management and scheduling -- can possibly survive. This business is just too hard for such nonsense, especially since Frontier is poorly positioned for the current trend favoring more premium air travel .

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