Frontier Airlines discontinuing service at Colorado Springs Airport Friday

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Frontier Airways is discontinuing service on the Colorado Springs Airport on Friday.

11 Information spoke with airport officers, who report Frontier Airways makes up about 5% of service, with flights solely to Phoenix and Las Vegas. This announcement initially got here again in early September.

“The airways make these selections. We aren’t at all times clued in onto what which means or what selections they’re making. The trade has had quite a lot of change since covid, so there’s been gasoline points, pilot shortages, staffing points, so it might be quite a lot of totally different factor,” mentioned Senior Public Communications Specialist Dana Schield.

Nonstop service to Phoenix and Las Vegas from Colorado Springs remains to be accessible by means of Southwest Airways.

Again in September, Frontier Airways gave 11 Information this assertion:

“We periodically assessment and replace our routes based mostly on demand, seasonality, and different components. We proceed to supply service to a variety of locations all through the U.S. and internationally from Denver. We worth our partnership with Colorado Springs Municipal Airport and can proceed to guage a possible return sooner or later sooner or later.”

Airport officers don’t anticipate main impacts to vacationers on account of this variation. Frontier’s final day of service in Colorado Springs is Friday, November 4th.

“Our air service group simply met with an excellent quantity of carriers as quickly as a pair weeks in the past, in order that’s one thing that’s at all times steady… That’s necessary to notice that even with the adjustments in service, COS is continually working with carriers to assist broaden our service,” mentioned Schield.

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