Originally Posted by
BoeingBoy
Actually Frontier's new parent is Republic Air Holdings - they bought both F9 and YX. Republic's various divisions have only provided RJ feed to legacy carriers (UA, DL, and US) in the past and not had any flights under their own name so it's unclear what award benefits they may offer at F9.
YX is effectively disappearing, although the name will still be used. All the flying will be done by F9 and Republic Airlines, the division of Republic that currently operates E170/175's and will be operating the E190's.
All well covered in the Midwest forum. Also well covered is the endless circular argument about "Is YX now Republic, or is Republic now YX?"
As to award availability topic of the thread, as you point out, Republic has never had a FF program, so the only comparison that can be made in the Republic/F9/YX "family" is to Midwest Miles. That program, at least in the past, has had reasonable award availability, which EarlyReturns currently lacks. As one who would like to redeem my EarlyReturns miles, I am hopeful that award availability will become more like the YX brand MidwestMiles (owned, operated, and dictated by Republic), since F9 is now owned by Republic.