With the close ties that Republic has with US Airways, it would seem that they would work well together. What has stopped them from becoming partners sooner? If they even want to.
An interesting case would be if Frontier would code share with United, I think this was mentioned in one of the articles. United could pull down DEN a little and focus on their new hubs from CO.
Another interesting twist is if Delta decided to code share with Frontier since announcement of WN is buying FL may have changed some thoughts. Frontier will be able to compete against and put more pressure on WN in MKE. This was also the thought with AirTran but Delta didn't want to deal with Frontier.
If they code share with B6 then an agreement with American would happen as well, one would think anyway. How was the agreement between American and Midwest? How long did that last?
A lot of interesting circumstances and some which could become very beneficial to Frontier.