This year, I concentrated most of my flying with Frontier in hopes of making Elite by the end of the year. I'm halfway there, but this article sent chills down my spine. Even if I did make Elite this year, odds are Frontier will be in a radically different form in 2012, making the Elite benefits a huge question mark. So, it's off to United. I just pulled out of a F9/AirTran DEN-MKW-BOS roundtrip where I had to connect and booked a DEN-BOS nonstop round trip on United. I know that I won't be able to make Premier this year, but I also know that they will be around next year. As for Frontier, I enjoyed the stretch seating upgrade option, the mostly friendly crews and counter agents (except for that one DEN-ABQ run where the FA was a real -itch) and I even put up with the variable service levels once outside of their DEN hub (LAX and SFO operations leave a lot to be desired.) I hate Southwest enough that it really has to be a last resort before I will hop into Cattle Class. I had really hoped that Frontier would make it, but now it looks like the sun may be ready to set. I feel sorry for the thousands of F9 employees here in the Denver area, but we all live and die by the talents and decisions of our company leadership. In their case, some poor choices were made (or not made) in a very competitive market that were compounded by harsh economic factors. You gave it a good go Frontier!