Mark Belling (local Milwaukee conservative talker on the radio) went off on Frontier in the first 30 minutes of his show today.

He is a blowhard, but he makes some sense in the situation he is talking about...He is trying to go to New Jersey on Saturday and there is seat availability on the saturday morning flight for a one-way price of ~$500 to Newark...He claims to have 225K frequent flyer miles and offered to give them whatever amount of miles they wanted for a seat on that flight and they refused saying that they couldnt make any offers to him.

He mentions that he used to fly Midwest all the time and they would always try to accommodate him (make an attempt), but he used this situation as an example of why Frontier is going down the crapper and cutting a deal for the pilots to buy most of it from Republic.

Click on Hour 1 Part 1 podcast tonight after 7pm Central to listen to his comments...The guy makes some sense about why Airtran was beating Frontier (he is extremely unhappy about Southwest buying Airtran and calls them the worst airline ever).

http://www.belling.com/cc-common/podcast.html