Friday night I flew on F9 1219, AUS-DEN, on an E90 (1-2 seating in STRETCH). Flight was nothing extraordinary...used Gogo 'net access inflight...but we ended up at gate A60 in Denver. So we disembarked via a ramp onto the pavement, rather than taking a jetway to a standard gate. Was definitely different from usual...I've never ground-loaded/unloaded at DEN before...though the weather that night was temperate enough.

Anyway, has anyone else run into flights operated by Frontier or Republic, on larger aircraft (E90s or Airbii), where you've used the high-numbered A concourse gates normally reserved for Great Lakes? Is this happening because Spirit and Southwest are taking gate space originally apportioned to Frontier, or some other reason?