Originally Posted by
iahphx
This is the fundamental problem with flying Frontier. Are you willing to take the risk of "being completely on your own" if your flight gets cancelled? Would you put friends and family on a Frontier flight knowing they could get stranded without good options? I'm not a huge fan of government regulation, but my experience today begs for some sort of consumer protection. Frontier, of course, will claim the cancellation was due to "weather."
Often1 brings up the lack of interlining. Frontier's lack of frequency on many airport pairs - and lack of well-developed hub-and-spoke system to offer alternatives - shouldn't be a mystery to anyone with 17 years on FT.
American Airlines briefly used an ad tag maybe a decade ago:
A great low fare and a lot more airline.
It's not strictly an LCC problem nor Frontier problem. Delta has served a number of Caribbean destinations just one a day or even just once a week. Delta isn't going to put you on American if they have a mechanical.