Originally Posted by
wahooflyer
As part of their acceptance of CARES Act funding and the requirement to serve some markets, Frontier is resuming service to some of the airports they had briefly dropped. I have only looked at SRQ - where oddly they now have a "milk run" - 1x daily or less than daily, I don't remember - that comes in from MCO and departs to ORD. Neither destination was previously served nonstop by F9 at SRQ. The previous flights from SRQ to TTN, CLE, CVG and PHL are all gone.
Anyone have an updated systemwide schedule for Frontier?
Ha! Good luck finding a "systemwide" schedule from Frontier.
But, yes, the DOT seemed to issue a "mean" ruling that is requiring the low fare airlines to serve all their communities even if there is basically zero demand. I read that Spirit is now having to restart service to 24 destinations! Seems nuts to me, but the gov't is enforcing the letter of the law. Not sure what happens if the route was only being flown 3x/week. Are they still required to operate 3x? Obviously, there's no prohibition of just doing linear milk runs. There's going to be some crazy flight schedules operating during the next month.