Originally Posted by frugal_flyer

Yes, this a real wildcard. Frontier is basically a carbon copy of Spirit. Though they actually fare worse in several metrics compared to Spirit, it was Spirit that was fodder for memes and late night jokes. In an era without camera phones and Youtube, this would not have happened.

The one saving grace Frontier has is that they still serve major airports. Allegiant, Breeze, Avelo, don't. Other than Allegiant at LAS, they don't have any scale anyway.

Though I am very pro-Frontier because they work for *me*, they definitely don't work for many people. The occasional flyer or someone used to the legacies is not going to know how to make Frontier work for them. From reading the Southwest forum after the Elliot Investment Group onslaught, I saw where a few people looked into trying Frontier. Good for them. But I also saw others who said, basically, "Absolutely not". Frontier is going to eventually have to get some of these "absolutely nots" to fly with them. They are trying, it seems, with the promotions. This Iran brouhaha couldn't have happened at a worse possible time for them.

Although it should be obvious that the DEN airport incident had nothing to do with them, I hope people don't link the incident to Frontier in their minds.

Aside from my loyalty to F9, I want them to succeed just so there's some lower fare choices. A world with the legacies and the limited ULCC coverage would be a nightmare IMHO.