You must have not flown Frontier before to consider them a "rinky dink" airline. As many others have said, the plans are newer, clean and are far better than any of the other airlines I have flown on except Midwest.

As far as buying tickets, I bought my tickets for my trips on April 21st and May 11th two days after they filed chapter 11. I can't tell you if they will close their doors in the end, but I am not worried about it in the short term.

In terms of personal experience I have had with Frontier, if they can't make it, I don't know how any of the airlines can. The flights are great every time and every time I have called customer service, I couldn't ask for nicer or more polite people to deal with.

I have over 20K true flown miles with them so far this year so I am not basing my opinion on a single flight.