I thought Frontier flew to Jackson, WY, but I can't find fares or award options from DAY-JAC during winter months, or summer months. But, I can from DEN-JAC, but only for Summer months. Does Frontier not fly to JAC in winter, is it a seasonal operation? If so, why is it that I can only find flights from DEN and not find something from DAY?

http://www.frontierairlines.com/fron...g-timetable.do

look on travelocity 6 or so airlines inc frontier, looked at feb & mar dates....price <$500 rt from day...

No Frontier in JAC in winter, so that's the issue there. Sites like Travelocity may show Frontier as avaialble on a trip like DAY-JAC but when you click it, you'll see you're on Frontier from DAY-DEN and then somebody else DEN-JAC.

Come summer, Frontier is in JAC. But...the DAY-DEN-JAC trip is a connection of over 4 hours, and that is considered a stopover (not a connection) on most airlines. They will sell you JAC-DEN-DAY one way since that is a shorter connection.


DAY-DEN-JAC
Arr from Dayton 7:24amDep for Jackson Hole 12:15pm

JAC-DEN-DAY
Arr from Jackson Hole 3:40pm
Dep for Dayton 7:10pm

What you can do is book it as a multi-city trip with three separate segments. Let's say you want to go out on 6/16 and return 6/23

DAY-DEN for June 16
DEN-JAC for June 16 (same day)
JAC-DAY for June 23

Paying the separate-segment fares means your DAY-DEN + DEN-JAC trip is two separate tickets, but Jackson is so expensive (in the $500 r/t range no matter who you take from Dayton) that $50 is a pretty small percentage difference.

So...if you want to fly Frontier into JAC in summer from Dayton, just book it as a multi-leg trip and it will work just fine.

I'm curious... DAY - DEN then DEN to JAC with a 4 hour stop over considered seperate segments, will the OP have to claim luggage and recheck?

Likely not...the ticket agent will likely check the bag on to Jackson Hole even though they are separate tickets and separate PNR's.

Kind of like when you interline. Let's say you're flying DEN-DFW and Frontier and then DFW-BHM on American, Separate tickets and itineraries, but F9 and AA have an interline agreement. So if you show the F9 agent that you're connecting on, they will check your bags through to the final destination.

Similar thing here, except that it's a connection from on F9 itin to another F9 itin.

F9 passengers may only check bags with a CSA within 4 hours of scheduled flight departure time. If a passenger buys two separate one way tickets the CSA will not see a connection at time of check-in due to the separate PNR's. If the connection time is less than 4 hours the bag may be checked through if the passenger provides documentation, such as a printed confirmation that they are holding a confirmed seat on a later F9 connecting flight or valid interline carrier. Any connection time greater than 4 hours requires bags to be claimed and rechecked at the ticket counter for the connecting flight.

Maybe that's what the policy says, but last year I, and two traveling companions, had a 7-hour interline connection between F9 and HA in LAS with separate tickets, PNR's, and the whole shebang of baggage (clubs for the man, shoes for the lady, and toys for the kids. No... we do not travel light on spring break).

Wasn't a problem at all upon check-in at DEN with F9. We showed them our HA itineraries and they checked our 6 bags all the way through to LNY via LAS and HNL. Everything arrived just fine and dandy.

I would be shocked if an F9 check-in agent refused to check the OP's baggage all of the way through to JAC, especially if all of the flights are on F9, regardless of the connection time. Hopefully, common sense would prevail in this situation.

It'll be checked all the way through. No problemo.

There's no reason to book it as seperate tickets or pnr's. Just book it as a mult-city itenarary. If you have book seperatly you run the risk of a misconnect at your expense.

You can book the simple round trip on Travelocity.

Through fares are only for flights that connect within 4 hours. If there is more than 4 hour layover, the computer will price point to point fares, and add taxes on each segment. At checkin, the computer will automatically check the bags to the final destination provided flights are the same DAY ( can be more than 4 hours) and provided all travel is in the same passenger name record (PNR).

Why is IND-JAC not available, period, after June 12?

Dates after June 12 are greyed out, even for revenue, so it's not just awards being blocked. What doesn't make sense is there's a layover in Denver, and the DEN-JAC flight continues to operate after June 12. And IND-DEN certainly isn't going anywhere. So why is Frontier not allowing end to end?

Just look at the IND-DEN flight times in comparison to the DEN-JAC flight times and you'll see the issue.

Starting June 12 IND-DEN runs twice daily, and most days the flights arrive Denver at about 4:15pm and 8:10pm, but the DEN-JAC flight leaves Denver at 3:45pm. The return doesn't work either -- the flight from JAC arrived DEN at 7:05pm, but the DEN-IND flights leave Denver at 10:30am and 2:30pm.

Frontier generally seems to be focusing more on local traffic over connections, which means somewhat fewer frequencies and flights not as timed for connections. That means some city pairs won't exist that used to.

Thanks, that certainly explains it. I do wonder why they didn't space out the times more. Rather than 4pm and 8pm arrivals, why not say, 2pm and 8pm, or 10am and 4pm.