Frontier Airlines (FRON) , a budget airline that found a market flying to smaller destinations often left behind by mainstream carriers, repeatedly flirted with the idea of serving West Coast cities Boise and Spokane.
The Denver-based carrier last flew to the Idaho capital in 2019, while flights to Spokane in Washington State ran throughout the 2010s before being discontinued in 2014, brought back for a few seasonal schedules, and then scrapped for good in 2021.
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New Frontier flights cover Boise, Spokane, Austin and others
This week, Frontier announced it is once again putting these two cities on the network with two new routes from its Denver hub. Both are part of 14 new flights that Frontier is launching for its summer 2025 schedule.
The flight from Denver to Boise Airport (BOI) will launch on May 15 and run three times a week while the one to Spokane International Airport (GEG) will follow five days later with a May 20 launch.
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"There is strong demand for ultra-low fare travel options in and out of Boise, and we are thrilled to make our return to BOI," Frontier's Vice President of Network and Operations Design Josh Flyr said in a statement.
Other new routes announced by the airline include flights to Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) from Miami and Philadelphia Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE) from Boston and Nashville. DC residents will also get a new holiday flight to San Juan in Puerto Rico with a new flight from Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) launching on May 22.
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There will also be a new route to Puerto Rico's Aguadilla from Miami International Airport (MIA). The new routes are part of Frontier's efforts to maximize flights that travelers habitually take during the summer period; at the end of December, it made a series of flight cuts from cities such as Dallas, Atlanta and New York's LaGuardia Airport. Flights to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL) from Grand Rapids, Minneapolis-St. Paul and New Orleans will all stop running this upcoming spring.
New flights introduced with $29 tickets
To promote the flights it just launched, Frontier is offering promotional fares that start at $29 for routes like Denver-Spokane, Denver-Boise and Cleveland-Nashville. There is also a $19 fare for a flight between Phoenix and Las Vegas.
To take advantage, customers need to buy a ticket before 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time of February 24 for travel between May 15 and August 18. The price does not include any taxes and airport fees or features such as baggage and seat selection for which one would need to pay separately.
There are also blackout dates for popular periods: May 22-23 and 26, June 28 and 29, and July 3 and 5 to 6. The new routes are already available for booking on Frontier's website; one can search for specific dates at the promotional fare.
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"With new affordable travel options across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico — which join our already expansive network — budget-savvy consumers will be able to do and see more for less with Frontier this year," Flyr said further.
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