Fallout: Frontier axes one-third of the Milwaukee flights

Frontier’s fallout … moody cuts out of Milwaukee

Word out of Frontier Airlines is that a conduit is slicing about a third of a flights from Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport come November.

“[Frontier] told us that they will be going from approximately 67 flights a day about 46 departures per day,” confirms the airport’s spokeswoman, Pat Rowe.

Rowe says Frontier is axing Milwaukee flights to Green Bay, Milwaukee flights to Madison, Milwaukee flights to Des Moines, Milwaukee flights to Dayton, Milwaukee flights to Cleveland, and Milwaukee flights to Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Frontier uses smaller informal jets on these routes.

Three of a 6 runs Frontier is expelling now suffer no competition. That means, unless another conduit stairs in, Green Bay (106 miles away), Madison (73 miles distance), and Dayton (293 miles away) will be bereft of nonstop flights to Milwaukee. People will possibly have to drive, or make connectors around another airline.

On a other 3 routes Frontier is doing divided with out of MKE there are alternatives. Discount airline AirTran offers nonstop Milwaukee flights to Des Moines around full-size Boeing 717-200s. Continental Express employs Brazilian-built Embraer Regional Jets on Milwaukee flights to Cleveland, while Delta Air Lines, Delta Connection, and AirTran offer nonstop Milwaukee flights to Minneapolis/St. Paul.

When a dirt settles, and fliers have possibly requisitioned swap airlines or taken to a highway, Frontier’s share of a Milwaukee marketplace will be significantly diminished. Rowe says that, as of Aug. 2011, a conduit had 30.17 percent of a pie. AirTran had a 31.12 percent share.

In a grander brush of things Frontier’s downsizing of Milwaukee is demonstrative of what’s function all opposite a country. The economics – definition fuel costs – of drifting sub-50-seat informal jets mostly describe routes reduction viable for a airlines. Rowe says Frontier told Milwaukee officials that cutbacks were “entirely income and profitability driven.”

What’s your take on this latest airline pullback? Has your hometown been strike by moody cutbacks? Let us know.

Story by Jerry Chandler

(Image: Andy on Flickr)

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