{"id":96069,"date":"2023-11-09T17:29:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelbaseonline.com\/?p=96069"},"modified":"2023-11-09T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T17:29:03","slug":"frontier-airlines-will-establish-a-crew-base-in-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelbaseonline.com\/transport\/frontier-airlines-will-establish-a-crew-base-in-cleveland\/","title":{"rendered":"Frontier Airlines will establish a crew base in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"
Frontier Airlines will open a crew base at Cleveland Hopkins Airport in March.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Cleveland will join the discount carrier’s existing bases in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, Tampa and Trenton, N.J.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Currently, Frontier flies 17 routes from Cleveland, having more than doubled its passenger capacity there over the past year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The carrier expects to employ up to 110 pilots, 250 flight attendants and 50 aircraft maintenance personnel in Cleveland within a year of the base opening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adding a new base will help with Frontier’s plans to increase it’s out-and-back flying to nearly 90% of its network by the spring, up from the current 50%. Frontier spokeswoman Jennifer De La Cruz said a Cleveland base had been in consideration before that plan evolved.<\/p>\n
By flying more out-and-back routes as opposed to sending aircraft on more complex point-to-point itineraries, Frontier is hoping to improve operational reliability and cut costs, CEO Barry Biffle said on the carrier’s Q3 earnings call on Oct. 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Point-to-point routings are more exposed to weather-related disruptions than out-and-back schedules that stay confined to one or two regions. And when disruptions occur on out-and-back routes, they don’t reverberate as much across an airline’s network.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, running an out-and-back network requires more bases than a point-to-point one, since aircraft are returned to the same base nightly.\u00a0<\/p>\n