Frontier Airlines’ fourth daily non-stop Denver-Milwaukee flight from July 1, 2009

Frontier Airlines, the low-cost airline based in Denver, Colorado, the United States, has announced that it will add a fourth daily non-stop flight between Denver and Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin.

The airline will launch the flight during the peak summer season starting from July 1, 2009.

The new flight of Frontier Airlines will take off from Denver at 6.03 a.m. and land in Milwaukee at 9.18 a.m. every day between July 1, 2009, and August 15, 2009, except for Tuesdays and Sundays.

Another flight will leave Milwaukee at 9.58 a.m. and reach Denver at 11.30 a.m. 

Frontier Airlines, using a fleet of Airbus aircraft, flies to over 50 cities in the United States, Mexico and Canada. Its main hub is Denver International Airport. 

Frontier Airlines, the second-largest airline at Denver International Airport after United Airlines, said in a statement that it was launching the new flights because of enhanced interest in travelling between Denver and Milwaukee.

Another reason for starting the Denver-Milwaukee flight was that travellers from the Midwest use Denver as a “jumping-off point” for summer vacations elsewhere, the airline said.

Tom Bacon, Frontier Airlines’ vice-president of planning, said that the airline was witnessing “a tremendous demand from the Milwaukee area this summer.”  

The announcement by Frontier Airlines comes just over a week after Southwest Airlines, the low-fare carrier headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the United States, said that it would start flying to General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee, later in 2009. 

Southwest Airlines, which is the third largest carrier at Denver International Airport, has not, however, made it clear whether it would offer a direct connection between Denver and Milwaukee. 

Meanwhile, Frontier Airlines has reported a net profit of $2.4 million for April 2009, compared with a net loss of $26.9 million for April 2008. 

According to Sean Menke, president and CEO of Frontier Airlines, the profit is the result of restructuring and cost-cutting done in 2008, since the airline sought bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11. 

Frontier had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in April 2008. 

The company has said that it would have registered a net income of $3.4 million for April 2009 if the $1.1 million in expenses directly associated with bankruptcy was excluded. 

Frontier Airlines said its consolidated operating profits for April 2009 was $5 million, as against an operating loss of $21.9 million for April 2008, and that it was the sixth successive month that the airline was reporting an operating profit.