Articles tagged “frontier airlines”

The airline-OTA fight is as old as online travel, but it is picking up. Metasearch sites, such as Kayak and Google Flight Search, are a key battleground as some airlines establish special rules to avoid comparisons with competitors.

This is only for the passengers booking through third party sites, so a smart strategy to bring in users to its own site to book.

Frontier has been piling up losses and parent-company Republic Airways has been looking to shed Frontier.

This dispute could last for awhile, but eventually Expedia and Frontier will come to an agreement.

By focusing on low costs and betting on passengers' flexible itineraries, Frontier thinks it can succeed where others have failed. It's success may lead to a reconsideration of small regional airports.

When an airline offers a promotion, it should honor it. Not very complicated. That's especially true in a community where Frontier is scaling back service.

Taking a page from Southwest's playbook, Frontier is making the little-known New Jersey airport its East Coast hub. More than a dozen airlines have failed at making a go at Trenton Mercer Airport, but Frontier hopes success on the horizon.

Once again, a global distribution system, in this case Travelport, goes to bat for itself and travel agents, trying to thwart airlines from freely doing business and providing incentives to their own customers.

While airlines can't directly offer lower prices than OTAs, it can withhold certain benefits, and that's what Frontier and others are trying, to attract users directly to their sites.