MILWAUKEE — Frontier Airlines has announced it’s dropping nonstop service from Milwaukee to six cities, cutting the number of daily flights nearly in half.
Effective in April, the airline will end direct flights to Grand Rapids, Dallas-Fort Worth, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Newark.
Frontier’s daily departures will be reduced from 32 to 18.
“It was a convenient flight for me in this particular instance,” said Scott Sowa, who is on a Frontier flight heading to Grand Rapids. “I would hate to lose that convenience.”
“The good news for passengers here in Milwaueee is that out of those six cities, the only one we’re losing nonstop service to is Grand Rapids. The rest of the cities continue to be served by other airlines nonstop,” said airport spokesman Ryan McAdams.
McAdams assures that airport operations and staffing will remain the same. He’s not sure, however, about the future of local Frontier employees.
“It’s kind of a wait and see at this point, but any kind of cutbacks are a sad day for us,” said McAdams.
In a statement, the company says, “The reduction in service is another step in our continued effort to ensure that Frontier is a competitive and sustainably profitable airline.”
The new cuts are on top of Frontier‘s decision last fall to eliminate routes to eight other destinations. 120 Milwaukee employees were also laid off last month as part of the restructuring.
The airline says it does plan to add service in other markets.
Source: http://fox6now.com
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