Monday, April 13, 2020
Frontier to say at airport
Frontier Airlines is going to stick with Mobile’s downtown airport after all, though its destination will change, according to the the Mobile Airport Authority. Frontier will offer direct flights to Orlando International Airport starting Saturday, April 18. In January decision by Frontier to end service to Mobile on April 22. Frontier opened in Mobile with direct flights to Denver and Chicago, then suspended flights to Chicago in late 2019. It means that the new mini-terminal that the Airport Authority opened at the Downtown Mobile Airport in the Brookley Aeroplex in 2019, at a cost of about $8 million, will continue to serve at least one client airline. That terminal was built in part to showcase the feasibility of eventually swapping commercial passenger service from Mobile Regional Airport in west Mobile to Brookley. (Source: al.com, 04/13/20)