A Frontier Airlines plane lands on the McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020.
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Top quality on Frontier? Not quite. However the budget airline on Tuesday launched a latest add-on to get more room on the front of its tightly packed planes — with no middle seat neighbor.
On flights starting April 10, Frontier will offer UpFront Plus in the primary two rows of its Airbus planes, where it can block the sale of the center seat. Those seats will even include 4 to 5 inches more legroom compared with a lot of the seats on the planes, an airline spokeswoman said.
Prices start at $49, for bookings made by March 20 for flights between April 10 and April 30, however the spokeswoman said the seat option “just isn’t intended as a limited time offer.”
Airlines from budget carriers like Spirit and Frontier to behemoths like Delta, United and American have looked for tactics to segment their cabins, sell higher-priced products to customers, or add fees for advance seat selection.
Fellow budget airline Spirit offers the “Big Front Seat” in its Airbus cabins. The brand new Frontier option is not a latest seat, but is as a substitute spaced otherwise than a lot of the plane.
Fees are especially key for budget airlines, which charge more for the whole lot from seat selection to carry-on bags on top of the bottom fare. Frontier brought in $42 per passenger on average last yr from airfare, down 22% from 2022, while nonfare revenue rose 1% to almost $74 per passenger.
