Frontier Airlines cuts flights from Mitchell International
Wisconsin Business-- For now at least, travelers have fewer options for flying out of Wisconsin’s largest airport. Frontier Airlines says it will drop 11 outgoing flights from Milwaukee’s Mitchell International starting on June first. That will leave just seven daily departures for Frontier – the company that took over the former locally-owned Midwest Airlines a few years ago.
MILWAUKEE - For now at least, travelers have fewer options for flying out of Wisconsin’s largest airport. Frontier Airlines says it will drop 11 outgoing flights from Milwaukee’s Mitchell International starting on June first. That will leave just seven daily departures for Frontier – the company that took over the former locally-owned Midwest Airlines a few years ago.
Frontier anticipated doubling its Milwaukee workforce as recently as 2010. But with the new cuts, the company says it will have about 340 employees in Milwaukee – and only 40 working at the airport itself. Meanwhile, the total number of daily flights out of Mitchell will drop from 241 a couple years ago to just 135 once the Frontier cuts take place.
It wasn’t that many years when a flier could go to 56 cities from Milwaukee. That number will drop to 36 starting in June. But not everyone’s cutting back. Delta plans to add four non-stop flights each day from Milwaukee to New York’s LaGuardia Airport starting in July, plus one daily trip to New York’s Kennedy airport. Also, Southwest is expected to pick up some of the flights that are being dropped by its competitors.
Last year, Milwaukee still managed to handle two-point-two million more passengers than in 2006. Mitchell’s Pat Rowe says some flights are using larger planes – and that explains some of the drop in departures.
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