ULCC Frontier Airlines is dropping a planned route between Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) and Durango (DRO) in Colorado, but is also restoring a route to DRO from Las Vegas (LAS).
The mixed bag of news for DRO comes as regional airports in the US struggle to maintain scheduled commercial service in the face of a growing pilot shortage. The DRO-LAS route is slated to be operated 2X-weekly from June 9. Frontier will use an Airbus A320 configured to carry 180 passengers on the route.
Frontier also operates to Denver (DEN), its base airport, from DRO–a route on which it competes directly with United Airlines. American Airlines operates to its DFW and Phoenix (PHX) hubs from DRO.
Frontier was also planning to launch flights between DFW and DRO from May 28. But that route has been removed from the airline’s schedule, according to DRO…
