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SALT LAKE CITY — Frontier Airlines is planning a massive increase in service this year, including new nonstop service that will bolster Salt Lake City's connection to three U.S. cities.
The Denver-based ultra-low fare airline announced Tuesday that it will launch daily service between Salt Lake City International Airport and both San Francisco and Ontario (California) international airports beginning on April 10. It'll begin three flights a week between Salt Lake City and Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport beginning on the following day.
The airline's new routes are three of dozens of new nonstop routes to domestic and international destinations that it says will debut between April and June. In all, 38 airports are included in the expansion.
Josh Flyr, Frontier's vice president of network and operations design, said the plan aims to add the number of destinations and frequency of flights to increase competition against other airlines.
"This is a massive expansion of our operation from coast to coast and internationally as part of our focus on growing in underserved and overpriced routes," he said in a statement.
In Salt Lake City's case, it adds another airline option to airports already served by other airlines. Delta, United and Alaska airlines already offer nonstop flights to San Francisco, while Delta and American offer nonstop service to the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, and Delta is the only one that offers nonstop service to Ontario, California, according to Google Flights.
The change also doubles the number of cities for which Frontier provides nonstop service from Salt Lake City. Per the airport's records, it currently offers nonstop service to Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix.
Frontier celebrated its announcement Tuesday by temporarily offering $19 airfares for the three new Salt Lake flights. Those airfares apply to people who purchase their tickets by 10 p.m. Mountain time on Thursday, for Monday through Thursday and Saturday flights as late as June 5.
