As part of a system-wide expansion, Frontier Airlines is planning new nonstop service that will bolster Salt Lake City’s connection to three U.S. cities. The Denver-based low-fare airline has announced 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. The airline will then launch 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 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,” Flyr said in a statement.
In Salt Lake City, the expansion adds another airline option. 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. Frontier currently offers nonstop service to Denver, Las Vegas and Phoenix from Salt Lake City.