Frontier Air Eyes Expansion to Canada

Frontier Airlines has begun to look north to snowy Canada. The low-cost discount carrier is researching the possibility of expanding service to Canada, although no decisions have been made on destinations or a timetable, according to Chief Financial Officer Paul Tate.

Analysts said Canada would be a good, logical move for Frontier. “You want to build your hub so you want as many spokes from good cities as you can. It gives you more flow over your system,” said airline analyst Raymond Neidl of Calyon Securities Inc.

The look at Canada comes three years after Frontier started service in Mexico, a schedule that it will expand to seven cities with flights to Cozumel and Acapulco.

Aviation analyst Mike Boyd of The Boyd Group speculated that Frontier would look at Toronto, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver. “Canada is a good generator of traffic to Mexico,” he said. “Frontier could interconnect a lot of people.”