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Show Frontier Airlines Observes 25th Aniv. of Operation , On November 27, 1971, ' 1'YonlitT Airlines' 3,200 cm- j I'loyccs sysk'in-witle ct'lebra- j led tlui currier's 25th nnni- j versnry. 1 On Hint dale in l!)l(i, Mon- ; iireli Air Lines, a pruilessor ! company of Fronlicr, ounil ' eil by Hay M. Wilson (form- 1 l'loy will) Colorado Public I'lilities Commission, retired) made its inaugural Highl from Denver to Monte Vista, i ' Colorado. Four years later in 1950, Denver-based Monarch Air ! I.in.-s, Salt Lake City based t Challi'iiHer Airlines and Arizona Ari-zona Airways out of l'honiix merged to form Frontier Airlines, Air-lines, witli beadiinarters in Denver. In Hie ensuiiif,' years, PYon-lier PYon-lier has grown from a fledgling fledgl-ing local airline to the na. t ion's second largest regional region-al carrier in terms of territory terri-tory served. The vast 17-.slale 17-.slale lOO city area served by Frontier today covers approximately ap-proximately SO per cent of me continental United Mates. Mat-es. The carrier's fleet has grown from five DC-3's in 19l(i to 10 737 jets used main-ly main-ly for long haul non stop runs, 32 Convair OIK) jet-props and two each Beech 99's and Twin' Otters. In March, 1971, in a move aimed at .strengthening the company's overall position, A. L. Feldmnn, formerly president pre-sident of Aerojet Nuclear Systems Company, a division of Aerojet-General Corporation, Corpora-tion, was named president and chief operating officer of Frontier. Under Mr. Feldman's direction, dir-ection, Frontier has taken various steps to steer the company back to profitability. profitabil-ity. In an effort to reduce operating costs, Frontier consolidated con-solidated its headquarters at 8250 Smith Road last March. The airline's overall marketing market-ing strategy was reorganized to produce additional revenues, reven-ues, and spccinl emphasis is being placed ton attempting to obtain more Federal subsidies sub-sidies to provide a fair return re-turn on investment. Frontier recently announc- cd the sale of its four 727 jets. The phaseout of the 727's will be concluded in early 1972, and the company said it expected to realize a number of economic bene -fits from the move. Frontier began service to Moab over ten years ago, flying DC-3 aircraft into the old Grand County Airport in Spanish Valley. With the completion com-pletion of larger Canyonlands Field iKirth of Moab, the company began service with Convair 580 prop-jet aircraft. |
