airline opinion

[rm]

Frontier Airlines -- yay or nay?

Are they on time?
Is their customer service tolerable if shit goes wrong?
How onerous is the stopping in Wisconsin on the way to the West Coast?
Newer planes or other airlines' cast-offs repainted? (um, yeah, I care -- it has to do with the pressurization and my sinuses; newer planes mean less in-flight pain for me).

It's like a $200 difference on a trip for Patty and I, so I care, but if it's going to be hell, I'll just spend the money (I won't, for example, fly Spirit for cost savings).

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[annaoj.livejournal.com]

I've only flown them from Columbus to Madison, so I don't know about east coast to west coast plane change issues. The planes have generally been newer, at least for the short haul routes. I've had good experiences with timeliness.

The reason I started flying Midwest (now Frontier) is that when there was bad weather in Madison on Memorial Day in 2006, the only people who got out that day were flying Midwest, which paid for cabs to take them to Milwaukee so they could get their connections.

(Edited to correct year)