Denver-based Frontier Airlines announced Monday it was making a “difficult decision” to suspend all operations at the Downtown Mobile Airport in April based “on a lack of sufficient demand to support the service,” a company spokeswoman said.
“We greatly appreciate and support the partnership we have received from the airport and community in bringing service to Mobile and will continue to evaluate the potential for future opportunities,” said Jennifer de la Cruz, a spokeswoman at Frontier.
Frontier is the only airline providing flights from the brand-new passenger terminal at the Downtown Mobile Airport that is located within the Brookley Aeroplex south of downtown Mobile. The $8 million terminal, finance through the Airport Authority’s cash reserves and opened on May 1, is named “Terminal One” and is situated inside a 50,000-square-foot building that partially serves as an Airbus logistics center.
The Mobile Airport Authority is expected to release a statement later today. The airline is currently providing flights to Denver. Last year, it offered flights to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Frontier, meanwhile, said will begin providing flights from Huntsville International Airport to Denver starting on May 1. The low-cost airliner already provides service from Huntsville to Orlando.
Frontier, in September, announced it had suspended service at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. The airliner had provided fights from Birmingham to Philadelphia, Denver and Orlando.
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