I’ve written before about the flexibility Republic now has with Frontier and Midwest. For example, some Frontier A319s will begin operating for Midwest out of MKE and some Republic E190s that have operated for Midwest are off to Denver. Well, now some aircraft will be used for both Midwest and Frontier – on the same day!
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Last week, Frontier announced an experiment: seasonal service from Oklahoma City to both Orlando and Tampa. The schedules just didn’t seem to make sense to me, as I couldn’t find any other E190 flights out of any of those cities. I just chalked it up to me missing something obvious (quite often the case 
), but an announcement from Midwest cleared everything out. Yesterday, Midwest issued a press release announcing seasonal service from Omaha to Orlando and Tampa, which was very interesting.
Let’s look at the Orlando flying, for example. The E190 will start its day flying from Omaha to Orlando for Midwest. It will then fly to Oklahoma City and back, but for Frontier. Then it’ll fly back to Omaha for Midwest. On other days, it’ll be the same, except with Tampa instead of Orlando. Of course, the flights are operated by Republic crews for those carriers.
For some reason, it just amazes me what Republic can do with the two airlines at the same time.
So no Direct TV, eh?
No, don’t think so, Allen. You bring up an interesting point, since each carrier is known for certain perks, though it appears that Republic is maintaining some of those in this shuffle. I believe cookies will be served on Midwest flights operated by Frontier 319s.
Enough with the cookies. Frontier has Direct TV. Midwest has Signature Seating. Bummer for all around until they can at least make it all consistent.
Wonder how often the crews will make incorrect announcements over the PA system … “Thank you for flying Frontier, eh, Republic, eh, Midwest Airlines. We know you have a choice in airlines, and so do we
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Steve, good point. It leads me to wonder though, does Republic have any plans to make it consistent? Do they have the resources to do it?