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May 23, 2006Frontier Unveils 'A Whole Different Website' With All New FrontierAirlines.comFrontier to Offer Double Miles and Free DIRECTV® Service as Well as Lowest Fare Guarantee on New Website DENVER, May 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Early this morning, Frontier Airlines (NASDAQ: FRNT) took the e-wrapping off its new website at FrontierAirlines.com. Over a year in the making, and based upon extensive research and feedback sessions with its customers, the Company expects the new site to become the primary driver of its ticket sales, as well as the home for all that is Frontier. In addition to offering new features and functionality, Frontier intends to drive traffic to its new website with several new offers: * A Frontier first -- free DIRECTV for all passengers who book online.
* Double miles to any destination booked online: With the lowest free
ticket redemption level in the industry at 15,000 miles, passengers
can earn a free ticket with just two round-trips from LA to Atlanta.
* Frontier's low fare guarantee: If a passenger finds a Frontier airfare
lower than what is offered on FrontierAirlines.com for the same flight
on the same day, Frontier will credit the passenger with 2,500
EarlyReturns® miles.
"The launch of the new FrontierAirlines.com is a significant accomplishment for this Company and while on its surface, it is certainly a great customer enhancement, the true story for Frontier is one of cost-savings," said Jeff Potter, President and CEO of Frontier Airlines (and FrontierAirlines.com). "Our goal with the new site is to increase our web bookings by over 40 percent in the next year, which would reflect a significant savings for us in terms of distribution costs. The greatest compliment that I can give the dedicated and talented team of employees who have worked tirelessly on this project for over a year is to say that I am confident that we will not only meet, but handily exceed that expectation. We are very proud of this website and we welcome all of our customers to visit FrontierAirlines.com to see the new features and to learn a little more about Frontier Airlines." The new website will be accompanied by a new series of television, newspaper and radio advertisements, in the spirit of Frontier's tremendously popular "A Whole Different Animal" ad campaign, developed by Grey Worldwide. The new ads will feature the Frontier animal "star spokesanimals," Grizwald the Bear, Larry the Lynx, Jack the Rabbit and Sal the Cougar, as they get to know the new website ... and it gets to know them. The radio, print and TV campaign will run for several months as Frontier continues to raise visibility for the new website. New Features/Enhancements
* Easier to Move Around
At FrontierAirlines.com, visitors are now just a click away from all
the information they need. The new search function on the upper-right
corner of every page allows customers to see everything the site
features on that subject.
* Great Travel Deals
At FrontierAirlines.com, Frontier has made it even easier to find great
rates to meet customer's travel needs beyond flights. Looking for that
great car rental deal, that last minute hotel or the vacation package
dream of your life? All passengers have to do is click on the rental
car, hotel or vacation icon on the front page of FrontierAirlines.com
to find great deals on cars, hotels and vacation packages for the
entire family.
* Frontier Gear
Frontier gear has always been a hot seller, but previously, stuffed
replicas of Griz, Jack and the gang were only available at Frontier
Airlines' headquarters on Tower Road in Denver. Now customers can find
all of their favorite Frontier branded items including hats, shirts,
jackets and even coffee cups and computer accessories, all at
FrontierAirlines.com.
* News Alerts
Frontier customers, media and analysts can keep up with the latest
Frontier information with automatic news releases and updates simply by
signing up at FrontierAirlines.com in the "Who We Are" section of the
site.
* New Look and Feel
FrontierAirlines.com features an inviting new look and feel. One visit
to the new site and customers will find that it now matches the rest of
the Frontier experience -- clean, comfortable and all about efficiency.
The Technology Behind the Experience
Frontier's new website is based on the latest and greatest technology platforms from Sun Microsystems, including Solaris 10? Operating System (OS), Java? 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE) and Sun Fire? X4100 (x86, 64-bit) servers. The hardware was chosen based upon its scalability and strong performance metrics. In addition, the new site is being hosted by ViaWest with quadruple redundancy at data centers around the country. "Our new site was built from the ground up with the goal of providing the best experience of any e-commerce website, bar none," said Lowell Miller, Director of IT Planning and Business Solutions. "Each website iteration was reviewed by over 70 stakeholders, so the culmination of the new FrontierAirlines.com was truly a complete team effort involving every department within Frontier Airlines as well as our customers. However, this is only the first step with many improvements still to come." About Frontier Currently in its 12th year of operations, Denver-based Frontier Airlines is the second largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport, employing approximately 4,800 aviation professionals. With 51 aircraft and the youngest Airbus fleet in North America, Frontier offers 24 channels of DIRECTV® service in every seatback along with 33 inches of legroom in an all coach configuration. In conjunction with Frontier JetExpress operated by Horizon Air, Frontier operates routes linking its Denver hub to 56 destinations including 47 destinations in 29 states spanning the nation from coast to coast and to seven cities in Mexico. Frontier's maintenance and engineering department has received the Federal Aviation Administration's highest award, the Diamond Certificate of Excellence, in recognition of 100 percent of its maintenance and engineering employees completing advanced aircraft maintenance training programs, for seven consecutive years. In July 2005, Frontier ranked as one of the "Top 10 Domestic Airlines" as determined by readers of Travel & Leisure magazine. Frontier provides capacity information and other operating statistics on its Web site, which may be viewed at FrontierAirlines.com. SOURCE: Frontier Airlines CONTACT: Joe Hodas of Frontier Airlines, +1-720-374-4504, Web site: http://www.frontierairlines.com/
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