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Each of the airline's 381 maintenance and engineering employees participated in the program this year and 101 received a personal Diamond Award for completing two days of training on FAA regulations and policy, 58 hours of aviation maintenance training and at least 40 classroom hours or three semester credits from an accredited college in management, mathematics, English, science or a related subject, for a total of 100 hours of additional training.

"To earn this award, the maintenance and engineering employees of Frontier Airlines have invested more than 34,000 hours in maintenance training," said FAA National Resource Specialist Bill O'Brien. "That is an impressive amount of time and investment that Frontier has assigned to training, and it reflects Frontier's unflinching dedication to ensuring the safety of its passengers and the quality of its maintenance and engineering team. We applaud Frontier's efforts as a company and we thank Frontier's team for their personal dedication to excellence."

"Once again, our dedicated team of maintenance and engineering professionals have shown themselves to be leaders in their field," said Frontier President Jeff Potter. "Their pride and dedication to their work and our customers is evident every day and this award is a continuing tribute to those individuals, the maintenance profession, and to Frontier Airlines."

FAA and National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) officials will present Frontier and its maintenance employees with the Diamond Award, as well as the individual achievement awards at ceremonies today at the airline's maintenance hangar facility at Denver International Airport.

About Frontier
Currently in its tenth year of operations, Denver-based Frontier Airlines is the second largest jet service carrier at Denver International Airport with a fleet of 39 aircraft and employing approximately 3,900 aviation professionals. Frontier, in conjunction with Frontier JetExpress operated by Horizon Air, operates routes linking our Denver hub to 37 cities in 22 states spanning the nation from coast-to-coast and to five 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 four consecutive years. In August 2003, 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 www.frontierairlines.com.