Frontier continues to scale back Milwaukee as it concentrates on Denver and axed AirTran markets

Frontier is continuing to pull back capacity at its Milwaukee hub with six more routes to be cut next month. Once considered a key hub for the combined operations of Frontier and Midwest Airlines now unified under the Frontier brand, Milwaukee's importance eroded last year after Frontier embarked on a network revamp as part of a USD120 million cost improvement programme to restructure Frontier to regain lost profitability.

Milwaukee has taken the brunt of the network changes resulting from the cost cutting. Daily departures offered by Frontier from the airport will plummet to only 18 from mid-April of this year. This represents a 73% drop from the 67 departures from Milwaukee operated during the peak summer period of 2011 and a 44% drop compared to the 32 departures currently operated. Midwest had an even bigger operation at Milwaukee before it was sold to Frontier parent Republic Airways Holdings in 2009.