Wouldn't the DEN airport authorities have to break a contract in order to lease the gates to Frontier? I don't think America West should go looking for a new hub right now unless they can get an extremely good deal sat STL. They've just started making money again. They need to build up a good reserve of cash and pay down their debts before they do any type of expansion. Just my opinion, David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 20:12 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] St Louis Blues > In a message dated 8/25/03 10:21:21 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > clay.wardlow@xxxxxxxx writes: > > > > > > > > > A friend of mine that's a flight attendant at Frontier (F9) said she's heard > > rumors of F9 starting a hub in STL because DEN wouldn't give them the gates > > they needed to expand. We both thought that was odd since F9 doesn't > > currently have service to STL. > > Don't they have jetConnect service there, through Mesa? STL would not be a > bad idea for anyone's expansion, considering that it is a big city, is well > located and AA is scaling waaaay back there. It would also be a good spot for HP > to spend some of that money they have been making lately. Also, I think DEN > needs to get over its love affair with UA and give Frontier some of the gates > they are not (and will not for a very, very long time) using >