{"id":20014,"date":"2021-11-16T02:25:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T02:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=20014"},"modified":"2021-11-16T02:26:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T02:26:02","slug":"frontier-airlines-orders-91-additional-a321neo-aircraft-tripling-size-by-2029","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/frontier-airlines-orders-91-additional-a321neo-aircraft-tripling-size-by-2029\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Frontier Airlines Orders 91 Additional A321neo Aircraft, Tripling Size by 2029"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Frontier Airlines announced a major fleet expansion with an\norder for 91 additional A321neo aircraft from leading aircraft manufacturer\nAirbus as part of a larger joint aircraft order across the Indigo Partners\nportfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese additional A321neo aircraft will enable us to triple\nthe size of the airline by 2029,\u201d said Barry Biffle, president and CEO,\nFrontier Airlines. \u201cWe are already America\u2019s Greenest Airline with an existing\nfleet that is 43 percent more fuel efficient, on average per seat, than other\nU.S. carriers. The A321neo is expected to deliver nearly 120 ASMs per gallon,\nfurther advancing our industry-leading environmental efforts while debunking\nthe myth that being green is an expensive investment only achievable in the\nfuture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frontier-stats.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frontier-stats.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Frontier-stats-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The new aircraft are scheduled for delivery between 2023 and\n2029. They are in addition to Frontier\u2019s existing orderbook of 143 aircraft to\nbe delivered between 2022 and 2028, bringing the airline\u2019s total aircraft on\norder to 234. By the end of 2029, Frontier\u2019s total fleet size is expected to\ninclude 272 aircraft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Frontier has truly capitalized on the efficiency of\nthe A321neo to offer passengers a flying experience that is both affordable and\nalso kinder to the environment,&#8221; said C. Jeffrey Knittel, chairman and CEO\nof Airbus Americas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frontier currently has 112 aircraft in its fleet. Of the 234\nnew aircraft on order, 76 are A320neo aircraft and 158 are A321neo aircraft.\nEighteen of the A320neo aircraft include conversion rights to A321XLR aircraft.\nThe Company currently flies to more than 100 destinations within the U.S.,\nMexico, Caribbean and Latin America and is undergoing significant expansion\nwithin both its domestic and international route networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frontier Airlines announced a major fleet expansion with an order for 91 additional A321neo aircraft from leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus as part of a larger joint aircraft order across the Indigo Partners portfolio. \u201cThese additional A321neo aircraft will enable us to triple the size of the airline by 2029,\u201d said Barry Biffle, president and CEO, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20018,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions\/20018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}