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With these two additional routes, Frontier will offer nonstop service to a total of 30 destinations from PHL.
Frontier Airlines is adding service to two new domestic destinations to its summer schedule at Philadelphia International Airport.
The discount carrier will launch nonstop service from PHL to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) in Texas starting on May 22. The Los Angeles route will operate daily, while service to Austin will be offered three times per week.
Fares for the flights start at $49.
Frontier (NASDAQ: ULCC) is PHL’s second-largest carrier behind American Airlines. The Denver-based airline served 3.5 million people at the airport in 2023, the most recent year for which data is available.
The addition of the two routes will bring Frontier to a total of 30 nonstop destinations that it flies to from PHL. They are part of a larger batch of 14 new routes that Frontier announced Tuesday it plans to launch at airports around the country prior to the summer travel season.
The Austin route will fly Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. The flight departs PHL at 6:15 a.m. on May 22 and heads back to Philadelphia at 11:20 a.m.
The flight to Los Angeles on that day leaves PHL at 5:35 p.m. The return flight to Philadelphia will operate as a red-eye, departing LAX at 10:35 p.m. with a scheduled 6:58 a.m. arrival at PHL.
Josh Flyr, Frontier’s vice president of network and operations design, said in a statement that the airline’s growth at PHL gives Philadelphia-area customers better access to two of the country’s “top metropolitan areas.” Los Angeles is the second largest U.S. city by population, and Austin was one of the hottest destinations for where people were moving in 2024.
American (NASDAQ: AAL) offers routes to both cities from PHL. Spirit Airlines, the airport’s third-largest carrier that is currently in the midst of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, also has nonstop service between PHL and Los Angeles.
Frontier is kicking off 2025 similarly to how it started 2024. The carrier launched 12 new nonstop routes from PHL to destinations around the country — from Pittsburgh to Kansas City, Missouri, to Pensacola, Florida — last May.
The airline’s growth at PHL didn’t last long. It cut eight of those new routes from its schedule at the airport in August and halted another five routes in January. In both instances, Frontier said that the cuts were a part of a routine evaluation of route performance and that the services could return in the future.
PHL announced Tuesday that it served nearly 30.9 million passengers in 2024, marking the first time the airport has seen more than 30 million people in one year since prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. Its 2024 volume is a nearly 10% increase from the 28.1 million people PHL saw in 2023 but still under its all-time record of 33.02 million passengers that passed through the airport in 2019.
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